My mother worked in the Rank Bush Murphy television factory in Plymouth. As a treat, I was allowed to watch the match on a colour tv in the factory. The tv was in an open office in the middle of the production line. Sometime during the match, something caused me to look behind me...there were the faces of some of the weekend production staff looking in through the window, watching the match too! I was 11 years old, and an Arsenal fan. Arsenal winning the Double, watching my first colour tv, and accompanied by a bag of popcorn and a bottle of coke ... life was good!!
Yeah you know it buddy, I was just 8 years old at the time of this fa cup final and has the players were coming onto the pitch I said in my head, whatever team wins this game I will support for the rest of my life, and that was the day I became a Arsenal fan, it was the first ever football game I ever watched from start to finish mate and what a great memory it is.
Ray Kennedy is now a Liverpool legend . He was Bill Shankleys last signing . Such a wonderfully elegant player. Bob paisley played him in a more attacking midfield role . A genius of a change which helped use all of Kennedy’s best attributes. He played a huge role in Liverpool’s dominance of Europe and domestically. One of my favourite all time Liverpool players. Unfortunately soon after retiring he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease . I hope LFC are financially helping with his treatment.
I was in the same team as Charlie when we played for Islington schoolboys , always knew he'd make it , also in the team was Mickey Droy who went on to play for Chelsea , great days , the best one being when we played Tottenham boys at the Highbury stadium , and walloped them
Classic. Goalies with no gloves. Players with no names or sponsors on their shirts. Photographers sitting 2 yards behind the goal line. You have to say we've really lost something now.
I think that things have been lost for sure. But I don't think any of those you've named has any real incident or importance. Except maybe for the sponsor on the t shirt.
We used to turn on the TV and the build up used to last all morning. It was an event. As a boy growing up in the 70s the FA Cup was THE football event of the year.
This was the first game of football I had ever watched. Living in Australia it was all Australian Rules, cricket and nothing else. I was 11 at the time, flicking the tv channels and came across this amazing game,I am 58 now and I have loved the round ball game ever since seeing this classic match on my parents massive black and white television. I agree that the game is not what it used to be, there is too much money and too many egos involved now, in 1971 it was about the love of the game and the jersey! The hi light of the week for me used to be watching the Big Match on the ABC with Brian Moore, I think it was Wednesday nights and we used to get the odd international match late at night. They do not call it the beautiful game for no reason, this classic cup final proves that expression in buckets! Pity it is still not played with the same passion.
Just something i've noticed .Charlie George and Ray Kennedy were 20 and 19 years old respectively . They seem far more mature and accomplished than modern English players of the same age .
As a Liverpool supporter aged ten I was gutted that we lost this cup final . However the standard of football was quite superb . Even as a supporter of the losing side this was a great final .
What a brilliant goal by Steve Heighway, 3 Arsenal players closing down on him and the goalkeeper to beat and leaves Bob Wilson on his arse with his clinical finish from the tightest of angles. Alas it was not to be. Even as losing finalists thousands turned out next day to welcome the team home at St Georges Hall. Shanks then gives his famous Chairman Mao speech to his adoring fans. Great memories.
Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson went on to present Football Focus. Liverpool number 6 Emlyn Hughes was a frequent guest. I remember watching one time when they showed Arsenal's equaliser. Bob Wilson asked Emlyn Hughes what he was appealing for with his hand raised in the air. Emlyn Hughes said "Anything."
I was 16 year old Liverpool fan at the time and watched this game with my Dad who was an Arsenal fan!! And I cried my eyes out after the final whistle!!!! My Dad took great delight in boasting of the win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is when it all began, my first football match watching it on tv, I was 8 at the time and I remember being shocked seeing arsenal play in yellow, I didn't know anything about away kits, I eventually became a qpr supporter when one of my friends dad took us to loftus road, qpr vs villa season 75/76.
I was 10 and watched the match on television. I was also the only Arsenal fan in my class at Walthamstow Junior School. There were quite a few after Arsenal won that final. I have very happy memories of those days.
We watched the match on Swedish tv (we could watch live ENG matches on Tipsextra when Brits themselves could not). Charlie G was our hero. Can't say I remember it like y/day but I surly remember his goal.
I was at The Ermirates a while ago with Eddie Kelly.He showed me a time capsual where some artifact relating to Arsenals history were stored.He told me that there was a lock of hair from Charlie George in it and Charlie wanted it back.😂😂😂
That was a very, very good Arsenal side. Back in the days when the First Division was really wide open - Liverpool, Arsenal, Leeds, Chelsea, Everton, Manchester City, Derby - any one of those teams could have (and did) win championships back then.
