What an unbelievable season! Stoke, Derby, Ipswich and Burnley fighting for the title. Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs fighting relegation and Man Utd playing in the second division.
@@johnross2924 money has always ruled the game. Look at the most successful clubs they had all the money they hate it now that other clubs can compete with them.
Not to the extent that it does now. Back in the 70s and 80s when I was young it wasn't as much about money. Look at what brian clough achieved at forest, do you think he would achieve the same success now days? I don't!
@@douglasstewart3889 your talking bollocks it's called progress. Look what is happening at the moment with unions you can't use the trains. Football is a major earner with subscriptions to watch it at all time high. The bloody last labour government skint the country and were still paying for it now
100% agree I remember the build up to the fa cup finals and looking forward to the match media at the teams hotels and following the team coach on the way to Wembley football was real those days not the prima Dona shite of today
Im so happy to have been around in those wild ,fun,scary.exciting days....my era was 67 to 95......when our shed end was very good in big matches..( with the exception of whu) when we generally ( but not always) had 2nd only to man utd an away following of viking preportion....of course we had plenty of losses on the terrace but it was all adrenaline making.....every club had a good firm ....the players were all big names and underpaid....players wanted the shirt number not the cash....fittest players ever to be in football...playing in mud for 92 mins....the stamina and toughness was unbelievable.....the old shed is dead...long live the shed.....the old supporters are gone...long live the fans....atmosphere has disipated.....long live the footy some of us once knew
Happy days, when the supporters were basically a load of scum bag thugs that were more interested in fighting than watching football. Thankfully those days are long gone.
Memories, memories! Real football, exciting football, players that played for the love of the game, who didn't earn zillions more than the fans that paid their wages. Fabulous.
Man Utd in the old 2nd Division were unstoppable. Man Utd I think were a little more liked in the 70s than they are now. Or certainly than during the Ferguson era.
The romance and soul of the sport has gone ,I remember the 70’s watching here in Australia,the whole World is corporatised nowadays.The atmosphere of those old games were incredible.
went to the hammers yearly nostalgia day at Romford before christmas. Keith Robson, Kev Lock and Dicks were the guests. All top blokes, had time for everyone. :)
Late 70's Liverpool domination, 1978,79 Forest break Liverpool's domination of the league, Forest qualify for european cup , Liverpool are holders. Forest thought we could win it if we avoid Liverpool in the draw. First round, First leg Liverpool at the City Ground the atmosphere was unbelievable . Forest win and end Liverpool's european dominance .What a team.
Hey, Bruce! A comment left on an earlier episode mentioned that it may well have to do with the cost of royalties on the soundtrack. Not sure if it’s true, but may well be. Certainly seems this great stuff would indeed be available in a box set. If you ever come across it let me know!
@@redmondlee5174 The players of the past weren't treated like film stars either and have the equivalent of Harley Street doctors looking after health and diet either. I wonder how good they would be if they had been ?
I got nicked arsenal v West ham, a fight by the side of me. I got hit and my natural reaction was to hit out, unfortunately a police officer saw and arrested me I was chuck in this cage with all these west ham I was a Chelsea I went to watch as it q/f of the cup . Let out an hour after the game with a flea in my ear, the west ham lads said fancy going on the piss obviously I said yes a bloody great night
Brilliant, what fantastic football, the excited crowds, not like the sterile rubbish now where half the crowd are on there I phones ! Look at the fitness playing in mud ! Nowadays the so called athletes with there strict diets, sports nutritionists and so on would break down. And nearly all home grown players that managers moulded into a team as opposed to nowadays where they buy one. Bring it all back.
