This clip doesn`t show one of the most important moment in Polish football: MacFarland`s faul on Wlodzimierz Lubanski. This faul finished Lubanski`s career. He was one of football geniuses, probanly the most talented player in Polish history. He played later but it was not Lubanski before injury. His injury gave place to Grzegorz Lato who later was a top scorer in 1974 German World Cup
It wasnt even a free kick never mind a foul, Macfarland never caught. He jumped over the challenge and blew his knee out on landing.... ua-cam.com/video/V-eAoRMc8iY/v-deo.html
Tosspot67 You’re right. It was Lubanski’s fault. Not necessary pressure and it ended bad. Anyway it was I think the biggest drama in polish football when we talk about players injuries.
Poland deservedly beat England 2-0 and qualified. Poland played brilliant football in the world cup and did the world proud! They almost won the 1974 World Cup!!
Poland deservedly won, but they didn't secure qualification in this game, it was the 1-1 draw at Wembley a few months later that sent them to the World Cup.
This World Cup qualifier with Poland at Katowice on June 6 1973 ended in a 2-0 defeat for England. The visitors were hoping for full points after garnering only three points in two matches with Wales earlier at Ninian Park and at Wembley which ended 1-0 and 1-1 respectively. England were stunned in this match with Jan Banas and Wlodek Lubanski scoring for the Poles.And to add salt to England's defeat,midfielder Alan Ball was sent off by the Austrian referee in the 78th minute.
Poland had a strong team back in those days as they would go on to finish third in 74 World Cup. In hindsight Ramsey should have left the England role after the 1970 Mexico tournament.
England dominated possession but Poland just were more mentally aware of the chances they could get and they were physically clinical with the chances they got and buried two of em and England didn't do much despite all the possession it was just like swing it in the box and hope for the best and Poland were more adventurous and were taking long range shots and finding players better with their ground passing and link up play and just wanted the win more in the end and they went on to have a very impressive 1974 World Cup and Lato was the top scorer, legendary Polish striker.
Mick Shannon said it all " They even finished 3rd in the World cup and they were very mediocre ". Now, that's very disrespectful and he said that a few years ago.
steve kinlough Very disrespectful by Channon- finishing 3rd is great achievement at WC74, losing only one game to W.Germany, and even that game should never have been played on waterlogged pitch - mediocre teams do not beat Italy 🇮🇹, Argentina 🇦🇷, Brazil 🇧🇷 amongst others to get 3rd place - if I remember correctly we also beat Sweden, Yugoslavia, Haiti - Shame Lubanski got injured at this game and couldn’t take part in WC1974
Well. If they were so mediocre Mr. Shannon than even more so were the Italians (beaten 2-1 by Poland), The Argentinians (beaten 3-2 by Poland), The Yugoslavs (beaten 2-1 by Poland), The Swedes (Beaten 1-0 by Poland) and of course the (reigning World champions at the time) Brazilians, beaten 1-0 by Poland. That's a lot of mediocrity in one month of football...
Many coaches are too loyal to players. In 1986, Peter Shilton was out-jumped by a midget for the "hand of God" goal. Four years later, at well over 40 years old, Bobby Robson still had him in goal.
Had England won this World Cup qualifier with Poland at Katowice Chorzow on 6 June 1973 they instead of Poland would have qualified for the 1974 World Cup finals in West Germany. But they ended up beaten 2-0 by Poland and had Alan Ball sent off. It was skipper Bobby Moore's last ever competitive match for England and his penulminate.He would in November the same year played his last game for England. It was the last time too three 1966 World Cup winners featured in this match.Alan Ball,Bobby Moore and Martin Peters were the three survivors from the 1966 World Cup winning team.And the last time too the useless Ball-Bell-Peters was being utilized.
Me too! I was 7 years old and football mad (I would have been 8 on 21 June). Friends of my mum let me watch it on their new colour tele - England in gold shirts!
I watched this entire game & was screaming at the TV for Ramsey to bring on Tony Currie & Mick Channon to give us a bit of creativity. Alf's inflexible approach had made him a tactical dinosaur by this point. Of course after media & public outrage he did pick Channon & Currie in the return match where England created enough chances to win half a dozen games. But that is another story...........
