Still think this is some of Dennis Waterman’s best work - RIP

@mnd1955

2 жыл бұрын

I'll second that.

@mikewest1542

2 жыл бұрын

Cant beat Minder or the Sweeney !

@gerryodonnell8333

Жыл бұрын

RIP DENNIS

@mnd1955

Жыл бұрын

@@gerryodonnell8333 Sad news. One of my favourite actors. Apart from Minder and The Sweeney, he was great in the story about the first World Cup. All the great ones are going now.

@stewartwest347

Жыл бұрын

@@mnd1955 Dennis Waterman does this show perfectly.

Great to see Dennis waterman who is brilliant at this, as he was with Lads Army. This is apart from being one of the best tv actors this country has ever produced RIP Dennis

Before the game of football was stolen from the working class. Dennis Waterman 👌🏼

I remember as a teen. Even during the 1980s, the FA Cup Final was very special! It was the event of the season. Everyone was watching the match on TV. Tracking team buses to the Wembley Stadium. Then the rot set in. What has the game become!

@user-xq2zn8bu9q

8 ай бұрын

I don't know but you're dead right mate. The FA Cup was special. 😢

@markbeaver5321

6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately the foreign kabal saw football as a great way to wash the dirty money earned from drugs and/or arms dealing.

@markbeaver5321

6 ай бұрын

The FA cup used to be a massive event, two channels of the tv had 'FA Cup specials' of many of the popular quiz/panel game shows of the day and, the teams were shown throughout the day from their hotels, through to their journeys from their hotels to Wembley Stadium.

@user-te1hi9rx7b

3 ай бұрын

PRIZE money for winning the FA CUP is less than finishing bottom in the Premier League. They should take away the 4th spot quaifying for Champions League and give it to the FA CUP Winners

Wow, Ray Kennedy won around19 cup and league medals in his career. He was a fantastic player who had such a tragic end.

@anthonymooney8636

8 ай бұрын

Never got the credit he deserved Jimmy Greaves describe him as the player of the 70s

Outstanding series. The 70s were truly the best time for football. But l guess you had to be there.

Thanks for posting great series having flashbacks of a golden era

11:00 Peter Lorimer, Rest in Peace

This was before my time but 70s football and 70s sports in general were the best.

This was when football was affordable fir everyone to watch. The comments regarding the cup final build up was so true. It was a whole day affair and something to really look forward to.

@overlook237

Жыл бұрын

I remember as a kid getting Beano, Roy Of The Rovers etc, always a storyline about the cup final in the week before the game. It's pretty much a sideshow now sadly rather than an occasion to look forward to.

A thousand thank yous. I turned 16 during the 1970-71 season. Happy days!

Great walk down memory lane, all my childhood heroes come to life again, thanks for posting.

I won a ticket for the Cup Final and went along despite being a Spurs supporter, rooting for Liverpool as I wanted us to remain the only Double winners. Having seen Arsenal win the league at WHL the previous Monday, I was gutted at the end. But a great goal by Charlie George.

I was brought upon Celtic ,Leeds Pele ,Bobby Moore was An unbelievably talented player and tactician .🕊

The quality of play in that Derby vs United game was amazing. For all the modern pitches you wouldn't get play as good as that today on that sort of a pitch.

The guy talking about Hillsbourgh , his words would come back to be proved correct 19 years later

@BigBlack81

4 жыл бұрын

I'm watching this for the first time and seeing those words are CHILLING. Just so...eerie, given history's benefit of hindsight.

@mrkipling2201

4 жыл бұрын

That’s crazy. And that guy was saying that before any fences were installed at hillsborough.

R.I.P. Dennis Waterman. Great actor, both in the Sweeney and in Minder. Part of my childhood.

Dennis is right that not everything was better in the past (no personal computers then or the youtube we are all watching this on, etc) but some things definitely were - another thing that was better in the 70s (and the 60s) was music. listen to all the cool songs in this series. miles better than the rubbish thats popular now...

