Wolves v Blackburn Rovers, FA Cup Final, 7th May 1960
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- Original full match footage of the 1960 FA Cup Final between Wolves and Blackburn Rovers at Wembley Stadium on 7th May 1960.
Wolves entered the final after being deprived by Burnley of a third successive First Division title by just a single point. The 1959-60 season was also the third successive season in which Wolves scored over 100 league goals. Stan Cullis' team were noted for their fast and direct attacking football, with centre-forward Jimmy Murray top-scoring with 34 league and cup goals for the season. Murray, who made his debut for Wolves in 1955, had established an excellent rapport with the inside-forward pairing of Bobby Mason and the skilful Peter Broadbent. Winger Norman Deeley had appeared sporadically for Wolves following his debut in 1951 but after establishing his position in the team in the 1957-58 season, scored consistently thereafter and earned a couple of England caps in 1959.
Following the retirement of the legendary Billy Wright in 1959, Wolves had been captained with great distinction by Wright's replacement at centre-half, England international and 1959-60 Footballer of the Year, Bill Slater. Cullis' team were further bolstered by the half-back pairing of Eddie Clamp and Ron Flowers while goalkeeper Malcolm Finlayson had proven to be a very worthy replacement to his highly esteemed predecessor Bert Williams.
Against Blackburn, there were two changes to the Wolves side that had beaten Aston Villa in the FA Cup Semi-final ( • Wolves FA Cup 6th Roun... . Inside-forward Barry Stobart had been included in the team for the final league match, a 5-1 win at Chelsea, and he was retained for the final instead of Bobby Mason - who had played in every round prior to Wembley. In addition, South African left-winger Des Horne regained his place ahead of Gerry Mannion.
Rovers, under the guidance of manager Douglas "Dally" Duncan, had beaten Sheffield Wednesday in their semi-final at Maine Road with two goals from a certain Derek Dougan. 'The Doog' later achieved iconic status for Wolves following his transfer to Molineux in March 1967, but on the morning of the final itself caused considerable consternation to the Rovers board with an untimely transfer request!
Ahead of the final, Wolves were viewed as firm favourites against a Blackburn team that had finished a lowly 17th position in only their second season back in the First Division. However, en route to the final, Rovers had displayed their potential by eliminating three of the top five clubs that season with Burnley, Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday all being defeated by the Lancastrians.
Originally broadcast live on BBC Grandstand with commentary provided by Kenneth Wolstenholme.
Approximate time of goals on RUclips footage:
0:40:18 Wolves 1 Blackburn Rovers 0 (Mick McGrath - Own Goal)
1:11:26 Wolves 2 Blackburn Rovers 0 (Norman Deeley)
1:31:57 Wolves 3 Blackburn Rovers 0 (Norman Deeley)
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How great to see our Holyhead Road school Wednesbury hero Norman Deeley. 2 Goals in a F A Cup Final Victory, We all thought a lot of Norman. Attended his funeral a lot of people Inc present and past came. Wednesbury turned out to say thank you to their famous son.
And not an advertisement in sight. Great days!
think ill prefer dealing with the ads if it means watching actual talented players
Feels so wierd to think that that is my Grandad , Barry Stobart
I noticed that he died, was it last year? Good player.
I know the feeling, Jimmy murray is my uncle
Peter Broadbent (15th May 1933 - 1st October 2013)
Of all the numerous Wolves greats to have worn the old gold, many believe that Peter Broadbent was the greatest of them all.
Gone but never to be forgotten.
I'd just sat my 11 plus, now I've just collected my OAP. Great memories. Thanks for posting.
In memory of Wolves inside-forward Barry Stobart, who passed away on 28th August at the age of 75. Remembering also his Wolves teammates and those from Blackburn Rovers who, since that sunny day in May 1960, are sadly no longer with us.
Derek Dougan put in a transfer request on the journey to Wembley! My Dad went to Wembley that day and he told me that Dougan didn't even try to play. It was, along with thousands of other Rovers fans, the last Rovers game my Dad ever went to.
WHAT A TEAM WE HAD THEN. Where did it all go so wrong
My first TV final age 8. Rovers must have had a good scouting system. Peter Dobing, The Doog on show. Keth Newton and Mike England were to emerge shortly afterwards.
lol we are same age, but the next year's final between Spurs and Leicester was my first as we only got our first telly in 1961!!
