Loved the contrast in playing styles between Crystal Palace and Leeds United. Joy to see Bremner and Giles in Midfield and big Mick Jones up front with Alan Clarke constantly pressing the defence to deny them space and time. Loved that Palace played with what I remember as 3 wingers, Hughes, Cooke and Rodgers but obviously in a different shape. Great game for those of us who remember how good football was then.
Love the dynamic camera work and real-time production that went into this. Miles better than present day, maybe I'm in a minority though. Seems to bring a game alive.
Because the pitch is part of the battle rather than the insipid one they use now, the ball that they use now is quite different too. They hardly hit & it whizzes thru the air & hit into the goalmouth it's like a giant ping pong ball. This is real football but come the 21st Century it's now completely different. I have no interest in it, but this is gold with the Mighty Leeds Utd who generally didn't get many wins in London in this era. When Leeds Utd paid you a visit it was like a FA Cup semi final & sell outs, Liverpool was another club that had this effect.
The Leeds game was fantastic entertainment played with passion in a time when players played for the jersey, were loyal to the club and fans, without earning more in a month than I've earned in the last 46 years. Even after the heaviest of tackles they just get up and get on with it, the fact that every single player was born and bred in these isles is a bonus. Thanks for posting, brilliant stuff 👍👍
@@michaelpower4372 yeah British Isles appears on the 'physical geography' map not 'political' ie with borders - ie like Iberian Peninsula - Spain and Portugal -
I started going to games in 1968 and still attend regularly. There is no comparison between the experience now and then. The standard in these games is roughly that of League Two now. The players are bigger, stronger, faster and fitter. Technically they are far superior. The game is far more physically demanding because of the relentless press. It is light years ahead tactically. The pitches are immaculate and the stadiums a pleasure to be in. There are far more women, children and minorities at games. The terrible violence at games in the 70s is no more. What you are missing is not the football but your youth.
Thanks for posting. As a Kes era child I remember the PE teacher holding a stead fast rule wearing shin-pads. Jimmy Hill is on top form highlighting the top player of the day Peter Lorimer. A 'Peter Lorimer Special' refers to usually an unstoppable penalty or OMG strike. Fun days - nice to see in colour.
You're thinking about footballs from the 1930's and 1940's which was like kicking a medicine ball around the pitch. Footballs in the 70's (and I still have mine from 1972) are as light as footballs today.
‘Lets one go' was a phrase several commentators used at the time, meaning to have a shot from distance. In our house to 'let one go' meant to break wind, so as a child 'Lorimer lets one go' always got a good laugh.
Pitch is ok, part of the game & you'd get great games & skills even at Derby. Now, utter perfect pitches that detract the game, almost sterile & boring.
Quite a few scottish legends big John yogi Hughes from celtic in the Palace team Leeds full of scots think they were your foreign players back then great football
@@HenryRaeburn367 yep Charlie was transferred from Dundee to Chelsea. I was broken hearted at the time 😆. I think he was a Fifer rather than from Greenock
I totally agree, both world class, to me from 64 to 74 Leeds were the best team in Europe, with a world class manager, who never got the credit he deserved
I was talking to an old pro recently. He was saying he'd much rather have played today. He cited today there'd be greater protection from 'assaults' and decent pitches. He was telling me that in a third round cup tie he pushed the ball beyond the keeper and it stopped 'dead stuck' in 'mud' just short of the line. 🫣
Sniffer and the Don on the same pitch...Hunter never worried about the ball if there was man to be kicked ( not as hard as everyone thought he was imho) unlike Bremner and Giles , who were hard but both very skilful as well. Sniffer though, my hero.
Manchester United were three points clear at the top of division one on New Years day 1972. The 1972 league form read played 43 won 10 drew 10 lost 23. No wonder O`Farrell was sacked after 41 of these games
@@chrisd66 I watched it the other day, they were woeful, it’s amazing to see how quickly Man United went from European Cup Winners to relegation in 1973-74, but they came back stronger.