You only had to see the nets and you knew it was Wembley. Seeing a ball hitting the back of those nets was just so iconic. It was unique. Bring them back.
You forgot the whole period of our best tactician ever, George Graham.1986-1995. My god what did you do during this spell. The best ratio of trophy wins all time for the club.
@@johnrockyryan actually we will see if we beat united today. If yes and if arteta resplaces the keeper, sells zinchenko and eddie plus buys a proper centerforward we might be at the edge of something even better for next season. Bog big big ifs nevertheless.
I like the Stapleton / Brady / O Leary / Sunderland / Jennings / Rix era But then I'm not at all a Gooner - not in the slightest. More the (ahem) northern opposition
It’s hard to give an exact year, but to me the last cup final that actually felt like a cup final was 1992 or 1993. Once the PL got up to speed it seemed to lose its magic year on year.
I was only young but remember wanting Liverpool to win so badly against favourites Arsenal, gutted when they came back to win. Steve Highway was a class act
My first game I ever watched..Aged 6 on a Black n White TV...Just wandered into the front room and it was on. Mother in kitchen, Dad at work and older siblings out..I was hooked. The funny thing was for years after I thought Arsenal had Won 3-1 and Charlie George had scored twice. It must have been the replay.😂. Ahh well I was Only Six.
My dad died on 9the April that year, we would have watched this together, in colour, on our 18 inch Sony Trinitron That apart, Charlie Georges goal always comes to mind for that Cup Final..
Football was so much more beautiful those days - unlike today, shaven heads, tattoos, shoes of pink, green and red..... The game too seemed more sensible and players definitely more skillful. Modern football is just jazz and quite a load of rubbish!
I was there. If only Heighway had scored a few minutes earlier in normal time! It was my first cup final and I remember being amazed at just how many fans were getting in without tickets, and how easy it was. Behind the Liverpool goal I would guess as many fans got in without tickets as with.
Arsenal doing the double and also finally giving their captain Frank McClintock a cup winners medal and a win at Wembley. It was Kenneth Wolstenholmes last FA Cup Final as commentator for the BBC.(The 1971 European Cup Final at Wembley was his last ever game as BBC commentator) *Also this was the last FA Cup Final at Wembley without advertising signs around the perimeter. Advertising signs was first used at Wembley in 1972 during the League Cup and FA Cup Finals onwards. Etc
Football was huge back then. Apparently Arsenal have done the double another two times since then, but I can't remember anything about the other doubles, just this one. Someone told me the other day that Chelsea have done the double, no recollection of it at all.
97/98 and 01/02 were the other double seasons. Both these doubles happened in my supporting era so to speak, and as I have got older I've realised that the halcyon days are what you remember most of all, it's sadly all to easy to forget the rest.
@@peterpeter2198 The Liverpool double was really memorable too. In fact, such was their dominance it was something of a surprise it took them until 86 to do it, but I suppose they were distracted by winning European Cups and the like.
Not to be pedantic, but the date of this match was 8 May 1971, not 18 May. I was there, and still have the programme and ticket stub. It's a day that will live with me for ever.
Always liked Arsenal..but i watched this final and decided to follow Arsenal full time ...I was 16 and just left school...I was working so could afford to go to Highbury now and again ....would have liked to have gone more but didn't earn much..!!!!!
Watched on TV. This is the match thaat made me ARSENAL fan. Still I am although I can no longer be sure abt the team's roster (so many nationalities, so many changes). Glad however that Sokratis plays there.
This is the match which made me a Liverpool fan for life! Just think, that happened after they lost the FA Cup final! Charlie George became a comical villain since then (for as long as he played). Would call out people in his name whom I disliked....
One I remember, only as a boy. Charlie "shotgun" George ..... kick from far out, lying down in celebration. At a point where no goals were likely from either side. A terrific match.
5:00 - i seem to remember than a camera behind the goals later revealed that george graham didn't actually touch the ball (and the goal is now officially credited to eddie kelly who kicked it immediately before that) how was it corrected later since i can't find that other video? the above video does make it look like george graham touched the ball last (compounded by him celebrating like he had scored it!) and the david webb winning goal for chelsea in 1970 looks more like a terry cooper (leeds) own goal when you watch the video - but that wasn't corrected. there is some correcting process but it doesn't seem consistent.
