Even some Chelsea swopped shirts at the end which was unheard of at the time. I think there was respect from the two sides and even after games between the two sides they would have a drink together and nothing was said.
I don't recall any uproar when Revie was appointed England manager in 1975 that he was going to turn England into a team of thugs. In fact, he was ahead of his time. He had dossiers on the opposition, which Keegan admitted he threw in the bin - doesn't say much for him. And other ways Revie was ahead of the game.
Also, I don't recall this hatred of Leeds in the late 70's and 80's. No, this started when Man u and Leeds had their recent rivalry in the 90's.
I've gone into this in recent years. You can find many people from that era , including, Bobby Moore, Alan Ball and Ian st John, who contradict this. Certainly the latter's argument is that every team had players like that 'well, we had Gerry Bryne, Tommy Smith and Ronny Yeates' It seems to me there is an agenda to besmirch what Leeds did, ie The Damned. Or do you think that was balanced? What is a fact, is that there is a conspiracy to do Leeds down.
@benjibobable oh really? did you see what he did to kevin keegan in the charity shield to upset him and get him sent off? Classy was the last thing he was....
the 1970 fa cup final was dirty leeds being beaten at their own game. Chelsea out-kicked, out-physically harried and out-bullied leeds which won them the cup.
I am a Birmingham City fan and not Leeds. However, over the years I have come to realise the Leeds teams of 65-75 were great ones. And, as Alan Clarke, said played some of thegreatest football ever seen on these Isles.
@martynhanson Leeds were a great team but they were also more dirty than any other team. That is FACT. Go look at the old matches and see how much Leeds players tried to upset opposition more compared to Liverpool, Man United and Chelsea the time.
Your all saying players are scum but tbh them days footballers were hard. Bremner was as hard as any player and so was mcreadie, but there was always respect between the teams, footballs been ruined. No respect
Not sure what I have suposed to have said about Billy but I think he is one of the great players of all time and would not swap him for anybody playing the game today. Again I say LEEDS are muck racked in media by free booting man utd mafia
Leeds were a great team, and dirty too, but most teams had their dirty hard men. Chelsea's most (in)famous was Chopper Harris. Nowadays players get booked and sent off more easily. In those days there was less diving and play acting, but skilful players knew they were gonna get kicked, and have to take it without crying. Billy Bremner was a tremendous captain, the heart of Leeds. I hated them at the time but they were part of great memories- above all, Chelsea winning the cup. Happy days.
Dirty dirty fucking LEEDS they did not get that name for nothing, CHELSEA played and beat them at their own game LOL. CHELSEA had their hard men as well, but they also had a man called OSGOOD [ born is the king of STAMFORD BRIDGE ] R.I.P. Who scored one of the best cup final goal of all time.
@BOSCOBLUEEYES you had one hard man we had a team of em you had one great player osgood. we had team of great player u just had the luck that day and i no were in the championship but u have all the money in the wolrd and your still shite
@Grugby2009 Chelsea only had one hard man, shows how much you know mate, Harris, Webb, Baldwin, McCreadie, Yes you did have more hard men in your team, thats why you lost, NO CLASS, and thats why they called you DIRTY FUCKING LEEDS, mind you Bremner did not look to hard after McCreadie had finished with him. he was rolling about like a pussy. we only had one great player what about Cooke mate. No respect mate, you cant always kick your way to victory. Lol
@BOSCOBLUEEYES chelsea skill they took eddie gray out in the 5min and you call leeds dirty and if you get kicked if the face by a 6ft def i am sure you would feel it no matter how hard you r. no class thats why we are know for being the greatest side to take a pitch
Leeds are a bit like Steve Ovett, that is more myths are told about them that stil persist today. The truth is that Leeds played some of the greatest football I have ever seen. I rate Bremner asone of the greats and one of the few players mentioned by name IN Pele's book. As for the 'dirty' stuff I recall Ian St John saying 'Well, we had Byrne , Yeats and Smith' In other words, that was the game then. By the way, I don't watch modern football anymore as I gave up, it annoys me.