Three occasions when the Gelderd End would be guaranteed to buzz with excitement. 1. Lorimer lining up to take a free kick with the goal in visual range. 2. Eddie Gray on the ball taking on a defender - hopes of Burnley revisited. 3..Billy Bremner on the ball anywhere - a sense that anything cold happen.
I like the editing of the time. If one snippet ended with the ball at one end they wouldn’t cut straight to a throw in on the halfway line, the next snippet would start with the ball at the same end as though you were watching an unbroken, albeit shorter, match.
He knew his stuff did Jimmy & gave an opinion & there were loads back then. He was, back in the 50s, PFA Chairman & fought to break the maximum wage that players couldn't go over, & led to under the table backhanders, it would allow players to negotiate what their wages would be, & with the threat of strike action Jimmy won & every player now should thank him. He also was Coventry City manager & brought them promotion to Div 1 & then as Chairman made Coventry the first all seater stadium in the 60s & thank god he did go on & on.
Would rather watch this than the " spoilt brats" that don't even clean their own boots nowadays and would NEVER survive in the 70s & 80s . An " injury" now is a broken fingernail or a ladder in their stockings!!!🙄.
Weird thing. In 1970s you could fight, throw elbows, scissor kick but the referee would wave play on, but heavens above, push down on a defender while heading would be a yellow card. In 2020's, You can push down on defenders all you want, but you so much as brush a player with a feather, the player drops like an anchor and its a red card.
Sounds mad Brian Moore saying Leeds are all in yellow if you have a black and white TV Leeds had a great team back then I love watching these old games a time when you had to realy battle to win the league because every team was equally matched backed then these days you can almost tell who will win the leauge it's a pity no other team outside the top six pl teams will ever win the PL or the FA cup that's a part of the game that's gone for ever the best thing anyother team can hope for is a long run in the FA cup ir the league cup these rich business people have ruined football money has bought the pl same teams winning the pl and FA cup it's a shame
Money has always been a significant factor - do you not remember the “Chequebook Champions” Everton in 1963? Clough spent bucketloads (for the time) to make Derby champions in 1972 - it’s just a question of scale
Hunter 'tackle' more GBH in fact, I'm a Leeds fan but not of players deliberately trying to injure/assault another that could end a players career. Police have every right to arrest him in my book.
@@christybyrne5195 Me too and I have to agree with you. Having said that, it was the way a lot of centre halves played back then. Uncompromising and brutal at times, but I wouldn't go as far as saying GBH. ABH perhaps.
@@christybyrne5195 Roy Keane another on Man City Haaland pay back, when Haaland had verbally abused him, well verbally abuse him back, but as we know next derby he deliberately broke his shin with a 'tackle' like Hunter's & it ended Haaland's career, so it wasn't like for like. Police should have charged him. Keane at this stage had become an skinhead animal.
why was the games more entertaining than today i dont even watch it today its not the same loved going to elland road on a satuarday in the cop singing 2 hours before kick off watching the billboads putting scores up from other games and i feel sorry for the fans of today wondering should we celebrate or not with the ruination of the game called VAR
Real soccer as it should be played by MEN, not Pussyfooters. A beautiful game with everything, plus, plus magnificent commentary without OVERPAID ANALYISTS sitting on soft cushions talking crap. Gerald J-Crotta
When the game was full of great quality British players who played for the love of the game. Very happy days they were.
Correction; John Giles is Irish, not British.
So much more enjoyable to watch than modern day football ...
Began going to Palace season before this but missed this match
Great no taking a knee and no rolling around for ten minutes after a simple tackle. So much more entertaining than the crap we are watching today.
Loved the contrast in playing styles between Crystal Palace and Leeds United. Joy to see Bremner and Giles in Midfield and big Mick Jones up front with Alan Clarke constantly pressing the defence to deny them space and time. Loved that Palace played with what I remember as 3 wingers, Hughes, Cooke and Rodgers but obviously in a different shape. Great game for those of us who remember how good football was then.
