England 0-1 Brazil (1970 World Cup) 

I`m a Derby County supporter and have been since the 1960`s but my favourite player has always been Bobby Moore he was just immense in this game. I`ve watched many teams play over the years and think this 1970 Brazil team is the best national team I have ever had the pleasure to watch.

This match will be remembered for plenty of things Bobby Moore's outstanding performance , Gordon banks incredible save and of course The Great Peles contribution and Jairzinho scoring again ! Great match one of the all time best

Everybody talks about the Banks save or the Moore tackle ; but for me , the pass with the outside of his foot by Carlos Alberto to Jairzinho was sheer class , as was Pele's nonchalant flick that tees up Jairzinho's goal .

0:42 I saw this live in England when i was 10 and it was so fast it took a while for everyone to understand what we had just seen. Kids today say how great their footballers are?? Look at this because these are the gods of football!!

I remember this match well..My first holiday away from home..Watched it in a pub in Sitges,Spain...Great memories...

First of all Astle's miss came a few minutes AFTER Jairzinho had scored in the 60th minute !! I have been watching football for 56 years and this is STILL the best worked goal I have ever seen ! Tostao fends off Alan Ball and nutmegs Bobby Moore. He then dances around Brian Labone, leaving him sprawling on the ground. Moore comes back for a second bite. Tostao shapes to cross the ball with his left foot, steps over the ball, swivels and without even looking, crosses the ball into the penalty area. The incomparable genius (Pele ! ) pulls the ball out of the air with one supreme moment, killing the ball stone dead ! Two England defenders lunge at Pele in desperation..... but the ball has already gone ! Jairzinho receives the ball, takes one stride forward and rockets a thunderous shot into the roof of the net, past the oncoming Gordon Banks. Years ago I was watching the game again on video. I stopped the video at the point where Pele releases the ball to Jairzinho. The three Brazilian forwards are actually surrounded by eight England players, in and around the box ! England were a great team then and in all honesty deserved a draw, but that one unforgettable moment of sheer Brazilian magic was enough to beat them. Magnificent football !! Sublime brilliance ! How fitting that such a great match should be settled by a goal of such magnitude !

Brasil had arguably the best team that ever graced a football field that year. Take into context that England could have won. 1966 was no fluke.

Brazil 1970 were, for me, the greatest football team in history (and I'm English)

ah Astle ... close to being a legend is worse than never getting the chance ... awesome defending by Moore and Banks!

Guys, Astle's miss was after thew Brazilian goal. Not before.

Great match,one of the best world cup match EVER.

Not in these highlights, but Bobby Charlton absolutely ran the show for an hour. Absolutely peerless and the best player I have ever seen in an England shirt.

Fantastic save by Gordon Banks. England were beaten by a great Brazil team

I never saw a save like this before

we talk about the Banks save but just look at that pass from Carlos Alberto to Jairzinho - simply out of this world

rip gordon banks and bobby moore

Astle's miss was after Jairzinho's goal, not at 0-0

Pra mim foi a maior defesa de um goleiro de todos os tempos!

I've never got over that Astle miss! Was 13 at the time, broke my footballing heart when he put it wide in front of an open net. It was as a direct result of Astle's miss that in my mentally distressed state I started to support Crystal Palace. So things never really recovered and I've lived life in a permanent state of deep disappointment ever since.

it was one of the best games of World cup 70 both teams played so nice

1.53 "What a player this fellow is" Bobby Moore aka 'El Supremo'

FANTASTIC GAME!! Those were the times where GIANTS played REAL football !!

The greatest World Cup . Mexico 1970! I don’t know why but I also love this commentator too . He was great

I think this is going to be one of the closest things we'll get to seeing an unstoppable force meet an immovable object. Obviously england lost 1-0 so not quite perfect but the fact that such a tight game is considered one of the greatest of all time shows how you dont need goals to make a game.

I'm 23 years of age but that tackle from Bobby Moore has got to be the most complete beautiful timed tackle I've seen and top it of Gordon Banks save with Pele header is just the best I've seen period

Brazil ,always Brazil!The best,simply the best!

1:11 fantastic leap pelé.

event though it looks so easy, this is at least half Pele's goal!

Jairzinho's goal scored against England was similar to the one scored against Italy in the final.

I wonder how Terry Cooper feels having to live through being skinned by Jairzinho time and time again just before we see Banks make the best save I've ever seen.

For all the vast praise heaped on Bobby Moore, he was terribly error prone. Look at the build up to the goal, where Moore missed a simple tackle and clearance. Check out all the games from 1968 to 1974, Moore was dropping clangers galore. You'll cringe when you watch Fulham 1 Notts County 5 in 1977; by then he was living off a fast fading reputation.

the moment the torch was passed

for me this was he Best match of all times i was sitting on a knife edge all the way the Best attacking versus the best defensive team n all played in the true spirit of the game how the game should always be played God Bless every single one of these players anyone remembers the Magnificent 7? from the Best team of the decade 7 Leeds united players whent with England n the others where Scottish Irish n Wales internationals

pele is greatest player in world and brazil is best football nation in world and bobby moore world best defender in the worle aboustly masterclass

Amazing play by tostao and pele and great goal by jarzinho

50 years ago today

Bobby Charlton was an absolute top, top footballer but; at 0:34 must have been the worst pass he played in his entire career.

You bloody prat Astle!

fantastic match,best world cup match ever

The save by Gordon Banks defies belief.

