The chelsea legend

@@rlaalsxo Thank You.

@@johndempsey7528 Hello John, looks like you had a chance there towards the end of the game which a smack from the edge of the box. Did Gary Sprake get a hand to it? Never mind though, as you got a screamer in Athens the following year!

@@greentambourine2323 Hi nice to talk to you. Yes Sprake tipped the ball over the bar as it would have gone in. Yes I was happy the following year when I scored against Real Madrid. Stay Safe

chelsea legend . your goal in cup winners cup against real madrid was fanastic

Lfc v west ham

OMG....I had not heard about Peter Bonetti. 😞

He was prone to the odd gaff

they would probably be really bad

I like pitches that has life in it. Some of the best matches had terrible pitches but you saw great skill & adaptation & no complaints. Now pitches are like a video game, utterly perfect & utterly boring with lightweight players. Larry Lloyd weight equals 2 players of 2020's

Eddie was one of the best players in the league. His style was inimitable.

In the replay he was marked by Ron Harris instead of Dave Webb. Let's just say he didn't have so much of the ball!

@@cjknotty yes, Eddie was marked alright, he still has the marks on his legs......

Shhould av scored at least one

Leeds not diving or trying to con the ref? Are you from this planet? (then the fact of both teams kicking shit out of each other. How is that good football?)

But then again there was this rugby player called Ron 'Chopper' Harris...

@@wildbill6826 Thing is, Ron, despite his reputation, was a good footballer. He'd previously captained England at youth level and was also the youngest ever captain of a Cup Final team, three years before this. And in a 20 year plus playing career, he was never sent off in a league game. That seems amazing but he played in a era where they didn't hold back and it wasn't just defenders. That Leeds team could mix it and there were forwards like Joe Jordan, Bob Latchford, Ron Davies, Joe Royle who gave as good as they got. Ron could certainly dish it out but he was getting whacked too. The irony is that he was limping badly before extra-time in this match and was substituted. In the replay, the injury was aggravated in another challenge but he made it to the end. No complaints from him. Just got on with it.

Better than todays crap!!

Bonetti was brilliant, Sprake made a costly mistake but that may well have been due to the mud- like Charlton's goal- and he also made some superb saves.

More LIKE it

They were both very good goalies. And football was... football ;) Not kicking around a balloon...

Yes, but even in those days the WEMBLEY pitch was normally impeccable. The deep, green, turf that used to suck the players' stamina and induce crippling cramp.

They just had The Horse Of The Year Show on the Wembley pitch, that's why it was so bad , unbelievable

Garry Hope He also said Clarke did everything right when he headed straight at the goalkeeper!

Back then Wembley on the weekend before the FA Cup Final always hosted the show jumping Horse of the Year show & the pitch got ruined for a footy game, still at least the greyhounds didn't shit on it!

Bill Buchan Unbelievable then, now the poor little prima donnas are sure to make sure they get pink or luminous green boots, in those days a mans game played by real men!

There was something about the old Wembley

A billoard table that had been trampled under foot by a dozen cart horses.

@@chriskolovos6143 it stank of urine

Tottally agree with you. It was other football, better without any doubt.

happy days indeed

Not sure that he was as good as Best, but a very good player.

@@kevinhiggins910 yeah you are right Kevin George Best was arguably in the top 3 in the world at that time, but i always thought Eddie Gray was a tremendous player in the old Division 1 and he was certainly the best player in the two games of the 1970 fa Cup final

@@tonymcgrath700 Your so right Tony ' my self I would rate Eddie n George Equal !! But anyone could argue George never reached his potential because of his wayward life style..These games were Fab and every player gave 100% without moaning they were tired Unlike today sir..Also what is Ace is all players are British and have the loyalty to the fans paramount !!..May I say Peter Lorimer was a remarkable player too.,Dont think football will ever attain this Standard or integrity again 'Top players r far to Ego driven today u only have to look at Pogba ,Bale n Kane all overrated the list could be endless Also I wish to add you had a very accomplished manager then ,Today they are weak and have very little vision or any enishative .Kind regards Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands 🤝

@@kevinhiggins910 Gray was much more consistent and had a much longer career at his peak than Best, despite many bad injuries (due to weak referees, poor pitches and playing in an era with a lot of cloggers).

they stuck harris on him in the replay , and he was scared to death

it certainly did. There was no true equivalent in European cups to the UCL in the 70's, the FA Cup was the most prestigious cup a team could get

@@GavinOCo Also the players back then were all from England and Scotland and from the time they were kids they dreamt about playing in the FA Cup Final. Not so much the case today when most of the players aren't even British.

fine goalie, most expensive in the world when sold by Laeeds

Didn't know that, but i can believe it. Thanks for intel. West Yaarrkshire haha.