Very intimidating atmosphere. The game was played during working hours so 1000's of Polish army troops were drafted in and England said they felt the hostile atmosphere from the moment the plane landed.
"It was the game for us to win" Really? With a single shot on goal? And the one any goalie (15 or 55 years old) would save? ;) The English totally underestimated us. I remember some pre game comments in our press; "They look like being on vacation" etc. Yes, our performance in Cardiff was abysmal, but that was March, in June our players were at their peak, English players exhausted after a long season... Watching it in black and white was... uuugh, an experience to forget right after the game was over :)
You are right that England did underestimate Poland,especially after you lost to Wales. You were helped by the fact that Alf Ramsey had become a tactical dinosaur by then & refused to bring on his more creative players even when 2-0 down. Poland were excellent in the 74 WC & were unlucky to be forced to play the Germans on a waterlogged pitch in the semi-final. Deyna went on to be a very popular player at Manchester City.
Ball was sent off in 79. minute, with England 2 goals down. Yet for the commenting pundits this was the moment England lost the game; the English were better, they would have levelled, but this unfair red card turned the game upside down. And anyway, they did not see well, but they believe there was some verbal altercation so Ball perhaps sort of got into trouble, but if red card, a Polish player involved should have been off as well. They did not even bother to play a moment, when McFarland fauled Lubanski. This tackle sent the Polish forward - the best of the team, 27 years old at the time - off to a hospital. He did not play for 3 years, missing the 1974 World Cup, and returned to the national team as late as in 1976.
It didn't come as a surprised that skipper Bobby Moore had in fact played his last competitive match for England as the 1966 World Cup champions slumped to a shock 2-0 defeat to Poland in this 1974 World Cup qualifier at Katowice Chorzow on 6 June 1973. Nothing went right for the visitors as two uncharasteristic errors from skipper Bobby Moore led to the home team scoring through Jan Banas and Wlodek Lubanski. Down 2-0 there was no way England could stage a comeback as to worsen matters midfielder Alan Ball was sent off in the 78th minute.
Poland had Red shorts. I think teams could not wear the same colour items. Maybe, England could have worn white shorts? The only reason why that would not be allowed is if each strip had to be designated a long time before.
This qualifier was part of a 4 match summer tour of Europe (the other 3 games were friendlies in Italy, Czechoslovakia and the USSR), and England wore this kit for all 4 games!
great Polish team Skilfull English players not liked by Ramsey - Keith Weller , Peter Osgood , Malcolm Macdonald. Dave Thomas the QPR winger or Mike Summerbee would have been good on the wing.
And in that game, Norman Hunter (replacing Moore), made basically the same mistake Moore did Sir Alf made the same mistake in not making any substitutions (although he at least brought Kevin Hector on, but only for the last 2 minutes) England never learned from this defeat 🤔
That was a nightmare to watch in b&w due to the strips, as 90% of us couldn't afford colour, plus we was happy that way until the 80s brought in LOADS MONEY! & out went the bw & in came the colour.
Indeed a dirty bastard, and had he not pulled back Lato when through on goal at Wembley , he would have ran on to score and put us 2 up. Yes Lubanski was at the peak of his career at the time and possibly given us the edge v Krauts in semi
To be fair, both teams deserved a promotion to WC1974. England have been a hell of a tough team and could then fight in the semi-finals. In my opinion, England would have won every other qualifying group except the Netherlands group.
England were humiliated 2-0 by the 1972 Olympic champions Poland at Katowice in Chorzow and in the process had midfielder Alan Ball sent off in the 78th minute. Nothing went right for Sir Alf Ramsey's men that day as owing to two uncharacteristic defensive errors being committed by skipper Bobby Moore the 1966 World champions were at the receiving end from the Poles who scored through Jan Banas and Wlodek Lubanski. Sir Alf's 4-4-2 formula relying on the midfield trio of Ball-Bell-Peters did not work out as expected as the three were not ball winners.It was the Poles who had England back padelling at the back. Bobby Moore as everyone knows was past his prime and his defensive error in the first leg of the Nations Cup quarter final with West Germany at Wembley came to haunt him again.It may well be said that Moore's two errors were costly but catastrophic for England.Down 2-0,it did not help matters when Ball was sent off.