Two giants of football, Brazil an England. What happens with nowaday England football players? They aren't even a shadow of 1966 and 1970.

ironically the elbow in the face given the the Brazilian just outside the box wouldnt be allowed today or should it have been allowed then.The went onto score from it

Jairzinho scored in every game he played in during that tournament.

That miss was a product of WBA

In fairness Astle played for an unfashionable club was brought on from pressure not because they wanted him . Like so many players that did not fit the satisfactory club colours he was left out until we were at that point of desperation. Astle was possibly the greatest header of all time ball at that time and from my research the other teams were terrified of him and what if England had used him they way they could have could have won it for us . Alas not to be but that miss after coming on with one of his first touches cannot be declared as anything incompetent but a snap shot that went slightly wide.

England has great goalkeepers in the World Cup, Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton and then there was David Seaman

The greatest tournament of all time won by the greatest team of all time with the greatest player of all time. England were very good but Brazil, just wow.

Should have been the rehearsal for the final

Pelé: j'ai marqué un but et G-Banks l'a arrêté

Caralho Pele quase fez golaco cabeça

Astle would normaly been able to score from there.....coming on with the heat it is tricky.

Bobby Moore's greatest game!

That was England's best team. Better than 66

With Astles miss as a young 10 yr old i realised supporting West Brom was going to be painful ... then came Willie Johnstone in Argentina !!!!! Nothing has changed my opinion... roll on next season

Le match ou feu Gordon Banks fit l arrêt du 20 ème siecle

pele is greatest player in world and brazil is best football nation in world and bobby moore world best defender in the worle aboustly masterclass.

So many on this planet, players, may God save whom still and Bless whom left, had won a world cup. That means, it becomes no more of an unusual tour. World cup should be more unusual, not only for more teams to experience, that's great but!!!! It's should sounds, Imagine, The Team in white GK had a World Cup trophy, 1966, where the boy Colourfuled from Cata Lonia had none

Who is the narrator?

0:41, 2:29... True battle of titans at that time.

these english are amazing, brazil would have beaten england in a rematch just like they did here

Brazil definitely deserved to win the tournament, but they showed very poor sportsmanship in this game. Unpunished fouls, like elbowing, cynical leg sweeping tackles - all right under the referee’s nose. They also kept England waiting 5 minutes after half-time, for no apparent reason. If you show up 5 minutes late for a second half in a game with no valid argument, you should be given a goal against you. This referee was either biased toward Brazil, or too intimidated by the partisan crowd to man-up and show the cards for some of the behaviour.

England should at least have drawn this match - apart from Astle's miss, Alan Ball hit the bar - and shouldn't Tostao have been penalised for a clear shove on Bobby Moore - in the build-up to Jairzinho's goal ?

2:08 Jeff Astle !!! How the fuck did he miss from there !?!?!?!?!? O_o

Poor Jeff Astle, 9 times out of ten he would have buried that.

England started that world cup as favourites. Brazil were reckoned to be not that good in the run up to the tournament. Bobby Moore totally owned Pele for most of the match and Gordon Banks made "The Save of the Century". The video clip doesn't show Francis Lee's close range diving header that the Brazilian goalkeeper Felix (he was no 'cat', for sure) knew nothing about, but the ball hit him and stayed out.... somehow. I felt sorry for Jeff Astle. 99 times out of a 100 he'd have buried that late chance but this one went wide. Amusingly (if you're not English), Alf Ramsey's biggest gripe in the tournament was about fish fingers. The England players loved 'em and a consignment was sent out to Mexico for the players meals..... but dastardly Mexican officials wouldn't let them into the country. Apparently, Alan Ball was really upset about this. He really liked his fish fingers. There were a number of 'iffy' incidents (Gordon Banks getting food poisoning before the Germany match) that left Ramsey feeling that England were being nobbled. We had a very good team and could have retained the world cup........ anywhere other than Mexico.

Class from brazil. No cheating there just to good..Then the German team got there revenge..Great world cup that was indeed..

2:09

that save was a product of Stoke City

An example of World cup corruption in those days long before anyone thought they were rotten to the core - who in their right mind would put the current world cup holders in the same group as the favourites. Never happened before then, or since then.

England should have come away with a draw. Alan Ball hit the post and Jeff Astle missed an open goal

Jeff Astle at 2.09........In fairness he hadnt been on the pitch very long...????? How long do you need on the pitch to learn how to kick a Ball.????? If you need time to learn you shouldnt be in the squad

belive or not englad was a better team

I don't think that save was that good tbh.

England were the best side in 1970 in my opinion, imagine if brazil had pele arrested for 3 weeks before this match on a trumped up charge of stealing a bracelet how they would have played also later if jairzino or Gerson had been ruled out with food poisoning that's why we were still the best, we were cheated out of it , it wont come to light maybe in my lifetime. but one day the truth will come out because Gordon banks in 1970 was without doubt the greatest goalkeeper in the world and bobby moore was the greatest defender . had banks played against Germany later we would have won and then gone on to win it again

kjgb

Astle and Brown of WBA were never given enough chances by England, only a handful of caps despite being top flight top scorers of the day consistently (Shame on the FA!!!). Astle was only on for a few minutes in this game. Had both Bomber Brown and Astle been given more of a chance we would see better results from them. To expect Astle to score instantly is ridiculous, when he and Brown were shunned for so long by the FA. Verdict: ENGLAND SELECTORS: 1970 = MORONS. AGAIN.

pele is greatest player in world and brazil is best football nation in world and bobby moore world best defender in the worle aboustly masterclass