@@thevoid6818 I think your a bit confused, Leighton James was a flying winger for, Burnley, Swansea and Cymru. 🏴. He wasn't a playmaker or striker.
Wales had a very good side , unlucky to not go to the world cup in 1978 in a game John toshack was outstanding in the Wales Vs Scotland at his home ground Liverpool Wales dominated Scotland.
@@redd605 i have been a Cardiff and Cymru fan for 50 years. Been all over the uk and europe watching Cardiff and Cymru. I was at the Cymru 🏴 v Scotland game at Anfield in 77. It was supposed to be a home game for Cymru, but Scotland took over the ground. There was about 95% Scotland fans in the ground. I was in the corner at the top of the kop. The violence between the two sets of fans was scary. Before the game the jocks outside the ground were great. Inside was a different matter. When Scotland scored their their first goal. ( a penalty won by that cheating twat, Joe jorden) watch it on RUclips. We decided to get out of the ground while the jocks were celebrating. ( it was that violent in the kop ) I have been three times to the old Wembley to watch England V Cymru in the 70S in the old home Internationals. There was trouble between Cymru and England fans on all three occasions, but nothing like Cymru v Scotland game at Anfield. one of the boys was picked off by dozens scouse urjins outside the ground.There has been animosity between Cymru and Scotland since.
A game I will never forget as I had just started work 3 months earlier. The whole of England was in complete shock as we threw the kitchen sink at Poland and had 5 or 6 forwards on there too. Defensive mistakes cost us plus the Polish goalie was just brilliant.
In their opening match of the 1974 World Cup, Poland met Argentina. Within eight minutes Poland were up 2-0 as Grzegorz Lato opened the scoring in the seventh minute and just a minute later Andrzej Szarmach doubled the lead. In the 60th minute, Argentina cut the lead in half when Ramon Heredia scored. Two minutes later, however, Lato scored his second, which turned out to be the winning goal as Carlos Babington gave Argentina their second in the 66th. The match finished 3-2 as Poland won. Poland thrashed Haiti 7-0 in their second game, with a hat-trick from Szarmach and two goals from Lato. In their final match of the group stage, Poland met Italy. Poland were already through to the second round but needed at least a draw to win the group. Poland defeated Italy 2-1, finishing at the top of the group. In the second round, Poland first won 1-0 against Sweden, who had not conceded any goals in their first three matches. Lato scored the only goal of the game. In the next game, Yugoslavia conceded a penalty from Poland in the 24th minute, and Stanislav Karasi tied it up for Yugoslavia in the 43rd. Lato scored the winning goal. Poland faced hosts West Germany in the rain; Gerd Müller scored the winning goal in the 76th minute for West Germany. The Poles defeated Brazil in the third place match.
Agree 100% It was also ruthless. Only 1 team qualified. None of this 2nd and even 3rd placed teams from groups of 4 or 5 getting through. People often don’t know or forget this when viewing the 70s as a dark period for England while glorifying the likes of Saint Gareth for getting to the latter stages of tournaments. The opposition Southgate has faced is nowhere near as tough and there’s far less jeopardy today so it’s almost impossible not to qualify for a tournament. The football itself is too cagey and borders on unwatchable! As you say @spoonunit03 give me 1970s action every time.
I was a kid, in love with (and still is) Manchester City and English football, watching it every Saturday on national TV (Norway). We all had a fav English club, most kids went with United, some with Arsenal, Liverpool, Leeds, Chelsea. England not qualifying for the World Cup was a shocker to all of us! Later I've realized Poland had a great team, it was not only the goalkeeper, as would the tournament show. Lato became the top goalscorer, if I remember correctly (old school NOT googling it :)
@@moreblack Yes, we did! And Netherlands was in the group as well! Crazy days, Norway on top of the group. We totally trashed the opposition in the 98 quali - but seriously, it was WILD! Remember, Rosenborg had a great run in the Champions League as well, for years. Truly stunning years for Norwegian football.
On Belgium England in Bologna, we can't count how many times his post or crossbar saved the Three Lions from early k-o by Belgians. One in a million try of Platt showed Lady Luck was definitely on English side
I'd had my first (and only) England crying experience in 1970 as a 12 year old when we lost the two goal lead against Germany in the world cup quarter final. I was immune after that.
We had so many good players to pick from in those days amazing we didn’t qualify in 74. They made it harder though with only 3 in the group. Great open attacking football .
