Im a neutral and i get goosebumps watching these matches still all these years later and the best thing about this era and these footballers is everyone remembers them and most are total legends.. Cant say that for todays players they are instantly forgettable.... Clemence neal souness dalglish mcdermot hansen etc etc etc...greenhoff bailey macari mcqueen jordan coppel we all know who they are even now 40 odd years later... Awesome days
I’m not a neutral and get goosebumps every time I see the Jimmy Greenhoff header followed by the emotional celebration. I was in the Ramsbottom youth club bogs as an 11 year old listening to it with a load of mates. What a night. Shame about the final but even that was one of the best finals I’ve seen, even if Arsenal did win!!!
Mixed memories with this one. I was a 19 year old huge Liverpool fan and seen them several times in the 78-79 season. My mates brother worked in a pub called “The Dart Inn” owned by Kenny Dalglish’s father in law. He arranged for my mate George and me to meet Dalglish at the holiday Inn in Liverpool to pick up the tickets for the replay at Goodison. We got to the hotel and saw the team in the foyer. Dalglish was like God to me but I couldn’t bring myself to go in with George to get the tickets ( regret to this day) Upshot of course we were beaten by Greenhoff’s goal. To get home we were going by train and had to change at Wigan station Me and him sat in a carriage surrounded by Man U fans and us trying to sing United songs and look happy. Absolutely shiting ourselves cos we thought they were gonnae find our Liverpool scarves. Got home in one piece. Happy days.
Great story mate, love it. Thanks for sharing. "Me and him sat in a carriage surrounded by Man U fans and us trying to sing United songs and look happy. Absolutely shiting ourselves.... ". 😂 Those were the days!
Probably my favourite Utd memory of all time. Had gone to the first game but dad wouldn't let me go on the Weds given I was only 13 (just as well I suppose cos I believe it was mayhem). No one gave us a chance in the replay and listened to the game on Radio 2 - when we scored people from a dozen houses in our Salford street ran out to celebrate - just not the same anymore.
I was 8 years old when this replay was played, we knew the highlights were going to be on Sportsnight and we didn't know the result. Because it was Liverpool playing my Dad let me stay up and watch. I wasn't aware of the Liverpool and Man Utd rivalry before this game but watching the match I Instinctively knew that when these two play it matters more than any other encounter. The passion from the players, the atmosphere in the stand, even watching it on TV you felt that instantly. Gutted when Jimmy Greenhoff got the winner, I think it was the only time I was reduced to tears at the end of a game of football, but I knew at that point there was no bigger encounter than Liverpool v Man Utd.
I was at both games, 16 years old, Dad and brother dropped me off as they did not have tickets. Walked around ground trying to find turnstile gate. Asked copper who sent me to the Liverpool end, got kicked and punched a few times, had Utd scarf on. Took it off after Greenhoff scored and walked 3 miles to Dads car shitting myself. Happy days.
I remember watching this on Sportsnight aged 9 with my older brothers. This was proper FA cup football. No Wembley semi final, no penalty shootouts, John Motson commentary, replays forever. My love for United was sealed after this win.
Having the FA Cup semis at Wembley all started in 1993 when the two Sheffield clubs made it to the semi's, along with Spurs and Arsenal. It was meant to be a 'one off' occasion not to be repeated in future seasons; but it proved such a popular move that the FA decided to keep it like this......and it's been like this ever since. Apart from when Wembley was out of action (between 01 and 06).
@@simonwilliams6595 It proved popular with the supporters of all four of these clubs - that's why the FA decided to stick with using Wembley for the semi finals aswell for thereafter, rather than the 'one off' double event it was supposed to be back in 1993.
Wonderful memories. I was 9 and in bed for school, my Dad came in and told me the result. I thought we were dead after the 2 2 draw. I had the home and away kits then too, still my favourite MU kit ever 79 and 80. I quite liked chasing Liverpool in the 70s and 80s, always BIG games in which we excelled.
I was thirteen years old, on a school trip, away from home for a week. Listened to this on the radio on the Tuesday night with three other class mates and we all went ballistic when Greenhoff scored. The great days of English football.
Supported United since 1968...George Best is my all time hero, yet, this goal by Jimmy is my favourite of all time. The occasion, the opposition and his celebration - truly magical.
I miss the commentary from the 70’s & 80’s. No snide digs heaping on the pressure of managers, no opinions just genuine excitement and in the moment and even more importantly drowned out by the crowd.
I’ve held a season ticket from 1977 to now and still have never celebrated since like I did when Greenhoff scored that goal at Goodison. I watched the match on VHS when I got home after a very lively time outside after the match between both sets of fans. What amazing commentary, the master craftsman…. I met Jimmy Greenhoff twenty years later, he was a sales rep for a wallpaper company. If he played today he’d be earning millions.
We were all banned by my dad from listening to the radio commentary, as he was very superstitious and that by watching the highlights on yhe telly later on, Liverpool were bound to win. But of course, that meant not knowing the score of the live match. I couldnt resist and i turned on the radio gram, keeping the volume really low...just as jimmy Greenhoff scored that goal...i was only 11 at the time, but for years, i was made to feel that my actions caused us to lose this match!
Liverpool 'taches future managers shortie shorts... ahhhh.... even I fancied myself a weekend player then. I supported United since i was six in 1966 (Denis law my all-ptime hero) and this is a priceless time capsule for me.
went to the 1st one stood in the kippax ...dad never took me to this one ..I listened on the radio....brings tears to my eyes ...amazing ....ps. I was only 9 haha .....still pull my pa about taking me home and away in the 70s haha.....days I will never forget
Sorry John l loved Bob as well,he was the best of the bad,very bad bunch we had,he was a decent player who did his job as our no 9,something dcl cannot do! but greenhoff was class.
