I played in this game for Chelsea and it was a really tough game against a great team in Leeds. We went on to win the replay 2-1 to win the FA CUP happy memories of been part of a great team. John DempseyBlue is the Colour.
@@johndempsey7528 Hello John, looks like you had a chance there towards the end of the game which a smack from the edge of the box. Did Gary Sprake get a hand to it? Never mind though, as you got a screamer in Athens the following year!
@@greentambourine2323 Hi nice to talk to you. Yes Sprake tipped the ball over the bar as it would have gone in. Yes I was happy the following year when I scored against Real Madrid. Stay Safe
That the FA Cup final ‘showpiece’ was played on such a disgusting pitch was an utter disgrace. On the other hand, that both sets of players displayed so much skill, and produced such a great match in those conditions is truly remarkable!
Great match. Note that Sprake made superb saves but is remembered for his error in the match. A very underrated goalie. The replay had one of the biggest ever TV audiences in Britain.
The conditions were lousy but these two great teams still managed to stage a great contest. The first F.A cup final I ever saw and still one of the best.
I remember this game well. A real blood-and-thunder final. I went to the semi-final replay when we lost to Leeds at Burnden Park and Best missed a sitter from six yards out. We hated Leeds but there's no denying they were a bloody formidable team who never lay down. They had some terrible luck down the years, culminating in the robbery in Paris five years after this.
"Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and John and George and Paul are alive and well and full of hope. The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry." 10 April 1970
Leeds not diving or trying to con the ref? Are you from this planet? (then the fact of both teams kicking shit out of each other. How is that good football?)
@@wildbill6826 Thing is, Ron, despite his reputation, was a good footballer. He'd previously captained England at youth level and was also the youngest ever captain of a Cup Final team, three years before this. And in a 20 year plus playing career, he was never sent off in a league game. That seems amazing but he played in a era where they didn't hold back and it wasn't just defenders. That Leeds team could mix it and there were forwards like Joe Jordan, Bob Latchford, Ron Davies, Joe Royle who gave as good as they got. Ron could certainly dish it out but he was getting whacked too. The irony is that he was limping badly before extra-time in this match and was substituted. In the replay, the injury was aggravated in another challenge but he made it to the end. No complaints from him. Just got on with it.
I like pitches that has life in it. Some of the best matches had terrible pitches but you saw great skill & adaptation & no complaints. Now pitches are like a video game, utterly perfect & utterly boring with lightweight players. Larry Lloyd weight equals 2 players of 2020's
Eddie Gray played out of his skin that day. Deserved better. Anyway, good to see how British football used to be played before the Premier League snuffed it out.
No diving, no wrestling in the box at corners, no trying to persuade the ref to book an opposing player, no multiple substitutions in the last couple of minutes to waste time, no enormous, athletic giants with no skill or ability, managers who sit on the bench rather than prancing up and down the touchline like spoiled children, just two teams doing their best to score more goals than their opponents. Watching this game shows you how far football has fallen since the creation of the Premier League.
Watching it pumped for this Saturday. been a long time since we played Chelsea as we know. Leeds-Chelsea was a fierce rivalry back then dont think the new generation of Chelsea fans will understand but i imagine a lot of older Chelsea fans will still hate Leeds. hopefully another Saturdays game will be half as good as this one.
Horse of the Year Show had a part to play for the pitch condition.This Cup Final took place a month early in April rather than traditional mid-May so to allow England more time to aclimatise in Mexico for the 1970 World Cup.
Bonetti was brilliant, Sprake made a costly mistake but that may well have been due to the mud- like Charlton's goal- and he also made some superb saves.
Yes, but even in those days the WEMBLEY pitch was normally impeccable. The deep, green, turf that used to suck the players' stamina and induce crippling cramp.
Back then Wembley on the weekend before the FA Cup Final always hosted the show jumping Horse of the Year show & the pitch got ruined for a footy game, still at least the greyhounds didn't shit on it!
Bill Buchan Unbelievable then, now the poor little prima donnas are sure to make sure they get pink or luminous green boots, in those days a mans game played by real men!