Haha ,reading leeds thick thug tossers trying to diminish that ugly stupid prick Bremner's neanderthol tactics with the true great Roy Keane! Also the jealous morons trying to disparage Ronaldo when, unlike Bremner he is one of the greatest players to have ever set foot in England (skills and talent wise a non-contest and CR7 has won more in 3 years then that twat Bremner and those other goblins in that team of bottlers,Leeds United, won in 12 years!
@robertjenkins8 You're a bit of a knob jockey aren't you Robert? Roy Keane was a fucking, dirty, cheating gob shite. Even the paddy's can't fucking stand him.
Bremner wasn't hard just a bully who had a go at players he knew he could push about. That mcreadie who was the Chelsea fullback was renowned for that sort of stuff. He did it to mike summerbee during one game and summerbee tried to strangle him.
Leeds' reputation preceeded them a lot and I think this cost them a lot of calls from the referees that less notorious sides would get in their favor. I think even Bremner understood this and there was probably no hard feelings. Soccer was a rough game back then and to Leeds' credit they took it as well as they gave it.
call bremner a vile cheat, what about roy keane? he smiled when he ended careers and nobody called him a cheat!!!! As for being a footballer billy was easily as good as keane
Leeds were not thugs. A lot of this was started by milions of man utd supporters in the 80's and a reflection of their rivalry. Their 'spokemen' dominate the media
I supported my home team Birmingham not a team out of town
lol. It was more about the treatment that they gave him than the awful challenge. Bremner was 8 stone of barbed wire but that would have felled the hardest player :O)
Leeds tried to bully everyone? - Chelsea were the thugs in this game. After Eddie Gray had slaughtered David Webb at Wembley, Ron Harris simply went out and crippled him early in the replay. Harris has admitted this, but did any Leeds player go out and do the same to Charlie Cooke?
If you watch the whole 'gam', you'll see that Leeds never tried to cripple anyone the way Chopper did. He intentionally went for Eddie & he's admitted it. As for Jack, Norman & Johnny, they were hard - just like Chopper and a host of other in the game were at the time!
Yes I did notice I'd missed an 'e' on game, thanks for pointing it out so succinctly.
Ask yourself why Liverpool weren't reviled when they were dominant, or Man Utd weren't, or Spurs weren't, or Barcelona, AJax, AC Milan, Real Madrid or any of the other "great' teams of the 20th century.
It's because they went out to outplay teams, where Leeds went out to intimidate. The really sad thing is that they were a very good footballing team and didn't have to sink to the depths they did.
Leeds were reviled by certain sections of the press and, and people believe what they read. Yes Leeds were a tough side, but the media inspired 'dirty' tag is as unfair as how many South Americans accuse England of 'cheating' their way to the 1966 World Cup. There is far more video evidence of the skill and flair of Leeds than their 'dirtiness'.
Eddie Gray's performance at Wembley was outstanding, but you know what happened to him in the replay....
Eddie Gray was a great player, as were Allan Clarke, Johnny Giles, Bremner and Cooper, all Chelsea did was use the same tactics to nullify their flair as Leeds did to their opponents throughout their glory years.
Look what they did to Kevin Keegan in the charity shield in 74, or Jimmy Johnstone when they played Celtic, or George Best every time they played Utd, or Derby, and on countless other occasions.
Well Leeds didn't do anything to Jimmy Johnstone because they couldn't catch him! Best got rough treatment wherever he went, though Paul Reaney was the man who could match his speed and stop him from playing. The Charity Shield game was a bad tempered one - but Derby? If you're talking about the Hunter - Lee punch up, Lee started that incident with his diving!
jack - that game where Leeds kicked Derby off the pitch in 'The Damned United' was TOTALLY fictitious, placed in the movie to make Leeds look awful! Check the facts and you'll find Derby beat Arsenal at Highbury that day and nobody got hurt.