I went to both games and the replay was even more intense than the first game. To be honest, I thought we'd blown it after the draw at Maine Road but the lads showed tremendous fight that night at Goodison. It was the cup and anything can happen in a one-off game but Liverpool were a different side in the league and the name 'machine' was well-deserved. They were relentless, which was something United and other teams failed to get to grips with. Still, I remember Mickey T's cross and Jimmy Greenhoff's header flying into the net with fondness some 38 years later.
i wish they had not sacked docherty,the whole history of english football would have changed,i genuinly believe they would have broken liverpools future dominance.
As dominant as Liverpool were in that period, United were always able to pull out that something extra in tight matches against Liverpool. Curiously during the early 2000s when United were dominant, I recall Liverpool scoring a succession of victories at Old Trafford.
@@rum111I'm a United supporter and beg to disagree. The Doc's helter-skelter all out attacking football was exciting to watch but he's was in the Big Ron mould as a manager, would win the odd FA Cup with a favourable draw but not a league winning manager. Liverpool had great players and teams then (I envied them), their football was more measured and sophisticated ,that's why they lapped up the trophies. Doc or no Doc at OT Liverpool would still have been the top club then.
Me too - United fan, but Liverpool ruled Europe. We always stopped them doing the double or treble though, especially in 1977!!! Those were the days when you’d follow the English teams in Europe in a healthy manner - like Forest, Liverpool and Villa, obviously not United, and you’d want them to win. I know I did.
And vs. Derby at Hillsborough in 1976 down both to the result and the fantastic United support (check the game out on UA-cam). 77 vs. Leeds at the same venue wasn't bad either.
Ahhh......yes..... the good-old days of English Football, when players played for "The Crest On Their Chest", no names on their backs, no shirt sponsors, and sometimes they wore different numbers in successive matches (a player might wear #10 in a match, the next match that same player might wear #11 or #9) and nobody ever complained about how much $$$ they made in a season. As an American (California-born in 1966 and raised, and now living in Port Townsend, Washington since 1987, and I support Arsenal) my first exposure to the English game came in 1977 through "Star Soccer" on certain PBS stations (like KCET channel 28 in my old turf in Los Angeles) with the late Mario Machado calling the action in the old Football League Division One/First Division in a one-hour capsulized form on Saturday afternoons. Nowadays, you look at tickets that are higher priced than some workers' paychecks, the average fan is now relegated to catching the match on TV or on the radio (or worse through a sketchy illegal stream with malware/ransomware/viruses in it) rather than being at the match itself, football is now a business involving MILLIONS of pounds/euros/dollars in transfer fees, especially during the open transfer windows in August and January, and unfortunately now most of us common folk (like myself) can't afford to go see our heroes on the pitch where it was the most electric of atmospheres in which you can never replicate on TV, even with all the video technology in the world.
Ugh! Arsenal. I remember the final of '79. After this game, United played Arsenal in the final. It was United's third final in four years. The 1977 final is the first match I remember watching. I was 7 at the time. Nine-year-old me went through hell during the 1979 final. I was staying at my uncle's, like I had done for most weekends for a couple of years since my aunt died around '75/'76. We'd built a goal in his back garden out of chicken wire and 2 x 4. With Arsenal 2-0 up with 10 minutes left, I decided to go outside for a dejected kickabout. Then he came to the back door and called me to say that United had scored. So I ran back in for the replay. But, thinking United were still dead and buried, I went back outside. He called me over almost immediately to say that United had scored again! I ran back in and decided to stay to watch the last couple of minutes. Then came Arsenal's last attack of the 90 minutes. A run down the left, the ball floated over Bailey and at the back post came Alan fucking Sunderland. I've never forgotten it. Three goals in the last four minutes. Fuck Arsenal. :'D
@@SMSJSC Looking back at it now that I am 56 as opposed to the football-naive 11-year-old kid who cheered on the L.A. Aztecs in 1977-78 and also watching KCET (ch. 28, Los Angeles) televising English matches and KWHY (ch. 22, Los Angeles) doing Bundesliga matches as well in capsulized form, they both made the NASL look like child's play, the more aggressive, more physical play over in Europe was far more entertaining than what we had here in the States at that time. So yes I agree with you. MLS > NASL ....and that is just comparing the two different top flight leagues from two different generations here in America, however anything over in Europe will always be so much better.
Yes well said Kevin. He wasn't a nasty bigot like many of that ilk were/are. Keegan, Heighway and even Phil Thompson ( aka Big Nose) were also decent blokes. RIP Ray !!
My Dad went to both games. Said he went mad when Jimmy G scored!! Like every other United fan!! I was born 2 days before the cup final, which he was happy about as he was able to go!!
Never mind Ferguson and all his trophies. This is what you want. Best Utd goal in the best kit we’ve ever had in the best fixture there is, a semi final replay on a Wednesday night beating superior opposition.
The fierce, frenzy, almost hysteric support for ManU never recovered after Tommy Doc. 1974-77 was the best ever era for fans of United. What ever we think about hooliganism one thing is sure - it was exaggerated by media and Tory wanted to make fans just bunch of sheeps. They did it and now real football culture is death.
@@moreblack He's not talking about a winning team. He's referring to the support that followed United. Yes United sell out everywhere they go and the away support is still without equal anywhere in the world but back then the home support was also brilliant. Sadly like ALL the top clubs, home support is generally poor. Not as poor as clubs like Arsenal and liVARpool but still poor!!!
The Atkinson era always looks like it was a pretty good time to support United - crazy intense atmospheres and thrilling attacking players. I accept the Docherty era was better (everyone seems to agree on that), but 81-86 (roughly) also up there?