It happened back then but nothing like today. Now it's part of the game plan. Players are instructed to feign injuries in order to get free kicks and penalties. Back then the trainer would be screaming "get up you big tart " now they're screaming "stay down stay down"
Mike King here,used to travel over to Old Trafford 3,4 times a season then on the Belfast Liverpool ferry had ,few beers on board great memories.!!!! I
Like everything else today football has been gentrified to suit the middle classes back in the day we were happy with a meatt pie and a cup of bovrifor a bit if scratch now you don't get change from a tenner for your prawn sandwich and machiato8
Certainly was a very different game back then. The big money that's in the game today didn't exist back then so it was poor stadiums and facilities along with sub-standard pitches. And it was an all-British league, very few foreigners. The games do look very entertaining though and seem to be of a good standard. And it was a much more open competition. Pretty much everyone had a chance to win unlike today where it's the same 3-4 big money clubs that dominate.
Wrong. They're the same weight. FA regs on balls have not changed. The difference is the old balls used to absorb water. Footballs werent water resistant until the early 80s.
It's crazy the team with the most money will go round the world buying the best players and build the best team. Teams like Man City should just buy the cup instead of messing about with this playing football lark
2 trophies in 28 years pal. that was Venables as a manager. im talking facts., so dont say im the one talking shit for stating facts. Ask the fans of Palace Pompey. Leeds and Australia how good he was. and while at Spurs he took over a top three club and left them a modest mid table team.
English football has aways been multinational; Scots, Irish, Welsh, commonwealth and a few eastern europeans made the clubs in the seventies strong. But modern Premier League teams struggle to include even one Englishman in their starting line up. The sideways passing is chronic. The new sterile stadiums have turned English football into a corporate day out. The three-foreigner rule should be brought back. You can see what teams entirely made of foreign players in Serie A has done to the Italian national side.
Let's not forget that England failed to qualify for two successive World Cups then...'74 and '78 so you can hardly say that those England teams covered themselves in glory!!
Alan Hudson bossed the Germans during that international. After the game Beckenbauer asked "Who was that Hudson, he was difficult to play against?"....this was before youtube and blanket coverage of football.......guess what Revie only gave him one more cap......he liked workers and grafters like Channon not flair players like Hudson, Currie or Worthington.
yeh fair comment, just a bitter Hammer at time of writing, seemed Mancs had real support back then, and reputation unlike today, shame but then again that can be said for many a prem club, brilliant atmosphere at old trafford back then.
Everything normal. The odd IRA bomb going off . £3 got me there, pints, programme, chips, & in at the turnstile. Getting locked up & fined ... Normal 😂
Don't want to sound like an old git, but football really was unpredictable back then. No such thing as the big four, and any unfashionable club with a good manager was in with a chance of winning the league. Pitches like swamps and players allowed to tackle. Plus, only the very best players were paid well. Now, ordinary footballers who aren't fit to tie the laces of some of these greats, being paid a fortune. I'd like to order a time machine to take me back to the mid-70's please!
agreed look at marsh/hudson/worthington/muhren etc etc and the like and then see liverpool pay 35million for andy carroll?????? and utd 90million for a vidal sassoon model???? give me the old days...
old Trafford was a football temple then - the stretford end used to blow you away now its a library. we went up to there in january and we had to make some atmos singing amongst ourselves! pathetic
Why I don't go any more mate - you're so right. It makes me desperately sad to think what happened to my football experience and I've said it many times, I'd swop following United in the 70's for the noughties at the drop of a hat.
Men in very small shorts, fans squeezed up against their fellow man on the terraces, perms, lots of rolling about in mud... football in the seventies...
So what, what's it got to do with a west ham fan, was you watching Manchester United then, I was and the majority of supporters were from Manchester. Why dont you get out of your armchair probably out of London and support your shyte team
@@HUGHWON Awww mate, why get your bloomers in a knot over a bit of footy banter? You're right, I don't live in London, I live in China but I'm from East London. I also have a partnership in a business in Eccles and when I'm there the slating I take from United fans for being a Hammer (and a Cockney) is incessant. I'm sorry if I hurt your feeling Eugene, can't we just shake hands and move on with our lives? After all, it's nearly Christmas.