Poland were underestimated by many, especially the English media, but they were a pretty good team on the rise around that time and up until the early 80's.
I remember these games so well. I was in my last year at school and we all expected England to qualify, especially after the win at Ninian Park. Leighton James played a blinder at Wembley in the return but, even so, a draw wasn't the end of the world. The loss in Poland came as a big shock as most of us knew nothing about them and the British papers had England as clear favourites (well they would wouldn't they?). I watched the Poland game and listened to Brian Moore and Brian Clough going at it but Jan Tomaszewski was anything but a clown. He was brave, agile, and his positioning was spot-on, and he had luck on his side. We were all sorry for Alf Ramsey and did not want him sacked but his time had come and we were in the wilderness up until 1982 when we qualified for Spain.
The one game that every Englishman dreads in the one against Poland. I think most of the team had nightmares after that one. I was only eleven at the time but I remember it well.
Nice that most of you appreciate Poland in early 70. I am Pole born in 1967, do not remember these matches but was brought up in a shade what had happened. It was fine decade 1972 - 1982 for us. Once I watched a game on Wembley Stadium it was Collin Bell who impressed me most.
It was a shithole where piss ran down the stairs from the top terrace as you climbed up them behind both goals as no one could be arsed the ordeal of going to the toilets. Like Hampden you could be nearly 200 yards from the far goal and should have been pulled down not renovated. Never stopped me going to either though. The shit we tolerated when younger. Unlike Hampden its been sorted. Thats as balanced as i can be.
Why did both teams (Poland v England) both wear away kits, that would’ve be difficult to watch as most of the Uk had black & white TV sets back in 1973?
At 0:53 Collin Bell sees John Toshak is all alone in 6 yards, yet instead of getting close and putting pressure on him, he lets him score an easy goal. Add to that Bobby Moore and Norman Hunter blunders against Poland, and you have England getting knocked out of the World Cup by self-inflicted wounds.
If anything, look at Bobby ''Blunderman'' Moore,...he fails to attack the ball at the near post as the cross is about to be delivered. Bell, being too far behind Toshack could only hope to chop him down and concede a penalty. But further errors would soon be on their way from Mr. Moore which prove to be extremely costly.
@@lennylaa1686 Moore was a great player - but he was passed it. Ramsay's loyalty to him was maybe his biggest mistake as a manager. West Ham even offloaded him in 1974 - playing out his remaining career in a lower division. lt's a good example of why Sir Alex Ferguson had such sustained success - he always knew when to move on great players.
@@Inglese001 Yes in particular...take a good look at poor old Bobby suffering in the Fulham 1-5 home defeat to Notts County in 1977 on YT,..you will cry.
It was a fantastic Polish team. Match at Wembley against England. It was the team's weakest match in history and the Poles were very lucky that day. They have never played so defensively. This team was famous for its offensive play and qualified for the '74 World Cup without its best player, Lubański.
What a poor team we were in the early 1970’s. We could not win home matches and lost when we played away. The writing was in the wall for Sir Alf when we failed to qualify for the 1974 World Cup
We weren't that bad (perhaps a little short of genuine world class players), just that visiting goalkeepers back then saved their best for Wembley (apart from the Austrian goalie who conceded 7, ironically in the very England fixture prior to this qualifier).
I get where you're coming from with: "Poor team", yes, maybe didn't gel or Ramsey didn't know his best XI. Individually, you can't call Shilts, Moore (admittedly past his best by 73), Hughes, Ball, Bell, Peters, Clarke, Keegan (Euro FofYr), Marsh, etc poor players: World Cup winners amongst them. Fault of the manager; clubs over country and other factors?
Włodzimierz Lubański-crucial polish legend!!!!! That injury on game in Chorzów ,june 73 awful ,take his talent away!!!! He got potential to be next Puskas or DiStefano ,Lord if he will played in World Cup 74 Poland 100 % have own tittle!!!!
It was amazing hoe many foreign players thought because Alan Ball was small he was a push over , but he had fire in his belly when playing for England , 10;58 when he goes after one of the Poland players and he runs away
Allan Clarke was the most skillful player on that team, sorely underused as he hit 10 goals from just 19 games, and some of those were as a sub. Great player who should have had 50 plus caps easily.
More action in 5 minutes of the England - Poland match then the current England team provided during the whole of Euro 2024. Geez that was a painful England team to watch.
Yes, I generally enjoyed my 1970s childhood but the England national team broke my heart throughout the decade by not qualifying for a single tournament from 1970 until 1980.