@@KryptonitetoallBS Yep; I went mostly 74-92 and I wouldn't swap my years for his (93-13) - as a fan. Yes was great to get the trophies but strongly suspect if anyone 'prefers' the latter it's because they didn't experience the former! All that said, I think 74-92 would have been even better with a couple of League trophies thrown in!
English football's two greatest ever clubs, most successful ever clubs with a glorious history built from the ground up and with a begrudging admiration and respect for each other hidden behind a veil of intense hatred and rivalry. Not like those other 'johnny come lately's' who have a bottomless oil well to feed off!!!! Ahem..!!!
Bound to be. The Man Utd v LFC semi final in 1985 & Goodison was apparently naughty. As to was the replay a week or so later @ Maine Rd. My mates dad (Man Utd fan from Salford) went to both of them - AFC fan.
United didn't want to know befor the game I was outside watching the Liverpool firm sitting off in Stanley park also massive mobs in the side streets whrn the word went about that they're where being escorted from where the coaches park also the escort buses from lime street station, as the escort came around the park about 800 United, Liverpool came out from the park and up the side street of the blue house boozer seem like 1000s I was about 15 then being amongst this firm was scarey as I seen
@@JanMan-qk4ic Boro, Everton, United, Millwall and even Wrexham had firms but I never heard of a firm from Liverpool, apart from the 12-18 year olds who were called the Urchins I think.
Both teams wearing away colours sounds fair idea. These teams played in semi finals again in 1985 same neutral venues. Initially was at Goodison Park ended 2-2 Utd in Red & Liverpool in yellow. In replay at Maine Road Liverpool wore red and Utd in white shirts black shorts
Agree, the colour red means so much to both clubs that in a "neutral"/one-off game it might seem unfair to give one of them the psychological edge. In cup games between the two, the only ties I can think of that were won by a team not wearing red were the Charity Shield in 1983 and the Cup semi-final in 1985. Every other time, red won (or didn't lose).
I was at this game, Great support from the biggest supported club in the Land, Man United! What I would say is both United and Liverpool have loads of glory hunters, thats why millions of people outside their respective City's support them. Whos the Best? Well I'd say United of course More league titles and the "impossible treble" Also the team that paved the way in the European cup when no other club wanted a part in it.
@@SMSJSC I think the clubs were interested in playing in Europe - it was the FA that didn't like the idea. (Also, at the start, there was only one competition and only one club (the champions) could play in it. "Playing in Europe" wasn't the massive, routine phenomenon it became later on.)
Greenhoff got that header because if you look at Hansen, he has moved out in anticipation of McIlroy running into the box. If Emlyn Hughes at left back was where he was supposed to be, then he would have moved inside to cover for Hansen. Hughes is 30 yards upfield with Coppell. I reckon Hughes was blamed for the goal because he never played for Liverpool again
I think the chance was really set up by the United forward (Jordan?) who beat the Liverpool No2 in the air to head down to Micky Thomas to make the cross. But yes, Liverpool's defence was lacking there.
I would also say The United way is to entertain and not win at all costs, that is why despite United being shit in the 70s and 80s that we still had the best support. Glory hunters my fucking ring piece. As for anyone spouting shite about people dying in disasters then let me tell you that Sir Matt Busby played for Liverpool and teenage Girls from Kent died at Hillsborough, not scousers, If you mock these disasters then you've got no place in society. Its not brave to post under an anon name
The myth factory never...stops - the reason Utd sound loud is you had the BULLENS ROAD!!! that's where the cameras are and MICROPHONES!!!! you got slaughted outside.
A lot is made of Marco Tardelli's face during his goal celebration after scroing in the World Cup Final against West Germany in 1982....... ......But you just know Tardelli was watching Jimmy Grreenhoff scoring 'that wimnner' 3 years earlier :)
...here we go again. You probably loved English football in second half of the 80's when it was total s***e. Think how much duller English football would have been had the likes of Cantona, Bergkamp, Henry, Zola, and Ronaldo not come over here? Your argument holds no water. I'd take these players over most of their English counterparts any day.
😂. My aunt bought me it. Even though I was a Celtic fan in Glasgow I also had a Leeds kit. A Notts forest away kit. Back then we didn't stay loyal to English teams. We saw them on tv and changed every year. I even had a Chelsea top and Osgood and cooke were brill.
I got a number 5 Ray Kennedy Liverpool kit for Christmas 1980 from JJB Sports in Wigan. I remember being slightly disappointed it wasn't Kenny Dalglish. Used to wear it on the top field as I dazzled the locals with my mesmerising skills.
I fully agree as we unfortunately live in the modern world full of trolls wokeys snow flakes ultra lefties curtain twitchers and sad people who are soft in the head who lack general toughness and who live a miserable life being passive aggressive hey
see Andy Ritchie trying to come on as sub ? do you remember he scored a hat-trick against Leeds the previous week and was very unlucky not to play in the semi ....
One thing I do remember about United in those days, and that in both the finals that we played in 76 vs Southampton and the arsenal in 79 both opponents wore yellow and United lost, but when we played Liverpool in the semi-final wearing white against liverpool wearing yellow we WON...just a thought....what would've happened if we played in the 79 final wearing white.....
I'll never understand why Liverpool would replace such a great (and reliable!) goalie as Clemence with that clown, Grobbelaar... Although, we didn't complain when he gave our Widzew a free pass to the semis in 1983... ;)
@@SMSJSC widzew Lodz.Knocked Liverpool out of the European cup thanks to a dodgy Brucie performance.Although widzew were a tidy side and played very well at Anfield. Recently visited Lodz, reminded me of Liverpool in the 80's.No offence meant by this,the people were very similar aswell.Great hospitality,loved the place.