How many of today's prima Donna's would have played on pitches like the old base Ball ground and how many would have survived a Tommy Smith Norman hunter or Trevor hockey challenge
@Mr1001Discos If you mean the bit about the bombings,that's Abba-SOS,Next one at the start of the clip about Man Utd-Bachman Turner Overdrive-You Aint seen nothing yet.
That era Glasgow Rangers fans ran amok at old trafford in 1974 chasing the ManU fans right into the stretford end and chasing the united fans all over manchester they even took over the United fans boozer.In 1 Man Us top boys autobiograthy he even admits this in another book called Scallies about Manchester dippers/shoplifters they mention the same game and at that time were the only mob to take over manchester and do the Man U fans.Rangers done Villa in 76 at villa park cos of irish tricolours
Yes, as a 19 year old Villa fan I well remember Rangers coming down for that ''friendly'' game in October 1976. I arrived before 2pm down at the bottom left hand corner of our massive home Holte End - looked up the terracing to see that it was packed out with the blue and white of the visiting Scots. The home Villa fans were being steered down pitch side to walk up to stand on the opposite Witton End. Most of the crowd of 17,000 was from Rangers, say around 12,000 approx. visitors. Most sensible Villa fans wisely stayed away, it was always going to very dangerous, they were coming down on trains and coaches the day before and absolutely paralytic drunk up in the city centre. When Villa went 2-0 up on 53 minutes, that's when these fighting mad maniacs stormed onto the pitch. No danger for me, I had already departed at half time, you knew it was about to turn ugly. IMHO, only Millwall would give these crazies a run for their money.
unbelievable that there should be sad, misguided comments about manchester united on this video which is just a trip down memory lane to the 1970's. man united being in the second division that season was massive news and to ignore them on this video would have been ridiculous. if another big club went down they'd get mentioned too. have a look at the 1977-78 season and see if second division tottenham figure.
I loved the chaos of life on the 70's terraces. Not for the faint hearted and will never be repeated.
Football in the 70s was terrible,and dangerous.And I loved it!
Yes....
Aaahahah real men real sport :)
What an unbelievable season! Stoke, Derby, Ipswich and Burnley fighting for the title. Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs fighting relegation and Man Utd playing in the second division.
Before money ruled the game
@@johnross2924 money has always ruled the game. Look at the most successful clubs they had all the money they hate it now that other clubs can compete with them.
Not to the extent that it does now.
Back in the 70s and 80s when I was young it wasn't as much about money.
Look at what brian clough achieved at forest, do you think he would achieve the same success now days? I don't!
Remember when your team was basically 7 local lads and 4 Scots? MCFC
football before it was stolen from the working classes
Bring back standing, I miss the Kippax......
Kick off 3 o’clock every Saturday
It hasn't all my friends are working class and they still go. The working class just earn more money.
You can thank Thatcher for that. Destroyed the unions, manufacturing and football.
@@douglasstewart3889 your talking bollocks it's called progress. Look what is happening at the moment with unions you can't use the trains. Football is a major earner with subscriptions to watch it at all time high. The bloody last labour government skint the country and were still paying for it now
Just wonderful to watch this. No wonder I loved football so much as a kid. The modern game has no passion on and off the pitch.
100% agree I remember the build up to the fa cup finals and looking forward to the match media at the teams hotels and following the team coach on the way to Wembley football was real those days not the prima Dona shite of today
But back in those days you couldn't get a decent mashed avocado on toast and a decaffeinated flat white
@@michaelharrison3602 😂
Im so happy to have been around in those wild ,fun,scary.exciting days....my era was 67 to 95......when our shed end was very good in big matches..( with the exception of whu) when we generally ( but not always) had 2nd only to man utd an away following of viking preportion....of course we had plenty of losses on the terrace but it was all adrenaline making.....every club had a good firm ....the players were all big names and underpaid....players wanted the shirt number not the cash....fittest players ever to be in football...playing in mud for 92 mins....the stamina and toughness was unbelievable.....the old shed is dead...long live the shed.....the old supporters are gone...long live the fans....atmosphere has disipated.....long live the footy some of us once knew
Happy days, when the supporters were basically a load of scum bag thugs that were more interested in fighting than watching football. Thankfully those days are long gone.