This is what I'm talking about when I say Leeds were and still are treated unfairly by the media!
You're right about that one, sorry, but the rest is still true.
You are rightly proud that the Leeds side of the 70s were a very good team, though I think to be called great they would have to have been more successful in Europe, remember at that time they weren't even the best side in Great Britain - Celtic were.
I just think it's sad that they could have been so much more than they were, and I think the cynical mindset they had held them back.
No need to apologise jack, it's the hacks who 'researched' and wrote that movie who should be doing that.
That's not the only mistake in 'The Damned United' - there are lots of them and most denigrate Leeds including their version of 'Billy Bremner', the invented snub of Clough by Revie and the equally fictitious game in 1968. Sure it's well acted and entertaining, but imagine if they did a similar hatchet job on Chelsea? The trouble is that people who don't know the era think its fully factual.
'People say that David Webb won the Cup for Chelsea, but I think it was 90 per cent me who won the Cup for that tackle on Eddie Gray. He limped for the rest of the game,'
Fair play to him though - at least he didn't try to pretend it was an accident.
It was an accident & credit to McReadie for returning to check on Bremner even though Bonetti is telling him to get upfield. Bremner & McReadie were Scotland team mates, something which went beyond their club rivalry.
Totally agree. McReadie stopped in his tracks to check on Billy. The foul was totally unintentional and the player sought no advantage whatsoever. As you point out, he stays back till the trainer arrives. Two top footballers.
Dirty Leeds, and captain dirty getting a taste of his own medicine, Bremner the scumbag wouldn't have hung around to say sorry if it was the other way around, Nice one Eddie
Are you referring to me (IQ 148) or McCreadie (Scottish)? Kev? Leeds fan? Born in 1954? You sound like the hubby of a woman I'm shagging, that's what we Irish do as you Brits are so inept in bed, why do you think your hen parties all come here?............
Bremner was not a dirty player, he looked after himself on the field which you should.However a kung fu kick from eddie mreadie you should be locked up for not just booked and whistled.Bremner was a great player and those who think otherwise do not know anything about football
I once asked a psychiatrist, what exactly a borderline personality disorder was. She replied 'a nasty piece of work'
Exponents of this title were exemplified in 60's football by the likes of Tommy Smith and Billy Bremner but perhaps most notably by Eddie Mcreadie.
The beautiful game? Not in his case. He seemed to enjoy hurting people. At least Chopper Harris didn't smile as the bones cracked and his face at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale
People are saying things like "Chealsea scum" but you'll notice that McCreadie constantly goes back, even after play has continued for a length of time to see if Bremner is ok that to me suggests gentlemanly play unlike today where so called "professional" fouls are an almost accepted tactic. While fans have to suffer over paid poncy gits like Ronaldo. What happened to football.
@ProcolHarum1967 Yes you are dead right, McCready was never a dirty player, it was dangerous play, but more accidental, and anyone knocking your team, should noye exactly what you said, McCready is really concerned, and shows it,, and I'm a LFC man
Come on, no need for that, and anyway McCreadie was Scottish too. But in those days they were real men, each team had its chopper or 2, none of the namby pamby diving you get today. We 'ad it toof when i were a lad, worked down pit 26 hour a day from age of 5- if you were lucky. I'm just surprised Bremner didn't get up and carry on at once. Great memories.
Ah yes, great days. Very dirty match. At the time Revie's Leeds were most hated in England, for their success + dirty play, going for the treble. Chelsea had Osgood, Cooke, Hudson (missed the final), but they weren't just prima donnas either! Now with the money it's Chelsea hated.
The good ol days, no stopppin play cos Ronaldo's hair is out of place, men gettin on with it not kickin the ball out cos substitute number 8 has cramp after 12 minutes and a long season of 4 second half appearnces on the long run in the Rich Man's League. Whoops, I meant "Champions", i.e. finishing 4th, League. Take a penalty? Moi?
the whole game was played as "advantage", should've finished 4 a side. but it doesn't matter, because they played on. real men, fighting for that shit
4 a side - not sure -I re watched the whole game a while ago and maybe only 3 v 2 - glorious clip of when it was a contact sport,I think it would be re-labelled MMA these days.