@@carlito571 Grobelaar could pull off some spectacular saves but on the whole, Clemence was a more reliable 'keeper. Mind you, Grobelaar stayed at Anfield for 10 years, and they weren't exactly short of trophies over that time...
Clemence states in interviews he wanted to leave after feeling it was just another day at the office with the win in Paris v Real Madrid to lift the European Cup but Phil Thompson seems to recall he wanted out as he heard Grobelaar was going to be number one. Both great keepers and gentlemen
Always preferred him to Shilton and should have won more England caps for me. Commanded his area much better in my opinion. Strange how United tended to rise for the occasion against you. Went Anfield many times during the 80's and never seen us lose. Was there when you thrashed us 4-0 though with a Beardsley hatrick! Happy days.
If Ray Clemence had been in goal for England v Argentina in Mexico '86, I wonder if he would have been out faster than Shilton to stop Maradona's handball ?
@@alanw8571 Shilts was a brilliant keeper but he did make the occasional and costly howler... think Poland '73, Germany '90 and yes, Argentina '86. Shilton shouldn't have let Maradona (5'5") out-jump him to the ball.
I don't think Motson was ever a good commentator to be honest, and in his last 10 years or so he was an embarrassment. Not a very nice chap in person either, apparently. Agree about Coleman - with Brian Moore, the great TV commentator of the 1970s.
Don't support either of these clubs but a great atmosphere cos we standing areas for supporters In those days Today's atmosphere at the premiership is that of a theatre.
Im a neutral and i get goosebumps watching these matches still all these years later and the best thing about this era and these footballers is everyone remembers them and most are total legends.. Cant say that for todays players they are instantly forgettable.... Clemence neal souness dalglish mcdermot hansen etc etc etc...greenhoff bailey macari mcqueen jordan coppel we all know who they are even now 40 odd years later... Awesome days
Great comment.
I’m not a neutral and get goosebumps every time I see the Jimmy Greenhoff header followed by the emotional celebration. I was in the Ramsbottom youth club bogs as an 11 year old listening to it with a load of mates. What a night. Shame about the final but even that was one of the best finals I’ve seen, even if Arsenal did win!!!
@@mankydave67 spot on mate
I couldn't agree more, my friend. Love watching 70s footy - great games and great memories.
@@edmundpower1250 After all these years, still bitter about that Treble denying defeat. Love it! 😁
Mixed memories with this one. I was a 19 year old huge Liverpool fan and seen them several times in the 78-79 season. My mates brother worked in a pub called “The Dart Inn” owned by Kenny Dalglish’s father in law. He arranged for my mate George and me to meet Dalglish at the holiday Inn in Liverpool to pick up the tickets for the replay at Goodison. We got to the hotel and saw the team in the foyer. Dalglish was like God to me but I couldn’t bring myself to go in with George to get the tickets ( regret to this day) Upshot of course we were beaten by Greenhoff’s goal. To get home we were going by train and had to change at Wigan station Me and him sat in a carriage surrounded by Man U fans and us trying to sing United songs and look happy. Absolutely shiting ourselves cos we thought they were gonnae find our Liverpool scarves. Got home in one piece. Happy days.
Great story mate, love it. Thanks for sharing. "Me and him sat in a carriage surrounded by Man U fans and us trying to sing United songs and look happy. Absolutely shiting ourselves.... ". 😂 Those were the days!
The good old days when FA Cup semi finals had replays and weren't played at Wembley
Thank you Jimmy(and Brian) for a memory that will last a lifetime. Respect.
Totally bud
Probably my favourite Utd memory of all time. Had gone to the first game but dad wouldn't let me go on the Weds given I was only 13 (just as well I suppose cos I believe it was mayhem). No one gave us a chance in the replay and listened to the game on Radio 2 - when we scored people from a dozen houses in our Salford street ran out to celebrate - just not the same anymore.
I was 8 years old when this replay was played, we knew the highlights were going to be on Sportsnight and we didn't know the result. Because it was Liverpool playing my Dad let me stay up and watch. I wasn't aware of the Liverpool and Man Utd rivalry before this game but watching the match I Instinctively knew that when these two play it matters more than any other encounter. The passion from the players, the atmosphere in the stand, even watching it on TV you felt that instantly. Gutted when Jimmy Greenhoff got the winner, I think it was the only time I was reduced to tears at the end of a game of football, but I knew at that point there was no bigger encounter than Liverpool v Man Utd.
I was at both games, 16 years old, Dad and brother dropped me off as they did not have tickets. Walked around ground trying to find turnstile gate. Asked copper who sent me to the Liverpool end, got kicked and punched a few times, had Utd scarf on. Took it off after Greenhoff scored and walked 3 miles to Dads car shitting myself. Happy days.
😂 Great story mate, love it.
Mickey Thomas was such an underrated player for United. He loved playing for us as well and showed it.
I remember watching this on Sportsnight aged 9 with my older brothers. This was proper FA cup football. No Wembley semi final, no penalty shootouts, John Motson commentary, replays forever. My love for United was sealed after this win.
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Having the FA Cup semis at Wembley all started in 1993 when the two Sheffield clubs made it to the semi's, along with Spurs and Arsenal. It was meant to be a 'one off' occasion not to be repeated in future seasons; but it proved such a popular move that the FA decided to keep it like this......and it's been like this ever since. Apart from when Wembley was out of action (between 01 and 06).
@@robtyman4281 Popular with who?
This is one of the reasons the cup finals lose their edge.
@@simonwilliams6595 It proved popular with the supporters of all four of these clubs - that's why the FA decided to stick with using Wembley for the semi finals aswell for thereafter, rather than the 'one off' double event it was supposed to be back in 1993.
@@robtyman4281 Bollocks,only moved to pay off the wembley rebuild cost.
