technology today is amazing, but it makes every game today, look like its played in the same stadium, just down the road....there was something exotic and romantic about watching World Cup footbal many years ago...
They don't mak'em like Brian Moore anymore. What a class act he was. We were spoiled in the 70's with memorable, top quality sport commenters. That is something we sadly lack this days, i feel.
ITV’s football coverage was so good in the 70/80’s, great presenters Brian Moore, Dickie Davis, Jim Rosenthal to mention a few. Great theme tunes too! As a kid back then I found it so exciting. We’d play football at halftime and rush back in for the second half.
As an Aussie just like to send my condolences to Rale Rassic, passed away last month, first coach to send Australia to it's first ever world cup in 74.
@@jmo8934 don’t know……but England never entered it until 1950…..probably because it wasn’t our idea 😂……I was 10 in 74 and remember that World Cup vividly…..my Nan lived with us so I remember watching it with her……this clip brought back many happy memories
Brian Moore was a great commentator and a real gentleman. My aunt was a hairdresser and cut his hair sometimes. Maybe not one of the all time great anecdotes, but I was was very proud of this fact in 1974! He supported Gillingham. The first World Cup I remember, the Polish goalie was brilliant!
Great World Cup. Poland were fantastic, superb side. Sweden were good, too. Rest in peace, Sweden's legendary goalie, Ronnie Hellström, the "Flying Viking" as he was known, great goalie and a humble man.
How humble was he? But yes, top3 of the 1970's in my book after Tomaszewski and Maier (Zoff and Shilton couldn't carry their national teams to any successes).
@@tylsimys67 Tomaszewski helped Poland to Silver Medal at the 1976 Olympics (Poland won Gold in 1972 without Tomaszewski) and Poland won Third Place in 1974, beating Brazil. Zoff, of course, went to win the World Cup with Italy in 1982. Ubaldo Fillol of Argentina was a great goalie of the 1970s.
Yep. Cloughie had trouble acknowledging just how good Poland were in the 70s. They were clearly a better team than England and were a real World Cup force. England couldn’t even qualify.
@@raybrown10001 Poland won the 1972 Olympic Gold Medal with many players of the team that went on the 1974 World Cup to get 3rd place. Then they won Silver at the 1976 Olympics. 3rd place again in 1982, still a good side in 1986, too, so for 15 years, they were a great side with some all-time great players like Deyna, Lato, Boniek.
I have never forgotten when, years later and some fifteen minutes into the live transmission of a game, Brian Moore, sitting alongside a strangely subdued Brian Clough in the commentary box, turned to his namesake - yet to utter a word of comment - and asked: “you nodded off, Brian?”
His Head looks uncannily like London Planetarium... But his love and knowledge of the global game educated anyone willing to listen... even Cloughie respected him!
@@Crazy1Clive it was Jimmy Hill that persuaded Brian to join London Weekend Television in 1968 which had been created the previous year & then created ITV sport ,(which still exists) Brian had also been BBC radio ( the Light Programme) cricket commentator in the summer months prior to '68. Hill had made ITV sport a success, but during 1971/2 was having a tough old time at LWT due to events ( beyond his control)with in the ITA & it's probably why he went to the BBC.
@@mikemartin2957 Yes, I know that Hill persuaded Moore to come and work for ITV, and it doesn't change my original point. (As Hill told it, he only stated his surname when asked who was telephoning for Moore, who himself thought that it was _Lord_ Hill - then chairman of the BBC - calling to bollock him! "I thought I was being carpeted for something", recalled Moore to Hill 25 years later. "Well, you were to an effect," replied Hill.) RIP to both.
this is brilliant! i remember the 74 world cup, i was 9 years old and mad on the game, my first world cup that i actually recall, no memory of mexico 70 sadly, also my first football stamp book FKS collection was for this tournament, i remember that theme tune as well, pundits were miles better back then, well to be honest the game was so much better, a golden age for me
I am about one World Cup ahead of you in age, but, same deal. I recall nothing of any 1970 World Cup, but clearly remember the buzz with the 1974 World Cup.
It seems the age 8-12 is where watching a world cup becomes embedded in your psyche. My first world cup was 1994 and I was 9, I have vague memories of waking up my dad from his afternoon nap as per his instruction, to catch some world cup italia 1990 matches.
Great characters from back in the day ..... don't think modern pundits or commentators have the presence like these guys. Brian Moore had such an amazing voice....
RUclips randomly recommended this video to me, and I really liked it, especially the way they approach bids and comments in this round table (here in Brazil we call programs sports debate like that). And apparently the commentators were pretty teasing each other.
This was broadcasted on the day of my 18th birthday, which I can clearly remember. It was also the last few days of school, before I left the 6th form. I was following Holland (as it was popularly called) back then not knowing that a decade later I would be living in the Netherlands with my Dutch girlfriend. I will never forget the final which they lost to W. Germany which left me feeling gutted. It was a warm U.K. summer that holds many memories for me.
@thebeatnumber Yes I did, we married in 1990, and in 1993 my wife gave birth to twin girls. So I have been blessed with a beautiful, loving wife, and two wonderful daughters.
I saw many English football in Hong Kong TV in 1970s, still under British rule. I recognised this guy, Brian Moore. 1974 was the happiest year of my life.