Yes great legends.

Sprake and Bonetti were good keepers but always remembered for mistakes, Bonnetti had had a nightmare in the 70, world cup .

@@twissem6414 Lord yes...I can still see those dreadful German goals ..especially their equaliser .

Hi Grace it was a great final to play in and against a great Leeds team.John Dempsey Chelsea.

@@johndempsey7528 Cheers John. They don't do finals like that anymore. Two teams giving it 100%..dishing it out and taking it like proper men. Respecting each other by not giving a quarter...I wish you well John. Imagine if that game had been played today. It would have ended with just Sprake and Bonetti left on the pitch. Great to hear from you.

Hi Grace 100per cent agree with what you said.Football was a real tough game back then not like today where most of the time they are rolling around on the floor. Stay Safe

Yes

class won in the end of course

I thought chelski won the replay?

Well, McCreadie's unpunished penalty box assault on Bremner in the replay offers a clue.

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Too mate, do t believe the haters 👍

They had the horse of the year show a few days before there - The FA said never again.

They had the horse of the year show a few days before there - The FA said never again.

They held the horse of the year show for some reason.Thats why the pitch was in this state.

Yeah, and the football isn't as good.

Yes, doesn't look too friendly does it? You can see Charlton giving him an earful for the first goal, too, perhaps with some justification, but Sprake does well to keep this one out and still gets it with both barrels. Who'd be a goalkeeper?

They had the horse of the year show a few days before there - The FA said never again.

right, on a good surface Chelsea would have played much better, Osgood and Cooke would have run rings round Leeds and Charlton's goal would have been cleared off the line

@@mizofan I don't think the mud made any difference at all to Charlton's goal. The defenders on the line miskicked it. Simple as that.

I watched on black and white TV, but when the commentator said we were wearing red socks, I knew we'd be unlucky :-(

I support LEEDS

Arsenal

it's truly sad that the fa cup final is now a secondary game. all the rich clubs would rather make the top four now

As with most things wrong with the country, blame Rupert Murdoch- TV rights and the Premier League have ruined the game

Leeds were cheats and thugs, the most hated team in Britain. They were a disgrace to football, it was great to see Chelsea kick the shit out of them AND beat them.

Interesting that you say that, as Ron 'Chopper' Harris boasted in his book that he made the biggest single contribution to Chelsea winning the replay when he crippled Eddie Gray.

Gray wasn't crippled, but Jones did crock Bonetti

Everton were well ahead of them in the league, Celtic were simply too good for them in the European cup, and Chelsea, even with Bonetti injured in the replay and Hudson missing, made sure they won nothing :) As befits such a dirty team

@@mizofan I suggest that you watch the whole of the 1970 final and the replay, and then have a rethink. Little point though, as you probably have a closed mind, clouded by hatred, third hand opinions and selective memory. Actually, I have edited this because I realise that I am wrong. You are actually a wind up merchant. Fair enough. I have just read your comments on the video of McCreadie's unpunished assault on Bremner, and they are actually much more balanced.

A show jumping competition had been held at Wembley a couple of weeks earlier and the horses had cut the pitch up a bit.

@@craiggerrard5117 ah! Thanks Craig. I couldn't figure it. In those days other pitches could be a tip, but not Wembley, which was always immaculate. For instance in the 1971 F A Cup final between Arsenal and Liverpool. But that explains it all. Bit surprising though that they allowed a show-jumping event there two weeks before the great showpiece?! Wonder if someone got a rollicking?!

@@martm216 They certainly never allowed it to happen again, so I expect that some Wembley official was given a bad time. The Wembley pitch was usually perfect because it wasn't used very often. As you say, it was great 12 months later for Arsenal v Liverpool.

@@craiggerrard5117 exactly. The Wembley pitch was kept for special occasions, internationals and cup finals, and not much else I guess? I'm sadly getting on in years now, but looking at the pitches they play on these days, I can scarcely believe my eyes. They look like billiards tables or bowling greens. I really don't know how they turn them out like that, week after week. New techniques of drainage and grass technology or something. I used to go and watch Southampton play at The Dell. What an amazing little stadium that was. The pitch might look all right for the first few matches, but then it would all cut up, and both penalty areas, and beyond, would look more like Bournemouth beach. Many other grounds weren't much better though. Some were worse. Was watching on here just yesterday a programme about Brian Clough. The pitch at the Baseball Ground was literally a mud heap. Not a blade of grass to be seen. You wondered how they could play on it. Probably wouldn't even be legal nowadays!

yes, it got stuck in the mud, should have bounced

Ive also often wondered why chelsea appealed after the charlton goal.