Leeds United movie archive 1970s - embarrassingly just too good 1973-74 

Steve Martin. Then they met the mighty Sunderland in the 1973 FA cup final.

@@patrickkelly7085 And they outplayed Sunderland for most of the match. Only the goalkeeper saved Sunderland from taking a good beating.

Best team ever

Madeley was a fine player, very underrated

Just ]ure CLASS

im with you 100% m8. from the 60's to mid 70's i was LUFC mad, went as ofter as i could, but football as a working class 'mans' game died long ago, i think ive only been to elland road a handfull of times over the last 40+ years. GL

And neither keeper is wearing gloves.

Luther Buckhurst , Those were the days 👍

Great post

That's why England's never succeeded that much in the WC or EC. All the best players in 1st Division then were British, meaning English, Scottish and Welsh.

Luther Buckhurst thanks for your post and memories! Even though you were Chelsea 😜

Similar to my memories. I was also 14 at the time, an American living in Oxford. Oxford United were my team (Ron Atkinson, of all people, was the captain), but Chelsea were my First Div team. I didn't get to go to the game (even though I had a "paper round" as well -- we call it a "paper route" here), but I was glued to the set for the entire spectacle. Bonetti certainly redeemed himself, after his less-than-spectacular showing against W. Germany in the World Cup.

Yeah Leeds were more of a late 60s/ early 70s team.

Russ Coleman ah, very sensible comment and very true. 73 was their best year for me. After that a couple of the important players were just past their best and then the management sagas of 74 onwards sort of messed it up!

Saw Shilton make a great save at Elland Road the previous season from a chip by Giles. Great keeper. Harvey was good, but if Clough had signed Shilton as he wanted, we might have won the European Cup, dodgy ref or not.

@@normanby100 I was brought up in Derby and I remember that just after the 1973 England match against Poland, Leicester came to the Baseball Ground at the weekend and I was standing behind Shilton, who was taking a goal kick at the Osmaston Road end. Old boy with a cloth cap and Woodbine pikes up...."Come on, gerron wiv it Shilton....you think you're brilliant don't ya? But you let that bugger go through on Winsdy..." I still think to this day that Norman (a great player in his own right RIP) should have booted that ball out near the halfway touchline ! Also saw Johnny Giles on a very wet and muddy Derby pitch, chip this ball to perfection and it was (agonisingly) just out of reach of Colin Todd's jump, with Alan Clarke (sniffer) already round the back and waiting to pounce at the edge of the area, clear through on goal. No problem for Toddy - he just caught it with both hands and rolled it to the ref ! Took a booking but I think it would have been more than that in this day and age. Yep, I liked Dave Harvey a lot but Shilton was something else over a very long career. All time favourite for me was Gordon Banks though.

Yes Hugh Johns was an outstanding commentator. He was the commentator for ITVs coverage of the 1966 World Cup final and did an excellent job as usual it's just he got overshadowed by the equally brilliant, but different Kenneth Wolstenhulme and his legendary "they think it's all over "line on the BBC coverage.

LOL

True ... Leeds United FC should always be in the Premier League ... it's still a crying shame the damage that Bates, Risdale, et.al. did to the club.

Rooting for you from the USA. I was a Chelsea fan back in those days, as an American boy visiting in England for a couple of years. But I had nothing but respect for Leeds, in that historic FA Cup final in 1970. It will be good for English football to see Leeds contending at the top levels again.

Hope so mate top lads the Leeds mob good luck mate

Still is must look at these fucking clowns today Lukaku morata the list is endless and wonder. Imeet him once lovely bloke. Big frank idolised him since i was 15 saw up huddersfield diff class. St frank

Frank had his best years playing for Sunderland.

Would have snuffed it quite quickly then in the mid 70s

"Every time I bumped into The Service Crew I feel I've been stabbed in the heart "

@@Isleofskye Leeds Are Back

@@Isleofskye 🤣🤣 Very good, but I feel one could only be stabbed in the heart once!

Total thuggery more like

@@nihilistcentraluk442 Enough about your parents

@@It.was.me.I.let.the.dogs.out. 🤣🤣

Allan* Clarke*

Possibly Edwards,Hart and Copping at Leeds in the thirties.

Yes Smith, Yeats and Dave Mackay...

@@Isleofskye when did play on the same team ?