With so very little live football shown on tv in these days it was cruel that England went from 1970 till 1982 without appearing at a World Cup, long time for a 9 year old boy to have to wait till he was 21 !
Gran selección la polaca de esa época (campeona olímpica el los jjoo 1972)siendo amateur.. Fue la base de aquel gran buen equipo en el mundial de Alemania 1974...saludos desde Fontainebleau fr 🇨🇵
Hughes was LB for England in all these games but never played there for his club team. Strange move by SIr Alf. Would have been a better CB or holding midfielder.
I don't think Keegan emerged into the international scene until after England's elimination from the World Cup. I think he might have featured in their 1974 European tour under Joe Mercer as caretaker manager after Ramsey was sacked. If you mean Gerry Francis, I don't think he emerged until after the '74 World Cup either. Trevor Francis came along even later.
Yep I was at that game lost my voice shouting, that ball was just not going in that net, i was sitting not far from Sir Alf he was shocked like the rest of us that England were not going to the world cup, Ive never been to an England game since
“One of the blackest days they’ve ever had” the mentality back then was we invented the game so we should be the best. It was like the world was ending as I recall, and Ramsey paid the price. Interesting that they never showed the shirt pull from McFarland when the polish striker had broken away.
Polonia tremenda selección y llegó al podio, en los años 70’s la selección inglesa tuvo un momento bastante difícil. Para 1974, lo eliminó Polonia ( tremenda selección), fue tercero y para 1978 fue Italia por gol diferencia, los italianos quedaron cuartos.
Alf Ramsey just couldn't see what everyone else saw - that Bobby Moore was passed it. He even admitted that had England made the World Cup of 1974, Moore would still have been the captain. There's no room for sentiment in sport - if you want to win. Bobby Robson made the same mistake with Peter Shilton. Out-jumped by a midget for the 'hand of God' goal in 1986, 4 years later, at over 40, he was still in the side.
A very special midget dude. Wouldn't have made a difference. Right after England scored through Lineker Argentina went up the field and hit Shiltons post, he never saw it. In no man's land and neither would Chris Wood or Ronnie Wood.
@@kailashpatel1706 I would have played David Seaman in 1990. He moved to Arsenal that summer. I don’t know why we didn’t take him to Italy. Beasant went instead. 🤦🤦🤦🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Poland were a good team as they showed at that World cup however how England didn't win that game is hard to comprehend I remember watching it as a boy , it just wasn't meant to be for some reason.
England defensive errors all over. Bobby Moore and Norman Hunter instead of kicking into touch lost the ball. Peter Shilton was hopeless in goal in two matches, couldn't save a beach ball. Alan Clarke a very good dribbler of the ball never got the credit and service he deserved. Add to this the fact that England only drew at home to Wales. Poland however had a very good team as they proved in the World Cup but England should have won.
Of course Poland develloped in the early 70ies to a Topteam. Later in WM74 I (*1960) noticed Tomaszewski (Keeper) Deyna (Libero), Lubansky (Defenser), Lato (Goalgetter1), Gadocha ( Goalgetter 2) and Szarmach (Goalgetter 3) All together to the best Players of this Finalround. Only besten unfortunately 0:1 (Müller) from Germany in the "semifinal"-match in Rain and waterfloated field of Frankfurt. The Finale the Victory over the WM-defenser Brasil in the small Final to become 3rd of runne4s up the World. The best Poland footballteam ever since to today. Soccer⚽️greetings from Kassel.😁
Demonstrates perfectly why some people have delusions about English football in the 1970s. They seem to think every team was made up of 11 Frank Worthingtons, Tony Currys and Stan Bowles and Kevin Keegans
And when Poland came to Wales to play their game they lost 2-0, and me being 13 year old Welsh kid supporting England that night was gutted that they lost.
Shilton shite on all three polish goals,but that aside the main reason they never qualified for any major tournaments in the 70s is that we had poor squads.
People forget that the greatest goalkeeper of all time lost an eye in a car crash just as the qualifying games began in October 1972. If that hadn’t happened we would have qualified the 1974 World Cup.
Any given night, England would have won but the Polish keeper had the game of his life. Clough said he was a clown, a clown who knew how to keep shots out.
Leighton James the Wales winger was very underrated.
Cymru Wales 🏴
Taffy, the Burnley Legend, always a fave at Turf
@@thevoid6818 I think your a bit confused, Leighton James was a flying winger for, Burnley, Swansea and Cymru. 🏴. He wasn't a playmaker or striker.