This was the first match i ever saw. I was nine at the time. Watched it on a black and white TV. Ian Hutchinson during his career had the longest throwing in football
@@kevinhiggins910 yeah you are right Kevin George Best was arguably in the top 3 in the world at that time, but i always thought Eddie Gray was a tremendous player in the old Division 1 and he was certainly the best player in the two games of the 1970 fa Cup final
@@tonymcgrath700 Your so right Tony ' my self I would rate Eddie n George Equal !! But anyone could argue George never reached his potential because of his wayward life style..These games were Fab and every player gave 100% without moaning they were tired Unlike today sir..Also what is Ace is all players are British and have the loyalty to the fans paramount !!..May I say Peter Lorimer was a remarkable player too.,Dont think football will ever attain this Standard or integrity again 'Top players r far to Ego driven today u only have to look at Pogba ,Bale n Kane all overrated the list could be endless Also I wish to add you had a very accomplished manager then ,Today they are weak and have very little vision or any enishative .Kind regards Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands 🤝
@@kevinhiggins910 Gray was much more consistent and had a much longer career at his peak than Best, despite many bad injuries (due to weak referees, poor pitches and playing in an era with a lot of cloggers).
My dad was a die hard Chelsea fan and I was 9 when we watched it. This match has stayed with me ever since. I remember the atrocious state of the pitch was due to them having to put sand down as it got all chewed up from the Horse of The Year Show that happened not long before the game that month.
This was the 1970 FA Cup final between Leeds United and Chelsea that went into a replay after the first final had been drawn 2-2.Chelsea won the replay 2-1 and goalkeeper Peter Bonetti was the hero.But in the World Cup finals in Mexico the following month Bonetti would be harshly critized as the culprit responsible for England's 3-2 defeat to West Germany in extra time in the World Cup quarterfinal clash at Leon.
Thanks for sharing. I've never watched it until now, knowing who won in the end. Leeds should have won this. Woodwork and sitters missed. It's a wonder either team could string any passes together on this rugby league pitch!
these highlights make the match look more even than it was, but with respect to Chelsea, Leeds totally outclassed them on the day, had it been played on a proper surface there would only have been one winner
right, on a good surface Chelsea would have played much better, Osgood and Cooke would have run rings round Leeds and Charlton's goal would have been cleared off the line
@@GavinOCo Also the players back then were all from England and Scotland and from the time they were kids they dreamt about playing in the FA Cup Final. Not so much the case today when most of the players aren't even British.
Amazing and vibrating authentic football. By the way, it shock me so much the habit of forwarders in premier league to press goalkeeper once has the ball...
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The good old days when teams ACTUALLY wanted to win trophies.
One of my favourite football moments is Hutchinson making a momkey of Charlton to score the second equaliser - and the horrible Charlton then fruitlessly looking for someone else to blame.
@@johndempsey7528 Cheers John. They don't do finals like that anymore. Two teams giving it 100%..dishing it out and taking it like proper men. Respecting each other by not giving a quarter...I wish you well John. Imagine if that game had been played today. It would have ended with just Sprake and Bonetti left on the pitch. Great to hear from you.
Hi Grace 100per cent agree with what you said.Football was a real tough game back then not like today where most of the time they are rolling around on the floor. Stay Safe
This is a joke right? I keep getting told by fans of other clubs that Chelsea doesn't have any history. Think you will also find that the following year Chelsea won their first European trophy before Liverpool won their first European trophy 🤔
Leeds were cheats and thugs, the most hated team in Britain. They were a disgrace to football, it was great to see Chelsea kick the shit out of them AND beat them.
Interesting that you say that, as Ron 'Chopper' Harris boasted in his book that he made the biggest single contribution to Chelsea winning the replay when he crippled Eddie Gray.
Everton were well ahead of them in the league, Celtic were simply too good for them in the European cup, and Chelsea, even with Bonetti injured in the replay and Hudson missing, made sure they won nothing :) As befits such a dirty team
@@mizofan I suggest that you watch the whole of the 1970 final and the replay, and then have a rethink. Little point though, as you probably have a closed mind, clouded by hatred, third hand opinions and selective memory. Actually, I have edited this because I realise that I am wrong. You are actually a wind up merchant. Fair enough. I have just read your comments on the video of McCreadie's unpunished assault on Bremner, and they are actually much more balanced.