Thanks Mercian for another great post, and happy New Year to you. What struck me most from this video was the genius of Peter Broadbent. I am too young to have seen him in the flesh, but judging by this performance what so many have said before is absolutely true: there has never been a better player in a Wolves shirt, or many others, for that matter...
Superb!
Anybody watching in 2020?
Ally Macleod not only a great manager but also a decent player,thanks for posting !
Since the 1954 Cup Final, this final displayed much better passing & movement off the ball. Ball control was also much better, with players holding up the ball. However, full backs still kicking the 40 yards up the field and goalkeepers still thumping the ball upfield. Ronnie Clayton stood out as a class player. Dougan looked slow and was very pedestrian in this match. He clearly wasn’t fit. English football wouldn’t really come of age until the Spurs double year, when passing and ball control reached European levels.
What people forget is that this Wolves team almost became the first team of the 20th century to win the double, finishing just a point behind Burnley in the league
Not true, Man Utd went to play Villa at Wembley in 1957 after winning the league by a whacking 11pnts with a team whose average was 22. They were red hot favourites until the Villa forward Peter McParland shoulder charged the United keeper Ray Wood almost breaking his jaw which gave him serious concussion meaning he was unable to confinue playing .There were no substitutes allowed then and United were reduced to ten men. Wood did continue playing out on the wing ,but he was a virtual 'passenger'. Villa won 2-1 with Mc Parland scoring bot their goals
No problem!
The Final was a poor spectacle for sure, although the stifling heat that day was undoubtedly a significant factor. Wolves won, though, that's all that matters!
Some of the footage of matches I've uploaded is widely available, less so with other stuff. I'll continue to upload more footage, though, whenever I get the chance - the good, bad and the downright ugly of Wolves results and performances from previous years!
14:41 NIce save
#FIFA60 FUT 1960 !
Heavy ball creates lot's of passing play.
RIP Malcolm Finlayson, the Wolves goalie. Died aged 84 27 Nov 2014
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After watching this I still struggling to think of good thing to come out of 1960......o hold on, I very wrong......... Prince Andrew arrived ! 🙄
Derek Dougan playing for Blackburn here. later played for Wolves and died quite young maybe due to politics or maybe not. I have no idea!
Just a curiosity but when the the playing of the anthem AFTER the game end. I note it was played in the 71 league cup final
Once Whelan was carried off, the game was effectively over. McLeod didn’t look or play like a winger in the old fashioned sense. He wasn’t exactly quick - he lacked pace and as soon as he got the ball, the game slowed right down. It must have been frustrating for those two great Blackburn players, Douglas and Clayton.
Doesn't matter if said player was a winger or not .it wasn't a substitution ! Down to ten players .
So many missed goals in this game, but at least both teams showed a bit of attack in their game. ⚽😁
Put it in THE mixer!
Douglas had a very good game but sadly for Blackburn, their forward line was very ordinary. Their wingers never posed a threat and Dougan was almost anonymous.
By then Billy Wright was no longer the Wolves captain having retired from competitive football the season before
Bill Slater was the Wolves captain when Wolves faced Blackburn Rovers in the first ever Wembley FA Cup final of the Sixties.
It was the poorest FA Cup final ever seen at Wembley much more its lack lustre and the displayed by both teams.Rightly so it was acclaimed as the "Dustbin Final."
But the final would be remembered for the manner in which Blackburn Rovers Derek Dougan asked for a transfer on the eve of the final.Dougan in fact later on would make a name for himself against the very same club that trounced Blackburn Rovers 3-0 for the Cup.
Why does Kenneth Wolstenholme pronounce Dougan as Duggan ???
It's certainly no worse then many cup finals I've witnessed over the years. Dour 1-0 events.
A more restrained era, no goalkeeping gloves, no effing and jeffing, rude crowd chants, players dropping to the floor as though shot.... nice bit of control by Broadbent from the goal kick at 1:41
This was a poor cup final if you were a neutral. Lots of scrappy play and sadly for Blackburn, Dougan was totally anonymous. In fact, his first touch let him down and he lacked pace, constantly being beaten to the ball. When the Wembley jinx struck again, with Dave Whelan having to leave the pitch because of a broken leg, the final was effectively over! Wolves were a solid and consistent side but they didn’t exactly play fast, fluent football like their counterparts in Europe. Ronnie Clayton, the Blackburn half back, was a class player but his team was outgunned against a more muscular Wolves.