English Players? In a Leeds video? Bremner, Giles, Lorimer, Gray (Eddie and Frank) Sprake, Harvey, Yorath, Jordan, McQueen. That's 10 non english players right there. Leeds barely had 6 top English players in 10 years. Charlton Hunter Cooper Reaney Madley (all defenders) Clarke and Jones.

Most of our squad was Scottish back then and Welsh and Irish 😂😂 i know this and im 14

agreed too many overseas players today

@@briannaghten2201 I think he meant British and Irish Players lets face it Scotland have not had a decent team since the 70s, cut the number to 3.

Douglas Helliwell...…….Not many. In the year that Liverpool dominated the First Division and walked off with the title - Frank scored 30+ goals [more than any of the Loserpool strikers] for Bolton and they were relegated! Remarkable!

Weller was a fine player, did well at Chelsea too, e.g winning the European Cup Winners Cup

Isleofskye Two beautiful goals from Liecester..

Hi Mr Skye. You know, considering you told me you hated this Leeds team and only started to like Leeds when Bielsa was the manager, you've spent quite a lot of time on Leeds videos. 😏

Amen! You speak my language bro!

And no ponytails, buns or dreadlocks in sight!

Tru Say Huw. Tru Say, Mi Bredrin..

I agree 100%

Liked to kick people though.

Eh???

@@richardtaylor8165 Eh?

Leeds goalkeepers let them down i feel. Especially back then.

@@Lord_Hillcrest01 DH let no one down.

Sprake used to lose concentration because he had nothing to do for long spells in a game, the defense was that good

Nah, one of the worst, always forgetting data. Brian Moore is the best & you know it Brummie!

@@wildbill8635 i agree Brian Moore all day then Barry Davies both better than over rated Motson

Damn sight better than Keith Macklin in Yorkshire. To make matter worse, my area of Yorkshire could only get Geordie shit Tyne Tees with eternal wastes of space Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough instead of Leeds in their pomp. They briefly had a decent commentator in Kenneth Wolstonholme but he didn't last long as I had to ensure Roger Tames. Matters reached an all-time peak of farciality when an armed gunman was roaming the North Yorkshire market town of Malton in 1982. None of Malton's residents could find any information on the local news because it was being reported by Tyne Tees who didn't cover Yorkshire. The rest of the country was better informed than they were.

Living in Ireland we had to endure the west country edition of the Big Match on Sundays. Bloody Bristol City and Bristol Rovers, with commentary by the appalling Roger Malone.

yes thats propper commentating now we have Robbie Savage talking the biggest load of shite i have ever heard

NOT true, he is an Honorary Yorkshire man which is better and we loved him, what a pity he wasn't the manager after Don Revie left??

Manager of West Brom, shamrock rovers and ireland in that order,, gentleman John, old school dubliner

Smarty Pants I agree, fed up with foreigners and I don't rate them either. Watching football a lot less because of it.

Which English players would get in the Spanish,German or Brazilian teams?

Who do you rate?

England sucks

@@ralphaaa80 Well, Bale did....sorry, he's Welsh. Most English players only get into L.A. Galaxy or the other pensioner teams.

You’re just racist against Celts that’s your issue fella. Joke

Correct .

@@Lord_Hillcrest Great equaliser from Leeds. Quick thinking from the free kick caught Lestah sleeping, and then they complained about it afterwards. 🤣

@@CB-xr1eg Yep no arguments here .

@Afterglow1010 He's not wrong though.

Most teams had dirty players in the 70's. McCreadie, Simpson, Storey, Harris just to name a few. anyone who says it was just Leeds is a bitter rival fan.

Not dirty .... just tough players !

Derek Parker I disagree on the skill .Leeds at times used to pass it around like Barcelona do today.

Martin Hill , they were very good there's no doubt about that.

What's a snowflake

@@TheWelwyn21it falls from the sky and when you piss on it it turns yellow

@@patrickkelly7085 If you pissed on one snowflake it would immediately dissolve/melt. It's when you piss on snowflakes that have settled together that you get the yellow effect.

Scotland had a conveyor belt of talent for decades

gray, bremner, lorimer..briliant players

@@johnsmith-nk1tp They could spell too

Scotland has done nothing since the 60s and 70s too many overseas players, drop it to 3 and give Leeds another Bremner Lorimer and Grey and you will be at the World cup every year!

I remember a Leeds Utd team with six Scots - Harvey, McQueen, Bremner, Lorimer, Jordan and Gray.

didnt know that

@@philipjenkins2198 You and all leeds fans never knew that . its bs.

lol..

the football authorities made us play 9 games in 15 days including the 2 against celtic. Not humanly possible , especially against a team that only had 2 serious domestic games a year.