Not too sure this guy will be back, was uploading a lot to begin with but then suddenly stopped about 5 months ago. Hopefully there will be some more but people have busy lives.
I was eleven years old in 1974 and remember the World Cup from Germany so clearly. The Dutch team with the greatJohan Cruyff really shone. I also remember the World Cup from Mexico four years earlier.
Thank you for this brilliant piece of nostalgia. It was the incomparable Beckenbauer who made the difference in the end, and not Cruyff. Brian Moore was a presenter and journalist of impeccable standards, and along with David Coleman, the very best commentator of his day. Had Big Mal or the great Clough been England manager, then they would certainly have qualified for Munich; Alf had gone on for too long.
true... he was too loyal to the players who had served him well, and football was changing - Brazil in 70, Germany & Holland in 74 both played football that was tactically superior to anything in the english game. But Big Mal had not long been a Manager in 73. In fairness, Don Revie was a pretty logical move - but it should have been '72 when he got the job. Assuming he still would have done one for the middle east cash i think that would have been perfect for Big Mal and then Cloughie would ahae got the job before Sir Bobby.
Thank you so much for uploading, would loved to have seen the adverts too! Brilliant pundits old big 'ed at his finest! Crystal Palace managerial legend Big Malc coupled with two craggy Scotsman tightly compared by the incomparable Brian Moore , as was the age I was a Leeds Utd ' follower ( since 72 Allan Clark et al) so seeing the legends Harvey/ Bremner / Lorimer was a treat as no live football in those days ....have shared it with a number of other old gits !! Well done !
You won't get to see the adverts on this type of video as it is highly likely this came from the ITV archives. These type of recordings don't show the adverts and it is blacked out until the programme returns as this is an off air recording.
La Primera Copa del Mundo que vi en mi vida y la mejor organizada. Con el maravilloso Cruyff. y su Holanda espectacular Como olvidar, cuando nos juntábamos en familia en el viejo Tv Westenhouse y ver al gran Elias Figueroa el back centro Chileno q impidió que la RFA .nos goleara. Saludos del austral y frío Chile 🇨🇱
@@paulopaulino3344 ..Gracias amigo ...el próximo verano conoceré tu hermoso país.....Lisboa y Oporto estan entre mis rutas. Como olvidar al gran Madjer con su gol de taco en la intercontinental 87 Maravilloso.
My favorite all time world cup. Best team ever, the Netherlands. Best german teams (both) ever. As Well as the Best polish, scots and swedes. Great argentinian players, houseman, Heredia, etc Yugoslavia had a dream midfield with bogisevic, oblak And acimovic, plus His star forward Dzajic. They were also the last squad a saw switching to 4-2-4 with surjak And Bajevic as centre forwards. In its core were all the stories surrounding the event. The alleged money demands of the dutch. The war memories of some of His Elder players regarding the germans. The first Time you saw the same country fielding Two different sides AND even playing between them. Tales of socialism among capitalism. The possibility of watching the scots happily throw away their chances of historic glory in favor of whisky soaked parties. And of course the stories of the haitian voodoo And the kandombe of Zaire. Puré literature. I Guess the world was younger and still full of misteries And possibilities. Nothing like globality to make everything uninteresting. We can watch a kid snatching a purse in Brooklyn in real Time or a plane falling down AND dismiss all of It as monótonous.
Best World Cup, but ha even though I'm from Poland, i'm always rooting for the England national team, since those memorable matches witch England at Śląski in Chorzów and at Wembley 🇵🇱🏴👍💪
Utter nonsense about whisky soaked parties by the Scots. Unless you're talking about the fans. Who wouldn't have partied at the world cup? Anything you've read about the players doing that is just media propaganda. We were the better team against both Brazil and yugoslavia and should have beaten both of them. We unfortunately didn't score enough goals against Zaire and got eliminated on goal difference despite being the only team in the competition not to lose a game.
@@stephenlaing9224 Well, maybe youre Right and Archie MacPherson doesnt have a clue of what he saw and even had the nerve to write about It in his book about the Scottish team in that world cup.
I love how many of the comments were those who were 9 years old and this was their first World Cup they really watched and fell in love with the game. I too was 9, American born, but to Dutch parents who emigrated to the US. '74 was such a great showing by the Dutch and I remember how heartbroken my whole family was (both in Holland and America) when they lost in the final. So many great memories. Love how young Cruyff is in this interview!
It's similar with me. I was ten years old when I watched a World Cup for the first time. It was Argentina 1978, and I got hold of some DVDs of German matches (and yes, the Cordoba defeat is among them). I also found in the Net a recording of the second group stage match between Argentina and Brazil, which had the title "The Battle of Rosario".
I was also 10 years old at the time and was mesmerised by the Dutch team and was also, like you, heartbroken that those pesky Germans beat the Dutch in the final. I got a Dutch football strip for xmas that year as a consolation. P.S. I'm from England so had no team inthe WC that year!
“This is a nail. And tonight it’s either going in Poland’s coffin, or it’s going in Sir Alf’s” (Brian Clough - before England v Poland’s qualifier, 1974)
Brian clough, wasn't he just something.... Insight, honesty and great charm. It's a national sin that those at the FA never appointed him manager. God bless you Brian.