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This cup final of 1960 demonstrates neatly why English football was inferior to that of many continental teams, both at club and international level. We were heavily beaten by Hungary in 1953 & 1954, but it appears that we had learnt very little. Ball control was poor and there were far too many long balls played from the defence, which merely gave the opposition the ball. Very little short passing and in this final the emphasis on dribbling as a way of piercing the opposition defence meant that defenders just stood back and watched. Dougan was clearly unfit, but the awful slip shod passing meant that the game became a bore and a comedy of errors.It was not until Spurs arrived, that English football at last could begin to compete with continental sides.
Rubbish ! The Busby Babes played a passing game and but for the Munich disaster would have dominated English football for at least a decade.
@@brianoreilly239 agreed. I think they would have also dominated Europe, as the great Real Madrid side was finished by 1961, and with more experience, those young players would have coped with the likes of Benfica and the two Milan clubs.
Guys , this is great soccer. They played with a brain out there as compared today...
Not Kenneth Wolstenholme’s finest commentary. Mixing up McGrath and Whelan mor than once.
It does look like two Dad pub teams on a Sunday league match, with a good crowd tho!
Sausage jockey !
9.10. Drunken Blackburn supporter highlight of match.....
a good cure for insomnia
I miss the old Wembley stadium . It was much better than the horrid new version . So what if parts of it were beginning to crumble . They could have fixed it up and made it to last forever for a fraction of the price of the new monstrosity .
I doubt it..
1:31:50
One of the worst cup finals ever, from a neutral's point of view. And how did Kenneth Wolstenholme get so far in his job? Couldn't even identify Dave Whelan when the poor bugger was lying on the ground! And it seems that Blackburn had three centre forwards - Dougan, Dogan and Duggen :).
Still great to see though - it amazes me where you get all this suff! You've done us proud again - thank you.
However, still great to watch - I
Wolstenholme was a bloody awful commentator I bought his autobiography for a quid a few years ago and in it he couldn't handle the fact or understabd that 10 years later the BBC wanted to replace him as number one commentator with Coleman so he left the corporation in 71. His style even in 1960 was so dated. At least Coleman was modern for the times
Allt he cameremen on the pitch when Dave Whelan was getting stretchered off. Wouldn;t see that nowadays
Watching the first half. It's not that bad - there's lots of goalmouth action. Good incisive passes to put players in the clear. More of the play towards each end of the pitch compared to modern day football. I prefer the direct passing - they are looking to create something, rather than just hold onto the ball
Wolstenholme in the 50’s always endorsed the referee’s decision! Even when Peter McParland in the 1957 Cup Final, committed a horrendous late charge into Ray Woods, causing Woods to leave the pitch in terrible pain and become a virtual passenger in the game, he believed it was a fair tackle and agreed with the referee that no action should be taken. He was an establishment figure, who never rocked the boat, hence the reason why he was so bland as a commentator! He could speak very well which was an asset, but whenever a player went down after a bad tackle, he always made light of it. He was simply a commentator who described the play, but at no time did he ever criticise a player for a bad foul or question a referee’s judgement, who had obviously made a poor decision!
@@geoffm9944 In the 1958 Cup final, he made no reference at all to the Munich plane crash, or the fact that Manchester United team on that day was a makeshift side hastily cobbled together in the aftermath of the disaster.
A modern Division 2 team would easily beat these 2 teams no problem. Terrible football and hard to watch.
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Not much real technical ability here either of these would struggle in the national league
and the league was won later by the losers while the winners have yet to win either the cup or the league since.
The forgettable final. An embrassing lack of ball skills and total lack of precision passing rendered this final as dull. Too many aimless passes and a total lack of pace or energy characterised this final. By continental standards of football, this was ploddy and pedestrian football. There appeared to be little understanding between the midfield and strikers when attacking - short passing was almost alien and if a defender was under pressure, too often the ball was hoofed up the field. This sort of anywhere will do defending would not end until the early 1960’s when Spurs introduced a style of football that swept away the likes of Wolves.
double year.
Wolves were renowned for playing direct football. And they were very good at it. Nothing wrong with that type of style; they had a strong, powerful team and they played to their strengths. What has struck me is how many offsides there were; I've heard teams at the time defended deep and didn;t use the offside trap. Both these teams did - that element was like watching George Graham's Arsenal!