Wales had a very good side , unlucky to not go to the world cup in 1978 in a game John toshack was outstanding in the Wales Vs Scotland at his home ground Liverpool Wales dominated Scotland.
@@redd605 i have been a Cardiff and Cymru fan for 50 years. Been all over the uk and europe watching Cardiff and Cymru. I was at the Cymru 🏴 v Scotland game at Anfield in 77. It was supposed to be a home game for Cymru, but Scotland took over the ground. There was about 95% Scotland fans in the ground. I was in the corner at the top of the kop. The violence between the two sets of fans was scary. Before the game the jocks outside the ground were great. Inside was a different matter. When Scotland scored their their first goal. ( a penalty won by that cheating twat, Joe jorden) watch it on RUclips. We decided to get out of the ground while the jocks were celebrating. ( it was that violent in the kop ) I have been three times to the old Wembley to watch England V Cymru in the 70S in the old home Internationals. There was trouble between Cymru and England fans on all three occasions, but nothing like Cymru v Scotland game at Anfield. one of the boys was picked off by dozens scouse urjins outside the ground.There has been animosity between Cymru and Scotland since.
Giving England lots of problems
"Sprake knows all about Norman Hunter....but he knew nothing, about that!" Absolute classic David Coleman commentary!
Coleman was a great .
Great defence and goalkeeping from Poland. We weren't bad ... their back 4 were fantastic❤
A game I will never forget as I had just started work 3 months earlier. The whole of England was in complete shock as we threw the kitchen sink at Poland and had 5 or 6 forwards on there too. Defensive mistakes cost us plus the Polish goalie was just brilliant.
In their opening match of the 1974 World Cup, Poland met Argentina. Within eight minutes Poland were up 2-0 as Grzegorz Lato opened the scoring in the seventh minute and just a minute later Andrzej Szarmach doubled the lead. In the 60th minute, Argentina cut the lead in half when Ramon Heredia scored. Two minutes later, however, Lato scored his second, which turned out to be the winning goal as Carlos Babington gave Argentina their second in the 66th. The match finished 3-2 as Poland won.
Poland thrashed Haiti 7-0 in their second game, with a hat-trick from Szarmach and two goals from Lato. In their final match of the group stage, Poland met Italy. Poland were already through to the second round but needed at least a draw to win the group. Poland defeated Italy 2-1, finishing at the top of the group. In the second round, Poland first won 1-0 against Sweden, who had not conceded any goals in their first three matches. Lato scored the only goal of the game. In the next game, Yugoslavia conceded a penalty from Poland in the 24th minute, and Stanislav Karasi tied it up for Yugoslavia in the 43rd. Lato scored the winning goal. Poland faced hosts West Germany in the rain; Gerd Müller scored the winning goal in the 76th minute for West Germany. The Poles defeated Brazil in the third place match.
Yes Poland were brilliant
@@stevenpalmer442 And Lato won the Golden Boot with seven goals. He wasn't even a striker!
More action from England in one game than Englands whole 2024 Euros campaign. 50 years on, same result but give me that 1974 action every time. :)
Agreed, England were painful to watch in the last tournament.
It was great to see my boyhood hero Colin Bell in his prime. He deserved a World Cup.
Absolutely....!
Agree 100%
It was also ruthless. Only 1 team qualified. None of this 2nd and even 3rd placed teams from groups of 4 or 5 getting through.
People often don’t know or forget this when viewing the 70s as a dark period for England while glorifying the likes of Saint Gareth for getting to the latter stages of tournaments.
The opposition Southgate has faced is nowhere near as tough and there’s far less jeopardy today so it’s almost impossible not to qualify for a tournament. The football itself is too cagey and borders on unwatchable!
As you say @spoonunit03 give me 1970s action every time.
Eh? We didn't even qualify!
I was a kid, in love with (and still is) Manchester City and English football, watching it every Saturday on national TV (Norway). We all had a fav English club, most kids went with United, some with Arsenal, Liverpool, Leeds, Chelsea. England not qualifying for the World Cup was a shocker to all of us! Later I've realized Poland had a great team, it was not only the goalkeeper, as would the tournament show. Lato became the top goalscorer, if I remember correctly (old school NOT googling it :)
didn't Norway eliminate them from the 1994 world cup?