Love the dynamic camera work and real-time production that went into this. Miles better than present day, maybe I'm in a minority though. Seems to bring a game alive.
Because the pitch is part of the battle rather than the insipid one they use now, the ball that they use now is quite different too. They hardly hit & it whizzes thru the air & hit into the goalmouth it's like a giant ping pong ball. This is real football but come the 21st Century it's now completely different. I have no interest in it, but this is gold with the Mighty Leeds Utd who generally didn't get many wins in London in this era. When Leeds Utd paid you a visit it was like a FA Cup semi final & sell outs, Liverpool was another club that had this effect.
This was great football, outstanding commentary; all this and EVERYONE wore black boots too....
An era when players played with passion and commitment.What a great side that Leeds side was and they had about 4 top players out.
The Leeds game was fantastic entertainment played with passion in a time when players played for the jersey, were loyal to the club and fans, without earning more in a month than I've earned in the last 46 years. Even after the heaviest of tackles they just get up and get on with it, the fact that every single player was born and bred in these isles is a bonus. Thanks for posting, brilliant stuff 👍👍
Johnny Giles was born in Dublin Ireland. Since when did Dublin move to the uk.
@@michaelpower4372 I know that, which is why I said, 'these isles'. Try reading it again.
@@michaelpower4372 Ireland is within the British Isles. Check your geograhy..btw the doesn't work on my la to
@@michaelpower4372 yeah British Isles appears on the 'physical geography' map not 'political' ie with borders - ie like Iberian Peninsula - Spain and Portugal -
A bonus for what? Racism?
This is the football l knew and loved. Sadly, I have lost interest over the years.
I could watch this version everyday!.Today's product is phony Ass BS,!
I started going to games in 1968 and still attend regularly. There is no comparison between the experience now and then. The standard in these games is roughly that of League Two now. The players are bigger, stronger, faster and fitter. Technically they are far superior. The game is far more physically demanding because of the relentless press. It is light years ahead tactically. The pitches are immaculate and the stadiums a pleasure to be in. There are far more women, children and minorities at games. The terrible violence at games in the 70s is no more. What you are missing is not the football but your youth.
Best era for football........Super Leeds United......tough as nails and pretty classy too......🤩
I could still name the Leeds first eleven and I wasn't even a fan of theirs.
' We're Leeds United we'll never be defeated !!
Thank you YOFC for another FANTASTIC upload 👏 👍👍👏👏
Ha leeds big club in the early 70s not any more
This channel just gets better, the quality of the recordings are great, thank you.
You know! Great football, brilliant characters and wonderful memories!
These videos are great, thank you.
Thanks for posting.
As a Kes era child I remember the PE teacher holding a stead fast rule wearing shin-pads.
Jimmy Hill is on top form highlighting the top player of the day Peter Lorimer.
A 'Peter Lorimer Special' refers to usually an unstoppable penalty or OMG strike.
Fun days - nice to see in colour.
Brian Glover. "Casper! Get yer 'ands out yer shorts lad. You look like a bloody thalidomide!"
Great pictures of Norwich beating WBA Keelan Paddon and Cross happy days and 50 years younger ;-(
Today’s players don’t know how good they have it…those heavy leather balls on muddy pitches…the skills are just sublime…ALAW !
You're thinking about footballs from the 1930's and 1940's which was like kicking a medicine ball around the pitch. Footballs in the 70's (and I still have mine from 1972) are as light as footballs today.
John Jackson was a hell of a keeper and not even once considered for England. Just shows what strength in depth there was for keepers back then.
Just look who he had in front of him though.
Agreed, was very consistent in his time at Palace.
I was at that match and I remember Johnny Giles' goal. Blast from the past
City hammering MU....down the decades.... a joy to see.
On their way to division three truly a massive joke sorry club
Norman Hunter...."I got there as soon as I could ref" 🤣
Rarely sent off. Always smiled at the ref and apologising with his hand on his shoulder, so nearly always booked instead of something worse!
