The Dirtiest Game Ever? One of My Best Memories. The 1970 FA Cup Final and Replay + THAT Tackle !
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- Опубліковано 16 лют 2022
- I for one get sick of the haters saying that Chelsea had no history before Roman Abramovich.
Looking back, the 1970 FA Cup Final at Wembley and the Replay at Old Trafford, were two of the best memories, Chelsea Football Club have given me.
I decided to share a few highlights of both games and THAT Infamous tackle on Billy Bremner, by a certain Mr. McCreadie.
Was the replay the dirtiest game ever? I'll let you decide. No matter what your age or how many years you've supported the club, I hope this video gives you an insight into the past or brings back fond memories.
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Football was tough back then but players just got on with it and never rolled around on the floor like today. I played in a great Chelsea team which I will never forget and to win the FA CUP against a great team in Leeds was a special moment. John Dempsey Ex Chelsea Player
100% John.We were lucky to witness it.
@@chelseachat62 Glad that you witnessed it back then and gave you pleasure to see us win.
Great to hear from you. What was the feeling like to walk out at Wembley?
First game i remember has a kid loved Chelsea 2 great games the names from both teams still roll off the tongue some sadly no longer with us .Thanks John for the joy you and the other chelsea legends gave us back then
Remember it well. Still gives me goose bumps. Cracking video, well done.
Thanks David. Appreciated.
Fa Cup just not the same anymore. No replays anymore, both semi finals at Wembley definitely lost it’s magic, would love to go back to these old days
100%.
Me too but it's all about money nowadays. Corporate scum av taken over n ruined our game.
My mate and i went to every single match home and away, night and day both finals wembley and old Trafford that season bunking off school enjoyed every minute of it. So proud to have been there.
Great memories Ted. Thanks for sharing. I bet the cup was a great ending to a great season of following the blues.
John I still remember your goal in the Cup Winners Cup final in 1971. Absolute classic. Great days indeed.
Great posting. Peter Osgood the last player to score in every round of the cup. The goal in the final replay was fantastic, great work by Charlie C. Chelsea had a great team and in Dave Sexton a great manager. Thanks Again.
Thanks for watching and also for taking the time to share your memory. It's why I do these. Appreciated.
He's here, he's there, he's every frigginwhere, Charlie Cooke!
Glen I can remember as an eleven year old crying with joy when that final whistle went and chopper lifted the cup. There was only two of us in my year at school that wanted chelsea to beat dirty leeds. The other kid Terry was very asthmatic so they left him alone, the fights I got into and the beatings I got for supporting chelsea were bad but worth it. Up the Chels and KTBFFH
Both laughed and shook my head there Bob. I was the same, in tears. Shook my head at Terry being asthmatic. I bet he was putting it on, to let you get on with the fighting lol. Great memory mate. Thanks for sharing. UTC !
I was allowed to stay up as it was a school night to see my heroes win the replay but had to go to bed as soon as final whistle went. Never saw Chopper lift the Cup!
Great memories Simon and certainly a great day in the clubs history.
Two very good teams handicapped by that atrocious Wembley pitch. Heaven knows how they managed to play 120 minutes on that surface and produce a lot of good stuff.
100%
Yep. It was due to the terrible weather plus an earlier than usual final date of April 10th. They covered the pitch with sand due to the weather. Nothing to do with horses as some think.
Wembley pitch was awful, but how Leeds didn’t win that first match I’ll never know. The amount of times they hit the woodwork, and that awful error by Sprake. Second match at Old Trafford McCready should’ve been sent off, that was assault lol. Charlton should also have gone for an early bath. Brutal game but I’d happily go back to them old days, the game has become a bit Namby pamby now
I went to both games as a 15 year old ,, wonderful times
I'm jealous Stephen. I only went to the Replay. In my head like yesterday
Just an epic cup final ! these two teams were a good match , in terms of effort, skill, and all round entertainment, But being a young Leeds fan back in 1970. the result was not what I wanted , But we came back in 72 and finally won the FA cup for the very first time.
Yes Leeds had some back then. Revie could certainly fire them up. I got to go to the replay and as a young Chelsea fan, it'll stay with me forever.Thanks for giving a Leeds perspective Rob.Appreciated.
@@chelseachat62 Likewise ! two great teams, and you got the result for your team, well done !
I had the programme signed by Revie and Sexton plus all the players…sold it in 79 £5.. FIVE BLOODY QUID… a regret that I sold it, wonder what it would bring now and where is it now?😮
A lot more than a fiver ! I got a letter back from Don Revie after they won the cup, signed by him, but probably came from his secretary, But I was chuffed to bits to get that letter, I wasn't expecting to get a reply. I lost it many years ago, Unfortunately,@@timmyhamilton56
I am not a Leeds or Chelsea fan but this is the cup final that stands out in my memory, it had everything, it was nail biting, exciting, physical but some great football played by both sides. A pity that there had to be a loser..
I've just watched the full match of the replay. They never stopped running the whole game until they all seemed to get cramp late in extra time.
