Many fans back in the 50’s and 60’s would attend Spurs home games one week and then Arsenal the next week. There had always been rivalry between the two teams, but for some reason hatred began to fester and its never gone back to the good old days when fans were more civilised and sporting.
Youth culture took off in the sixties an football was part of it. Young people with passion an new identity from area, estates football clubs etc en masse there’s bound to of been tribalism.
Look at the photographs of people at football in th 50s and 60s,most men were wearing their best clothes,then jump forward to the 70s.The 60s brought a social revolution from the staid 50s but we shouldn't assume that all the changes were for the better.
Great to see White hart Lane in all its glory, They are pulling the old place down now for re development but that's progress. But what a great theatre of British football......
Interesting analysis from the late Jimmy Hill, Arsenal are so hard to beat - nothing much has changed in the last 50 years then...with the exception of the early sixties, Spurs have seemingly always struggled when playing Arsenal.
Always felt this was the match that started the Tottenham league slide in the 70s. The club hardly won a league game for the next two months and after that it was downhill for the next few years
It's a pity the TV cameras didn't send their quality cameras to the Lane for the meeting in 70-71 when the Gunners won the league here what were they thinking then?
good old days... unfortunately it has changed... greetings from a german gooner !!
My first ever North London Derby and what a start 👏 and become a Gooner
Radford a very underrated player
Many fans back in the 50’s and 60’s would attend Spurs home games one week and then Arsenal the next week. There had always been rivalry between the two teams, but for some reason hatred began to fester and its never gone back to the good old days when fans were more civilised and sporting.
Youth culture took off in the sixties an football was part of it. Young people with passion an new identity from area, estates football clubs etc en masse there’s bound to of been tribalism.
It was same with Millwall fans in 60s /70s alot of which would go across to Palace when a big team were playing.
Look at the photographs of people at football in th 50s and 60s,most men were wearing their best clothes,then jump forward to the 70s.The 60s brought a social revolution from the staid 50s but we shouldn't assume that all the changes were for the better.
Thanks for posting, first time I have ever seen the analysis piece - I was only two years old when this was played! :-)
Blockley in for McLintock! We were never totally happy with team selection. I remember Blockley was accident-prone even before Arsenal signed him!
yeah baby! great intro music...
I was 10 at the time and my boyhood teams were Leeds Utd and Blackpool but thank you for this blast from my ( better- days ) past!
Great to see White hart Lane in all its glory, They are pulling the old place down now for re development but that's progress. But what a great theatre of British football......
COYG !
Interesting analysis from the late Jimmy Hill, Arsenal are so hard to beat - nothing much has changed in the last 50 years then...with the exception of the early sixties, Spurs have seemingly always struggled when playing Arsenal.
C'est comme le Forest de 77/78.
Always felt this was the match that started the Tottenham league slide in the 70s. The club hardly won a league game for the next two months and after that it was downhill for the next few years
It's a pity the TV cameras didn't send their quality cameras to the Lane for the meeting in 70-71 when the Gunners won the league here what were they thinking then?
Click this link to watch the only footage of this game. ruclips.net/video/BdALY2fLvq4/видео.html
ye strange eh
They weren’t allowed to cover weeknight League games for highlights until 1986
Well done Gunners.
Thank God we got rid of the offside rule of the 70s
arsenal everywhere- in all four stands
I was one of them
Probably only a matter of time before AFTV start sharing this as part of the retro Arsenal posts :-/
Sour grapes Tottenham, we won fair and square.
Another win at shite art lane !! COYG !!
Why do the TV always use the S word
Spurs
Matthews wouldn’t be offside as he played the ball back from the byline surely?
50 years from now people will watch arsenal highlights of today and will laugh how everyone has a fade haircut.
Who is the barber of the journalist at the end, Edward scissors hands XD
MrJoebuck74 jimmy chin as we used to call him
Looks better than all the bone heads of today
It's squeaky bum time again lads...as Sp*rs do their usual crying game and curl up like a salted snail when it really matters. The Arsenal!
It certainly was..ha ha they cried about Radford's goal for 10 weeks
Spurs are the only consistent team out of the two! Shit in 1972 and still shit in 2018! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ha ha lol lmao
How come WHL isn't covered in sand? Pitch was normally terrible
spurs defending at 4:50 lol
This must be the worst ever Big Match theme.
2024 Spurs are still Spursy. North London still redder than red, nothing changes........
any arsenal there bar a few dotted about
Rubbish as usual
everywhere around the ground and im a man city fan
Spurs doing a spursey