‘Lets one go' was a phrase several commentators used at the time, meaning to have a shot from distance. In our house to 'let one go' meant to break wind, so as a child 'Lorimer lets one go' always got a good laugh.
same in our house..
Great to see the late John (yogi) Hughes,plying his trade in England hail hail.
Johnny Giles vision and weight of pass was truly something else.
Yes, left foot /right foot, it didn't matter. Great player!
Brian Moore and Jimmy Hill make a pretty good team in my opinion.
Great first goal for Palace it has to be said
Game just seemed faster back then with all the players doing more running compared to today
Loved it on a Sunday afternoon and I was only 5.👍
Leeds v Palace , such an exciting game on a terrible pitch !
Pitch is ok, part of the game & you'd get great games & skills even at Derby. Now, utter perfect pitches that detract the game, almost sterile & boring.
All home-grown talent, no prima-donnas or ridiculous antics after scoring, the pitch was not perfect but so what? So authentic....
Why is this more 'watchable' than the Qatar World Cup?
100% agree, real men, proper pitch, wonderful memories.
I think it is because it is more authentic and not so much about money.
Totally agree 👍
It's 1972 so UK views on LGBT rights probably roughly align to modern Qatar
*Nostalgia* is why.
Six superb looking kits
Palace socks should have been white with 1claret and 1blue strips
Much better look in my opinion 🤭🦅
Dundee FC legend Iain Philip in that Palace team (No. 4) - was pure class.
Quite a few scottish legends big John yogi Hughes from celtic in the Palace team Leeds full of scots think they were your foreign players back then great football
Charlie Cook didn't he not play for Dundee Chelsea came from greenock
@@HenryRaeburn367 yep Charlie was transferred from Dundee to Chelsea. I was broken hearted at the time 😆. I think he was a Fifer rather than from Greenock
People talk about Hunter but the real villains were Giles and Bremner, especially Giles, and Clarke in a sly way.
you say villains - they were both world class players.
I totally agree, both world class, to me from 64 to 74 Leeds were the best team in Europe, with a world class manager, who never got the credit he deserved
That Crystal Palace goal v Leeds is better than ANYTHING I've saw in Europe this year!💥👏👏
3 days before my 20th birthday. Was at that game. If playing today Hunter would have gone. R.I.P the great John Jackson best keeper England never had.
I was talking to an old pro recently. He was saying he'd much rather have played today. He cited today there'd be greater protection from 'assaults' and decent pitches.
He was telling me that in a third round cup tie he pushed the ball beyond the keeper and it stopped 'dead stuck' in 'mud' just short of the line. 🫣
Sniffer and the Don on the same pitch...Hunter never worried about the ball if there was man to be kicked ( not as hard as everyone thought he was imho) unlike Bremner and Giles , who were hard but both very skilful as well. Sniffer though, my hero.
Yes I bet Hunter wouldn't have attempted that with John Hughes.
Brilliant stuff!
Manchester United were three points clear at the top of division one on New Years day 1972. The 1972 league form read played 43 won 10 drew 10 lost 23. No wonder O`Farrell was sacked after 41 of these games
Wasn’t his last game the 5-0 thrashing at Crystal Palace?
@@Scottfree166 yes
Yes, check out their defeat to Wolves at the beginning of 1972. It's on this channel. Couldn't believe how poor they were (and how good Wolves were).
@@chrisd66 I watched it the other day, they were woeful, it’s amazing to see how quickly Man United went from European Cup Winners to relegation in 1973-74, but they came back stronger.
@@Scottfree166 that 72 Palace team were a class act
Colin Bell, he was some player 👏
Leeds attacking football - brilliant!!!!! 👋👋👋👋
Never knew Palace were that good early 70’s - against the cup holders - great game. 👍👍👍👍
they wernt. i was a fluke haha
Great oaddon thunder bolt .. canaries win ..happy days!! 💚💛
Three occasions when the Gelderd End would be guaranteed to buzz with excitement.