In those days, only one team qualified. England very unlucky to be in the same group as a very good Poland side - finished 3rd in the World Cup. Four years later, England again unlucky to be in a qualify group with Italy. The system today is much fairer.
What rubbish gets spouted about Bobby Moore. Good player yes of course but NEVER made an error? Check YT & you'll find plenty Moore errors for WHU & ENG.
You must remember England were not even the best team at the 1966 World Cup. In my opinion, anyway. In fact, I don't think 1966 had any standout teams at all, that probably why we won it.
@@SuperTed19021 you need to read up on that world cup. Hungary and Portugal had fantastic sides in the group of death eliminating Brazil. West Germany were sharp but England deservedly won. At the start of the 1970 World Cup they had only lost 4 games in 5 years and arguably the best team in the world over that period.
@@r4h4al Moore was probably, if not definitely, the best ‘in line’ sweeper the game has seen, but it was not his ‘thing’ to tight mark. His forte was his ability to read the game, and cover, intercept - and distribute immaculately, but as a marker he might not have got into many First Division sides.
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In 1973 Jacek Gmoch was not first team manager. It was Kazimierz Górski.
OTÓŻ TO!!!
This clip doesn`t show one of the most important moment in Polish football: MacFarland`s faul on Wlodzimierz Lubanski. This faul finished Lubanski`s career. He was one of football geniuses, probanly the most talented player in Polish history. He played later but it was not Lubanski before injury. His injury gave place to Grzegorz Lato who later was a top scorer in 1974 German World Cup
It wasnt even a free kick never mind a foul, Macfarland never caught. He jumped over the challenge and blew his knee out on landing.... ua-cam.com/video/V-eAoRMc8iY/v-deo.html
Tosspot67 You’re right. It was Lubanski’s fault. Not necessary pressure and it ended bad. Anyway it was I think the biggest drama in polish football when we talk about players injuries.
@@Tosspot67 Yes. It was an unfortunate incident. Not deliberate.
@@Tosspot67 It was not a good challenge.
Its a foul , not a faul you alcoholic drunken Polish chicken factory fool.
Poland's manager was Kazimierz Górski not Jacek Gmoch.
England were stunned but Poland finished 3rd at the World Cup and beat Brazil Argentina and Italy.
That's very true but Wales did beat them 2-0 in that qualifying campaign.
@@SuperTed19021 Yup. And then lost in Poland 3-0. That's why what counts are the final standings.
@@macioluko9484 Yeah, okay.
@@SuperTed19021 yeah okay what:?????
Poland deservedly beat England 2-0 and qualified. Poland played brilliant football in the world cup and did the world proud! They almost won the 1974 World Cup!!
Poland deservedly won, but they didn't secure qualification in this game, it was the 1-1 draw at Wembley a few months later that sent them to the World Cup.
Yeah, this faul on Lubanski,important and incredible attacker and striker Lubanskiwas, his absence in future was significant for Poland
This World Cup qualifier with Poland at Katowice on June 6 1973 ended in a 2-0 defeat for England.
The visitors were hoping for full points after garnering only three points in two matches with Wales earlier at Ninian Park and at Wembley which ended 1-0 and 1-1 respectively.
England were stunned in this match with Jan Banas and Wlodek Lubanski scoring for the Poles.And to add salt to England's defeat,midfielder Alan Ball was sent off by the Austrian referee in the 78th minute.
Have a nice day. Thank you so much for the video. Of course like from country Azerbaijan
Poland had a strong team back in those days as they would go on to finish third in 74 World Cup. In hindsight Ramsey should have left the England role after the 1970 Mexico tournament.
England dominated possession but Poland just were more mentally aware of the chances they could get and they were physically clinical with the chances they got and buried two of em and England didn't do much despite all the possession it was just like swing it in the box and hope for the best and Poland were more adventurous and were taking long range shots and finding players better with their ground passing and link up play and just wanted the win more in the end and they went on to have a very impressive 1974 World Cup and Lato was the top scorer, legendary Polish striker.