Watching with a smile on my face. Great times. And what an amazing team Leeds were.

@Britonbear

4 жыл бұрын

How much better were the shirts then without all the crappy flair on them?

@adrianpilcher703

4 жыл бұрын

Or Dirty Leeds to give them there proper title.

@Uthred2801

10 ай бұрын

Dirty Bastards long life Brian Clough

@user-xq2zn8bu9q

8 ай бұрын

​@@Uthred2801Brilliant & sure to cause some controversy. 😁

Wow! What a showpiece occasion the Cup Final used to be,..virtually the whole nation would come to a standstill.

@davidtunnicliff5442

4 жыл бұрын

it was a whole day.

@lennylaa1686

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidtunnicliff5442 Yes.

@kevwhufc8640

4 жыл бұрын

5he roads / streets were empty, yes m8 everything stopped FA cup day was the whole day.. Shit, I really really miss all that, football today VAR cant celebrate bc they cancel the goal all money & bullshit nowadays ..very sad , our game been taken over by corporate bollox , yanks n other people clueless about English footy owning English clubs & never attending. I love watching these , but I get sad & a little pissed off tbh.

@MrAlwaysBlue

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. The 3rd round was also an exciting day as the minnows came up against the the 1st Division teams.

@mossie8

4 жыл бұрын

I used to live just off Commercial Road - constant traffic day and night - deadly quiet on Cup final day - both BBC and ITV covering the whole day. It was magic. Sky money ruined the game - and owners seeking to make more millions have ripped the heart out of my club.

These Match of The 70s programs are addicting. Very well done. Just sad my team in this decade, was stuck in Div 2 and 3

@billyhunt

2 жыл бұрын

Just like my team, Bristol Rovers..

I remember all these matches. Fantastic era!

This should be shown again on TV better then rubbish we have watch on BBC now watch all the series it first time around in 1995.

Watched this look back at 1970-71 a few years ago, and now convinced this era leaves the Premier League standing. These great teams and players often played 42 league games and many cup ties each season, often on pitches like farmers fields. Many of todays forwards like to pass the ball into the net. And often miss out. Martin Chiver's , John Radford, Peter Lorimer and Peter Osgood showed how the finish with power and accuracy. Sadly this clip shows the game in the FA Cup semi final, coming 3 days after defeat in the European Cup on the away goal rule, that destroyed the great Everton team of the late 60s early 70s. It also shows the great character of the Arsenal team that won the double, with a well balanced side. I can recall their captain Frank Mc Lintock playing for Leicester City at Goodison Park in the early 60s. as a half back. And now here as a solid central defender. Having watched football since the later 1950s I believe the finance driven Premier League and Europa Cup have enriched thousands of mediocre overseas players who wouldn't hold a candle to these 70s counterparts, and destroyed the passion and occasion of the FA Cup, and excitement of the former First Division.

Watching - and loving - the whole series. What memories. Thanks so much for posting.

I remember growing up as a kid ...cup final day was a massive occasion.....the telly on cup final day was devoted entirely to the big showpiece...the BBC and Itv would lock horn in battle to who could deliver the best buildup and coverage of the fa cup.....now it's treated as a no more than a distraction for the so called big boys of football.....and the tv coverage now is terrible,...miss the good old days

@johndearden7931

4 жыл бұрын

10 minutes after that cup final I was in a crash on my Lambretta GP200 and ended up in a coma for 6 days! Whenever I see Charlie George being picked up off the turf I remember that!

@younglock5499

4 жыл бұрын

well said pal.

@kidmack1121

4 жыл бұрын

Sound's marvelous!

@neilconnolly485

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on

@russellnewton6660

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Evans we even knew what they had for breakfast, because we were watching.

Thank you for reuploading this. Brilliant series.

Thanks so much for uploading this, impossible to get hold of on DVD, don't know why the BBC don't release it, but at least a chance now to watch it again.