1. Lorimer lining up to take a free kick with the goal in visual range.
2. Eddie Gray on the ball taking on a defender - hopes of Burnley revisited.
3..Billy Bremner on the ball anywhere - a sense that anything cold happen.
John Craven, presumably on leave from the Newsround, scores a corker for Palace . . .
And survived a "heavy" challente from Hunter,too
Always remembered the sock numbers from my childhood,l.
Had cravens bubble gum card playing for Blackpool thanks for the memories
I like the editing of the time. If one snippet ended with the ball at one end they wouldn’t cut straight to a throw in on the halfway line, the next snippet would start with the ball at the same end as though you were watching an unbroken, albeit shorter, match.
Proper football
Jimmy Hill just went on, and on, and on, and on , and on, and on........
He knew his stuff did Jimmy & gave an opinion & there were loads back then. He was, back in the 50s, PFA Chairman & fought to break the maximum wage that players couldn't go over, & led to under the table backhanders, it would allow players to negotiate what their wages would be, & with the threat of strike action Jimmy won & every player now should thank him. He also was Coventry City manager & brought them promotion to Div 1 & then as Chairman made Coventry the first all seater stadium in the 60s & thank god he did go on & on.
Watching these old matches the thing that strikes me is the state of the pitches - they were bloody awful. Sometimes just a sea of mud...
I remember Pilbeam & co at the wolves would come out at half time and paint bits at half time. After November the sand would come out.
I really miss LWT at the weekends especially the Friday night handover,,
Thanks for uploading. Great stuff.
Who is Roy Ellam? (2:00)
Been a Leeds fan for over 35 years but have never heard of him before.
Signed from Huddersfield along with Trevor Cherry. Not really up to Leeds standard!
jackson was always the best keeper in England
Look at some of those tackles and then tell me football hasn’t gone soft
Palace goal by Craven was amazing, if messi had got that they would have called it a worldie.
What’s stopping you from calling it a worldie?
@@PressureOnJulian yes, you are right, it was a worldie.
Ah, the days when Manchester City were an authentic English club.
Did the Palace No. 9 have a Newsround in the 70s
So much more exciting than any match I've seen at the World Cup.
That Jones goal was a goal, even today it would be a fair challenge.
I wonder if he featured his goal on Newsround ??
Took me a minute but did make me giggle.
His baby daughter Beverley loved it.
@@garryleerob I had cravens when i was pregnant.
The Norman Hunter foul and booking at 14 minutes is brilliant. Retribution and no attempt to play the ball...
What a shit decision to disallow Jones' goal.
Did United win any game on TV in the early 70s ? It's a painful watch this one. Thanks
Leeds and the beautiful game
A comment that just doesn’t go together
Of course it does, only an ignorant idiot would think otherwise.
Ah yes, the glittering international career of John Richards...
He should of had more than a single B cap. He was a legend.
@@RyecroftNRC He won a senior cap against Northern Ireland - but he was played on the wing!!
Never heard of this fella but must’ve been top notch judging by the comments. Not alone at being born at the wrong time.
@ Selhurst Park.......Very rare to see two goals a carbon copy of each other in the same game!1
In what year did Palace switch their colours from claret and sky blue to red and dark blue?
The next season 73-74.
@@paulkington8380 I wonder why they decided to change, I prefer the old colours.
It was Allison that changed the colours (I think)
@@bertcert991 your right, changed the colours and nickname. Thought this was a great kit though tbh.
Super leeds
Mighty Leeds
13:47 A Norman Hunter special
Would rather watch this than the " spoilt brats" that don't even clean their own boots nowadays and would NEVER survive in the 70s & 80s . An " injury" now is a broken fingernail or a ladder in their stockings!!!🙄.
"If you're watching this in black and white," probably a phrase that means nothing to most people now. This was shown on my 12th birthday!
13:22 Own goal!
At 47:50 I hear the crowd singing 'you'll never walk alone'
..or 'you'll never walk AGAIN' if Hunter had anything to do with it!