Wonderful memories. I was 9 and in bed for school, my Dad came in and told me the result. I thought we were dead after the 2 2 draw. I had the home and away kits then too, still my favourite MU kit ever 79 and 80. I quite liked chasing Liverpool in the 70s and 80s, always BIG games in which we excelled.
The best United kit ever!
I remember that jimmy greenhoff goal and his celebrations after it as if it was yesterday
I was thirteen years old, on a school trip, away from home for a week. Listened to this on the radio on the Tuesday night with three other class mates and we all went ballistic when Greenhoff scored. The great days of English football.
Great story bud
Look how classy the management teams were back then.
Supported United since 1968...George Best is my all time hero, yet, this goal by Jimmy is my favourite of all time.
The occasion, the opposition and his celebration - truly magical.
I miss the commentary from the 70’s & 80’s. No snide digs heaping on the pressure of managers, no opinions just genuine excitement and in the moment and even more importantly drowned out by the crowd.
Motsons Commentary just adds to the Legend....
Awful comentator
Fuck off scouser...
mcbrando Your greatest ever goalscorer is a Scouser.
True, Motty was a quality commentator along with Barry Davies.
@@olayinkaamara385 exactly...they tend to forget that fact.
I’ve held a season ticket from 1977 to now and still have never celebrated since like I did when Greenhoff scored that goal at Goodison. I watched the match on VHS when I got home after a very lively time outside after the match between both sets of fans. What amazing commentary, the master craftsman….
I met Jimmy Greenhoff twenty years later, he was a sales rep for a wallpaper company. If he played today he’d be earning millions.
We were all banned by my dad from listening to the radio commentary, as he was very superstitious and that by watching the highlights on yhe telly later on, Liverpool were bound to win. But of course, that meant not knowing the score of the live match. I couldnt resist and i turned on the radio gram, keeping the volume really low...just as jimmy Greenhoff scored that goal...i was only 11 at the time, but for years, i was made to feel that my actions caused us to lose this match!
Liverpool 'taches future managers shortie shorts... ahhhh.... even I fancied myself a weekend player then. I supported United since i was six in 1966 (Denis law my all-ptime hero) and this is a priceless time capsule for me.
went to the 1st one stood in the kippax ...dad never took me to this one ..I listened on the radio....brings tears to my eyes ...amazing ....ps. I was only 9 haha .....still pull my pa about taking me home and away in the 70s haha.....days I will never forget
This was when English football was great ,the fans were great ,atmospheric. fantastic, £1.20 a ticket ,loved it.
couldn't agree more
Are you sure £1.20 for a ticket, wow things sure have changed since then
Shit football and racist hooligans, now it's much better
@@Adam-cj2jg brilliant supportrs with passion
red flag that's a red flag
Jimmy greenhoff was my favourite player of that and l am an evertonian, we were shite l just wished we had a player like him in our team,he was class.
He was excellent at Stoke too, they sold him to Utd as their stand was destroyed in a storm,
can you imagine that now !
WHAT ,,, BOB LATCHFORD ANYDAY ...
Sorry John l loved Bob as well,he was the best of the bad,very bad bunch we had,he was a decent player who did his job as our no 9,something dcl cannot do! but greenhoff was class.
I went to both games and the replay was even more intense than the first game. To be honest, I thought we'd blown it after the draw at Maine Road but the lads showed tremendous fight that night at Goodison. It was the cup and anything can happen in a one-off game but Liverpool were a different side in the league and the name 'machine' was well-deserved. They were relentless, which was something United and other teams failed to get to grips with. Still, I remember Mickey T's cross and Jimmy Greenhoff's header flying into the net with fondness some 38 years later.
i wish they had not sacked docherty,the whole history of english football would have changed,i genuinly believe they would have broken liverpools future dominance.
As dominant as Liverpool were in that period, United were always able to pull out that something extra in tight matches against Liverpool. Curiously during the early 2000s when United were dominant, I recall Liverpool scoring a succession of victories at Old Trafford.
this was sextons utd. we werent good enough to win the title till we did.
@@rum111I'm a United supporter and beg to disagree. The Doc's helter-skelter all out attacking football was exciting to watch but he's was in the Big Ron mould as a manager, would win the odd FA Cup with a favourable draw but not a league winning manager. Liverpool had great players and teams then (I envied them), their football was more measured and sophisticated ,that's why they lapped up the trophies. Doc or no Doc at OT Liverpool would still have been the top club then.
we will never know but i loved that team and he wanted more players in but hey the whole english scene is great to watch.@@brianoreilly239
Im a Utd fan but this Liverpool team were top class
Me too - United fan, but Liverpool ruled Europe. We always stopped them doing the double or treble though, especially in 1977!!! Those were the days when you’d follow the English teams in Europe in a healthy manner - like Forest, Liverpool and Villa, obviously not United, and you’d want them to win. I know I did.
A rare moment of joy in the dour sexton years
And vs. Derby at Hillsborough in 1976 down both to the result and the fantastic United support (check the game out on UA-cam). 77 vs. Leeds at the same venue wasn't bad either.
Tkz for giving this oppurity to see my beloved man utd giveing another fight back... .🔥⚽🔥⚽🔥⚽🔥⚽🔥⚽🔥⚽🔥⚽🔥⚽🔥
Love for man utd 💖 glory⚽ glory⚽
Ahhh......yes..... the good-old days of English Football, when players played for "The Crest On Their Chest", no names on their backs, no shirt sponsors, and sometimes they wore different numbers in successive matches (a player might wear #10 in a match, the next match that same player might wear #11 or #9) and nobody ever complained about how much $$$ they made in a season. As an American (California-born in 1966 and raised, and now living in Port Townsend, Washington since 1987, and I support Arsenal) my first exposure to the English game came in 1977 through "Star Soccer" on certain PBS stations (like KCET channel 28 in my old turf in Los Angeles) with the late Mario Machado calling the action in the old Football League Division One/First Division in a one-hour capsulized form on Saturday afternoons.