ua-cam.com/video/dhTJUoKWJw0/v-deo.html Ignore what Brian Moore says, George Graham definitely touched the ball. The ball clearly changes speed when it passes Graham's foot and that could've only happened if he'd touched it. Changing the playback speed to 2.0 in the linked video(go to "settings" at the bottom right of the video) shows the touch more clearly. I've read an interview with George from about a couple of years ago where he still maintains that he got the final touch and I don't think he would've celebrated like that if he wasn't sure that he'd touched it. All video evidence I've seen backs up George Graham's claim that it was his goal.
i was asking because the above video seems conclusive that graham touched the ball last (as you say the ball speed changes) - but i knew that a camera behind the goals had somehow overturned that and i wondered how conclusive that video was. i think you are right, but it was changed from graham to kelly - based on that camera behind the goals - but i can see how that could look wrong. Wikipedia sources etc - "The goal is now most often attributed to Eddie Kelly after television replays suggested that Graham may have swung at the ball without connecting. But the video footage remains inconclusive and there remain those who argue the case on either side."
(Theres me thinking about what songs may have been sung back then & instantly 'Super super Bob.. super bobby Wilson' came to my mind as a good chant... just before he made an absolute clanger for their goal)
Arsenal's team after 72 broke up and they were very ordinary in the 70s. But compared to Spurs they were giants. The 1970s belonged to Leeds to start with, Derby, Ipswich but mostly Liverpool.
Great stuff . In the halcyon days of football where no pampered , over paid , over sensitive , over demanding , cheating mercenaries polluted our game . Add the ludicrous and game destroying VAR into the mix , and you get why the modern game saddens many football fans .
2:15 is exactly why u have to have a man back post at a corner.. U see goals go in there so often (But with this zonal marking B.S teams abandon it).. Ashely cole used to save countless goals for us.
Problem is, the more men you have at the posts, the more outnumbered you are everywhere else. It's not a coincidence that teams have moved on from putting a man on each post.
It was the 8th of may not the 18 th !! I should know it was the day I was born ,my dad was an arsenal supporter and named me after Charlie George who scored the winner !! ☹️
Charlie George doing a flip on the pitch after winning.. while every1 is running round mad (Tv will try to tell u that the magic of the cup is the same but its nowhere near)
@@blackmore4 Thats a certainty... What youre saying is what im spouting... (I was born in 93... but all the cup finals I witnessed were major events until CHELSKI 03/04 ... with th exception of the 05 UTD game. (ofcourse wigan showed there can be magic)
4:58 I find it really strange that Eddie Kelly rather than George Graham was credited with that goal in the end. I think you can clearly see the ball going into the net with more pace on it than it had when it left Kelly's boot and why would Graham celebrate like that if he didn't touch it? 5:21 There are actually people out there who say the replay shows it was Kelly's goal! Are they blind?
The replay from behind the goal, which is not shown here, clearly shows that Graham stepped over it and the last player to actually make contact with the ball was Kelly. I remember Brian Moore on the highlights show the next day pointing it out.
@@craiggerrard5117 I've seen that replay ua-cam.com/video/dhTJUoKWJw0/v-deo.html You can see there that the ball speeds up after Graham touched it. Changing the speed to 0:75 makes it clearer to see. There is no doubt in my mind that Graham got the last touch for three reasons: 1 - The ball changed speed after it past his foot. 2 - I don't think he would've celebrated like that if he didn't touch it. 3 - I don't think he would've said the following in 2018 if he didn't touch it: “Eddie Kelly has always claimed it but I still maintain I got the last touch”. Now you can question Graham's honesty and think he is the sort of bloke who would lie about touching the ball in 1971 and almost 50 years later too but you cannot dispute the fact that Kelly's shot was dribbling towards the goal at quite a slow speed before the ball gathered pace and went closer to the centre of the goal after Graham swung his foot at it. That could have only happened if Graham had touched it and I think he clearly did!
Its quite something when u see theyre all british players.. the same in 89.. Its good & bad its changed buts its amazing wenger doesnt get enough credit for revolutionising not just recruitment but the game as a whole.
I’m sure the referee was just relieved to have officiated, as the pinnacle of his career, at what was and still is one of the finest FAC finals ever. His body language would be frowned upon now but it was a different era then and a lot of things have improved. Having said that it wouldn’t be a surprise if he’d ended up with an honorary season ticket for life at the Arsenal.
@@steffanhoffmann8937 only Arsenal have never had the European Champions Cup six times of course. Hardly losers eh? One European Cup Winner's Cup hardly makes Arsenal all that dominant.
@@andrewphippsphillips1455 1989.....in your own backyard Scouse. Took you until recently to get over it. Unbeaten 2003/04 errrr.....Premier League is what counts. Luck sometimes works in Champions League which you've had at least three times out of six. Poor losers that's Liverpool.