I migrated to UK in 1978 when I was 12. Used to watch Brian Moore every week. I think the show weas called Match of The Day. Ahhh the memories. Had not seen him in more than 40 years till now.
And for those watching in black and white, Brian Moore pointing out that Scotland were playing in the dark shirts. We were posh in my house because we had had colour tv since 1972! 😆
Spot on. They all seemed to conduct themselves in a much calmer, more articulate manner. I think they reflect society as a whole, and how far we've regressed since...
It's a worldwide phenomenon. You take any 50-year old TV show in any language and compare it to today's and feel like crying in despair over the expressive, precise ways of communication and verbalisation that have been lost. As the world became more interconnected, the need for longer descriptions disappeared.
Love Brian's shirt. Really smart with the Slazenger logo on the collar. Top, top football presenter and commentator. Still miss him. Football commentary and analysis would be a better place today with a Brian or a Motty🙁
I was 13 years old and growing up in the US in 1974 and never even heard of the World Cup and didn't know what it was, LOL. Given absolutely no coverage in the US except in the foreign language newspapers and maybe some small print in the main stream newspapers at the bottom of the page where they gave the racing results. First time I ever saw any World Cup was 1978 when they showed highlights of the Argentina final game win over Holland on Sports Extra, a weekend sports news show on WNEW Channel 5 in New York. The only time we ever played soccer was in school. It's come a long way since then in the US, but we're still not any good. But at least the games are on TV.
i was 3 yrs old so i don't remember this WC but my first football memory is watching WC '78 and right up to WC '90 there was the magic of seeing players you had not heard of or heard of but never seen - and teams that genuinely played a different type of game to what we saw in europe... i love the access we have now but we have lost something - world cups were genuinely exotic then.
England failed to qualify so as a Leeds fan I was cheering on Scotland (Harvey, Bremner, Lorimer, Jordan, McQueen in the squad. Unfortunately, Eddie Gray was injured). Scotland also had Dalglish and Souness so quite a team
The Scott’s had great players 70’s and 80’s … us English sadly didn’t, always bemoaning our luck. Don’t forget how hard it was to qualify back in the day aswell!
Your channel is a treasure trove and I have nothing to do with English or European Football! I appreciate the quality of recording, preservation and upload. Thanks a lot.
I got bobby moncours autograph when I was waiting outside the Lymm hotel, in the early seventies..a lot of teams used to stay there as it wasn't far from Manchester or Liverpool.. also managed to get the whole of the Brazil national team from 66
I think I'm right in saying Poland won the Olympics football in '72 but I think knocking out England (and avoiding defeat at Wembley- regarded then as as a very difficult place for any foreign team, even the very best, to play at) gave them a huge boost in confidence. If we can beat England, we need fear no one. Breitner actually thought Poland were the best team in '74 WC.
I think it was Poland which knocked England out of World Cup qualifying. Television highlights of the match had England attacking the Polish goal like all buggery, with the Poles doing myriads of freak deflections of all these England shots on goal.
I would go back and relive that World Cup as a ten year old Scot in a heartbeat. Obviously willing the Scots to win with what was actually a very talented team but also enjoyed the Brazilians and Dutch as my back up teams(although not against Scotland 😊) Nostalgia at its finest.
33.00 "Football is about opinions and every one has their own. Those whose opinions are right more often, succeed." Classic put down from Cloughie there.
@@cliff-nb6bm the best thing he ever did was take that punch from McQueen. apart from that he was bang average. compared to his peers Shilton, Clemence, Jennings etc
Records show Dave Harvey was voted keeper of the 74 WC tournament. Playing for the great Leeds United team, Harvey was a champion and cup winner. Always good to lay out the facts when debating lol.
I liked Gerd Muller so wanted West Germany to win the 74 World Cup at the time. Looking back now, I think it a great pity that Holland (Netherlands) didn't win this tournament.
Netherlands, by their own admission, having scored so early had a dilemma. Some players, notably Kruyff, wanted to humiliate West Germany, but others wanted to play the game properly. The Germans just played. Netherlands' perennial problem....arrogance.
@@stephenreeds3632he Dutch were a great team but very cynical. Rijsbergen in particular was one dirty bastard. Their constant deployment of the offside trap was very boring.
My first World Cup as an 8 year old watching it all in black & white. SMH at Brian Clough having a dig at West Ham not knowing we are going to win the FA Cup at the end of the forthcoming 1974/75 season.
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There was something about those old fuzzy satellite commentaries that gave World Cup games a really special atmosphere.
Agreed,but why didn't it affect the picture as much as the sound....mystery
technology today is amazing, but it makes every game today, look like its played in the same stadium, just down the road....there was something exotic and romantic about watching World Cup footbal many years ago...
Certainly or even that hazy radio commentary when matches were not on tv , sounded like a phone call 😁
I agree, today's commentators are like overgrown school kids.
agreed, it added something magical, as if they were broadcasting from mars.
Brian Moore was fantastic at fronting the panel….
He was a huge part of my growing up and was simply a joy to listen to…👍
They don't mak'em like Brian Moore anymore. What a class act he was. We were spoiled in the 70's with memorable, top quality sport commenters. That is something we sadly lack this days, i feel.