Nowadays, you look at tickets that are higher priced than some workers' paychecks, the average fan is now relegated to catching the match on TV or on the radio (or worse through a sketchy illegal stream with malware/ransomware/viruses in it) rather than being at the match itself, football is now a business involving MILLIONS of pounds/euros/dollars in transfer fees, especially during the open transfer windows in August and January, and unfortunately now most of us common folk (like myself) can't afford to go see our heroes on the pitch where it was the most electric of atmospheres in which you can never replicate on TV, even with all the video technology in the world.
Ugh! Arsenal. I remember the final of '79. After this game, United played Arsenal in the final. It was United's third final in four years. The 1977 final is the first match I remember watching. I was 7 at the time. Nine-year-old me went through hell during the 1979 final. I was staying at my uncle's, like I had done for most weekends for a couple of years since my aunt died around '75/'76. We'd built a goal in his back garden out of chicken wire and 2 x 4.
With Arsenal 2-0 up with 10 minutes left, I decided to go outside for a dejected kickabout. Then he came to the back door and called me to say that United had scored. So I ran back in for the replay. But, thinking United were still dead and buried, I went back outside. He called me over almost immediately to say that United had scored again! I ran back in and decided to stay to watch the last couple of minutes. Then came Arsenal's last attack of the 90 minutes. A run down the left, the ball floated over Bailey and at the back post came Alan fucking Sunderland. I've never forgotten it. Three goals in the last four minutes.
Fuck Arsenal. :'D
Good call 😎..
Ray - as an American, what did you make of the NASL in the late 1970s? I personally think it was a bit of a Mickey Mouse league.
@@SMSJSC Looking back at it now that I am 56 as opposed to the football-naive 11-year-old kid who cheered on the L.A. Aztecs in 1977-78 and also watching KCET (ch. 28, Los Angeles) televising English matches and KWHY (ch. 22, Los Angeles) doing Bundesliga matches as well in capsulized form, they both made the NASL look like child's play, the more aggressive, more physical play over in Europe was far more entertaining than what we had here in the States at that time. So yes I agree with you.
MLS > NASL ....and that is just comparing the two different top flight leagues from two different generations here in America, however anything over in Europe will always be so much better.
I was there that night and it was better for me than Barcelona 99 because of what liverpool were going to do to utd after the 2 2 draw at Maine road.
R.i.p Ray Clemence
Sad. RIP CLEMENCE. NEVER KNEW HE DIED.
Yes well said Kevin. He wasn't a nasty bigot like many of that ilk were/are. Keegan, Heighway and even Phil Thompson ( aka Big Nose) were also decent blokes. RIP Ray !!
Man Utd were our nemesis in the FA Cup. Never could get past them. They played better than us that night and deserved to go through
The 1985 match and replay was a classic too.... 👍
i think liverpools win in 2006 against us was the first in 70 odd yrs in the cup.
the cup meant something in those times
@@bobuk161 ye spot on fantastic to win an devasting to lose
clemence was a great goalie
Much better than Shilton. Should have been England's no. 1 for ten years.
The noise from the mancs @ 4:35 pure ecstatic joy, get in!!!!!
The cameras were in Bullens Rd which housed Utd.....
@@stel3209 boss 🖒
Watched this game on ceefax , the good old days !
this is my favourite ever game - and I've been to a few . Brilliant!!!!
This was the only real high point of the whole Sexton era, wasn't it?
Those were the days. 9 years old and already Man United mad
My Dad went to both games. Said he went mad when Jimmy G scored!! Like every other United fan!! I was born 2 days before the cup final, which he was happy about as he was able to go!!
What a match clemence what a keeper jimmy grenhoff scouse busting legend
Great cross for the goal! I wonder how many of today's players would look good on pitches like that one??
Good old Jimmy G. Class act.
the end of Emlyn Hughes career at liverpool.
Great game.
.. still remember the final...2-0..2-2.... 3-2😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
When the FA cup was still worth something
Never mind Ferguson and all his trophies. This is what you want. Best Utd goal in the best kit we’ve ever had in the best fixture there is, a semi final replay on a Wednesday night beating superior opposition.
The fierce, frenzy, almost hysteric support for ManU never recovered after Tommy Doc. 1974-77 was the best ever era for fans of United. What ever we think about hooliganism one thing is sure - it was exaggerated by media and Tory wanted to make fans just bunch of sheeps. They did it and now real football culture is death.
74-77? nah mate try 93-13. Golden years for United fans.
@@moreblack He's not talking about a winning team. He's referring to the support that followed United. Yes United sell out everywhere they go and the away support is still without equal anywhere in the world but back then the home support was also brilliant. Sadly like ALL the top clubs, home support is generally poor. Not as poor as clubs like Arsenal and liVARpool but still poor!!!
The Atkinson era always looks like it was a pretty good time to support United - crazy intense atmospheres and thrilling attacking players. I accept the Docherty era was better (everyone seems to agree on that), but 81-86 (roughly) also up there?
@@KryptonitetoallBS Yep; I went mostly 74-92 and I wouldn't swap my years for his (93-13) - as a fan. Yes was great to get the trophies but strongly suspect if anyone 'prefers' the latter it's because they didn't experience the former! All that said, I think 74-92 would have been even better with a couple of League trophies thrown in!
@@KryptonitetoallBS you are truly a fucking whopper lad...you defo have serious issues. Didn't ya Ma wipe ya arse as a baby or something?
Remember that Greenhoff goal so well.