The pace of that game was phenomenal. Even in extra time the flick pass from George to Radford who cuts outside then inside... Returns to George and its in the net.
My mother worked in the Rank Bush Murphy television factory in Plymouth. As a treat, I was allowed to watch the match on a colour tv in the factory. The tv was in an open office in the middle of the production line. Sometime during the match, something caused me to look behind me...there were the faces of some of the weekend production staff looking in through the window, watching the match too!
I was 11 years old, and an Arsenal fan. Arsenal winning the Double, watching my first colour tv, and accompanied by a bag of popcorn and a bottle of coke ... life was good!!
Лайк, хоть я большую часть не хрена не понял!
This remind than child, i have similiar remember than world cup' 98 and 2002, unforgattable
Lol magic. You wouldnt get that happening today.
Yeah you know it buddy, I was just 8 years old at the time of this fa cup final and has the players were coming onto the pitch I said in my head, whatever team wins this game I will support for the rest of my life, and that was the day I became a Arsenal fan, it was the first ever football game I ever watched from start to finish mate and what a great memory it is.
I was behind the goal when Charlie George scored! That memory has stayed with me all my life! COYG!
Me too ,I’ll never forget it
Still got the ticket.
Me too😊
I never tire of watching this Final. Football's golden age.
I was there ,my Dad took me ,still have the program ,I was 12!RIP Dad .
RIP to ur beloved father
A fantastic memory for you
Lucky you!! I was10 years old when I watched black and white tv.
Hi I was 11 and watched it on out black and white 25 inch PYE TV. A 25 inch TV then was almost unheard of.
Sorry for ur loss mate who did ur dad follow
Ray Kennedy is now a Liverpool legend . He was Bill Shankleys last signing . Such a wonderfully elegant player. Bob paisley played him in a more attacking midfield role . A genius of a change which helped use all of Kennedy’s best attributes. He played a huge role in Liverpool’s dominance of Europe and domestically. One of my favourite all time Liverpool players. Unfortunately soon after retiring he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease . I hope LFC are financially helping with his treatment.
I was in the same team as Charlie when we played for Islington schoolboys , always knew he'd make it , also in the team was Mickey Droy who went on to play for Chelsea , great days , the best one being when we played Tottenham boys at the Highbury stadium , and walloped them
Its great when you play with or against future big names .
Classic. Goalies with no gloves. Players with no names or sponsors on their shirts. Photographers sitting 2 yards behind the goal line. You have to say we've really lost something now.
I think that things have been lost for sure. But I don't think any of those you've named has any real incident or importance. Except maybe for the sponsor on the t shirt.
@@tomasgordillo Sometimes it is these minor things that makes you feel the atmosphere of those decades.
... and back pass to the goalie was still allowed.
Add no tattoos
No fake tans
No nancy boy hair cuts
No bleached hair
No prima donnas
@@CRyan71 what's wrong with any of those apart from prima donnas?
There was an atmosphere to the old cup finals we don"t have now.
We used to turn on the TV and the build up used to last all morning. It was an event. As a boy growing up in the 70s the FA Cup was THE football event of the year.
We don't have the same stadium.
Jusqu'à la fin des années 80 début 90, la cup était un objectif pour les clubs et les supporters.
Maintenant, seule compte la
ligue des Champions.
Yes it was an occasion.
This was the first game of football I had ever watched. Living in Australia it was all Australian Rules, cricket and nothing else. I was 11 at the time, flicking the tv channels and came across this amazing game,I am 58 now and I have loved the round ball game ever since seeing this classic match on my parents massive black and white television. I agree that the game is not what it used to be, there is too much money and too many egos involved now, in 1971 it was about the love of the game and the jersey! The hi light of the week for me used to be watching the Big Match on the ABC with Brian Moore, I think it was Wednesday nights and we used to get the odd international match late at night. They do not call it the beautiful game for no reason, this classic cup final proves that expression in buckets! Pity it is still not played with the same passion.
"the round ball game", lmao just call it football / soccer
me too cober first game i ever watch im 55years arsenal til i die ok will
Same.
THIS is my football highlights what I keep in Times of the pandamic, and I love this!!!
Those were the days - two great teams full of legendary players
So refreshing to see tackling in the box
And no one diving for sloppy easy penalties
Football was a great game then
@@dannywlm63 yep
Shite now
English football was always known to be more physical than other leagues around the world. :P
Just something i've noticed .Charlie George and Ray Kennedy were 20 and 19 years old respectively . They seem far more mature and accomplished than modern English players of the same age .