@ericcollins8794

4 жыл бұрын

Expensive music rights probably

@paulthompson8996

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, hadn't thought of that.

Happy days, i remember 77-78 my first game. I was too young to remember 70-71. I do remember my team, brilliant in late 60s, early 70s then mid 70s in crisis, crippled with debt from a new stand which almost killed the club,relegated,promoted,relegated again. Rebuilding went on early 80s, promoted again, then late 80s relegated and promoted again lol. Then throughout 90s overseas players turned up at the club, brilliant vice chairman Matthew Harding. The italian job! and trophies once again!. then in early 2000s champions league football, the arrival of a russian billionaire who paid all the debts and glory years-the rest is history(i got arm ache).

Terry McCann's car at the start of this show! A great "Minder" reference!

@danw1374

2 жыл бұрын

'Hit him terry'

No managers complaining about 'too many games' in those days

@gerryryan

4 жыл бұрын

The FA in those days were very insular and wouldn't change league fixtures to accommodate teams playing in Europe. There were huge pile ups of matches at the end of the seasons. I remember Leeds in particular having to play something ridiculous like 10 games in a fortnight and playing League games the day after European ones. Any managers complaints were dismissed by the FA. who were all powerful in those days

Ah the chance to relive some of the greatest haircuts of the day .... ah memories

Paul thanks indeed for providing this excellent series-most enjoyable for its football action added to by Dennis Waterman's narration!

I was Gobsmacked when I saw in the description that this was aired in 1995. Where do all the years go. This part of the 70s is before my time but well remember later 70s. My lads look at footy from this era and point out holes everywhere in defence and about the nieveness of teams but I remember there was more magic, it was a working man's game. I watch football now and I just don't feel the same love.

@tonygunk8261

4 ай бұрын

Thats getting older mate. Everything was better when we were younger. To me football will never be as good as it was in the 80s and 90s. But todays youngsters will of course feel differently.

"in the days when Summers really were summers....." Here is 2022 we get 2 hot days and the BBC report the world is coming to an end.

@billycrotty4102

Жыл бұрын

I thought just the same 😂

Amazing players then,All household names,The West Ham players were real great players as the others from that era,The 1966 World cup was great to watch but the 3 World cups in the 70s was the best football entertainment in my opinion.

RIP the 66 from Ibrox

I think that referee decision for West Brom in the 2-1 win at Leeds was spot on. Was a deflection off the West Brom player, not a pass to a team mate. Fair goal.

I don't have many hero's but Bobby Moore was a role model as sportsman as a footballer and as an individual.💎

@bertcert991

Жыл бұрын

Left his wife and family for an air stewardess so not perfect after all great player though

@cyclingmaniac6343

Жыл бұрын

@@bertcert991 his kids were grown up when he left his wife and very few marriages last longer than 20 years +

@bertcert991

Жыл бұрын

@@cyclingmaniac6343 it depends if you have any morals (43 years in case you were wondering)

@cyclingmaniac6343

Жыл бұрын

@@bertcert991 sorry I didn't realise I was having a conversation with a sanctimonious little prat, who thinks they're perfect making baseless assertion, and no I wasn't wondering. Nothing could be further from my mind. I couldn't care less.

I found it odd that they failed to mention that Tottenham also won the league cup this year, I appreciate ITV had the footage but still a clean sweep for London clubs.

@Kelly14UK

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe Spurs won it in the first half of 1970? Scotland and England were forever shuffling the League Cup about.

@statto74

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kelly14UK no, end of Feb 71.

@Kelly14UK

2 жыл бұрын

@@statto74 Cool.

I played in the Chelsea vIpswich game where the Referee gave a goal when the ball went into the side netting.John Dempsey Chelsea Blue Is The Colour.

@bendover9663

4 жыл бұрын

Wow hello there🖐️

@Trev359

4 жыл бұрын

I remember you well. I was in the Shed End that day. That was so funny.