@@moreblack Yes, we did! And Netherlands was in the group as well! Crazy days, Norway on top of the group. We totally trashed the opposition in the 98 quali - but seriously, it was WILD! Remember, Rosenborg had a great run in the Champions League as well, for years. Truly stunning years for Norwegian football.
It's amazing that Shilton was still England's keeper in the 1990 World cup!
Does anyone remember Shilton ever actually saving anything?
@@AvailableHandle Yes, his career.....for a long time! :)
@@AvailableHandle Yes, quite a lot actually.
On Belgium England in Bologna, we can't count how many times his post or crossbar saved the Three Lions from early k-o by Belgians. One in a million try of Platt showed Lady Luck was definitely on English side
@@Kelverontake it from me. It was not
Lato was a Rolling Stone! A fantastic player!
People forget Poland had an outstanding team in the early 70’s winning the 1972 Olympic Gold Medal and 3rd place in the 1974 World Cup.
Remember Lato, quality player.
And Deyna.
No people don't forget a lot wasn't born yet
@@gilly4881
Lato became the king of shooters of the world championship '74
@@janhusar9105 "King of shooters" 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for posting, as a 15 year old schoolboy I cried that night.
I'd had my first (and only) England crying experience in 1970 as a 12 year old when we lost the two goal lead against Germany in the world cup quarter final. I was immune after that.
Polska stary Bardzo dobry zespół przez Hiszpanie 82 do Mexico86 nastąpił koniec tej mega passy i tych zawodników!!!🍾🍾🍾
Thanks for archive football videos of the three lions.
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@@WorldFootballArchive will there be qualification matches for the 1986 World Cup and Euro 1988?
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We had so many good players to pick from in those days amazing we didn’t qualify in 74. They made it harder though with only 3 in the group. Great open attacking football .
Tomaszewski was a real titan
And not a 'A circus clown in gloves' according to one Brian Clough!
Poland finished 3rd in the '74 World Cup, no thanks to Jan Tomaszewski
Poland were underestimated by many, especially the English media, but they were a pretty good team on the rise around that time and up until the early 80's.
I saw them lose 2-0 at Ninian Park in this group. If you told me they'd end up finishing third in the WC I'd have laughed.
@@Britonbear They did it 3 times in a row,1974, 1978 and 1982..
That Norman Hunter goal was pure class
Poland were a good side I think we underestimated them in this qualifying campaign.
Could have won the WC in 74 if they played West Germany on a normal pitch.
@@edlawn5481 Maybe.
@@r4h4al For sure.
Our big and breakthrough moment💪
Jan Tomaszewski, One of the Greatest Goalkeepers of All Times...
,,,, true
And a really nice, humble guy with a great sense of humour, too. Not that I was that objective in 1973 though 😢
Gutted - still we had half a page in the Pinnie sticker album 😢
Rubbish he was lucky. A one match wonder.
The clown apparently!!
I remember these games so well. I was in my last year at school and we all expected England to qualify, especially after the win at Ninian Park. Leighton James played a blinder at Wembley in the return but, even so, a draw wasn't the end of the world. The loss in Poland came as a big shock as most of us knew nothing about them and the British papers had England as clear favourites (well they would wouldn't they?). I watched the Poland game and listened to Brian Moore and Brian Clough going at it but Jan Tomaszewski was anything but a clown. He was brave, agile, and his positioning was spot-on, and he had luck on his side. We were all sorry for Alf Ramsey and did not want him sacked but his time had come and we were in the wilderness up until 1982 when we qualified for Spain.
And we only qualified for Spain because results went our way.
@@shortwavelisteningforbegin418 And two teams qualified.
The one game that every Englishman dreads in the one against Poland. I think most of the team had nightmares after that one. I was only eleven at the time but I remember it well.
Nice that most of you appreciate Poland in early 70. I am Pole born in 1967, do not remember these matches but was brought up in a shade what had happened. It was fine decade 1972 - 1982 for us. Once I watched a game on Wembley Stadium it was Collin Bell who impressed me most.
The old Wembley was special. I’m a Scot and I was embarrassed watching our fans dismantle it in 1977 , seriously. It was a class stadium
Nice to hear a balanced view, l loved it for football and concerts.
It was a shithole where piss ran down the stairs from the top terrace as you climbed up them behind both goals as no one could be arsed the ordeal of going to the toilets. Like Hampden you could be nearly 200 yards from the far goal and should have been pulled down not renovated. Never stopped me going to either though. The shit we tolerated when younger.