Those two Kennedy misses were terrible though. No accomplishment there at all.
Buffsbeard players these days a a lot more metrosexual.
Absolutely
@@blackmore4 thats a bit Unfair as nerves played a part
17 year old rooney, 18 year old owen, 19 year old rashford and 18 year old greenwood were all better than them.
The reaction of the referee after the final whistle is priceless!! Must have been an Arsenal fan!!
He was relieved tired
I was going to say... slightly unprofessional of him to celebrate.
As a Liverpool supporter aged ten I was gutted that we lost this cup final . However the standard of football was quite superb . Even as a supporter of the losing side this was a great final .
I was also a 10 year old reds fan ,I honestly still feel the pain of that charlie george winner
It was one of the most boring.
When FA cup finals were good
The last FA Cup Final that the great Kenneth Wolstenholme commentated on for the BBC.
What a brilliant goal by Steve Heighway, 3 Arsenal players closing down on him and the goalkeeper to beat and leaves Bob Wilson on his arse with his clinical finish from the tightest of angles. Alas it was not to be. Even as losing finalists thousands turned out next day to welcome the team home at St Georges Hall. Shanks then gives his famous Chairman Mao speech to his adoring fans. Great memories.
All those players in the penalty area and no-one thought to do a strategic dive !
No. Franny Lee played for Man City.
my favourite cup final goal,after Derek temples winner for us in 66,nice one Charlie.
Only decent pitch both teams played on all season,says something for the skill levels back then.Like to Messi play on the crap they had back then.
Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson went on to present Football Focus. Liverpool number 6 Emlyn Hughes was a frequent guest. I remember watching one time when they showed Arsenal's equaliser. Bob Wilson asked Emlyn Hughes what he was appealing for with his hand raised in the air. Emlyn Hughes said "Anything."
Ordinary reflex
I was 16 year old Liverpool fan at the time and watched this game with my Dad who was an Arsenal fan!! And I cried my eyes out after the final whistle!!!! My Dad took great delight in boasting of the win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nigel Timms now you're 61 years old sir?
I'm 62 now
Good old Dads, a slice of realism is what they are about ;)
All the best from munich! Always great games Liverpool ,Arsenal ,Totenham, Everton vs Bayer Munich! 🍻🍻🍻
this is when it all began, my first football match watching it on tv, I was 8 at the time and I remember being shocked seeing arsenal play in yellow, I didn't know anything about away kits, I eventually became a qpr supporter when one of my friends dad took us to loftus road, qpr vs villa season 75/76.
I was 10 and watched the match on television. I was also the only Arsenal fan in my class at Walthamstow Junior School. There were quite a few after Arsenal won that final. I have very happy memories of those days.
We watched the match on Swedish tv (we could watch live ENG matches on Tipsextra when Brits themselves could not). Charlie G was our hero. Can't say I remember it like y/day but I surly remember his goal.
It was my good fortune to be there that day…what a memory.
Love these kits! Classics.
Mientras pasa el corona virus y regrese el fútbol a mirar estos videos desde casa
Incredible quality of video ! It looks like in the 80's or 90's !
There are no insurance or airline logos on the shirts. I don't know who's who!
Liverpool are in the red
And Arsenal are in the yellow
I was at The Ermirates a while ago with Eddie Kelly.He showed me a time capsual where some artifact relating to Arsenals history were stored.He told me that there was a lock of hair from Charlie George in it and Charlie wanted it back.😂😂😂
Alan Clarke of Leeds took a clump of it in the following years Cup Final. 😂
This video has better quality than some 90's and 00's videos...
That was a very, very good Arsenal side. Back in the days when the First Division was really wide open - Liverpool, Arsenal, Leeds, Chelsea, Everton, Manchester City, Derby - any one of those teams could have (and did) win championships back then.
Chelsea didn't.
@@peterreid9769 Well, they are more in the "could have" category :-)
@@peterreid9769 chelsea came close and won it in 55, they had the most exciting team early 70s. So much swagger
@@Foul_Quince well there was a period around this time where 8 different teams won the league in 10 years. that's never going to happen again
@@HalStargazer Sadly, that's very true.
I always thought it was slower in the olden days, but this was fast and high quality passing, on the highlights at least.
jack reed
And with a harder ball
You only had to see the nets and you knew it was Wembley. Seeing a ball hitting the back of those nets was just so iconic. It was unique. Bring them back.
One of two matches that stick with me always from watching as a child, this and the Ajax v Panethonikos European Cup final also from Wembley stadium
One of the best Arsenal teams prior to Arsene Wenger's arrival.