100%. Made of sterner stuff in those days and that was probably on a fish and chip and Guinness diet ! 🤣
Thanks Glen. After all these years still punching the air as we scored and moved with every tackle as if it was now. Hope you're all well up there after the storms mate.
All good after the storms mate. The Isle of Wight got it bad, but the family all ticketyboo, I'm glad to report. Yes, I watched the two games the other day. Big smile on my face remembering those two days and thought, sod it, I'll share the highlights on the channel. All the best to you and yours mate. UTC !
@@Glenfunnyman Cheers. I've family and friends on the Island - been keeping in touch. Married a lass from Ventnor. Pleased your family are all OK. Gotta watch out for each other matey. Stay safe and Stay True to the Blue.
I Remember this ,Leeds had a great team ….it was a football match for men …..I still remember this and I still hurts ……..
Gary Sprake always looked like he ended up in goal because no one else wanted to.
LOL. Brilliant.
Docherty started it with the League Cup in 66, playing in Europe (Inter Cities Fairs Cup), and don't forget the European Cup Winners Cup 71, and The League Cup 72 (that we should have one). What other teams did three finals in consecutive years? None in the Seventies. I wonder how different things might have been, had Sexton gone two years earlier, or if McCreadie had not resigned as manager. Ce la vie.
100% Stevie, we sometimes forget of the team building that went on in those days.Yes the Managers can sure make a difference to history.
indeed - shame McCreadie resigned - had built a good young team - a great what if. And never figured why Weller left Chelsea, was a very good player. And great pity John Neal didnt stop smoking, built a good team.....
Any Leeds fan old enough will tell you a game at Goodison was far more brutal in 68 (I think).
Fixture pile up caught up with Leeds making them the nearly team again.
Greatest memories, first time I'd been that far north at 13!....trouble with this recording is crowd sounds are all wrong.
Agree Tony. I'd only been out of London to Herne Bay before ! I still remember my Grandad taking me, like it was yesterday.
I remember watching it on granddad’s colour TV - almost my first experience of colour telly. I can’t remember it being particularly dirty- most games were really physical. One thing I do remember was the high quality of the live picture- noticing that Charlton was balding, for example. But what really showed up was the dreadful quality of the pitch. Wembley hosted the Horse of the Year show and the Final was earlier than usual because of the World Cup. It was incredibly bad - hardly green - and I think that explains Charlton’s goal as the bounce deceived the Chelsea defenders
Some great points. Yes I think the terrible state of the pitch gets forgotten and maybe you're right about Charlton's goal. I hadn't thought of that.
@@chelseachat62 Yes. In that era, the League Cup Final was played at Wembley in March and the pitch was usually a mudbath at the end (look at the pictures of Arsenal vs Swindon, for example). But the Leeds-Chelsea final STARTED as a mudbath (or sand bath, more accurately)
Loved it. As a Brentford fan I wanted Chelsea to win it for London. Was the first FA Cup final I saw in colour, travelled up from Pompey to London to see it on a colour tele!
Had to make do with watching replay on black and white at home, allowed to stay up late to do so.
I am confused though. The highlights are BBC but Brian Moore is commentator and he was ITV. The crowd are also singing "here we go" which no one sang back then. What's going on? :o)
Great memories Mark. Also great points about Brian Moore. I hadn't noticed that, but you're right. No idea, same with the song. Can't remember when I first heard that. Anyway, good luck to Pompey next season and thanks for watching and taking the time to share your memories. Appreciated.
@@chelseachat62 Good luck to Pompey but I'm a life long bees fan just down the road from your lot. :)
Back in the day there was only one Live broadcast feed in the Uk, both shared by BBC and ITV. The only difference was the commentators. Ken wholstenhome for BBC and Brian Moore for ITV.
Briiliiant Mate.I was 11 and my wee brother 10. Fitba and Rangers mad.The FA cup was a huge deal for us in Glasgow/Scotland. A week after the game my Ma gmade us a "Chelsea Strip". Homemade numbers sewed on with bit of white schmatta. I was 7 Charlie Cook and my bree was 11 Hutchison. I know he wasn't 11 but for some reason we tought he was.
Charlie Cooke the ladies man
Leeds United was the first side in UK football to have every single player as an International.
They were the first side in English football to compete for the "Treble" as we know it today...
The English League Championship, The FA CUP, and the European Cup (*Or Champions League as we know it today).
The FA refused to put back some of the Leeds United FIXTURES as their games against Manchester United in the FA CUP SEMI-FINALS- GOT REPLYED 3 X TIMES.
Eventually Leeds United beat Manchester United in the FA CUP Semi Final in 1970 1 v O.
Leeds then had to play Celic (In the European Cup SEMI FIANL AND THEN DIRECTLY AFTER - A NUMBER OF LEAGUE GAMES - TO TRY AND WIN THE "TREBLE" with a SQUAD OF JUST 14 X PLAYERS. AND WITH ONLY 1 X SUBSTITUTE PER GAME...
Not like today - where you have a squad of 25 players plus 5 x substitutes per game...
Then Sir Alf Ramsey in the same year named 7 x players from the 1970s Leeds United to represent England in their defense of the World Cup in 1970...