24 of the best players in the country on show and every one of em could dish it out. Can you imagine the likes of Jack Grealish playing against these lads. Chopper Harris and bites yer legs Hunter would have him for breakfast
Yes, doesn't look too friendly does it? You can see Charlton giving him an earful for the first goal, too, perhaps with some justification, but Sprake does well to keep this one out and still gets it with both barrels. Who'd be a goalkeeper?
Leeds were hated, of course, because they had class. Jealousy. They were from the north, relatively new on the scene and successful; the London press hated them for it.
@@craiggerrard5117 ah! Thanks Craig. I couldn't figure it. In those days other pitches could be a tip, but not Wembley, which was always immaculate. For instance in the 1971 F A Cup final between Arsenal and Liverpool. But that explains it all. Bit surprising though that they allowed a show-jumping event there two weeks before the great showpiece?! Wonder if someone got a rollicking?!
@@martm216 They certainly never allowed it to happen again, so I expect that some Wembley official was given a bad time. The Wembley pitch was usually perfect because it wasn't used very often. As you say, it was great 12 months later for Arsenal v Liverpool.
@@craiggerrard5117 exactly. The Wembley pitch was kept for special occasions, internationals and cup finals, and not much else I guess? I'm sadly getting on in years now, but looking at the pitches they play on these days, I can scarcely believe my eyes. They look like billiards tables or bowling greens. I really don't know how they turn them out like that, week after week. New techniques of drainage and grass technology or something. I used to go and watch Southampton play at The Dell. What an amazing little stadium that was. The pitch might look all right for the first few matches, but then it would all cut up, and both penalty areas, and beyond, would look more like Bournemouth beach. Many other grounds weren't much better though. Some were worse. Was watching on here just yesterday a programme about Brian Clough. The pitch at the Baseball Ground was literally a mud heap. Not a blade of grass to be seen. You wondered how they could play on it. Probably wouldn't even be legal nowadays!
I played in this game for Chelsea and it was a really tough game against a great team in Leeds. We went on to win the replay 2-1 to win the FA CUP happy memories of been part of a great team. John DempseyBlue is the Colour.
The chelsea legend
@@rlaalsxo Thank You.
@@johndempsey7528 Hello John, looks like you had a chance there towards the end of the game which a smack from the edge of the box. Did Gary Sprake get a hand to it? Never mind though, as you got a screamer in Athens the following year!
@@greentambourine2323 Hi nice to talk to you. Yes Sprake tipped the ball over the bar as it would have gone in. Yes I was happy the following year when I scored against Real Madrid. Stay Safe
chelsea legend . your goal in cup winners cup against real madrid was fanastic
Best cup final I’ve ever seen. All time classic from two great teams.
Lfc v west ham
That the FA Cup final ‘showpiece’ was played on such a disgusting pitch was an utter disgrace.
On the other hand, that both sets of players displayed so much skill, and produced such a great match in those conditions is truly remarkable!
It was this game that got me hooked on football for the following 50 years and still counting.
A good old fashioned ding dong. One of the best FA Cup Finals.
Great match. Paul Reaney was not in this due to a broken leg. He was a big miss for Leeds and also for England in Mexico. Great player.
Sad week with the deaths of Peter Bonetti and Norman Hunter RIP.
OMG....I had not heard about Peter Bonetti. 😞
Great match. Note that Sprake made superb saves but is remembered for his error in the match. A very underrated goalie. The replay had one of the biggest ever TV audiences in Britain.
He was prone to the odd gaff
The conditions were lousy but these two great teams still managed to stage a great contest. The first F.A cup final I ever saw and still one of the best.
I remember this game well. A real blood-and-thunder final. I went to the semi-final replay when we lost to Leeds at Burnden Park and Best missed a sitter from six yards out. We hated Leeds but there's no denying they were a bloody formidable team who never lay down. They had some terrible luck down the years, culminating in the robbery in Paris five years after this.
"Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and John and George and Paul are alive and well and full of hope. The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry."
10 April 1970
When football was football, two good teams trying to win a football match and no diving or trying to con the ref, a great era.
Leeds not diving or trying to con the ref? Are you from this planet? (then the fact of both teams kicking shit out of each other. How is that good football?)
But then again there was this rugby player called Ron 'Chopper' Harris...
@@wildbill6826 Thing is, Ron, despite his reputation, was a good footballer. He'd previously captained England at youth level and was also the youngest ever captain of a Cup Final team, three years before this. And in a 20 year plus playing career, he was never sent off in a league game. That seems amazing but he played in a era where they didn't hold back and it wasn't just defenders. That Leeds team could mix it and there were forwards like Joe Jordan, Bob Latchford, Ron Davies, Joe Royle who gave as good as they got. Ron could certainly dish it out but he was getting whacked too. The irony is that he was limping badly before extra-time in this match and was substituted. In the replay, the injury was aggravated in another challenge but he made it to the end. No complaints from him. Just got on with it.
Better than todays crap!!
Quagmire pitches, the ball hardly bounces ..imagine how good these players would be on the snooker table like perfect pitches of today
they would probably be really bad
I like pitches that has life in it. Some of the best matches had terrible pitches but you saw great skill & adaptation & no complaints. Now pitches are like a video game, utterly perfect & utterly boring with lightweight players. Larry Lloyd weight equals 2 players of 2020's
What great football they played in those days. Excellent match.
Eddie Gray played out of his skin that day. Deserved better. Anyway, good to see how British football used to be played before the Premier League snuffed it out.
Eddie Gray was MOTM - genius display
Eddie was one of the best players in the league. His style was inimitable.
In the replay he was marked by Ron Harris instead of Dave Webb. Let's just say he didn't have so much of the ball!
@@cjknotty yes, Eddie was marked alright, he still has the marks on his legs......
Shhould av scored at least one
The last time an FA Cup final draw since 1912, some in the crowd would have remembered that game.
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The last cup final when England were Reigning World Cup Champions and an absolutely brilliant match
No diving, no wrestling in the box at corners, no trying to persuade the ref to book an opposing player, no multiple substitutions in the last couple of minutes to waste time, no enormous, athletic giants with no skill or ability, managers who sit on the bench rather than prancing up and down the touchline like spoiled children, just two teams doing their best to score more goals than their opponents. Watching this game shows you how far football has fallen since the creation of the Premier League.
Tottally agree with you. It was other football, better without any doubt.
Watching it pumped for this Saturday. been a long time since we played Chelsea as we know. Leeds-Chelsea was a fierce rivalry back then dont think the new generation of Chelsea fans will understand but i imagine a lot of older Chelsea fans will still hate Leeds. hopefully another Saturdays game will be half as good as this one.
Horse of the Year Show had a part to play for the pitch condition.This Cup Final took place a month early in April rather than traditional mid-May so to allow England more time to aclimatise in Mexico for the 1970 World Cup.
Gather here if you heard about this from the Chelsea - Leeds match
RIP Peter and Norman.
I think a lot of the "tackles" have been edited out!
Look at the pitch... These weren't matches, these were battles. Poor goalkeepers...
Bonetti was brilliant, Sprake made a costly mistake but that may well have been due to the mud- like Charlton's goal- and he also made some superb saves.
More LIKE it
They were both very good goalies. And football was... football ;) Not kicking around a balloon...
Yes, but even in those days the WEMBLEY pitch was normally impeccable. The deep, green, turf that used to suck the players' stamina and induce crippling cramp.
They just had The Horse Of The Year Show on the Wembley pitch, that's why it was so bad , unbelievable
Ahh. The days when the Wembley playing surface was like a billiard table!
Back then Wembley on the weekend before the FA Cup Final always hosted the show jumping Horse of the Year show & the pitch got ruined for a footy game, still at least the greyhounds didn't shit on it!
Bill Buchan
Unbelievable then, now the poor little prima donnas are sure to make sure they get pink or luminous green boots, in those days a mans game played by real men!