@johndempsey7528

4 жыл бұрын

Delboy359 Hi yes it was funny but the Ipswich players were not happy at all. Glad to hear you were in the Shed End that day as that was was where the best support was.

@Trev359

4 жыл бұрын

@@johndempsey7528 Yes, you're right. If I'd been an Ipswich fan I would have been fuming.

@johnquinn5092

4 жыл бұрын

John what did you make of playing at Goodson Park?

When most teams had and could keep there star players some tremendous teams and players in them days who played for trophy's and not money like today.

Great stuff. Most remarkable to me are players not overexacurating goal celebrations. And don't all the players look like in their 30s? Football at it best.

We would go out after the Cup Final as kids and recreate the goals... Happy days....

For weeks afterwards we tried to copy that Willie Carr, Ernie Hunt free kick!

Miss the atmosphere, getting proper autographs( not scribble), hard tackles, men being men, managers staying undercover during games, players not picking up injuries all the time, players not getting tired, players not cheating, watching players training, different playing surfaces, etc etc etc. Used to watch the odd Italian game on channel 4 and laugh at how the rolled about everytime they were tackled and thanked God the English game wasn't like that! Oh how things have changed.

@mohdazmi10

3 жыл бұрын

The Latin drama took over in English football.

@raphaelrau1728

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the innocence has gone the quality of everything has improved massively! Football hasn’t lost its roots and spirit! We just kicked the fat cat owners super league out forever! I went to the big protest at Arsenal,and we will protest again!

@DuderinoDeux

2 жыл бұрын

Trust me, the Italian game in the 1980s was ferocious especially with the defenders. For most of the 90s the football in Italy was miles ahead of the rest.

@danw1374

2 жыл бұрын

@@DuderinoDeux Yes the Italians were very tough physical players back then who never shyed away from a tackle, even more so than our lot. Our then England team found that out!

RIP Peter Lorimar...Billy Bremner and Emlyn Hughes

10:40 Leeds in red shirts!!! Now I've seen it all.

Aghhh those were the days.

Great header by Jones look at the power and angle of that goal.

The 70s where pitches were only properly playable for maybe 3 weeks! :)

The Leeds riot was interesting. The goal would certainly stand today. The move might not have got that far today because Leeds wouldn't have stopped, but I like to think the referee was about 40 years ahead of his time. :)

@TelexToTexel

2 жыл бұрын

All teams suffered alike, Arsenal lost to a penalty given at Huddersfield, which clearly shows that the Arsenal player suspected of handling the ball was outside the penalty area.

@waldemarkoziarczyk5018

2 жыл бұрын

Those were wonderful and magical years.

@paulwebb6087

2 жыл бұрын

@@TelexToTexel Stoke were cheated in semi final with Arsenal who scored when clearly offside when linesman mistook a paper seller in white coat for Stoke defender and goal was alloiwed

@TelexToTexel

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulwebb6087 Too bad it wasn't this season, Stoke has just announced an all black away kit, would never be mistaken for a paper sell in a white coat !

Ah when midfielders were all maestro's, dynamos schemers or playmakers Or dirty psychotic hitmen!

Fantastic!

I loved football back then.

Wrong to say that Bertie Mee "never kicked a ball in anger in his life". He did, in fact, have a short playing career, but it was cut short by injury.

When the middle class gets control of working class pursuits it always ends up in ruin.

Don Howe. This dinosaur held English football back for 20 years.

@jeannotschumacher1024

8 ай бұрын

Bullshit

6:40 VAR today would take 3 minutes to review that, and the pundits would disagree on the outcome

@kennethmarshall306

4 жыл бұрын

That was the problem with the old metal stanchions. For an example of one that DID go in and the ref didn't give it, youtube Partick Thistle v Dundee Utd: Worst decision made by a football referee ever !

8:35 Did these Arsenal players of old even get a caution let alone an FA ban for verbally attacking the ref like that in the tunnel? Did they hell, typical bloody Arsenal.