Leeds went for the treble and got swamped with games in March /April 1970, Celtic were a great side but the pitches then were more like a farm yard and added to all the injuries! I went to that game great support by Celtic fans!

Celtic were good over the two legs but over a season they wouldn't have beat Leeds .

Giles could have played in any era - class football player

@@steakandsidJustLeeds absolutely agree.

The title of the clip is a reference to the era in question as opposed to this game in particular - 1973-74 season Leeds broke a modern record of it's time by recording 29 games undefeated from the start of season - a record that's only been breached once in the last 45 years - in the 10 years Leeds were dominant under Revie they were the outstanding team of it's time in England and arguably Europe - never out of the top four - constantly breaking records whilst every season contesting Finals and Semi Finals of all the domestic and European contests - a team playing 63 games plus every season chasing everything with a squad of only about 15 first team players - falling on it's own sword on so many heartbreaking occasions either through fatigue or officialdom skulduggery - a team to this day unforgiven and not given the credit there brilliance and dominance deserved - Embarrassingly Just Too Good - thanks for your question/comment

@@steakandsidJustLeeds Steak i get it i really do and i do enjoy your videos/memories. Hellava goal from Alan Birchenal i remember it like yesterday . There was always something special when we beat Liverpool though .

@@Lord_Hillcrest01 there's a couple of Liverpool highlights already uploaded.. still got a couple more to put up.. there were no poor teams in the 1st division back then...no easy games... thanks for watching

@@steakandsidJustLeeds Fact is you could name almost every player in every div 1 team during the early 70's . Great time for english football with leeds on top most of the time .

@@Lord_Hillcrest01 Leeds were on top but came second more times than Sharon Stone!

6 March 2019...League 1...Sunderland! Edit Dec 2019 Sunderland *STILL* in League 1😁👍

6th May 1972....Leeds United v Arsenal...53rd minute...Clarke 1-0!!

you will have to live off of that lucky win for eternity

@@leedsboy64 Nowt lucky about it. Were the better team.

@@ArchieFatcackie Nah, you had a goalie who played the game of his life. Leeds were all over you after you scored. Fair play to Montgomery though. Very good keeper.

No one is mentioning Gary Sprake the fantastic goalkeeper and author who was ostracized for telling the truth.

The obvious swan song? 29 games undefeated from the start of the season, won the league at a canter. The next season, even without Revie, reached the European Cup Final. That...was their swan song.

@@patrickkelly7085 Jeezus, are you still at it, 3 years later? You really are a sad little man, aren't you? The ghost of Gary Sprake lives rent-free in your empty head! Author? You don't actually think he wrote the book, do you?🤣

@@CB-xr1eg Thats a oxymoron "the ghost of Gary Sprake lives rent-free in your empty head! ?

@@patrickkelly7085 Seriously, that's the best you've got? Ok, I could have said "otherwise empty head, but you knew exactly what I meant. I said you were sad and you just proved it, well done!

No not in 73/74 season

72/73. They lost 1-0 to Sunderland.😪

please explain

@@utdkidswifeITO Four days later October 17th. 1973 England were knocked out of the World Cup in the infamous qualifier against Poland. The Country was stunned.

@@jackthegamer4019 Who cares as we have always been complete rubbish apart from 65-70 and the is no sign of that ever changing . But at least we have loads of hype :-)

What happened to them, last European success for the hoops was in 1967

Patrick Kelly Well it’s like this you see,UEFA decided that money could dictate the market. Italy,England,Spain,France,Germany,all have 4 teams in the cup,sometimes even 5 and the farce they call The Champions League is anything but a Champions League. When all the so called big clubs get brought down to the same level as other teams then fair deal,not 4 clubs from one country,one club only. UEFA have totally destroyed football,especially in Europe,not more foreign investment,play fair and then watch the fans return in their 1000s.

@@patrickkelly7085 Still more European success than Leeds all the same, and it was 1970 we pumped them which is the era this video mentions if im not mistaken.

Didn't it finish 2-2...?

@@blindpink Total respect!

No disrespect intended to either team, but let's hope for a return to the days when Leeds can beat Leicester.

Well beaten - like Celtic were by Aberdeen in the Jocks cup final that year.

No, they were playing some of the best teams in British football and best players ever, look at Leicester with frank Worthinton let alone Greaves Best Banks Charlton, law, keegan and Moore. Sprake was a great keeper you should watch the 1965 F.A cup final. He only made a few mistakes every keeper does that!