There was something about the old Wembley
A billoard table that had been trampled under foot by a dozen cart horses.
@@chriskolovos6143 it stank of urine
"a mud bath that's like a sandpit"
Garry Hope He also said Clarke did everything right when he headed straight at the goalkeeper!
RIP Peter Boneitti
This was the first match i ever saw. I was nine at the time. Watched it on a black and white TV. Ian Hutchinson during his career had the longest throwing in football
Eddie Gray was on a different planet to the rest, he was one helluva player and as good as Best I'd say
Not sure that he was as good as Best, but a very good player.
@@kevinhiggins910 yeah you are right Kevin George Best was arguably in the top 3 in the world at that time, but i always thought Eddie Gray was a tremendous player in the old Division 1 and he was certainly the best player in the two games of the 1970 fa Cup final
@@tonymcgrath700 Your so right Tony ' my self I would rate Eddie n George Equal !! But anyone could argue George never reached his potential because of his wayward life style..These games were Fab and every player gave 100% without moaning they were tired Unlike today sir..Also what is Ace is all players are British and have the loyalty to the fans paramount !!..May I say Peter Lorimer was a remarkable player too.,Dont think football will ever attain this Standard or integrity again 'Top players r far to Ego driven today u only have to look at Pogba ,Bale n Kane all overrated the list could be endless Also I wish to add you had a very accomplished manager then ,Today they are weak and have very little vision or any enishative .Kind regards Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands 🤝
@@kevinhiggins910 Gray was much more consistent and had a much longer career at his peak than Best, despite many bad injuries (due to weak referees, poor pitches and playing in an era with a lot of cloggers).
they stuck harris on him in the replay , and he was scared to death
My dad was a die hard Chelsea fan and I was 9 when we watched it. This match has stayed with me ever since. I remember the atrocious state of the pitch was due to them having to put sand down as it got all chewed up from the Horse of The Year Show that happened not long before the game that month.
Not a foreigner in sight. Great days.
Yeah, and the football isn't as good.
This was the 1970 FA Cup final between Leeds United and Chelsea that went into a replay after the first final had been drawn 2-2.Chelsea won the replay 2-1 and goalkeeper Peter Bonetti was the hero.But in the World Cup finals in Mexico the following month Bonetti would be harshly critized as the culprit responsible for England's 3-2 defeat to West Germany in extra time in the World Cup quarterfinal clash at Leon.
This was the first match I ever saw on a colour TV set!
Thanks for sharing. I've never watched it until now, knowing who won in the end. Leeds should have won this. Woodwork and sitters missed. It's a wonder either team could string any passes together on this rugby league pitch!
these highlights make the match look more even than it was, but with respect to Chelsea, Leeds totally outclassed them on the day, had it been played on a proper surface there would only have been one winner
right, on a good surface Chelsea would have played much better, Osgood and Cooke would have run rings round Leeds and Charlton's goal would have been cleared off the line
@@mizofan I don't think the mud made any difference at all to Charlton's goal. The defenders on the line miskicked it. Simple as that.
I was 14, I was there and at the replay, fantastic days.
happy days indeed
The F A Cup seemed to mean more in those days?
it certainly did. There was no true equivalent in European cups to the UCL in the 70's, the FA Cup was the most prestigious cup a team could get
@@GavinOCo Also the players back then were all from England and Scotland and from the time they were kids they dreamt about playing in the FA Cup Final. Not so much the case today when most of the players aren't even British.
Smart guys at the FA. Host the Horse of the Year show at Wembley a week before the FA Cup final.
It was a great game.
Players knackered at the end, game opens up.
Both teams going for it.
RIP Peter Bonetti and Norman Hunter.
Yes great legends.
Poor Gary Sprake. I remember how Leeds fans were the only ones in the country sorry he played for Leeds
The year Leeds was on course for 4 trophies. The league,Fa Cup,European Cup and League Cup and won none!
Neither team deserved to lose this final ir the replay they deserved a FA cup each
How Leeds didn't win this game or the replay is beyond me !
class won in the end of course
I thought chelski won the replay?