You forgot the whole period of our best tactician ever, George Graham.1986-1995.
My god what did you do during this spell. The best ratio of trophy wins all time for the club.
@@jeannotschumacher1024 facts George Graham is understed asf best after Chapman of course Arsenals best manager imo
@@johnrockyryan 👍👍
@@johnrockyryan actually we will see if we beat united today. If yes and if arteta resplaces the keeper, sells zinchenko and eddie plus buys a proper centerforward we might be at the edge of something even better for next season.
Bog big big ifs nevertheless.
I like the Stapleton / Brady / O Leary / Sunderland / Jennings / Rix era
But then I'm not at all a Gooner - not in the slightest. More the (ahem) northern opposition
It’s hard to give an exact year, but to me the last cup final that actually felt like a cup final was 1992 or 1993. Once the PL got up to speed it seemed to lose its magic year on year.
I'd say the last "real" cup final was Spurs v Coventry
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I was only young but remember wanting Liverpool to win so badly against favourites Arsenal, gutted when they came back to win. Steve Highway was a class act
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I was 14 and watched this on tv with my girlfriend. She was a big Charlie George fan. Wonderful times.
My first game I ever watched..Aged 6 on a Black n White TV...Just wandered into the front room and it was on. Mother in kitchen, Dad at work and older siblings out..I was hooked. The funny thing was for years after I thought Arsenal had Won 3-1 and Charlie George had scored twice. It must have been the replay.😂. Ahh well I was Only Six.
Haha...love the ref at the end, a few secs after he blows the final whistle! :-D
Ken Wolstenholme's last ever FA Cup Final commentary ? He did it how it should be done !
My dad died on 9the April that year, we would have watched this together, in colour, on our 18 inch Sony Trinitron That apart, Charlie Georges goal always comes to mind for that Cup Final..
50 years ago, it is still a massive achievement!
This why I love Arsenal.I only wish to powers that be that have control of Arsenal now had the same passion.
Football was so much more beautiful those days - unlike today, shaven heads, tattoos, shoes of pink, green and red.....
The game too seemed more sensible and players definitely more skillful.
Modern football is just jazz and quite a load of rubbish!
painterbythesea but modern days have good tactics and better skills they are more clever
@@patriceikome1507 and extremely boring...
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I was there. If only Heighway had scored a few minutes earlier in normal time! It was my first cup final and I remember being amazed at just how many fans were getting in without tickets, and how easy it was. Behind the Liverpool goal I would guess as many fans got in without tickets as with.
The good old days when FA Cup Finals were so special and everybody looked forward to watching it even if it wasn't your team.
First ever cup final on tv that I saw in colour .. it was amazing ( spurs fan ) 😉
Arsenal doing the double and also finally giving their captain Frank McClintock a cup winners medal and a win at Wembley.
It was Kenneth Wolstenholmes last FA Cup Final as commentator for the BBC.(The 1971 European Cup Final at Wembley was his last ever game as BBC commentator)
*Also this was the last FA Cup Final at Wembley without advertising signs around the perimeter. Advertising signs was first used at Wembley in 1972 during the League Cup and FA Cup Finals onwards. Etc
It was 8th May - Charlie George broke my heart - to this day I remember this game on its anniversary...
KP
4:25. I think Heighway's goal was an unbelievable and incredible narrow goal. I think this goal is scoring so hard for a footballer.
i heard somewhere that he meant it as a cross but it went in.
Football was huge back then. Apparently Arsenal have done the double another two times since then, but I can't remember anything about the other doubles, just this one. Someone told me the other day that Chelsea have done the double, no recollection of it at all.
97/98 and 01/02 were the other double seasons. Both these doubles happened in my supporting era so to speak, and as I have got older I've realised that the halcyon days are what you remember most of all, it's sadly all to easy to forget the rest.
It mattered more back then. Moneys killed the FA Cup now with teams playing their reserve sides.
Chelsea won it with Ancelotti back in 09/10 i believe
also man u double in 94, 96, 99 (treble), liverpool 86.
@@peterpeter2198 The Liverpool double was really memorable too. In fact, such was their dominance it was something of a surprise it took them until 86 to do it, but I suppose they were distracted by winning European Cups and the like.
Great show at Wembley, legendary football!!
Not to be pedantic, but the date of this match was 8 May 1971, not 18 May. I was there, and still have the programme and ticket stub. It's a day that will live with me for ever.
Always liked Arsenal..but i watched this final and decided to follow Arsenal full time ...I was 16 and just left school...I was working so could afford to go to Highbury now and again ....would have liked to have gone more but didn't earn much..!!!!!