⚽️💛💙Super Leeds United💙💛⚽️
Didnt bielsa lose a game 7-0
Weird thing. In 1970s you could fight, throw elbows, scissor kick but the referee would wave play on, but heavens above, push down on a defender while heading would be a yellow card. In 2020's, You can push down on defenders all you want, but you so much as brush a player with a feather, the player drops like an anchor and its a red card.
Ellam bought as a replacement for Jack Charlton? Ellam was useless.
Ellam eventually ousted by Hayley McQueen's dad
That wasn't a foul on Craven, it was a flat out assault by Hunter.
Craven was lucky he didn't get a broken leg.
It was very soft by Hunter's standards.
It was on John Cravens Newsround that week.
When football was football.
It’s still football….
I dont remember Ellam[{ i was only 9 } was he dropped after this match
Sounds mad Brian Moore saying Leeds are all in yellow if you have a black and white TV Leeds had a great team back then I love watching these old games a time when you had to realy battle to win the league because every team was equally matched backed then these days you can almost tell who will win the leauge it's a pity no other team outside the top six pl teams will ever win the PL or the FA cup that's a part of the game that's gone for ever the best thing anyother team can hope for is a long run in the FA cup ir the league cup these rich business people have ruined football money has bought the pl same teams winning the pl and FA cup it's a shame
Money has always been a significant factor - do you not remember the “Chequebook Champions” Everton in 1963?
Clough spent bucketloads (for the time) to make Derby champions in 1972 - it’s just a question of scale
Leicester won the FA cup in 2021, Wigan won it in 2013
Leeds were a great side,football so much better back then as opposed to the shite sideways/backpassing game of today.
Hunter 'tackle' more GBH in fact, I'm a Leeds fan but not of players deliberately trying to injure/assault another that could end a players career. Police have every right to arrest him in my book.
Bit late now, alas.
I'm a Leed fan but, that was a blatant assualt by Hunter. He should havw been sent off and banned.
@@christybyrne5195 Me too and I have to agree with you. Having said that, it was the way a lot of centre halves played back then. Uncompromising and brutal at times, but I wouldn't go as far as saying GBH. ABH perhaps.
@@christybyrne5195 Roy Keane another on Man City Haaland pay back, when Haaland had verbally abused him, well verbally abuse him back, but as we know next derby he deliberately broke his shin with a 'tackle' like Hunter's & it ended Haaland's career, so it wasn't like for like. Police should have charged him. Keane at this stage had become an skinhead animal.
Police? 🤔
Didn't a police officer go on to the pitch at Highbury and warn a player about his behaviour? Anyone recall?
Norman could have a barney with Frannie Lee but Peter Osgood is another matter.. errr, nope, like a wine gum Ossie? says Norman..
Butter wouldn't melt in Normans mouth 😂😂
why was the games more entertaining than today i dont even watch it today its not the same loved going to elland road on a satuarday in the cop singing 2 hours before kick off watching the billboads putting scores up from other games and i feel sorry for the fans of today wondering should we celebrate or not with the ruination of the game called VAR
Leeds forever!
back in the day SO MUCH BETTER Englishmen and british men look at the mess of spoiled kids we have today.
Hunter should have been sent to jail for that assault on Craven
Real soccer as it should be played by MEN, not Pussyfooters. A beautiful game with everything, plus, plus magnificent commentary without OVERPAID ANALYISTS sitting on soft cushions talking crap.
Gerald J-Crotta
Man u ...not doing well Nov 72..a month later it got worse 5 nil defeat v Palace 😊😊
This is proper attacking football at each end, teams today are boring to watch, scared to go forward, pass back, keep possession! Zzzzzzzzz
The world cup final in december was a joy to watch
The days when a 21 year old looked like a 40 year old 😀
Ha ha I was going to write the same 😆
Great stuff , muller the goal scorer and only a yellow , happy days when common sense prevailed
When the only ‘foreigners’ where Scots, Welsh and Itish
Real men real football which had disappeared
Don't watch the current stuff. It's the soccer equivalent of boy bands.
Football proper
robbed! great Palace line-up