CHORZOWSKI KOSCIOŁ CZAROWNIC ...zrobił swoje też.Dziś zagrać przy takej publice to marzenie chyba każdego płkarza
Mick Shannon said it all " They even finished 3rd in the World cup and they were very mediocre ".
Now, that's very disrespectful and he said that a few years ago.
With humility in short supply England did not deserve to qualify. That was a very good Polish side.
steve kinlough
Very disrespectful by Channon- finishing 3rd is great achievement at WC74, losing only one game to W.Germany, and even that game should never have been played on waterlogged pitch - mediocre teams do not beat Italy 🇮🇹, Argentina 🇦🇷, Brazil 🇧🇷 amongst others to get 3rd place - if I remember correctly we also beat Sweden, Yugoslavia, Haiti -
Shame Lubanski got injured at this game and couldn’t take part in WC1974
olek pasz channon was a prick
Channon was a waste of space. Missed key chances in several games in the qualifying group for Euro '76.
Well. If they were so mediocre Mr. Shannon than even more so were the Italians (beaten 2-1 by Poland), The Argentinians (beaten 3-2 by Poland), The Yugoslavs (beaten 2-1 by Poland), The Swedes (Beaten 1-0 by Poland) and of course the (reigning World champions at the time) Brazilians, beaten 1-0 by Poland. That's a lot of mediocrity in one month of football...
Bobby Moore was finished at this level before this game but Ramsey wouldn't drop him.
Many coaches are too loyal to players. In 1986, Peter Shilton was out-jumped by a midget for the "hand of God" goal. Four years later, at well over 40 years old, Bobby Robson still had him in goal.
Witches cauldron Silesian stadion Chorzów mekka Polish fans
He was still one of England's few world class players then.
We all knew Moore was a spent force. Southgate now showing loyalty to far less talented players
I agree , Moore was done by '73
Had England won this World Cup qualifier with Poland at Katowice Chorzow on 6 June 1973 they instead of Poland would have qualified for the 1974 World Cup finals in West Germany.
But they ended up beaten 2-0 by Poland and had Alan Ball sent off.
It was skipper Bobby Moore's last ever competitive match for England and his penulminate.He would in November the same year played his last game for England.
It was the last time too three 1966 World Cup winners featured in this match.Alan Ball,Bobby Moore and Martin Peters were the three survivors from the 1966 World Cup winning team.And the last time too the useless Ball-Bell-Peters was being utilized.
England would also have qualified for the 74 World Cup if they'd beaten Poland at Wembley (instead of a 1-1 draw)
First match I ever saw in colour on the telly .
You were lucky. I watched on black and white TV and yellow England shirts with dark shorts didnt differ much from Polish black and red
Me too! I was 7 years old and football mad (I would have been 8 on 21 June). Friends of my mum let me watch it on their new colour tele - England in gold shirts!
My White-Red team win!
Go Poland Go!
Poland did deserve this win ,but it remains your only success in 19 attempts. 😉
I watched this entire game & was screaming at the TV for Ramsey to bring on Tony Currie & Mick Channon to give us a bit of creativity. Alf's inflexible approach had made him a tactical dinosaur by this point. Of course after media & public outrage he did pick Channon & Currie in the return match where England created enough chances to win half a dozen games. But that is another story...........
Very intimidating atmosphere. The game was played during working hours so 1000's of Polish army troops were drafted in and England said they felt the hostile atmosphere from the moment the plane landed.
"It was the game for us to win" Really? With a single shot on goal? And the one any goalie (15 or 55 years old) would save? ;)
The English totally underestimated us. I remember some pre game comments in our press; "They look like being on vacation" etc. Yes, our performance in Cardiff was abysmal, but that was March, in June our players were at their peak, English players exhausted after a long season...