Unlike Hampden its been sorted.
Thats as balanced as i can be.
@@saints16o5o87 Wonderful stadium. Wonderful atmosphere. But an FA Cup final with extra time saw torrents of wee flowing down the terraces. I know!
Why did both teams (Poland v England) both wear away kits, that would’ve be difficult to watch as most of the Uk had black & white TV sets back in 1973?
Polonia tenía el mejor equipo de su Historia
At 0:53 Collin Bell sees John Toshak is all alone in 6 yards, yet instead of getting close and putting pressure on him, he lets him score an easy goal. Add to that Bobby Moore and Norman Hunter blunders against Poland, and you have England getting knocked out of the World Cup by self-inflicted wounds.
If anything, look at Bobby ''Blunderman'' Moore,...he fails to attack the ball at the near post
as the cross is about to be delivered. Bell, being too far behind Toshack could only hope
to chop him down and concede a penalty. But further errors would soon be on their way
from Mr. Moore which prove to be extremely costly.
@@lennylaa1686 Moore was a great player - but he was passed it. Ramsay's loyalty to him was maybe his biggest mistake as a manager. West Ham even offloaded him in 1974 - playing out his remaining career in a lower division. lt's a good example of why Sir Alex Ferguson had such sustained success - he always knew when to move on great players.
@@Inglese001 Yes in particular...take a good look at poor old Bobby suffering
in the Fulham 1-5 home defeat to Notts County in 1977 on YT,..you will cry.
I think Moore was past it by then and Hunter was just terrible.
It was a fantastic Polish team. Match at Wembley against England. It was the team's weakest match in history and the Poles were very lucky that day. They have never played so defensively. This team was famous for its offensive play and qualified for the '74 World Cup without its best player, Lubański.
Every Polish fan remembers these qualification.
What a poor team we were in the early 1970’s. We could not win home matches and lost when we played away. The writing was in the wall for Sir Alf when we failed to qualify for the 1974 World Cup
The writing was on the wall after Mexico '70.
We weren't that bad (perhaps a little short of genuine world class players), just that visiting goalkeepers back then saved their best for Wembley (apart from the Austrian goalie who conceded 7, ironically in the very England fixture prior to this qualifier).
better than England to day. I guess your not including the 1970 WC team in that.
I get where you're coming from with: "Poor team", yes, maybe didn't gel or Ramsey didn't know his best XI. Individually, you can't call Shilts, Moore (admittedly past his best by 73), Hughes, Ball, Bell, Peters, Clarke, Keegan (Euro FofYr), Marsh, etc poor players: World Cup winners amongst them. Fault of the manager; clubs over country and other factors?
Jan Tomaszewski single handedly won it for Poland @ Wembley
Włodzimierz Lubański-crucial polish legend!!!!! That injury on game in Chorzów ,june 73 awful ,take his talent away!!!! He got potential to be next Puskas or DiStefano ,Lord if he will played in World Cup 74 Poland 100 % have own tittle!!!!
che spettacolo , che partite .. sempre all'attacco , all'arrembaggio , i contropiedi ,vedi e ti rendi conto di che schifo è diventato il calcio
Such a pleasure to see two teams playing in real kits, today it'd be Wales all in red, England all in white. #BringBackRealKits!
remember watching the Poland match 50 years ago. Seems like yesterday
same here, i was 9
Great. Congratulations from Brasil
“If you’re watching in black and white England are wearing piping on their shorts “ ….in other words the two teams are indistinguishable !
White shirts against yellow shirts😄
It was amazing hoe many foreign players thought because Alan Ball was small he was a push over , but he had fire in his belly when playing for England , 10;58 when he goes after one of the Poland players and he runs away
I still can't believe how the Polish keeper could save that shot by Clarke from less than 8 yards (at 20:20)
That last match v Poland 😮
Incredible, England so close so often 😊
That goal and the goalkeeper were at the centre of everything 😅
A group of 3 teams !!
Havent seen this for 50 years, but I still cant believe it.
Allan Clarke was the most skillful player on that team, sorely underused as he hit 10 goals from just 19 games, and some of those were as a sub. Great player who should have had 50 plus caps easily.
The Poland game finished Moore's England career I seem to remember.
Not sure how Martin Chivers got in the team.
England's best striker from 1970-74 for it amazes me why Clarke & Jones weren't paired for England during that period.
Without doubt. They would have beaten Poland with Clarke and Jones. Both in top form in the autumn of 73.