Well, McCreadie's unpunished penalty box assault on Bremner in the replay offers a clue.
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Genuine British win. These days the cup is won by foreigners.
it's truly sad that the fa cup final is now a secondary game. all the rich clubs would rather make the top four now
As with most things wrong with the country, blame Rupert Murdoch- TV rights and the Premier League have ruined the game
Amazing and vibrating authentic football. By the way, it shock me so much the habit of forwarders in premier league to press goalkeeper once has the ball...
The good old days when teams ACTUALLY wanted to win trophies.
One of my favourite football moments is Hutchinson making a momkey of Charlton to score the second equaliser - and the horrible Charlton then fruitlessly looking for someone else to blame.
I understand that the groundsmen were later shot and their remains interred behind one of the goals.
Best cup final ever. I was amazed at how good a game Gary Sprake had...well apart from that moment when houseman had a shot.
Sprake and Bonetti were good keepers but always remembered for mistakes, Bonnetti had had a nightmare in the 70, world cup .
@@twissem6414 Lord yes...I can still see those dreadful German goals ..especially their equaliser .
Hi Grace it was a great final to play in and against a great Leeds team.John Dempsey Chelsea.
@@johndempsey7528 Cheers John. They don't do finals like that anymore. Two teams giving it 100%..dishing it out and taking it like proper men. Respecting each other by not giving a quarter...I wish you well John. Imagine if that game had been played today. It would have ended with just Sprake and Bonetti left on the pitch. Great to hear from you.
Hi Grace 100per cent agree with what you said.Football was a real tough game back then not like today where most of the time they are rolling around on the floor. Stay Safe
This is a joke right? I keep getting told by fans of other clubs that Chelsea doesn't have any history. Think you will also find that the following year Chelsea won their first European trophy before Liverpool won their first European trophy 🤔
Too mate, do t believe the haters 👍
Forgot how bad the pitches were - You would get serious complaints about that one in League 2 nowadays.
Love to see today's pampered fairies on that pitch
Gary Sprake, Wales
fine goalie, most expensive in the world when sold by Laeeds
Didn't know that, but i can believe it. Thanks for intel. West Yaarrkshire haha.
The pitch was a disgrace. The match was played a few days after the horse of the year show and it was ruined because of that.
Leeds' greatest ever side which played superb football yet they finished the 1969-70 season with nothing...one of football's biggest injustices
Leeds were cheats and thugs, the most hated team in Britain. They were a disgrace to football, it was great to see Chelsea kick the shit out of them AND beat them.
Interesting that you say that, as Ron 'Chopper' Harris boasted in his book that he made the biggest single contribution to Chelsea winning the replay when he crippled Eddie Gray.
Gray wasn't crippled, but Jones did crock Bonetti
Everton were well ahead of them in the league, Celtic were simply too good for them in the European cup, and Chelsea, even with Bonetti injured in the replay and Hudson missing, made sure they won nothing :) As befits such a dirty team
@@mizofan I suggest that you watch the whole of the 1970 final and the replay, and then have a rethink. Little point though, as you probably have a closed mind, clouded by hatred, third hand opinions and selective memory. Actually, I have edited this because I realise that I am wrong. You are actually a wind up merchant. Fair enough. I have just read your comments on the video of McCreadie's unpunished assault on Bremner, and they are actually much more balanced.
Look at that pitch..how did they play on that?
What a wizard eddy grey was,just a pity he’s a jock
Leeds in red socks looks odd but really cool ......
In my memory the Wembley pitch was always immaculate, but the memory cheats. I can only think it must have been an exceptionally wet spring in 1970.
They held the horse of the year show for some reason.Thats why the pitch was in this state.
These two games should be required viewing for the big girls blouses who play the game today, might make them man up a bit!
Played back in the days when Wembley was a part time allotment
They had the horse of the year show a few days before there - The FA said never again.
Far better and more exciting game then
Was this played in April because of the early start to the World Cup in Mexico?