English football's two greatest ever clubs, most successful ever clubs with a glorious history built from the ground up and with a begrudging admiration and respect for each other hidden behind a veil of intense hatred and rivalry. Not like those other 'johnny come lately's' who have a bottomless oil well to feed off!!!! Ahem..!!!
Imagine the atmosphere that night
I remember lots of trouble b4 and after this semi final.
Fights outside the ground was it?
Bound to be. The Man Utd v LFC semi final in 1985 & Goodison was apparently naughty. As to was the replay a week or so later @ Maine Rd. My mates dad (Man Utd fan from Salford) went to both of them - AFC fan.
What do you expect in those days?🤔👹
United didn't want to know befor the game I was outside watching the Liverpool firm sitting off in Stanley park also massive mobs in the side streets whrn the word went about that they're where being escorted from where the coaches park also the escort buses from lime street station, as the escort came around the park about 800 United, Liverpool came out from the park and up the side street of the blue house boozer seem like 1000s I was about 15 then being amongst this firm was scarey as I seen
@@JanMan-qk4ic Boro, Everton, United, Millwall and even Wrexham had firms but I never heard of a firm from Liverpool, apart from the 12-18 year olds who were called the Urchins I think.
United only lost once in the league at Anfield during the1980s (a 0-1 loss in 1988/9. The 0-4 loss was in the 1990/1 season.
United always had the edge, despite their dominance trophy wise.
Dodgy penalty in sep 88 too
@@guyneeve9365 No it wasn't. And John Barnes had a stonewall pen denied a minute earlier. A reminder the Man Utd always get the big decisions.
Both teams wearing away colours sounds fair idea. These teams played in semi finals again in 1985 same neutral venues. Initially was at Goodison Park ended 2-2 Utd in Red & Liverpool in yellow. In replay at Maine Road Liverpool wore red and Utd in white shirts black shorts
Agree, the colour red means so much to both clubs that in a "neutral"/one-off game it might seem unfair to give one of them the psychological edge.
In cup games between the two, the only ties I can think of that were won by a team not wearing red were the Charity Shield in 1983 and the Cup semi-final in 1985. Every other time, red won (or didn't lose).
@@robicenco1 1985 Anfield Frank Stapleton header big match live
This just come up in my feed in 2020
@cajjer remember that Mark Robbins goal in Jan 1990 at Forest in FAC 3 ? So similiar don't ya think to this one by Greenhoff (J) ?
Yes! Also reminds me of Shearer's goal against Germany at Euro 2000.
I was there, what a night
R.I.P, Motty
I was there. What s night. Fun and games after around our coaches.
how many coaches 3
@@markcartwright2263 idiot
I was at this game, Great support from the biggest supported club in the Land, Man United! What I would say is both United and Liverpool have loads of glory hunters, thats why millions of people outside their respective City's support them. Whos the Best? Well I'd say United of course More league titles and the "impossible treble" Also the team that paved the way in the European cup when no other club wanted a part in it.
Sorry? 'No other team wanted a part in the European Cup'? What are you on about??
@@SMSJSC back in the 50s busby upset a lot of people by taking part in europe. chelsea had the offer the yr before in 55 but declined under pressure
@@redflag8970 Hmmm... interesting. I don't understand why a club would not want to compete in European competition. Strange attitudes in the 1950s!
Wolves played European football before you lot..
@@SMSJSC I think the clubs were interested in playing in Europe - it was the FA that didn't like the idea.
(Also, at the start, there was only one competition and only one club (the champions) could play in it. "Playing in Europe" wasn't the massive, routine phenomenon it became later on.)
I remember listening to the match on the radio. I was gutted when Jimmy Greenhoff scored the winner.
Greenhoff got that header because if you look at Hansen, he has moved out in anticipation of McIlroy running into the box. If Emlyn Hughes at left back was where he was supposed to be, then he would have moved inside to cover for Hansen. Hughes is 30 yards upfield with Coppell. I reckon Hughes was blamed for the goal because he never played for Liverpool again
wow didn't notice that.....very interesting observation.....
I think the chance was really set up by the United forward (Jordan?) who beat the Liverpool No2 in the air to head down to Micky Thomas to make the cross. But yes, Liverpool's defence was lacking there.
@@aquabuddha8022 It's on his wiki page.
I was 13 years old.... Jimmy Greenhoff inspired my kick about some big the park for years
Jimmy greenhoff was fantastic footballer uniteds best forward 😂
I would also say The United way is to entertain and not win at all costs, that is why despite United being shit in the 70s and 80s that we still had the best support. Glory hunters my fucking ring piece. As for anyone spouting shite about people dying in disasters then let me tell you that Sir Matt Busby played for Liverpool and teenage Girls from Kent died at Hillsborough, not scousers, If you mock these disasters then you've got no place in society. Its not brave to post under an anon name
BertAtkin Well said. I'm a Liverpool fan who was at Hillsborough. Mocking any disaster is just nasty and stupid-it's for the brain dead.
The myth factory never...stops - the reason Utd sound loud is you had the BULLENS ROAD!!! that's where the cameras are and MICROPHONES!!!! you got slaughted outside.
Slaughtered* you thick muppet
Matthew Collins - A few of your fellow LFC supporters ought to take the same view (I'm talking of course about Munich here).
@@stephenl5054 ok bud
I loved that United 2nd strip.
What a great football. By the way...what is a replay? I don't know because I live in Spain...
A lot is made of Marco Tardelli's face during his goal celebration after scroing in the World Cup Final against West Germany in 1982.......
......But you just know Tardelli was watching Jimmy Grreenhoff scoring 'that wimnner' 3 years earlier :)
the passion legend jimmy greenhoff
A year later it was Liverpool v Arsenal about 4 times, as well. :)
Proper football. No premiership hype. British footballers not over priced foreigners
...here we go again. You probably loved English football in second half of the 80's when it was total s***e.