Totally agree
Englands failure to beat Wales in Wembley would cost them in the end.
Can still remember where i watched this, also Cloughie calling the Polish goalie a clown.
Hello Can you do Bolivia qualification games for '78 and '82?
When men were men and women loved them 😊
Poland vs England 2-0. The only game Poland won vs England. However, take a look at Lubański's goal, and what he did to Bobby Moore ;-)
More action in 5 minutes of the England - Poland match then the current England team provided during the whole of Euro 2024. Geez that was a painful England team to watch.
Probably the most depressing time to be an England fan.
Yes, I generally enjoyed my 1970s childhood but the England national team broke my heart throughout the decade by not qualifying for a single tournament from 1970 until 1980.
David Coleman “The two lone strikers upfront”. 😂 Eh, Dave, you might want to look up the meaning of “lone”
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The Burnley winger had a great game!
I was at both those games.
With so very little live football shown on tv in these days it was cruel that England went from 1970 till 1982 without appearing at a World Cup, long time for a 9 year old boy to have to wait till he was 21 !
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Hughes was LB for England in all these games but never played there for his club team. Strange move by SIr Alf. Would have been a better CB or holding midfielder.
Did Hughes play RB a lot for Liverpool?
@@peterwoodhouse4314 Not that I recall.
“ if you’re watching in Black and White ….England have the piping on their shorts “ 😂
Beautiful foot ball
better than the boring sterile tippy tappy football of today.
Piękne! 😁😁
Where were Clemence, Keegan and Francis?
I don't think Keegan emerged into the international scene until after England's elimination from the World Cup. I think he might have featured in their 1974 European tour under Joe Mercer as caretaker manager after Ramsey was sacked. If you mean Gerry Francis, I don't think he emerged until after the '74 World Cup either. Trevor Francis came along even later.
Evening of 17/10/2023. Place myself in the Dark Room for 90 minutes, and Reflect.....
Ramsey told Marsh he was going to pull him off at half time Rod (allegedly) replied thanks Alf at City all we get is an orange Alf was not amused
Yep I was at that game lost my voice shouting, that ball was just not going in that net, i was sitting not far from Sir Alf he was shocked like the rest of us that England were not going to the world cup, Ive never been to an England game since
real men- dislocated finger give it a swift grab and play on!
And then played the game of his life!
never forget this game, was 14 n Poland,
“One of the blackest days they’ve ever had” the mentality back then was we invented the game so we should be the best. It was like the world was ending as I recall, and Ramsey paid the price. Interesting that they never showed the shirt pull from McFarland when the polish striker had broken away.
Would have been a straight red for that nowadays. Lucky boy was Roy,only got a yellow
Polonia tremenda selección y llegó al podio, en los años 70’s la selección inglesa tuvo un momento bastante difícil. Para 1974, lo eliminó Polonia ( tremenda selección), fue tercero y para 1978 fue Italia por gol diferencia, los italianos quedaron cuartos.
Six ad breaks in a 22 minute clip, even US tv isn’t that bad. Come on RUclips cop yourselves on lads.
Alf Ramsey just couldn't see what everyone else saw - that Bobby Moore was passed it. He even admitted that had England made the World Cup of 1974, Moore would still have been the captain. There's no room for sentiment in sport - if you want to win. Bobby Robson made the same mistake with Peter Shilton. Out-jumped by a midget for the 'hand of God' goal in 1986, 4 years later, at over 40, he was still in the side.
who would you have played at 1990..?
A very special midget dude. Wouldn't have made a difference. Right after England scored through Lineker Argentina went up the field and hit Shiltons post, he never saw it. In no man's land and neither would Chris Wood or Ronnie Wood.
@@kailashpatel1706 There certainly wasnt the choice there had been 10/15 years before but by 1990 Woods was prbably the best around
@@kailashpatel1706 I would have played David Seaman in 1990. He moved to Arsenal that summer. I don’t know why we didn’t take him to Italy. Beasant went instead. 🤦🤦🤦🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Banks was the last great England goalkeeper. The rest were overrated.
The best time ever 💓 💖 💐💐👍👍
No Poland-Wales videos and results, it was not all about England! This video is not complete
Please read the title or thumbnail again
It still isn't complete as Wales v England isn't shown.
@@MuhammadAbiyoso read with understanding, there should be ALL England matches in a video and one is missing
Jan Tomaszewski - The Man Who Single Handedly Stopped England ;-)
That's when proper football was played. Not messing about, playing sideways and back, like most teams do now,.