What I liked about Brian Moore was he was as passionate about world cup matches as he was watching Bristol Rovers v Charlton in Division 2.
Fantastic. Loved him the big match on Sunday magic 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
“Thomas, it’s up for grabs now…….THOMAS!!!” Classic Brian Moore that will live forever with Arsenal fans
ITV’s football coverage was so good in the 70/80’s, great presenters Brian Moore, Dickie Davis, Jim Rosenthal to mention a few. Great theme tunes too! As a kid back then I found it so exciting. We’d play football at halftime and rush back in for the second half.
As an Aussie just like to send my condolences to Rale Rassic, passed away last month, first coach to send Australia to it's first ever world cup in 74.
My first World Cup memories……watched the tournament with my Nan who was born in 1895 !
What did she make of the 1930 WC final?
@@jmo8934 don’t know……but England never entered it until 1950…..probably because it wasn’t our idea 😂……I was 10 in 74 and remember that World Cup vividly…..my Nan lived with us so I remember watching it with her……this clip brought back many happy memories
So, she was 79 or 78 years old during that tournament. @@Danny-hp9fx
mine too
Mine too, even watching it now still gives me goose bumps!!
Imagine if you rang that phone-in number on 22mins, and 1974 answered?😂
Thanks. I was out shopping on June 16, 1974, so it’s great to finally see what I missed ⚽️
You remember back that far?? Ask me what happened two weeks ago and I wouldn't have a clue 😉
the dutch and polish sides at that 74 world cup were really something else
But neither of them won it.
@@thesedreamsarefree ya $hit happens
Total 🇳🇱 Football
@@thesedreamsarefree Water polo Germany-Poland semi-final.
Watching this 50 years later in 2024. Rest in peace to the panel members.
Paddy and Bobby are still with us in 2024.
Brian Moore was a great commentator and a real gentleman. My aunt was a hairdresser and cut his hair sometimes. Maybe not one of the all time great anecdotes, but I was was very proud of this fact in 1974! He supported Gillingham. The first World Cup I remember, the Polish goalie was brilliant!
Did he ever get "something for the weekend" off her?
Itv always had back then tunes from final that you never forget and brilliant panels, compared to today's average
British TV the best in the World, a reference to all.
@@brmf4346 LOL, definitely not.
Great World Cup. Poland were fantastic, superb side. Sweden were good, too. Rest in peace, Sweden's legendary goalie, Ronnie Hellström, the "Flying Viking" as he was known, great goalie and a humble man.
How humble was he? But yes, top3 of the 1970's in my book after Tomaszewski and Maier (Zoff and Shilton couldn't carry their national teams to any successes).
@@tylsimys67 Tomaszewski helped Poland to Silver Medal at the 1976 Olympics (Poland won Gold in 1972 without Tomaszewski) and Poland won Third Place in 1974, beating Brazil. Zoff, of course, went to win the World Cup with Italy in 1982. Ubaldo Fillol of Argentina was a great goalie of the 1970s.
Yep. Cloughie had trouble acknowledging just how good Poland were in the 70s. They were clearly a better team than England and were a real World Cup force. England couldn’t even qualify.
@@raybrown10001 Poland won the 1972 Olympic Gold Medal with many players of the team that went on the 1974 World Cup to get 3rd place. Then they won Silver at the 1976 Olympics. 3rd place again in 1982, still a good side in 1986, too, so for 15 years, they were a great side with some all-time great players like Deyna, Lato, Boniek.
🇵🇱 Gregorz Lato 🥉 ⚽️ 🏟
very relaxed natural conversation , i envy people of the 70s.
Brian Clough was such an engaging person. Legend 👍
You forgot to put the hyphen between the G and E in legend.
Brian Clough’s wit was way ahead of his time. Respect.
He was like a 'lumbering elephant' pure classic cloughie. He was hilarious. RIP ol'
Big 'Ead.
Whom you talking about?
I got it. It is Brian Clough of course
“I always love watching post-match shows…particularly the parts that have me in it, Brian” 😂😂😂
I have never forgotten when, years later and some fifteen minutes into the live transmission of a game, Brian Moore, sitting alongside a strangely subdued Brian Clough in the commentary box, turned to his namesake - yet to utter a word of comment - and asked: “you nodded off, Brian?”
I miss this era, proper football, and real characters.
Pfff "proper football"?
Define proper football lol.
Brian Moore was just class. So very good at his job. Oh, for the days of real football presenters.
Not so classy (7:55)
Also very biased!
Brian Moore........ what a class act
The late, great Brian Moore. Best football commentator ever.
I agree 100 percent. If had gone to BBC more people would’ve have been aware of his great commentary. He remained loyal to ITV unlike Jimmy Hill.
His Head looks uncannily like London Planetarium... But his love and knowledge of the global game educated anyone willing to listen... even Cloughie respected him!
@@QPRTokyo You appear to be unaware that Moore joined ITV in 1968 after seven years as BBC Radio's Football Correspondent, so was he disloyal also?