Am hearing you Brother💙
What a mob Chelsea had by the late 70's. Took thousands everywhere and took over from man utd as the worst hooligans.
David Coleman was a fantastic commentator. Sports night with Coleman every Wednesday night
Memories, memories! Real football, exciting football, players that played for the love of the game, who didn't earn zillions more than the fans that paid their wages. Fabulous.
Fans don't even pay for half their wages. The billionaire owners do and the sponsors. The fans don't even pay for a fraction
As a hammer of 43yrs old, i loved it when english teams ruled in Europe. The forest back to back wins are great memories..and villa.!
Man Utd in the old 2nd Division were unstoppable. Man Utd I think were a little more liked in the 70s than they are now. Or certainly than during the Ferguson era.
Everything about the 1970s was Brilliant football. TV films music..girls cars
Happy days
Saville.
@@MeTube3 Harris. Glitter.
Can’t watch a minute today - but then it was our sport. Especially for us in the North East and other northern areas of Britain.
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
Wouldn't have missed it for the world. DERBY COUNTY 1974 -1980 MY TEENAGE LOVE.
I'm sure you struggled with the success that forest were having back then though 🤓
Looks like they are on the up again this season.
The romance and soul of the sport has gone ,I remember the 70’s watching here in Australia,the whole World is corporatised nowadays.The atmosphere of those old games were incredible.
Chelsea,man United and Leeds had the big numbers away glorious days
Chelsea man u and Leeds were shite tho 😂
@@whiteflash72 hero flashboredum 🤣🤣🤣DIV🫵
All 3 came unstuck every time they played Everton
fantastic stuff,,,,,what great days they were,,,
The glory days of English football, fanatical fans,cfc😎
still got this on VHS great series.
Nice one love the old stuff
Brian Clough getting in a dig at his old nemesis Revie. Love it!
went to the hammers yearly nostalgia day at Romford before christmas. Keith Robson, Kev Lock and Dicks were the guests. All top blokes, had time for everyone. :)
Late 70's Liverpool domination, 1978,79 Forest break Liverpool's domination of the league, Forest qualify for european cup , Liverpool are holders. Forest thought we could win it if we avoid Liverpool in the draw. First round, First leg Liverpool at the City Ground the atmosphere was unbelievable . Forest win and end Liverpool's european dominance .What a team.
Love to see today's players attempt it on some of those pitches. Also be fun to see today's "hooligans" try it on with the 70's nutters.
It's a pity this is not the completed episode as I would like to see the full version of this.
Always good to see the Bay City Rollers having a good time @ 9:57 🤣
I love all episodes of Match of the 70s and 80s with Dennis Waterman and i cannot find them on dvd!.
Hey, Bruce! A comment left on an earlier episode mentioned that it may well have to do with the cost of royalties on the soundtrack.
Not sure if it’s true, but may well be. Certainly seems this great stuff would indeed be available in a box set.
If you ever come across it let me know!
70’s ,sooo much better than today’s corporatised garbage.
still got all these on video, great 70s mems.
Ah, those were the days. I went to a fight and a game broke out.
😂l remember those days brilliant times work hard play hard
Ha ha, yep, great days.....
When football was football 👏👏👏
I only went to one game in the 74-75 season. Paid 50p for my kids ticket at the baseball ground. Derby 2 Liverpool 0. How times have changed.
Wondering what became of part 4 of this season
Imagine Messi and Ronaldo trying to play on those ploughed fields
They cant..
Modern footballer will not survive if they play on classic football pitch
Willie Morgan - when players were NOT overpaid self-obsessed creeps
They also weren't as good as players now days...