@krisfarmer4751

4 жыл бұрын

That footage was from at least two years earlier You can tell by the fact that Bobby Gould was there and by the socks worn by the team

@lewisgreen1633

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen that footage before. The Arsenal players acted like a pack of rabid animals...

@jeannotschumacher1024

8 ай бұрын

Hahahaha. Not enough verbally attacking

Liverpool used to sing you'll never walk alone,United fans used to sing "you'll never walk again".

When football grounds were churches to the club and not corperate shopping precincts.

20:39 Just as tony green scored that goal for blackpool a fan goes flying over the advertisement hoardings lol too funny

@Britonbear

4 жыл бұрын

Such a shame that Tony Green's career was cut short. Great player to watch.

i like it my fav teams in england are chelsea. leeds and newcastle united

The times when missing a penalty was a shame.

@frankmachin5438

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah cos in them days the ‘keeper couldn’t move till you’d kicked it....now as long as you don’t come off your line the ‘keeper can just about do as they please...

Typical FA knee-jerk reaction to the "Donkey kick" free kick. Brilliant execution, taken hours of practice on the training field, but it's not football, let"s ban it!

@Veaseify

4 жыл бұрын

It was banned by FIFA, not the FA - Willie Carlin touched the ball with both feet before Hunt hit it, that is illegal

Who knew that Eric Idle was such a good commentator?

Refs do their utmost to run a match full of players up to their tricks. That intro by Arsenal players & Don Howe was apalling. The Ref & Linesman got paid next to nothing & also had a day job whilst players done some training then fc-uk off home pub bookies. They should have went on strike & say you ref your games. Mind you Jack Taylor would take none of that agro. They knew Jack was a copper & stood no mucking about. Things are better now.

Superb Stoke Big John Ritchie, Jimmy Greenhoff , Terry Conroy etc

One thing that is immediately striking is opposition fans clapping for the other teams goals. A custom once common but died out during the 70's as grounds (and society) became a lot less civil.

As a M Utd fan,we were crap then as we are now,but i still prefered football then,more passion.

@mrkipling2201

4 жыл бұрын

Dan Smith definitely agree about the football. Mind you from the 2nd division season in 74/75 until the doc got sacked we played some great football.

@Suve35967

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrkipling2201 True.. crowd's of 63,500..in Div 2...Div 1never got.......,....Pearson...scores...hand up..clenched fist. 🙂

@mrkipling2201

4 жыл бұрын

Dan Smith that home game against Sunderland in the 2nd division. What an atmosphere.

@Suve35967

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrkipling2201 True but if I remember right a 0-0 draw

@mrkipling2201

4 жыл бұрын

Dan Smith no that game we won 3-2

No prima Dona,s posers or divers in those days. Just proper men when football was a man’s game.

Ultimate football total football the best of all of Time

Brilliant series, any chance of adding all the years in this decade?

Ol' Careless Hands at his best against Colchester xD

It's not soccer, it's Football!

@stev1963hit

3 жыл бұрын

Back then it was commonly known as soccer too-dunno why people forget that

I hope the background audio must be restored at some stage for that video because it's important to do that?

Don Howe's boy's. His Sistine chapel of football.. Apart from Wimbledon of course. The Best, God bless the crazy gang.

They didn't mention the fact that on the highlights of the cup final the following day it was proven that George Graham didn't touch the ball for the winning goal. Eddie Kelly scored it.

@jeannotschumacher1024

8 ай бұрын

That is wrong. But you had to look closely and in slowmotion.

Yet you have people saying football in the 70s and 80s was amateurish , utterly nonsensical

@Trev359

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Ability improves with each generation and better training facilities so you would expect today's players to be better but to say players of those days were amaterish is stupid. Players those days adapted to muddy pitches and icey pitches, didn't dive or try to get players sent off. No-one complained about a build up of fixtures. Today's players and young managers are a bunch of prima donas.

Those were good times.

RIP Dennis Waterman

I miss those orange footballs..