@@Crazy1Clive it was Jimmy Hill that persuaded Brian to join London Weekend Television in 1968 which had been created the previous year & then created ITV sport ,(which still exists) Brian had also been BBC radio ( the Light Programme) cricket commentator in the summer months prior to '68. Hill had made ITV sport a success, but during 1971/2 was having a tough old time at LWT due to events ( beyond his control)with in the ITA & it's probably why he went to the BBC.
@@mikemartin2957 Yes, I know that Hill persuaded Moore to come and work for ITV, and it doesn't change my original point. (As Hill told it, he only stated his surname when asked who was telephoning for Moore, who himself thought that it was _Lord_ Hill - then chairman of the BBC - calling to bollock him! "I thought I was being carpeted for something", recalled Moore to Hill 25 years later. "Well, you were to an effect," replied Hill.) RIP to both.
My first WC I remember, I wish punditry was like this still, some good insight but also funny. Legends Clough and Moore cut from a different cloth.
this is brilliant! i remember the 74 world cup, i was 9 years old and mad on the game, my first world cup that i actually recall, no memory of mexico 70 sadly, also my first football stamp book FKS collection was for this tournament, i remember that theme tune as well, pundits were miles better back then, well to be honest the game was so much better, a golden age for me
Do you remember Figurine Panini football stickers?
I am about one World Cup ahead of you in age, but, same deal. I recall nothing of any 1970 World Cup, but clearly remember the buzz with the 1974 World Cup.
@@johnkeane1419 of course, i still have a number of original albums from my childhood
It seems the age 8-12 is where watching a world cup becomes embedded in your psyche. My first world cup was 1994 and I was 9, I have vague memories of waking up my dad from his afternoon nap as per his instruction, to catch some world cup italia 1990 matches.
I was 9 y.o in 1986 and remember this my first world cup 😋
Great characters from back in the day ..... don't think modern pundits or commentators have the presence like these guys. Brian Moore had such an amazing voice....
.......and gravitas.
RUclips randomly recommended this video to me, and I really liked it, especially the way they approach bids and comments in this round table (here in Brazil we call programs sports debate like that). And apparently the commentators were pretty teasing each other.
Hugh Johns was a great commentator who described a game as if he was a fan.
Couldn’t have put it better myself, He had a football voice
I TV 66worldcup commentator
Midlands was his terrotory
Good call joe
This was broadcasted on the day of my 18th birthday, which I can clearly remember. It was also the last few days of school, before I left the 6th form. I was following Holland (as it was popularly called) back then not knowing that a decade later I would be living in the Netherlands with my Dutch girlfriend. I will never forget the final which they lost to W. Germany which left me feeling gutted. It was a warm U.K. summer that holds many memories for me.
Hopefully, you did the right thing and married your Dutch girlfriend...❤️
Nah I bet he left her for her Italian flatmate 😂
@thebeatnumber Yes I did, we married in 1990, and in 1993 my wife gave birth to twin girls. So I have been blessed with a beautiful, loving wife, and two wonderful daughters.
@user-lq9it4lv1v 😂😂😂 Nope, I stayed loyal to my Dutch girlfriend, who is now my wife.
@@pauldg837 Congratulations! I love stories with happy endings👏
Someone please invent a time machine, I want to go back and watch Cruyff play again!
There is such a device, it's called RUclips!
@@jasonedwards6870 LoL... True. Thank God for RUclips.
If you find one, then book me a ticket please!
T A R D I S
Special player......DeBruyne now comparable.
I saw many English football in Hong Kong TV in 1970s, still under British rule. I recognised this guy, Brian Moore. 1974 was the happiest year of my life.
Absolutely brilliant. More please.
Thait is brilliant
Not too sure this guy will be back, was uploading a lot to begin with but then suddenly stopped about 5 months ago. Hopefully there will be some more but people have busy lives.
I was eleven years old in 1974 and remember the World Cup from Germany so clearly. The Dutch team with the greatJohan Cruyff really shone. I also remember the World Cup from Mexico four years earlier.
Argentina
I was 6 months old when this world cup took place so I don't know nowt about it but I love everything about the 70's lol
@@richarda3514Argentina was 4yrs later in 78
I was also 11. Still a huge Germany fan!!
Class!!!
"Tell me, as a lady caller, are you enjoying the World Cup?"
the quality is really good for being from 1974
It's because it is from ITV archives and has been remastered
Days when it was really worth sitting down to watch the footy. I can feel it now, it was fantastic. ⚽️⚽️⚽️
Far better than anything today
It is indeed. Comparing it to coverage of the Euros.
Totally
a all white panel you wont ever see that again
No pathetic wokery in the presenter/panel selection either.
The euro 24 is a talentless bore fest. Most teams aren’t even represented by their own country men
Amazing time capsule- professionalism and quality very high!
Thank you for this brilliant piece of nostalgia. It was the incomparable Beckenbauer who made the difference in the end, and not Cruyff. Brian Moore was a presenter and journalist of impeccable standards, and along with David Coleman, the very best commentator of his day. Had Big Mal or the great Clough been England manager, then they would certainly have qualified for Munich; Alf had gone on for too long.
true... he was too loyal to the players who had served him well, and football was changing - Brazil in 70, Germany & Holland in 74 both played football that was tactically superior to anything in the english game. But Big Mal had not long been a Manager in 73. In fairness, Don Revie was a pretty logical move - but it should have been '72 when he got the job. Assuming he still would have done one for the middle east cash i think that would have been perfect for Big Mal and then Cloughie would ahae got the job before Sir Bobby.