Watching it in black and white was... uuugh, an experience to forget right after the game was over :)
You are right that England did underestimate Poland,especially after you lost to Wales. You were helped by the fact that Alf Ramsey had become a tactical dinosaur by then & refused to bring on his more creative players even when 2-0 down. Poland were excellent in the 74 WC & were unlucky to be forced to play the Germans on a waterlogged pitch in the semi-final. Deyna went on to be a very popular player at Manchester City.
@@beds139 Good points. If only the W Germany v Poland game would have been played on a dry pitch. What a match that would have been!
Little mistake
polish coach is Kazimierz Górski
England played in all yellow against Team America in the 1976 Bicentenial tournament
Ball was sent off in 79. minute, with England 2 goals down. Yet for the commenting pundits this was the moment England lost the game; the English were better, they would have levelled, but this unfair red card turned the game upside down.
And anyway, they did not see well, but they believe there was some verbal altercation so Ball perhaps sort of got into trouble, but if red card, a Polish player involved should have been off as well.
They did not even bother to play a moment, when McFarland fauled Lubanski. This tackle sent the Polish forward - the best of the team, 27 years old at the time - off to a hospital. He did not play for 3 years, missing the 1974 World Cup, and returned to the national team as late as in 1976.
Any word about Lubanski injury?
The 'D' in front of the penalty area looks bigger than usual, was this pitch measured and marked out correctly?
I was thinking of that
I'm more stunned by England playing in yellow!!!! What a c**p kit.
can't believe the colour clash.
هذة المباراه عرفتنا نحو الجمهور العراقي بنجوم بولنده وعرفنا نجومها لاول مره وكيف استطاعت اخراج انكلتره القويه من تصفيات ٧٤ صديقكم من العراق سعد الجاف
An uncharacteristic mistake by Bobby Moore to concede the second goal. Bobby Moore was one of the greatest footballers that I ever saw.
Nothing about Lubański's injury?
He was substitue by Domarski (histrocal substitute) when he scored a goal at Wembley
@@ISCHGL20111
Why they don't talk about it?
It didn't come as a surprised that skipper Bobby Moore had in fact played his last competitive match for England as the 1966 World Cup champions slumped to a shock 2-0 defeat to Poland in this 1974 World Cup qualifier at Katowice Chorzow on 6 June 1973.
Nothing went right for the visitors as two uncharasteristic errors from skipper Bobby Moore led to the home team scoring through Jan Banas and Wlodek Lubanski.
Down 2-0 there was no way England could stage a comeback as to worsen matters midfielder Alan Ball was sent off in the 78th minute.
The team of Polish players of this time is called now as Górsky's Eagles
England with the piping on their shorts!!
hi gro8ty, we want napoli maradona matches
England lost this game and the situation was made worse by Alan Ball being sent for the retaliation against a Polish player.
Gorski not Gmoch as a first manager my dear SKY….
Over 130000 spectators....my god
Where is situation od faul ar Lubański !!! This is most important on this math
Charlton didn't rate the Poles that highly, they finished 3rd in the 1974 World Cup
He wasn't the only Englishman to not rate them highly, another Englishman labelled Poland's goalkeeper a "clown"
@@Adam-pu6jg That would be legendary manager Brian Clough.
@@edlawn5481 indeed
Menager of Poland not was Jacek Gmoch bat Kazimierz Górski :) Pozdrowienia from Poland
Why didn’t England play in red?
Poland had Red shorts. I think teams could not wear the same colour items. Maybe, England could have worn white shorts? The only reason why that would not be allowed is if each strip had to be designated a long time before.
This qualifier was part of a 4 match summer tour of Europe (the other 3 games were friendlies in Italy, Czechoslovakia and the USSR), and England wore this kit for all 4 games!
Piping on the England shorts was to blame...the match was lost there and then
Note too England....goals win matches........not possession!
great Polish team Skilfull English players not liked by Ramsey - Keith Weller , Peter Osgood , Malcolm Macdonald. Dave Thomas the QPR winger or Mike Summerbee would have been good on the wing.
Manager: KAZIMIERZ GÓRSKI NOT GMOCH ! Gmoch will be assistent
The Return Game At Wembley Has To Be The Most One SIDED 1-1 Draw in Football History. Woodwork Struck And 2 Goals Disallowed For No Reason.