@@redmondlee5174 The players of the past weren't treated like film stars either and have the equivalent of Harley Street doctors looking after health and diet either. I wonder how good they would be if they had been ?
@@redmondlee5174 Your opinion but it is a poor opinion.
@@redmondlee5174 your correct and they earnt good money its a myth
I got nicked arsenal v West ham, a fight by the side of me. I got hit and my natural reaction was to hit out, unfortunately a police officer saw and arrested me I was chuck in this cage with all these west ham I was a Chelsea I went to watch as it q/f of the cup . Let out an hour after the game with a flea in my ear, the west ham lads said fancy going on the piss obviously I said yes a bloody great night
Imagine those players on today's pitches.
Love the mud bath winter pitches, great memories.
In 2019, it seems weird seeing players get their shorts dirty
Nice one, Keith Robsons goal against Eintract in the C.W.C semi, marvellous night.
barry davies . best commentator ever
Totally agree , Motson was crap , Barry was the best
Barry Davies wasn't scared of Clough's mouth. And look at the state of them pitches. Absolutely no chance a game would go ahead now.
Brilliant, what fantastic football, the excited crowds, not like the sterile rubbish now where half the crowd are on there I phones ! Look at the fitness playing in mud ! Nowadays the so called athletes with there strict diets, sports nutritionists and so on would break down. And nearly all home grown players that managers moulded into a team as opposed to nowadays where they buy one. Bring it all back.
And leave with ten minutes to go cause they dont want to get stuck in traffic what a bunch of bellends not proper fans like back in the day
No diving or rolling around like some of the big Jessie's today!
It happened back then but nothing like today. Now it's part of the game plan. Players are instructed to feign injuries in order to get free kicks and penalties. Back then the trainer would be screaming "get up you big tart " now they're screaming "stay down stay down"
Back in the day before haircuts were important 🤭
you must be joking! The 70s is when it started.
4:20 wow would you ever see such a tight table in February these days ?
What have we allowed to happen to our once great game.
You got old, that's all.
@@tobleramone yeah but what a way to get there mate
Mike King here,used to travel over to Old Trafford 3,4 times a season then on the Belfast Liverpool ferry had ,few beers on board great memories.!!!!
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Like everything else today football has been gentrified to suit the middle classes back in the day we were happy with a meatt pie and a cup of bovrifor a bit if scratch now you don't get change from a tenner for your prawn sandwich and machiato8
Certainly was a very different game back then. The big money that's in the game today didn't exist back then so it was poor stadiums and facilities along with sub-standard pitches. And it was an all-British league, very few foreigners. The games do look very entertaining though and seem to be of a good standard. And it was a much more open competition. Pretty much everyone had a chance to win unlike today where it's the same 3-4 big money clubs that dominate.
Wrong. They're the same weight. FA regs on balls have not changed. The difference is the old balls used to absorb water. Footballs werent water resistant until the early 80s.
It's crazy the team with the most money will go round the world buying the best players and build the best team. Teams like Man City should just buy the cup instead of messing about with this playing football lark
@@Jayfive276true but a wet ball will weigh much mo
2 trophies in 28 years pal. that was Venables as a manager. im talking facts., so dont say im the one talking shit for stating facts. Ask the fans of Palace Pompey. Leeds and Australia how good he was. and while at Spurs he took over a top three club and left them a modest mid table team.
Shanks giving a shout out to the boro, nice one bill
English football has aways been multinational; Scots, Irish, Welsh, commonwealth and a few eastern europeans made the clubs in the seventies strong. But modern Premier League teams struggle to include even one Englishman in their starting line up. The sideways passing is chronic. The new sterile stadiums have turned English football into a corporate day out. The three-foreigner rule should be brought back. You can see what teams entirely made of foreign players in Serie A has done to the Italian national side.
Let's not forget that England failed to qualify for two successive World Cups then...'74 and '78 so you can hardly say that those England teams covered themselves in glory!!
And Italy just won the euros with England runners up yr comment didn't age well
Alan taylor...greatest newsagent in norwich...legend.