Think how much duller English football would have been had the likes of Cantona, Bergkamp, Henry, Zola, and Ronaldo not come over here? Your argument holds no water. I'd take these players over most of their English counterparts any day.
Emyln Hughes caught out of position for the goal, think it was the last game he played for Liverpool.
Best team won, great memories.
Martial kept this tradition going in 2016......
M still haunted mentally from the final against arsenal and im 53 now. Still, english football at its best
I remember that match my God only two teams could really give Liverpool a game back then United and Forest
Emlyn Hughes playing at left back was caught out of position for the goal - he never played for Liverpool again
_This is my favourite man utd jersey of all time._
😂. My aunt bought me it. Even though I was a Celtic fan in Glasgow I also had a Leeds kit. A Notts forest away kit. Back then we didn't stay loyal to English teams. We saw them on tv and changed every year. I even had a Chelsea top and Osgood and cooke were brill.
We were winning everything but could never beat United in a game in those days!
That away end at Goodson looked much bigger than it was in the 80s. Why did they change to a smaller terrace behind the goal?
Think it was safety reasons, it was mostly wooden ceiling under the seats above
I got a number 5 Ray Kennedy Liverpool kit for Christmas 1980 from JJB Sports in Wigan. I remember being slightly disappointed it wasn't Kenny Dalglish. Used to wear it on the top field as I dazzled the locals with my mesmerising skills.
Where was Giggs? was he on the bench?
with his brothers wife
He was doing his homework.
Mistake to play greenhoff in the final though as he's wasn't fit in ghosted through it. Ritchie woulda been better option
Nice to see a bit of respect on and off the pitch... If only the comments here lived up to what was uploaded. Obviously too much to ask.
I fully agree as we unfortunately live in the modern world full of trolls wokeys snow flakes ultra lefties curtain twitchers and sad people who are soft in the head who lack general toughness and who live a miserable life being passive aggressive hey
Love you JEZU
see Andy Ritchie trying to come on as sub ? do you remember he scored a hat-trick against Leeds the previous week and was very unlucky not to play in the semi ....
One thing I do remember about United in those days, and that in both the finals that we played in 76 vs Southampton and the arsenal in 79 both opponents wore yellow and United lost, but when we played Liverpool in the semi-final wearing white against liverpool wearing yellow we WON...just a thought....what would've happened if we played in the 79 final wearing white.....
I'm sure Southampton wore white that day? 1 May 1976.
@@SMSJSC no they wore yellow and blue.
classic!
Mark Robins' goal v Forest in 1990 was a carbon copy.
Unusual to see here on this upload both teams wearing their away kits.
Makes sense really - avoids giving either team the psychological advantage of wearing the red. It's a nice idea I think.
I'll never understand why Liverpool would replace such a great (and reliable!) goalie as Clemence with that clown, Grobbelaar... Although, we didn't complain when he gave our Widzew a free pass to the semis in 1983... ;)
Widzew...??
@@SMSJSC widzew Lodz.Knocked Liverpool out of the European cup thanks to a dodgy Brucie performance.Although widzew were a tidy side and played very well at Anfield.
Recently visited Lodz, reminded me of Liverpool in the 80's.No offence meant by this,the people were very similar aswell.Great hospitality,loved the place.
@@carlito571 Grobelaar could pull off some spectacular saves but on the whole, Clemence was a more reliable 'keeper. Mind you, Grobelaar stayed at Anfield for 10 years, and they weren't exactly short of trophies over that time...
Clemence states in interviews he wanted to leave after feeling it was just another day at the office with the win in Paris v Real Madrid to lift the European Cup but Phil Thompson seems to recall he wanted out as he heard Grobelaar was going to be number one. Both great keepers and gentlemen
Such a show
yerrsss, i was at this game
Emlyn Hughes last game for Liverpool
Always preferred him to Shilton and should have won more England caps for me. Commanded his area much better in my opinion. Strange how United tended to rise for the occasion against you. Went Anfield many times during the 80's and never seen us lose. Was there when you thrashed us 4-0 though with a Beardsley hatrick! Happy days.
at least your honest mate
If Ray Clemence had been in goal for England v Argentina in Mexico '86, I wonder if he would have been out faster than Shilton to stop Maradona's handball ?
@@alanw8571 Shilts was a brilliant keeper but he did make the occasional and costly howler... think Poland '73, Germany '90 and yes, Argentina '86. Shilton shouldn't have let Maradona (5'5") out-jump him to the ball.
strange seeing them both wearing their away kits
I was there that n👍👍
Listen to coleman davies and johns then listen to motson . David Coleman was a class above.
David Coleman was The Daddy, no question!!!
@@KryptonitetoallBS exactly right !!
Spot on mate.
I don't think Motson was ever a good commentator to be honest, and in his last 10 years or so he was an embarrassment. Not a very nice chap in person either, apparently. Agree about Coleman - with Brian Moore, the great TV commentator of the 1970s.
coleman v moore on cup final day total class the pair of them.
This was Emlyn Hughes last game for Liverpool I think?
Really can't believe that.
Wow he nether played in the eighties.
Much to the delight of Tommy Smith I imagine who couldn’t stand his guts.
@@brianoreilly239 Tommy Smith had hung up his boots in 1978, so I don't suppose he was too bothered.
And i was there ...
Don't support either of these clubs but a great atmosphere cos we standing areas for supporters In those days
Today's atmosphere at the premiership is that of a theatre.
Fewer people dying in the stands nowadays, though, so not all bad
Mini van I think Dixie Dean did - during the derby game.
Best away strip ever.
Sir Jimmy Greenhoff
Hemlyn Hughes