@@CarlinConnolly Revie came with a lot of baggage that should have alerted the FA to stay well clear of him.
Messyrs Clough and Moore. Old school legends I could listen to all day RIP
Me too.
great image quality , 50 years ago , looks like yesterday
What a panel..Happy days
AND the biggest character of all Derek Dougan(Northern Ireland and Wolves) wasn't there with Mal,Paddy and Cloughie:)
The Great Brian Moore👍🇬🇧
Thank you so much for uploading, would loved to have seen the adverts too!
Brilliant pundits old big 'ed at his finest! Crystal Palace managerial legend Big Malc coupled with two craggy Scotsman tightly compared by the incomparable Brian Moore , as was the age I was a Leeds Utd ' follower ( since 72 Allan Clark et al) so seeing the legends Harvey/ Bremner / Lorimer was a treat as no live football in those days ....have shared it with a number of other old gits !!
Well done !
You won't get to see the adverts on this type of video as it is highly likely this came from the ITV archives. These type of recordings don't show the adverts and it is blacked out until the programme returns as this is an off air recording.
La Primera Copa del Mundo que vi en mi vida y la mejor organizada. Con el maravilloso Cruyff. y su Holanda espectacular Como olvidar, cuando nos juntábamos en familia en el viejo Tv Westenhouse y ver al gran Elias Figueroa el back centro Chileno q impidió que la RFA .nos goleara. Saludos del austral y frío Chile 🇨🇱
Saludos desde Portugal
@@paulopaulino3344 ..Gracias amigo ...el próximo verano conoceré tu hermoso país.....Lisboa y Oporto estan entre mis rutas. Como olvidar al gran Madjer con su gol de taco en la intercontinental 87 Maravilloso.
Acá eligieron a rolando García ,como mejor lateral derecho, creo que jugaba en deportes concepción y después en colo colo
My favorite all time world cup.
Best team ever, the Netherlands.
Best german teams (both) ever.
As Well as the Best polish, scots and swedes.
Great argentinian players, houseman, Heredia, etc
Yugoslavia had a dream midfield with bogisevic, oblak And acimovic, plus His star forward Dzajic. They were also the last squad a saw switching to 4-2-4 with surjak And Bajevic as centre forwards.
In its core were all the stories surrounding the event.
The alleged money demands of the dutch.
The war memories of some of His Elder players regarding the germans.
The first Time you saw the same country fielding Two different sides AND even playing between them.
Tales of socialism among capitalism.
The possibility of watching the scots happily throw away their chances of historic glory in favor of whisky soaked parties.
And of course the stories of the haitian voodoo And the kandombe of Zaire.
Puré literature.
I Guess the world was younger and still full of misteries And possibilities.
Nothing like globality to make everything uninteresting.
We can watch a kid snatching a purse in Brooklyn in real Time or a plane falling down AND dismiss all of It as monótonous.
Best World Cup, but ha even though I'm from Poland, i'm always rooting for the England national team, since those memorable matches witch England at Śląski in Chorzów and at Wembley 🇵🇱🏴👍💪
That comment was nigh on poetic.
Utter nonsense about whisky soaked parties by the Scots. Unless you're talking about the fans. Who wouldn't have partied at the world cup? Anything you've read about the players doing that is just media propaganda. We were the better team against both Brazil and yugoslavia and should have beaten both of them. We unfortunately didn't score enough goals against Zaire and got eliminated on goal difference despite being the only team in the competition not to lose a game.
@@stephenlaing9224
Well, maybe youre Right and Archie MacPherson doesnt have a clue of what he saw and even had the nerve to write about It in his book about the Scottish team in that world cup.
I love how many of the comments were those who were 9 years old and this was their first World Cup they really watched and fell in love with the game. I too was 9, American born, but to Dutch parents who emigrated to the US. '74 was such a great showing by the Dutch and I remember how heartbroken my whole family was (both in Holland and America) when they lost in the final. So many great memories. Love how young Cruyff is in this interview!
It's similar with me. I was ten years old when I watched a World Cup for the first time. It was Argentina 1978, and I got hold of some DVDs of German matches (and yes, the Cordoba defeat is among them). I also found in the Net a recording of the second group stage match between Argentina and Brazil, which had the title "The Battle of Rosario".
I was also 10 years old at the time and was mesmerised by the Dutch team and was also, like you, heartbroken that those pesky Germans beat the Dutch in the final. I got a Dutch football strip for xmas that year as a consolation. P.S. I'm from England so had no team inthe WC that year!
Brian Clough has always been a real character.
“This is a nail. And tonight it’s either going in Poland’s coffin, or it’s going in Sir Alf’s” (Brian Clough - before England v Poland’s qualifier, 1974)
1974… 🇵🇱 🥉 ⚽️
IT WAS - THE BEST YEAR - IN THE HISTORY OF THE POLISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM
Anche la Nazionale che disputo' i mondiali del 1982 fu una bella squadra. Schierata bene in campo........