Watched on TV. This is the match thaat made me ARSENAL fan. Still I am although I can no longer be sure abt the team's roster (so many nationalities, so many changes). Glad however that Sokratis plays there.
This was the day I became an Arsenal supporter. My dad supported Liverpool.
This game was actually played on the 8th of May, not the 18th as stated here.
Me too, what a moment. I see George hit it, then the net bulged.
After WHL on the Monday, a hard act to follow. Lost my voice completely.
La différence de niveau entre ces 2 équipes et l'ajax à cette époque est
ahurissante !
The best day of my then young life. The whole of Highbury was red and white. Happy days...
This is the match which made me a Liverpool fan for life! Just think, that happened after they lost the FA Cup final! Charlie George became a comical villain since then (for as long as he played). Would call out people in his name whom I disliked....
One I remember, only as a boy. Charlie "shotgun" George ..... kick from far out, lying down in celebration. At a point where no goals were likely from either side. A terrific match.
5:00 - i seem to remember than a camera behind the goals later revealed that george graham didn't actually touch the ball (and the goal is now officially credited to eddie kelly who kicked it immediately before that)
how was it corrected later since i can't find that other video? the above video does make it look like george graham touched the ball last (compounded by him celebrating like he had scored it!)
and the david webb winning goal for chelsea in 1970 looks more like a terry cooper (leeds) own goal when you watch the video - but that wasn't corrected.
there is some correcting process but it doesn't seem consistent.
ua-cam.com/video/dhTJUoKWJw0/v-deo.html Ignore what Brian Moore says, George Graham definitely touched the ball.
The ball clearly changes speed when it passes Graham's foot and that could've only happened if he'd touched it.
Changing the playback speed to 2.0 in the linked video(go to "settings" at the bottom right of the video) shows the touch more clearly.
I've read an interview with George from about a couple of years ago where he still maintains that he got the final touch and I don't think he would've celebrated like that if he wasn't sure that he'd touched it.
All video evidence I've seen backs up George Graham's claim that it was his goal.
i was asking because the above video seems conclusive that graham touched the ball last (as you say the ball speed changes) - but i knew that a camera behind the goals had somehow overturned that and i wondered how conclusive that video was.
i think you are right, but it was changed from graham to kelly - based on that camera behind the goals - but i can see how that could look wrong.
Wikipedia sources etc - "The goal is now most often attributed to Eddie Kelly after television replays suggested that Graham may have swung at the ball without connecting. But the video footage remains inconclusive and there remain those who argue the case on either side."
Football strips looked much better back then. Much better cut (no excess bagginess) and none of that horrible shiny texture they have these days.
Oh how I miss this !
(Theres me thinking about what songs may have been sung back then & instantly 'Super super Bob.. super bobby Wilson' came to my mind as a good chant... just before he made an absolute clanger for their goal)
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spurs fan all my life .but arsenal in the seventies want a great team
Arsenal's team after 72 broke up and they were very ordinary in the 70s. But compared to Spurs they were giants. The 1970s belonged to Leeds to start with, Derby, Ipswich but mostly Liverpool.
Great stuff . In the halcyon days of football where no pampered , over paid , over sensitive , over demanding , cheating mercenaries polluted our game . Add the ludicrous and game destroying VAR into the mix , and you get why the modern game saddens many football fans .
I know Arsenal's equaliser was awarded to Eddie Kelly, but I'll always say George Graham got the touch!
Incredible how much more technical things are now.. we look like stoke.
Eddie Kelly told me he scored,not Graham.
2:15 is exactly why u have to have a man back post at a corner.. U see goals go in there so often (But with this zonal marking B.S teams abandon it).. Ashely cole used to save countless goals for us.
Problem is, the more men you have at the posts, the more outnumbered you are everywhere else. It's not a coincidence that teams have moved on from putting a man on each post.
For years now I've still not known who scored Arsenal's first goal, as sometimes it's listed as Eddie Kelly and at other times as George Graham.
It looks to me now though as if Graham does get the last touch.
Eddie Kelly.
George Graham's "intervention" effectively worked out as a dummy, as Clemence expected Graham to divert the ball a different direction.
@UncleMikeNJ True, that.
Watching the replays for me it's obvious that Graham gave the ball some extra speed and a slight change of direction.
I must've rewound that outrageous save @ 4:38 in 50 times.
How the hell did he stop that shot???
It was the 8th of may not the 18 th !! I should know it was the day I was born ,my dad was an arsenal supporter and named me after Charlie George who scored the winner !! ☹️
It was 8th may,not 18 this year.