Martin Chivers played well for Spurs and England until that Poland match in 1973. He never recovered from that traumatic experience. Sad but true.

Those over packed stadiums = Frightening!

4 жыл бұрын

Snowflake...

4 жыл бұрын

....born in the 50s you twat!

Well that was interesting...

A team can still lose 5-0 to Stoke, and yet become double winners

Great series . Shud be repeated.🍀😎✊😉

i wishd id had some day capri green

Where's John Dempsey's goal for Chelsea in the Cup Winners Cup Final?? Great goal.

25:14 Strange looking Goodison Park.

If England had air-tech shirts in Mexico for the World Cup, surely Liverpool should not have had to play the FA Cup final in heavy long-sleeved shirts, as confirmed by Emlyn.

The great bobby Moore. The media as usual making themselves a nuisance.

The Great Kenneth Wolstenholme..Manchester Utd looked Awful...However With More Or less The same Team 12 months later Shot To the Top Of The League.

@mrkipling2201

4 жыл бұрын

Garry Wood the following season we were top of the league by Xmas. Yet we lost 8 games in a row after Xmas and finished out of the top places. Start of the decline at OT.

Best ''high kick'' against Banks was correctly given as a foul. But narrator Dennis Waterman nor indeed commentator David Coleman does not make clear @ 38-40,..the ref's ''bad decision'' was clearly a blatant handball by Francis Lee in the initial build up to the England goal. An obvious foul. If only we could get those Home Internationals back again, anyone agree?

@gunternetzer9621

2 жыл бұрын

No way did Best foul Banks - the ball was out of his hands.

@lennylaa1686

2 жыл бұрын

@@gunternetzer9621 No...in the old days, it was always the case that the keeper was given a fair chance to drop kick to clear the ball so anything approaching '' a high kick'' ie ''foot up'' was given as a foul...otherwise ALL strikers would try it on so it was seen as an unfair advantage. I'm sure the same applies today.

Football was much better in the 70s & the 80s , Shit I mean westham even won 2 fa cups five years apart.. Been 40 years since we beat the arsenal in 1980 fa cup. Was absolutely better back then... I was nearly 18 yr old when we last won fa cup 🙃🙈😶🙄⚒

@mossie8

4 жыл бұрын

Billy Bonds said the game was ruined for us supporters when seating had to be installed. the game was definately ruined when sky decided to control football to make more money, and our club was ruined when bought by owners who always planned to sell Upton Park and have ripped the heart out of our club

Colchesther winning against leeds is something i would like to see again

Why is there contriversy? Sugget wasn't offside and Astle ran from his own half when Hunter booted it against Sugget. edit: I got all the names wrong oops.

@danpreston564

4 жыл бұрын

Suggett was a couple of yards off and under the rules of the time should have been given offside.

@stephentrout7879

4 жыл бұрын

@@danpreston564 I got the names wrong, Tony brown is who hunter boots it against and runs up the pitch and Sugget is the guy standing in leeds half offside but did everyone assume that once Hunter boots it against Brown it makes Sugget offside? Did he move towards the ball? (which you cant see out of shot) I dont understand why everyone stopped. It is because the linesman flagged so they all just assumed it was offside? The referee correctly overruled the linesman but I dunno *shrugs*

@danpreston564

4 жыл бұрын

Stephen Trout you have to watch it with the idea of how the offside law was applied in the early 70s. Suggett, standing in the offside position would have been given offside 99 times out of 100 in those days, moving towards the ball or not.

@stephentrout7879

4 жыл бұрын

@@danpreston564 Ok just because he was there, in an offside position, thanks for saying. (:

@Britonbear

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephentrout7879 The rules were different then. You could excuse a player being offside if he wasn't 'interfering with play' but that was quite rare; particularly for a player in the centre of the pitch like that.

“Sheffield Wednesdays Hillsborough ground was a Morden age stAtdiim

6:54 The referee was a plonked.