53 X YEARS HAVE PASSED AND MOST PEOPLE IN ENGLAND CAN STILL NAME EVERY SINGLE PLAYER FROM THAT 1970S LEEDS UNITED SIDE......
The ball was so heavy they had to lump it up the pitch didn’t they
What happened to the famous Wembley turf?
This final was played on the 11th april.
Appaling pitch at Wembley.
Original commentary and crowd sounds from the replay have been lost.
1970 World Cup Jairzhino scored in every round Just like the late Mr Osgood.
Agree on all. Shame the original sound recording is lost. I went up with my Grandad. It was a surprise. Still so clear in my memory.
@@chelseachat62 Good news, I'd forgotten there are still some short BBC highlights available on YT from a few years ago with the original Kenneth Wolstenholme commentary.
not a black in sight ! brilliant
The replay has BBC pictures itv commentary with fake background noise, still great games though
Pitch looks in good shape 🙄🙄
Was at this game queued for tickets at the Bridge and saw a memorable win. Modern day referee watched footage and said if played today 17 yellow cards and 6 red. Don't think there was one card in game
That was becuase Football was a mans game then, now it's played by overpayed pansies!
THere was one at least - shown here. Peter Osgood
That year they used Wembley for the horse of the year show then, not long after, played the cup final. Probably the worst pitch of any cup final.
No, it was just bad weather. No horse show that year.
Just how underrated was that Chelsea side? 3rd in the league and in an FA Cup final and the commentator says "Two of the greatest sides in modern British football." There were great performances all around with Hutchinson, Webb, Harris, Hollins, Osgood and Bonetti being our standouts, with the latter being my Chelsea MOTM.
I don't really remember much about the games but I do remember the beatings in the school playground for not wanting Leeds to win!
The fitness levels and the style of play may have changed but we can still safely say of Chelsea they are one "of the greatest sides in British football." Thanks for posting Glen, Chelsea forever and KTBFFH mate!
I loved this Chelsea team. Eddie McCreadie was my hero. That’s when every English team had Scottish players. Happy days.
Two top teams real players who were tough solid and In the game for honours ,they didn't earn much ,look at the ground? Mud and muck, the players tops booths manky ,Not ONE premier league player would last a month ,today the game changed for the worse, Big money ruining it ,Back In the 60'70's80's it was harder and tougher ,I Mean Imagine Neymar going up against Liverpool's Tommy Smith? He'd feint and If he took a dive Tommy would have dragged him up and planted his prints to the pitch, same with Chopper Harris , Norman "Bite your legs" Hunter, and a few more
doesn,t say much for english journos if they voted a Dirty Leeds player P.O.T,Y then. or Alf Ramsey giving preference to a Leeds player in his WC final team over Labone .
Leeds should have won that first round … MOT!!
Can't beat it(pardon the pun)
Dear me what would Pep and Klopp do - just one sub allowed!!😂😂
Top 6 finishes every year since 96 97 before Roman came anywere near. 2 FA Cups,1 League Cup, 1 Cup Winners Cup. Someones talking bolox again!. As for dirty Leeds, Revie trying to bribe everyone with Bremner by his side isnt enough? Then when Leeds played Bayern in that semi they cried like babies!. Hypocrites,i hate em.
No sitting on the fence there mate.🤣 and you're bang on about us having a very decent side, even before Roman arrived. I remember having a tear in my ear watching Gullet running down the wing for us, after so many years of watching hard working teams, but not very often, sides that could compete at the top level week in and week out, in the league.
@@chelseachat62 mmmm i remember Pat Nevin missing a soft penalty at Grimsby 83 84 but we won anyway thank god. Nevin could not take a penalty. Good winger though. Oldschool winger like Eddie Gray, not like today.
I seem to remember you either supported Leeds or hated them in those days.
@@russellbishop5995 I agreee bud. Dirty Leeds they was called. Revie was a briber, both him and Billy Bremner often used to bribe opponents. They shouldnt have had to do that if they was such a good team.
@@andisadler2897 Agreed. My favourite story was from the mid-nineties, so over twenty years since Revie. I had an exploratory operation and the consultant, a predictably well-spoken, highly cultured and intelligent man, declared himself a lifelong Chelsea supporter, that after I slipped it into the conversation that I was once scouted by Palace. (I failed the trial) After much deliberation, he looked at me over his glasses and said' ' I f***ing hate Leeds!' Which I thought was funny.
Chelsea were worse. Leeds should have won
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Yeah, but Revie wouldn't give the ref any more than the five shillings he usually bought refs with..
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Watching both games Leeds were the better side .Mcreadie and Webb were totally out of their depth in my opinion . Leeds destroyed Chelsea in the league that year also . Charlie Cooke and Peter Osgood were excellent in both games . Leeds won easily on points but obviously not goals .
All about opinions. I guess it's what the record book shows that counts. Respect yours though Jon and Leeds did have cracking wingers. A top team full stop.
Leeds beat Chelsea twice in the league that season. The only two games that Bonneti didn't play in!