Poland should have won in 1974. They took on the big boys and won. Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, if the pitch was dry, they’d have won the cup
They came 4h in 1982, the world´s greatest World Cup.
They finished 3d in 1982, same as in 74. They beat France 3:2 for third place.
@@verona64 You are right. I forgot.
Brian clough, wasn't he just something....
Insight, honesty and great charm.
It's a national sin that those at the FA never appointed him manager.
God bless you Brian.
Pat Crerand and Bobby Moncur still going strong in 2024. RIP the rest.
This is frikin great was 10 watching it with brothers and old man 😂
Thank you for putting this up
Legendary manager, the late Brian Clough. 🏴
He wasn't a bad footballer either. What a goal record he had for Middlesbrough.⚽⚽⚽
@@original.dwornboy Under him Nottingham Forest was European champion. 🏆🏆
@@shahrulamar5358And would have done the same with Derby had it not been for some atrocious refereeing.
The good old days, miss them a lot.
It's being young that you miss.
I migrated to UK in 1978 when I was 12. Used to watch Brian Moore every week. I think the show weas called Match of The Day. Ahhh the memories. Had not seen him in more than 40 years till now.
No it was called The Big Match on ITV.
Watched Scotland v Zaire in the pub on my 21st birthday & being a Leeds fan made it all the better 🏐👍
Love a bit of colour bars to start this off...
Also loving the titles - of course the first tournament with current World Cup trophy
And for those watching in black and white, Brian Moore pointing out that Scotland were playing in the dark shirts. We were posh in my house because we had had colour tv since 1972! 😆
English media were ahead of its time and they are the first to present game analysis and pundits hosting for games then the world followed them❤
Jimmy Hill had a lot to do with it I believe
Everyone seemed more articulate back then. There was just a direct, precise way of talking.
Spot on. They all seemed to conduct themselves in a much calmer, more articulate manner. I think they reflect society as a whole, and how far we've regressed since...
That is the effect of the device in your hand, and mine!
It's a worldwide phenomenon. You take any 50-year old TV show in any language and compare it to today's and feel like crying in despair over the expressive, precise ways of communication and verbalisation that have been lost. As the world became more interconnected, the need for longer descriptions disappeared.
... and biased (31:05)
Love Brian's shirt. Really smart with the Slazenger logo on the collar. Top, top football presenter and commentator. Still miss him. Football commentary and analysis would be a better place today with a Brian or a Motty🙁
Thank you. I was trying to work put what that was. I knew I have seen that cat logo before, but not for a long time.
I was 13 years old and growing up in the US in 1974 and never even heard of the World Cup and didn't know what it was, LOL. Given absolutely no coverage in the US except in the foreign language newspapers and maybe some small print in the main stream newspapers at the bottom of the page where they gave the racing results. First time I ever saw any World Cup was 1978 when they showed highlights of the Argentina final game win over Holland on Sports Extra, a weekend sports news show on WNEW Channel 5 in New York. The only time we ever played soccer was in school. It's come a long way since then in the US, but we're still not any good. But at least the games are on TV.
i was 3 yrs old so i don't remember this WC but my first football memory is watching WC '78 and right up to WC '90 there was the magic of seeing players you had not heard of or heard of but never seen - and teams that genuinely played a different type of game to what we saw in europe... i love the access we have now but we have lost something - world cups were genuinely exotic then.
Brian Moore. What a fabulous commentator he was.
Fantastic to see this, thanks for uploading!
England failed to qualify so as a Leeds fan I was cheering on Scotland (Harvey, Bremner, Lorimer, Jordan, McQueen in the squad. Unfortunately, Eddie Gray was injured). Scotland also had Dalglish and Souness so quite a team
England 🏴 also missed another World Cup in 1978. When they reemerged in 1982 their player scored the fastest goal of the tournament. ⚽⚽
Don't think Souness was in 74 squad.
@@Lovelylove4everyone Well done for spotting my deliberate mistake😊. He played in '78
@@bungabening3530 Souness was growing his tache at the time and Willie Ormond said it was not yet bushy enough, so he left him out.
The Scott’s had great players 70’s and 80’s … us English sadly didn’t, always bemoaning our luck. Don’t forget how hard it was to qualify back in the day aswell!
Classic Matches,
Thanks for this programme from the 1974 World Cup. Good commentary from panel, not least in the novel phone-in section!
Your channel is a treasure trove and I have nothing to do with English or European Football!
I appreciate the quality of recording, preservation and upload.
Thanks a lot.
I was only 3 years old. My father saw the final in Munich. I am sure, it was a magical time in west Germany ❤
The best days of our lives, such great sporting personalities,great manners and etiquettes…
Brian clough, thank god for him
God... Thank Brian Clough for him.
He may not have been the best manager but he must have been in the top one 😅
Watching on my 50th birthday Aug 1, 2024. Just wanted to get a feel for the simplicity of the world during my birth year.
Brilliant Sergio. Thank you.💙⚽️🦊💙⚽️🦊
BRIAN CLOUGH IS AN ABSOLUTE LEGAND. HE HAS THE WIT OF A GREAT COMEDIAN
Brilliant. I remember watching this.