@@douglassimpson5932 They were the best team in the country in 1973-74 and overall the best in England between 1968 and 1974. However, they were never embarrassingly too good, which is a ridiculous exaggeration! A stupid comment. As for Sprake, he wasn't a top 'keeper or close and his many mistakes are all over the internet. Here are a few of his disasters, just in one game (there are many more!) ....... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kuVilFJ9NoU.html

That it then, the best you've got? How about Eddie Gray scoring 2 goals against you in the cup? One of them is rated as one of the greatest goals of that era, he just waltzed around your so called defence who seemed to be playing statues. Burnley...lmao. who are ya, who are ya?

Leeds 1 who 4

Leicester gave Leeds a game in this match but Intresting comments to suggest this was one of the better Leicester teams..in this 73-74 season they actually finished 9th - which was 20 points behind Leeds in what was an era of 2 points for a win..Leeds were hated because they played the game before its time.. they were ruthless efficient and class.. a prototype for future teams

@@steakandsidJustLeeds correct👍

@@steakandsidJustLeeds Not the best game to show Leeds being embarrassingly too good though.

@@steakandsidJustLeeds Very well said mate, spot on.👍

What does that even mean ? Are you saying all Leeds fans are perverts and peados? If so you're an idiot.

What a small minded idiot

Fuck off u unoriginal moron

Sounds like your just a sore Arse

here's why ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KRUxrfwoQ38.html

Just like Aberdeen cuffed you in the Scottish cup final around that time.

More of a wrestler, are you for real? This is a page for proper footballing history, no doubt you were looking for the knitting page so run along now.

Andy Rayner: Collector of toby jugs & keyboard warrior!! Watch out world!

Keyboard warrior 😄😄😄😄 Coming from someone who still goes on about Sunderland from 45 years ago, it'd be funny if it wasn't so pitiful.

Aww, come on Andy, lighten up mate. Did you know that your name is an anagram for Nerdy Rayna?...Bet that was your nickname at school.

I'm fully lightened up my friend, did you know that an anagram of skin 1964 is 4skin, which considering your comments is quite apt, did they call you a knob at school and possibly still do today?

Cozener h

Cozener Fantastic team.

Cozener you idiot.

Leeds were the most skillful team of that era.

@@mohamedsallehwari5309 yeah skilled being dirty.....

Stuck in the 70's? Like all the clowns who continually go on about Leeds being dirty cheats back in the 70's. Most of them weren't even born, they just parrot whatever their Dads tell them.

Fucking hell, the mighty millers who fight against relegation every season. ( 3rd from the bottom as I type this ) Get a fucking grip mate.

Seems there is some sort of revisionism about this Leeds team. Thy won won two league titles under Revie and bottled more leagues and cups than any great team should. They were never great really.

Leeds were the most consistent team of the 70's. They finished 2nd more times than most teams have won anything.

Have you got any evidence to back up your libelous comment ? No ? Thought not . Idiot .

Ohhh aye all these players made false allegations didn't they?? That's proof enough for me, liable?? My arse

@@stilllaughing3959 So how exactly did they cheat then ? And if they did cheat how come they didn't win every game they played and every cup competition they entered ? People saying they cheated doesn't make it true . Actual evidence makes it true and if you can't prove it , you can't make written allegations. That's liable. Look it up in a dictionary.

@@philwatson9233 That little bastard wee billy going into dressing rooms saying money was their for them.If it was not true why was Gary Sprake never sued? Am Scottish and for most of us we don't like Bremmner..No one can deny Leeds were a great side Frankie Gray was a hero of mine but there has been allegations of cheating at LUFC fact

So did you in the Scottish cup final against Aberdeen. You try playing a match every otherday at the end of a hard season against tough opposition as opposed to the cannon fodder of the Scottish League.

Sprake admitted on film that Revie bribed referees to allow his thugs players like Bobby Collins, who broke Gerry Byrne's collar bone in the first minutes of the 1965 cup-final, Bremner, Giles, Cooper and Hunter, who were all brutal and dirty, to get away with GBH on the field.

@@wuffothewonderdogYour comment is even more ridiculous than your username.👀😋

Tell me how the Leeds players were spoilt?

Still waiting...

And STILL waiting...

And STILL waiting...typical internet coward. Can't back up what he says.

Fuck off... You goof...England players are always World Class...

Prat!