Hmm... this cannot be Arsenal... Where's all the frenchmen?
Still being breastfed, or yet to be born!
@@Adam-pu6jg Damn right bro
Charlie George doing a flip on the pitch after winning.. while every1 is running round mad (Tv will try to tell u that the magic of the cup is the same but its nowhere near)
Does the FA cup not have as much kudos now? Back then I seem to remember it being as important as the league.
@@blackmore4 Thats a certainty... What youre saying is what im spouting... (I was born in 93... but all the cup finals I witnessed were major events until CHELSKI 03/04 ... with th exception of the 05 UTD game. (ofcourse wigan showed there can be magic)
4:58 I find it really strange that Eddie Kelly rather than George Graham was credited with that goal in the end. I think you can clearly see the ball going into the net with more pace on it than it had when it left Kelly's boot and why would Graham celebrate like that if he didn't touch it?
5:21 There are actually people out there who say the replay shows it was Kelly's goal! Are they blind?
The replay from behind the goal, which is not shown here, clearly shows that Graham stepped over it and the last player to actually make contact with the ball was Kelly. I remember Brian Moore on the highlights show the next day pointing it out.
@@craiggerrard5117 I've seen that replay ua-cam.com/video/dhTJUoKWJw0/v-deo.html
You can see there that the ball speeds up after Graham touched it. Changing the speed to 0:75 makes it clearer to see.
There is no doubt in my mind that Graham got the last touch for three reasons:
1 - The ball changed speed after it past his foot.
2 - I don't think he would've celebrated like that if he didn't touch it.
3 - I don't think he would've said the following in 2018 if he didn't touch it: “Eddie Kelly has always claimed it but I still maintain I got the last touch”.
Now you can question Graham's honesty and think he is the sort of bloke who would lie about touching the ball in 1971 and almost 50 years later too but you cannot dispute the fact that Kelly's shot was dribbling towards the goal at quite a slow speed before the ball gathered pace and went closer to the centre of the goal after Graham swung his foot at it. That could have only happened if Graham had touched it and I think he clearly did!
ua-cam.com/video/uwoI-ze66RQ/v-deo.html
Didn't George Graham take a bung one time? Honesty...just saying, like.
Its quite something when u see theyre all british players.. the same in 89.. Its good & bad its changed buts its amazing wenger doesnt get enough credit for revolutionising not just recruitment but the game as a whole.
Steve Heighway wasn't British.
The only FA cup final I’ve been to in 1971.
It's a shame but neither the club nor the players nor the original fans are the same nowadays. Been taken over. Such a shame
come here to see the inspiration for our kit next year
It was a hot day, and I wonder if Liverpool playing in those long sleeves might have made a tiny bit of difference.
Pretty sure those jerseys were cotton back then as well. Worst fabric for hot weather...
Emlyn Hughes always said they made a huge difference that day.
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At least those well cut cotton jerseys looked a help of a lot better than the current horrible shiny baggy designs covered in advertising.
Eso sí era fútbol inglés en esencia
Remember this as a kid. Charlie George lying down after his goal. It almost made every bloke copy his hairstyle.
See the ref celebrating at the end
LMAO
Always bad losers thats you guys
I’m sure the referee was just relieved to have officiated, as the pinnacle of his career, at what was and still is one of the finest FAC finals ever. His body language would be frowned upon now but it was a different era then and a lot of things have improved. Having said that it wouldn’t be a surprise if he’d ended up with an honorary season ticket for life at the Arsenal.
@@steffanhoffmann8937 only Arsenal have never had the European Champions Cup six times of course.
Hardly losers eh? One European Cup Winner's Cup hardly makes Arsenal all that dominant.
@@andrewphippsphillips1455 1989.....in your own backyard Scouse. Took you until recently to get over it. Unbeaten 2003/04 errrr.....Premier League is what counts. Luck sometimes works in Champions League which you've had at least three times out of six. Poor losers that's Liverpool.
The shirts are everything arsenal a cannon Liverpool a bird with a mini FA cup...plus numbers thats it take me back to these days
50 years ago today!
N.B. Get the date right!
Nearly 50 years on....
A fine blooper by Bob Wilson the Arsenal goalie
Nearly as bad as those two terrible Kennedy misses. But not quite.
The ref was totally knackered!!!
The pace of that game was phenomenal. Even in extra time the flick pass from George to Radford who cuts outside then inside... Returns to George and its in the net.
Before mo salah, we have steve heighway
Nearly 50 years ago crazy