Is there one more part to this somewhere?
I,m 63 and a hammer but who back in the day had the leeds united sock tags mine were number 10 😂😂
Part 4 please.
Superb, just scorer, no assist.
Where's the rest of it?
Do you have a part 4 to this season ?
Programmes like this and following onto the 80s just show how little recognition Everton got.
Is this the last part or is there another that is missing?
5:01 what's with this move existing in the seventies?
'Just no stopping us - Doc'
Well, Walsall stopped them just a few days later when they knocked them out of the FA Cup lol...
Alan Hudson bossed the Germans during that international. After the game Beckenbauer asked "Who was that Hudson, he was difficult to play against?"....this was before youtube and blanket coverage of football.......guess what Revie only gave him one more cap......he liked workers and grafters like Channon not flair players like Hudson, Currie or Worthington.
🎵Oh Frankie Frankie
Frankie Frankie Frankie Frankie Worthington 🎵
KRO
yeh fair comment, just a bitter Hammer at time of writing, seemed Mancs had real support back then, and reputation unlike today, shame but then again that can be said for many a prem club, brilliant atmosphere at old trafford back then.
For a long time I thought everyone got arrested, locked up & had fines to pay. 😂 Its best not to mention what we got up to now 🤫 🤭
God, but the state of the pitches in those days was abysmal.
Dad took me to games when I was little. There'd been a constant stream of people being pulled out of the crowd, cop and terraces, covered in blood.
Everything normal. The odd IRA bomb going off . £3 got me there, pints, programme, chips, & in at the turnstile. Getting locked up & fined ... Normal 😂
so man u were playing on the pitch and tommy off it hahahaha
Don't want to sound like an old git, but football really was unpredictable back then. No such thing as the big four, and any unfashionable club with a good manager was in with a chance of winning the league. Pitches like swamps and players allowed to tackle. Plus, only the very best players were paid well. Now, ordinary footballers who aren't fit to tie the laces of some of these greats, being paid a fortune. I'd like to order a time machine to take me back to the mid-70's please!
agreed look at marsh/hudson/worthington/muhren etc etc and the like and then see liverpool pay 35million for andy carroll?????? and utd 90million for a vidal sassoon model???? give me the old days...
The best com Barry Davis by a miles folks!!!!
Only see w.h .u slip in the novel end once and stood by the bovril end,soon as they scored got swamped got out quickly 'But did have a solid crew
Just look at his face. what a commentator
70s haircuts,the best.
Some great post-match entertainment at Spurs v Chelsea there.
Yep, chelsea fans were terrorised all day. They have never forgotten that day!!
@@enclosure756 Ye, and the telly made out it was them doing the fighting
Scum bags
@@enclosure756 wonderful to sss again alfie conn my hero
The newly late Kevin Beattie at 3.00 R.I.P. Mate
He could play ⚽
That's wat Manchester United need now some like the doc
And 60,000 proper fans
Broke a lot of blokes hearts that Brum loss to Fulham in the semi.
Shankly and Revie talking of Leeds-Liverpool monopoly of the league title- a long way from a duopoly, never mind monopoly
old Trafford was a football temple then - the stretford end used to blow you away now its a library.
we went up to there in january and we had to make some atmos singing amongst ourselves! pathetic
Why I don't go any more mate - you're so right. It makes me desperately sad to think what happened to my football experience and I've said it many times, I'd swop following United in the 70's for the noughties at the drop of a hat.
Men in very small shorts, fans squeezed up against their fellow man on the terraces, perms, lots of rolling about in mud... football in the seventies...
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BUT ! TODAY...thank god for good pitches now
So nice to hear Status Quo at the end.
Alex Harvey would've been better 😊
Liverpool then now and forever you never walk alone
Good Lord look at that Highbury pitch!
I couldnt help but chuckle at 6:39 when the ball stopped dead in the mud lol and the keepers reaction to it!