The only comment Brian Clough got wrong. Call J.T "A clown"...😢
Poland were a good team as they showed at that World cup however how England didn't win that game is hard to comprehend I remember watching it as a boy , it just wasn't meant to be for some reason.
Super
England defensive errors all over. Bobby Moore and Norman Hunter instead of kicking into touch lost the ball. Peter Shilton was hopeless in goal in two matches, couldn't save a beach ball. Alan Clarke a very good dribbler of the ball never got the credit and service he deserved. Add to this the fact that England only drew at home to Wales. Poland however had a very good team as they proved in the World Cup but England should have won.
Rip Norman bites yer legs Hunter, got to a European cup final a year later but was robbed, I can’t remember you playing in defence..?
Me - Indeed, Poland were the 2nd bet team at WC 1974 behind the Dutch, lost to Germany in SF on a waterlogged lake.
One error in each game - hardly hopeless.
Better than the Dutch I thought.@@who9387
Clarke-underappreciated
Channon-total waste of space
Sadly, not long after the England v Wales match, the JohnToshack sideburns went extinct.
Of course Poland develloped in the early 70ies to a Topteam. Later in WM74 I (*1960) noticed Tomaszewski (Keeper) Deyna (Libero), Lubansky (Defenser), Lato (Goalgetter1), Gadocha ( Goalgetter 2) and Szarmach (Goalgetter 3) All together to the best Players of this Finalround. Only besten unfortunately 0:1 (Müller) from Germany in the "semifinal"-match in Rain and waterfloated field of Frankfurt. The Finale the Victory over the WM-defenser Brasil in the small Final to become 3rd of runne4s up the World. The best Poland footballteam ever since to today.
Soccer⚽️greetings from Kassel.😁
Lubański wasnt defenser 75A 48 goals in national team.
The days of mullets and long side burns. Good days
England only won one game out of four didn’t deserve to go through
Tomasewscki was in a great level
The Poland game at Wembley never gets old😂
Shouldn’t the video read “England 1974 World Cup NON-qualification”?
Much more enjoyable than the modern 'powder puff' football....my dads phrase .
Toshack with some of the best lamb chops in the game.
Me: a Pole born years after that. Yes, this is what our fathers and grandfathers talk to this day. Real events with half-legendary statut these days
Demonstrates perfectly why some people have delusions about English football in the 1970s. They seem to think every team was made up of 11 Frank Worthingtons, Tony Currys and Stan Bowles and Kevin Keegans
No wonder England didn’t qualify with that useless Spud Chivers up front. He was utter shite!
He had a good goal average for England and was excellent from1970-72 but not by the autumn of 1973.
sorry, channon was a bigger shite
Wheres the 1st match at Ninian Park, Cardiff?
Who is the commentator for the England-Poland match? It doesn't sound like David Coleman or Brian Moore to me.
Hugh Johns I believe.
Chivers v Wales - How many chances do you want? England v Poland - How many do you need? I'd love to see the match stats!
And when Poland came to Wales to play their game they lost 2-0, and me being 13 year old Welsh kid supporting England that night was gutted that they lost.
Shilton shite on all three polish goals,but that aside the main reason they never qualified for any major tournaments in the 70s is that we had poor squads.
People forget that the greatest goalkeeper of all time lost an eye in a car crash just as the qualifying games began in October 1972. If that hadn’t happened we would have qualified the 1974 World Cup.
Never rated Shilton for England
What happened to the highlights of the first England v Wales match?
Any given night, England would have won but the Polish keeper had the game of his life. Clough said he was a clown, a clown who knew how to keep shots out.
Poland v England game - England play in yellow jersey with blue shorts. Yellow? Why?
Because Poland were playing home so had first choice of shirt colour , so they played in white , England in yellow
Horrible kit. Looked like we were trying to be Sweden or something
@@EnohtaN Well we certainly was'nt Brazil
@@johnruby147 Our traditional Red shirt would normally be worn if we couldn't wear white. Yellow is not a colour that you identify with England is it?
@@EnohtaN or UKraine perhaps?
Bobby Moore well past his best at that time.
Tomaszewski annyi parádés védést mutatott a Wembley-ben, ahogy még előtte soha senki!
I watched this in a pub in Leyton.. I was 17 years old. It wasn't the last time Shilton cost us dearly in a world Cup game
Agree