And in that game, Norman Hunter (replacing Moore), made basically the same mistake Moore did
Sir Alf made the same mistake in not making any substitutions (although he at least brought Kevin Hector on, but only for the last 2 minutes)
England never learned from this defeat 🤔
That was a nightmare to watch in b&w due to the strips, as 90% of us couldn't afford colour, plus we was happy that way until the 80s brought in LOADS MONEY! & out went the bw & in came the colour.
Yellow v. white was not exactly a contrasting look with 70s video technology...
Fantastic Polish side. Had that dirty bastard Macfarland not ruined Lubanski s career we would have won the World Cup!
Also if Poland played West Germany on a normal pitch.
Indeed a dirty bastard, and had he not pulled back Lato when through on goal at Wembley , he would have ran on to score and put us 2 up. Yes Lubanski was at the peak of his career at the time and possibly given us the edge v Krauts in semi
To be fair, both teams deserved a promotion to WC1974. England have been a hell of a tough team and could then fight in the semi-finals. In my opinion, England would have won every other qualifying group except the Netherlands group.
They would have been doing well to get to the second round.
Big claim, considering England lost home and away friendlies to Italy in 1973.
England were humiliated 2-0 by the 1972 Olympic champions Poland at Katowice in Chorzow and in the process had midfielder Alan Ball sent off in the 78th minute.
Nothing went right for Sir Alf Ramsey's men that day as owing to two uncharacteristic defensive errors being committed by skipper Bobby Moore the 1966 World champions were at the receiving end from the Poles who scored through Jan Banas and Wlodek Lubanski.
Sir Alf's 4-4-2 formula relying on the midfield trio of Ball-Bell-Peters did not work out as expected as the three were not ball winners.It was the Poles who had England back padelling at the back.
Bobby Moore as everyone knows was past his prime and his defensive error in the first leg of the Nations Cup quarter final with West Germany at Wembley came to haunt him again.It may well be said that Moore's two errors were costly but catastrophic for England.Down 2-0,it did not help matters when Ball was sent off.
In those days, only one team qualified. England very unlucky to be in the same group as a very good Poland side - finished 3rd in the World Cup. Four years later, England again unlucky to be in a qualify group with Italy. The system today is much fairer.
The World Cup groups Scotland and England were in only had three teams in them. Top team qualifying seems fair
I support Poland
Atrocious from Moore but the keeper should have done better..
Zobaczcie też ten film z archiwum o meczu Polska Anglia - ua-cam.com/video/SpFIBgtujyQ/v-deo.html
This is sport, but fur me thus was Polish answer fur England help fur 2 World War von England!
If you watched in black and white....you were fucked!
If you watched in colour, you were probably equally as fucked as those watching in b&w
england in yellow shirts
What rubbish gets spouted about Bobby Moore. Good player yes of course but NEVER made an error? Check YT & you'll find plenty Moore errors for WHU & ENG.
Overrated I think just because he won the WC.
You must remember England were not even the best team at the 1966 World Cup. In my opinion, anyway. In fact, I don't think 1966 had any standout teams at all, that probably why we won it.
@@SuperTed19021 you need to read up on that world cup. Hungary and Portugal had fantastic sides in the group of death eliminating Brazil. West Germany were sharp but England deservedly won. At the start of the 1970 World Cup they had only lost 4 games in 5 years and arguably the best team in the world over that period.
@@r4h4al Moore was probably, if not definitely, the best ‘in line’ sweeper the game has seen, but it was not his ‘thing’ to tight mark. His forte was his ability to read the game, and cover, intercept - and distribute immaculately, but as a marker he might not have got into many First Division sides.
@@SuperTed19021 England won it because they had home advantage but Argentina and Portugal were very good and Hungary played the best football.
England lost because of those horrible kits. They thought they were playing Sweden and kept passing to the Poles by mistake... LOL
It was a shit kit to be fair.
Nice one.
What ludicrously similar strips! What are England doing in yellow shirts? Poland were a boring side except for their comedian in goal.
Poor England. Probably deserved a draw in that game.
England in custard YELLOW 😂.