Yes
24 of the best players in the country on show and every one of em could dish it out. Can you imagine the likes of Jack Grealish playing against these lads. Chopper Harris and bites yer legs Hunter would have him for breakfast
Leeds were a truly great side,especially Giles and gray,how they did not win this game was bizarre.
showpiece match at the end of the season and the pitch is in that state. who the fuck was the groundsman?
Jackie Charlton always seemed to be giving Gary sprake a bollocking
I support Chelsea
I support LEEDS
Arsenal
Gary Sprake.....from the ridiculous to the sublime.
that's a glaring foul on Bonetti for the first goal
Brilliant
Look at that park wouldn't even put cows on it .
According to Kenneth Wolstenholme Chelsea were appealing. Well, not to me they weren't.
3.34 Chalton to Sprake " Sprake get up , you've only broken your leg ffs you wimp "
Yes, doesn't look too friendly does it? You can see Charlton giving him an earful for the first goal, too, perhaps with some justification, but Sprake does well to keep this one out and still gets it with both barrels. Who'd be a goalkeeper?
Why is Leeds United wearing red socks?
State of the pitch!
Let's see man city play on that!
Is that Wembley or the ploughed field out the back of Old McDonalds?
They had the horse of the year show a few days before there - The FA said never again.
Leeds utd, red socks?
I watched on black and white TV, but when the commentator said we were wearing red socks, I knew we'd be unlucky :-(
Chelsea are great
I remember this as well the pitch was awful should have been much Vetter I was 11 I think the first final that went to extra time and replay
They had the horse of the year show a few days before there - The FA said never again.
Hutchinson was a good player but the rest of the Chelsea side were average players
Charlton looked about 60 then.
The players of the British Isles are smart and shrewd, but lack strength, toughness and skill.....
Real Football games!!!!!!
How did football ever progress on those ridiculous pitches?!
pitch was a fucking disgrace otherwise Leeds won have won. Horse of the fucking year show, what was that all about.
That pitch would scare todays’ new forest pony riders 🙄
The horse of the year show,FFS
После этого матча продавцы корвалола купили себе по острову :)
I wonder did the farmer get many potatoes out of that feild.
Pitch 2 - Skill 0
Chelsea had class, Leeds were hated.!!!
Leeds had class. Pillock.
Leeds were hated, of course, because they had class. Jealousy. They were from the north, relatively new on the scene and successful; the London press hated them for it.
The pitch was a joke .
Did they play this match in a freshly plowed potato field?
Never seen the Wembley pitch looking so poor?
A show jumping competition had been held at Wembley a couple of weeks earlier and the horses had cut the pitch up a bit.
@@craiggerrard5117 ah! Thanks Craig. I couldn't figure it. In those days other pitches could be a tip, but not Wembley, which was always immaculate. For instance in the 1971 F A Cup final between Arsenal and Liverpool. But that explains it all. Bit surprising though that they allowed a show-jumping event there two weeks before the great showpiece?! Wonder if someone got a rollicking?!
@@martm216 They certainly never allowed it to happen again, so I expect that some Wembley official was given a bad time. The Wembley pitch was usually perfect because it wasn't used very often. As you say, it was great 12 months later for Arsenal v Liverpool.
@@craiggerrard5117 exactly. The Wembley pitch was kept for special occasions, internationals and cup finals, and not much else I guess? I'm sadly getting on in years now, but looking at the pitches they play on these days, I can scarcely believe my eyes. They look like billiards tables or bowling greens. I really don't know how they turn them out like that, week after week. New techniques of drainage and grass technology or something. I used to go and watch Southampton play at The Dell. What an amazing little stadium that was. The pitch might look all right for the first few matches, but then it would all cut up, and both penalty areas, and beyond, would look more like Bournemouth beach. Many other grounds weren't much better though. Some were worse. Was watching on here just yesterday a programme about Brian Clough. The pitch at the Baseball Ground was literally a mud heap. Not a blade of grass to be seen. You wondered how they could play on it. Probably wouldn't even be legal nowadays!
"0:28"What the f*** is Chopper Harris complaining about.....was the ball travelling too slow for ya' when it crossed over the goal-line,Ron ?
yes, it got stuck in the mud, should have bounced
Ive also often wondered why chelsea appealed after the charlton goal.