If a team is reduced to 7 players, the game has to be abandoned. It's in the rules. i)You'll react furiously to this. ii)You've never read the rules. iii)You'll react furiously when you realise you've never read the rules.
Diggermanno1 lets start this msg of on the right foot!!!! ok.... its not a kilt its a fucking skirt and not to worn by straight sain men!!!! so you are either gay and therefore dont have a wife insane/wierd and maybe yeah you do have something about dogs as the other fella mentions, or maybe your bi-sexual!! stop recking this page with your useless coments and get some jeans you stupid cunt!!!
jBlobby1859, You should be so luck, if you had been with my wife last night she would have got so pissed off with your premature ejaculation problem she would have told you to go home and play with your toys like a good little boy.
Can't for the life of me think what Eddie McCreadie is doing asking the little ginger gobshite if he is all right, McCreadie should have given him another good kicking while he was on the ground wondering what day it is.
Leeds United cheated out of championships and cup finals; European and domestic by referees 'period'. Leeds I think were 1-0 up before McCreadie's foul in the penalty area. Should of been 2-0 with penalty. Nuff said.
One of the reasons this final was so violent was the appalling refereeing. You would've had to commit murder to get even a booking in this match. That and the fact the teams hated each other.
God, this is what it must feel like to be 85, most people with the same experiences have died. There must be some that remember the Leeds/Chelsea 'happy times'.
It was obvious a Scottish Bremner/McCreadie setup, just to keep it going, what I wonder. The bloody wind-ups that they were. Brilliant times. These lads are heroes.
Makes me laugh the failed sliding tackle by Jackie Charlton on Peter Osgood. Was it true he was nicknamed after his famous uncle, Jackie Milburn- there was nothing Jackie Milburn about that tackle, the long streak.
This clip must be from Australia or somewhere. I've come across this before, and I think the explanation is that the BBC used to buy LWT(part of ITV) football highlights for export to Australian TV and elsewhere, putting "BBC action replay" etc. on the video. Good to hear the brill Brian Moore again, and to see players also sadly not with us anymore.
Even some Chelsea swopped shirts at the end which was unheard of at the time. I think there was respect from the two sides and even after games between the two sides they would have a drink together and nothing was said.
drogba448 2 days ago
Had the chance to meet him today. So honoured :')
dachaser007 2 weeks ago
Chelsea legend!
jackHNv 1 month ago
continued.
I don't recall any uproar when Revie was appointed England manager in 1975 that he was going to turn England into a team of thugs. In fact, he was ahead of his time. He had dossiers on the opposition, which Keegan admitted he threw in the bin - doesn't say much for him. And other ways Revie was ahead of the game.
Also, I don't recall this hatred of Leeds in the late 70's and 80's. No, this started when Man u and Leeds had their recent rivalry in the 90's.
martynhanson 4 months ago
I've gone into this in recent years. You can find many people from that era , including, Bobby Moore, Alan Ball and Ian st John, who contradict this. Certainly the latter's argument is that every team had players like that 'well, we had Gerry Bryne, Tommy Smith and Ronny Yeates' It seems to me there is an agenda to besmirch what Leeds did, ie The Damned. Or do you think that was balanced? What is a fact, is that there is a conspiracy to do Leeds down.
martynhanson 4 months ago
@benjibobable oh really? did you see what he did to kevin keegan in the charity shield to upset him and get him sent off? Classy was the last thing he was....
GeoffSkates 4 months ago
the 1970 fa cup final was dirty leeds being beaten at their own game. Chelsea out-kicked, out-physically harried and out-bullied leeds which won them the cup.