Alot of whu in the afc northbank that day
where is part 4
Football was so much better in the 70s. The actual games, the atmosphere, everything. Now it is sterile.
football represents the time. todays folk are sterile an money mad show offs an football of today represents that.
The terrace violence?
@@corkboy4523 It kept you on your toes.
@@corkboy4523 i'd put up with it to have those days back again
@@steve-r-collier would you be quick enough these days?😜
Manchester United never 'took' 15-20 thousand anywhere. Most of them lived in the towns they were visiting.
🤣🤣🤣
So what, what's it got to do with a west ham fan, was you watching Manchester United then, I was and the majority of supporters were from Manchester. Why dont you get out of your armchair probably out of London and support your shyte team
@@HUGHWON Awww mate, why get your bloomers in a knot over a bit of footy banter? You're right, I don't live in London, I live in China but I'm from East London. I also have a partnership in a business in Eccles and when I'm there the slating I take from United fans for being a Hammer (and a Cockney) is incessant. I'm sorry if I hurt your feeling Eugene, can't we just shake hands and move on with our lives? After all, it's nearly Christmas.
@@HUGHWON I will accept those pants, re-wrap them and give them to the wife and pretend they are from me.
Brought 20 thousand to hillsborough in 1974 and still got hammered.
stoke city was fighting for the title in that season wow
VAR?
Was that John Prescott in the Commons XI?
How many of today's prima Donna's would have played on pitches like the old base Ball ground and how many would have survived a Tommy Smith Norman hunter or Trevor hockey challenge
The Glasgow Rangers fans showed the Man U hooligans they were clowns what a battering they got
bore off
@Mad Mike West Ham strolled about okr on tv for the country to see
@Mr1001Discos If you mean the bit about the bombings,that's Abba-SOS,Next one at the start of the clip about Man Utd-Bachman Turner Overdrive-You Aint seen nothing yet.
classic old days of real english footie now it's all foreign owned.
That’s cos they’re far better players
Cloughie in the second division.....
Not much will come from that eh?
😂
Everton Valley 2005,man United took the biggest hiding of their lives
That era Glasgow Rangers fans ran amok at old trafford in 1974 chasing the ManU fans right into the stretford end and chasing the united fans all over manchester they even took over the United fans boozer.In 1 Man Us top boys autobiograthy he even admits this in another book called Scallies about Manchester dippers/shoplifters they mention the same game and at that time were the only mob to take over manchester and do the Man U fans.Rangers done Villa in 76 at villa park cos of irish tricolours
What a load of bollox,not one of uniteds old hoolies wrote a book called scallops, a scouser wrote one called Scally
Yes, as a 19 year old Villa fan I well remember Rangers coming down for that ''friendly'' game in October 1976.
I arrived before 2pm down at the bottom left hand corner of our massive home
Holte End - looked up the terracing to see that it was packed out with the blue
and white of the visiting Scots.
The home Villa fans were being steered down pitch side to walk up to stand on the opposite Witton End.
Most of the crowd of 17,000 was from Rangers, say around 12,000 approx. visitors. Most sensible Villa fans wisely stayed away, it was always going to very dangerous, they were coming down on trains and coaches the day before and
absolutely paralytic drunk up in the city centre.
When Villa went 2-0 up on 53 minutes, that's when these fighting mad maniacs
stormed onto the pitch.
No danger for me, I had already departed at half time, you knew it was about to turn ugly. IMHO, only Millwall would give these crazies a run for their money.
Same old jock spouting the same jackonory. Ok rangers came an there was lots of trouble both ways get over it.
Tommy Docherty must've been visiting Mary Brown on her husbands away days
unbelievable that there should be sad, misguided comments about manchester united on this video which is just a trip down memory lane to the 1970's. man united being in the second division that season was massive news and to ignore them on this video would have been ridiculous. if another big club went down they'd get mentioned too. have a look at the 1977-78 season and see if second division tottenham figure.