The Big Match Revisited 1984

 

The Big Match Revisited 1978

 

The Big Match Revisited 1977

The Big Match Revisited 1979

 

The Big Match Revisited 1975

The Big Match Revisited 1974

The Big Match Revisited October 1976

The Big Match Revisited April 1976

FA Cup Final 1969 1970 Chelsea Leeds

League Cup 1970 1971 Final Tottenham Aston Villa

Finale
27 Fevrier 1971
Wembley Stadium

  
Aston Villa are no more nervous about F% playing at Wembley in the League Cup Final than a man collecting his wage packet after a week of hard work. The confidence that rubbed off on them in their memorable Semi-Final victory over humiliated Manchester United has become a permanency in Villa's approach to football. In fact, judged by the outward calm of Team Manager Vic Crowe — is he ever anything else but calm? — the League Cup Final could be on February 27, 1972, instead of this month. Crowe told Shoot: "We have got our priorities right, which means promotion to the Second Division is number one. "The Final at Wembley is number two. I'm not saying we don't want to win it. Nothing would thrill us more. What I am saying is that this match is a long way from our minds at this moment. 

League Cup 1979 1980 Final Nottingham Forest Wolverhampton

Finale

15 Mars 1980
Wembley Stadium

As both League Cup and European Cup holders, Nottingham Forest had entered the match as clear favourites. Indeed, victory here would have given the club a hat trick of League Cup wins, and they would go on to retain the European Cup at the end of the season. By contrast, Wolves' last silverware had been their League Cup win six years earlier and they had finished a lowly 18th in the First Division in the previous campaign, whilst Forest had ended runners-up.

Living up to their tag of favourites, Nottingham Forest took the game to Wolves and created several opportunities, all denied by Bradshaw in the Wolves goal, as Francis shot across him and Gray's mazy run through was just halted. Birtles' driven attempt at a scrambled corner was also parried away by the keeper, while Wolves' attacks largely came to nothing.

League Cup 1978 1979 Final Nottingham Forest Southampton

 

Arsenal The Double Year 1970 1971

Back in the days when the double was a rarity, this video charts every detail of this piece of football history. A must for any Gooner.Having finished 12th in the First Division in 1969-70, a full 24 points behind champions Everton  (and this was in the days of two points for a win, remember), there was little to suggest Arsenal would come on so strong in the following campaign. But that's exactly what happened,  as Gunners fans enjoyed a season they would never forget.  Bertie Mee's boys enjoyed the most memorable of seasons as they clinched the League  Championship and the FA Cup - the first time the Gunners had evercompleted English football's precious Double.

Charlton Atletic "Classic Collection the 70's"

 

Charity shield 1974 Leeds liverpool

10 Aout 1974
Wembley Stadium

There wasn’t much goodwill, and precious little football on show, the first time the Charity Shield was held at Wembley. Liverpool beat Leeds United on penalties but the result hardly mattered. The match disintegrated into a series of niggling fouls and ill-tempered clashes, culminating after an hour in a stand-up fist fight between Liverpool’s Kevin Keegan and Leeds captain Billy Bremner. Sent off, they threw their shirts to the ground as they left the field, an image that went around the world and brought condemnation. It was a bitter disappointment for Ted Croker, the FA secretary, whose idea it was that from 1974 the match would pit the champions against the FA Cup holders at Wembley. He made sure that Bremner and Keegan, the first players sent off at Wembley, knew they had disgraced English football. Instead of the usual one- or two-match ban, they were each suspended for 11 games and fined £500, a huge sum in those days.

The Big Match Revisited 1974

Division One 1979 1980 8 Goals Thriller Norwich City Liverpool

FA Cup 1978 1979 Final Arsenal Manchester United

Finale

12 mai 1979

Wembley Stadium

  
 Can just five minutes of football earn a match the billing of being 'great'? For all ihose who witnessed the incredible last five minutes of the 1979 FA Cup final the answer has to be a definite yes. Arsenal were back at Wembley a year after losing to the only goal of the match by Ipswich Town hero Roger Osborne. The game had been a personal nightmare for Irish international midficld master Liam Brady, who had unwisely played when less than fully fit and he had been unable to make any son of impact on the match. Brady was determined to make up for the heartbreak of 1978 against Manchester United, a team making their thin] FA Cup final appearance in four seasons. They had been stunned to defeat by Southampton in 1976 and had returned to Wembley the following year to sink mighty Liverpool. United, with former Arsenal coach Dave Sexton as their imaginative manager, had cleared ihe Liverpool hurdle again after a replay in the semi-finals to earn a place in the 1979 final. Arsenal had survived a dramatic five-match third-round tie against Sheffield Wednesday and eventually got to Wembley via a 2-0 semi-final victory over Wolves.

Division One 1978 1979 Manchester City Chelsea

20 Janvier 1979
Main Road


 Never at any time during the nine long months of the 1978-79 season did it seem remotely likely that Chelsea could avoid another relegation experience. One bad result followed another with depressing regularity and when Shellito resigned in December the position was once again one of desperation. By appointing the legendary Danny Blanchflower, the famous Irish international and captain of the Spurs 'double' side, as his successor, the directors took a gamble. Since his playing career ended in 1963 be bad been out of the game and working as a sports journalist. He simply loved football. He was a theorist who would expound his ideas to many an enthralled audience who might, or might not, he able to follow his reasoning. Certainly his players at Chelsea never responded to his rhetoric, or fully understood where he was trying to take them. Players moved out. Some like Bill Garner were pensioned off, others brought in cash to fill up the empty coffers, among them Steve Wicks and Kenny Swain who threw in their lot with Derby County and Aston Villa respectively. Blanchflower's recruits included Duncan McKenzie, a mercurial figure and brilliant artist with the ball, and Kamonn Bannon a Scottish half-back from Heart of Midlothian who, sadly, never settled into the Knglish game. And with Bonetti's 21-year Chelsea career finally over, his successor was the Yugoslav keeper Petar Borota. Brilliant one day, awful the next. Never consistent, he loved to entertain the crowd with his unique brand of showmanship and clowning. The Chelsea fans took him to their hearts, prepared to overlook his blunders and frequent disasters. Meanwhile, Chelsea managed a mere five League victories and their total of 20 points was a new, and unwanted club 'record'.

Match Of the Seventies Season 1978 1979

   At Forest Brian Clough's side included ex-Derby players John McCovern, John O'Hare and Archie Gemmill,together with former Liverpool stopper Larry Lloyd. Clough added Kenny Burns, turning the former Birmingham City bad boy into the Footballer of the Year. There was also Viv Anderson, a young attacking full-back who became England's first black player when he took the field against Czechoslovakia on 29 November 1978. But the key acquisition was probably Peter Shilton, bought from Stoke for £270,000, the highest amount ever paid for a goalkeeper. Forest lost just three games all season, conceding only 24 league goals, and took the title with four games to spare. Clough followed in the illustrious footsteps of Herbert Chapman in taking two clubs to the championship. Forest also got the better of Liverpool in the 1978 League Cup Final, a John Robertson penalty settling the issue at Old Trafford after a goalless draw at Wembley.  Having been pipped for domestic honours twice, Liverpool made sure they didn't finish the season empty-handed by retaining their European crown. FC Bruges were their Wembley opponents.