HUGH jOHNS WAS AN INCREDIBLE COMMENTATOR...#DriveOne
I got bobby moncours autograph when I was waiting outside the Lymm hotel, in the early seventies..a lot of teams used to stay there as it wasn't far from Manchester or Liverpool.. also managed to get the whole of the Brazil national team from 66
Kenny Dalglish played in the same World Cup as Beckanbauer and Cruyff.
Surreal.
Poland did pretty well in that WC. 3rd place.
Same in 1982. These days we're lame AF.
I think I'm right in saying Poland won the Olympics football in '72 but I think knocking out England (and avoiding defeat at Wembley- regarded then as as a very difficult place for any foreign team, even the very best, to play at) gave them a huge boost in confidence. If we can beat England, we need fear no one. Breitner actually thought Poland were the best team in '74 WC.
In 74 i was 11years. I like to watch it now , the decorations the hairs and clothes. They look very funny to me now 😊
What a superb player Lato was
05:30 The quality of the outdoor interview footage is amazing. 50 years ago and today's quality can't match it, even with HD technology.
I noticed Martin Tyler in the closing credits. He'd have been 29 years old.
Martin Tyler seems to have been commentating on football matches my entire life. Him and Keith Macklin.
"MAYBE Poland are SLIGHTLY better than we thought" 😆 "England would have played better than Poland and scored four" yeah, man, sure 😁😁😁
I think it was Poland which knocked England out of World Cup qualifying. Television highlights of the match had England attacking the Polish goal like all buggery, with the Poles doing myriads of freak deflections of all these England shots on goal.
@@jonglewongle3438 That's true but you still would have to consider that Poland easily won the reverse fixture.
I love footbal !!! From Rio de Janeiro - Brazil i am Braziliam . ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
We didn't know how fortunate we were. What an era!!! The golden age!!
Peter lorimat sure could hit a mean volley....
Lorimar...
Lorimer...
I would go back and relive that World Cup as a ten year old Scot in a heartbeat.
Obviously willing the Scots to win with what was actually a very talented team but also enjoyed the Brazilians and Dutch as my back up teams(although not against Scotland 😊)
Nostalgia at its finest.
Gotta love RUclips's algorithm,just what I needed world cup highlights from 49 years ago 😂😂
The panel are far better and more insightful than the inane chat we get today.
Not really (31:05)
And not a female in sight.
33.00 "Football is about opinions and every one has their own. Those whose opinions are right more often, succeed." Classic put down from Cloughie there.
This is Gold - Thank you 👍
Dino Zoff is remembered and talked about as a keeper of great longevity, it's a sure bet that David Harvey isn't, God bless him.
Harsh lol
@@cliff-nb6bm the best thing he ever did was take that punch from McQueen. apart from that he was bang average. compared to his peers Shilton, Clemence, Jennings etc
Records show Dave Harvey was voted keeper of the 74 WC tournament.
Playing for the great Leeds United team, Harvey was a champion and cup winner.
Always good to lay out the facts when debating lol.
@@davemilne4267 apart from the fact Sepp Maier was voted best keeper of FIFA WC 74 you are dead right. are you perhaps Mrs Harvey ?
Harvey was a great goalie and wonderful postman
I liked Gerd Muller so wanted West Germany to win the 74 World Cup at the time. Looking back now, I think it a great pity that Holland (Netherlands) didn't win this tournament.
Netherlands, by their own admission, having scored so early had a dilemma. Some players, notably Kruyff, wanted to humiliate West Germany, but others wanted to play the game properly. The Germans just played. Netherlands' perennial problem....arrogance.
@@stephenreeds3632he Dutch were a great team but very cynical. Rijsbergen in particular was one dirty bastard. Their constant deployment of the offside trap was very boring.
In those days because of Cruyff/Neeskens and "Total" Football,Holland were most England fans second team and I,desperately,wanted them to win.
Everyone in England hated West Germany. It was Holland all the way for us. The same in the 1978 World Cup. Johnny Rep was my favourite player in 74.
Can you imagine that Netherlands have lost 3 world cup finals ? 😢
Absolutely fantastic stuff 👋
Mad how old people looked back then. Tommy hutchison the Scott. 26 in this interview. Mother of god he looked in his 40s
Diet. And cigarettes. Cold weather.
Diet is worse now. There were no obese people in 1974. Now it's become epidemic.
people looked so from creation of the world. Until 21 century
Missed this on the account of being one day old. My dad probably watched it though.
Cloughie just brilliant.
My first World Cup as an 8 year old watching it all in black & white. SMH at Brian Clough having a dig at West Ham not knowing we are going to win the FA Cup at the end of the forthcoming 1974/75 season.
Brian Clough ❤
Wish this is available for everyday of the World Cup of 74 and 78
Great to see the young legend Cruyff interviewed!
I wasn’t born until 75, my Late Fathers favourite World Cup.
It was a great world cup arguably only surpassed by 1978...
Is crazy watching this, my Dad would have watched this as a 23 year old. My personal favourite it Mexico 86. Maradona was incredible.
@terryharrison5185 Apart from the match fixing of course 😂
Wie wunderschön!😊
RIVELLINO e Overath i migliori del 74
My favourites too! Left footed elegance. Superb playmakers.