GeoffSkates 4 months ago
I am a Birmingham City fan and not Leeds. However, over the years I have come to realise the Leeds teams of 65-75 were great ones. And, as Alan Clarke, said played some of thegreatest football ever seen on these Isles.
martynhanson 4 months ago
@martynhanson Leeds were a great team but they were also more dirty than any other team. That is FACT. Go look at the old matches and see how much Leeds players tried to upset opposition more compared to Liverpool, Man United and Chelsea the time.
GeoffSkates 4 months ago
McCreadie is by far one of the best
aM97Stotty 4 months ago
Your all saying players are scum but tbh them days footballers were hard. Bremner was as hard as any player and so was mcreadie, but there was always respect between the teams, footballs been ruined. No respect
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Paul Scholes was a very good footballer, and if he had improved his tackling, he would have been half the player that Billy Bremner was.
horse69outside 9 months ago
Not sure what I have suposed to have said about Billy but I think he is one of the great players of all time and would not swap him for anybody playing the game today. Again I say LEEDS are muck racked in media by free booting man utd mafia
martynhanson 9 months ago
harmless horseplay.
MrLawman10 10 months ago
Leeds were a great team, and dirty too, but most teams had their dirty hard men. Chelsea's most (in)famous was Chopper Harris. Nowadays players get booked and sent off more easily. In those days there was less diving and play acting, but skilful players knew they were gonna get kicked, and have to take it without crying. Billy Bremner was a tremendous captain, the heart of Leeds. I hated them at the time but they were part of great memories- above all, Chelsea winning the cup. Happy days.
mizofan 10 months ago
Dirty dirty fucking LEEDS they did not get that name for nothing, CHELSEA played and beat them at their own game LOL. CHELSEA had their hard men as well, but they also had a man called OSGOOD [ born is the king of STAMFORD BRIDGE ] R.I.P. Who scored one of the best cup final goal of all time.
BOSCOBLUEEYES 1 year ago
@BOSCOBLUEEYES you had one hard man we had a team of em you had one great player osgood. we had team of great player u just had the luck that day and i no were in the championship but u have all the money in the wolrd and your still shite
Grugby2009 1 year ago
@Grugby2009 Chelsea only had one hard man, shows how much you know mate, Harris, Webb, Baldwin, McCreadie, Yes you did have more hard men in your team, thats why you lost, NO CLASS, and thats why they called you DIRTY FUCKING LEEDS, mind you Bremner did not look to hard after McCreadie had finished with him. he was rolling about like a pussy. we only had one great player what about Cooke mate. No respect mate, you cant always kick your way to victory. Lol
BOSCOBLUEEYES 1 year ago
@BOSCOBLUEEYES chelsea skill they took eddie gray out in the 5min and you call leeds dirty and if you get kicked if the face by a 6ft def i am sure you would feel it no matter how hard you r. no class thats why we are know for being the greatest side to take a pitch
Grugby2009 1 year ago
WHAT A TRAVESTY??? WAS THE REFEREE BLIND.
daveibukun 1 year ago
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infeted14 11 months ago
How the hell wasn't that penalty? Chelsea scum.
Deanboy2007 1 year ago
Leeds are a bit like Steve Ovett, that is more myths are told about them that stil persist today. The truth is that Leeds played some of the greatest football I have ever seen. I rate Bremner asone of the greats and one of the few players mentioned by name IN Pele's book. As for the 'dirty' stuff I recall Ian St John saying 'Well, we had Byrne , Yeats and Smith' In other words, that was the game then. By the way, I don't watch modern football anymore as I gave up, it annoys me.
martynhanson 1 year ago 2
Haha ,reading leeds thick thug tossers trying to diminish that ugly stupid prick Bremner's neanderthol tactics with the true great Roy Keane! Also the jealous morons trying to disparage Ronaldo when, unlike Bremner he is one of the greatest players to have ever set foot in England (skills and talent wise a non-contest and CR7 has won more in 3 years then that twat Bremner and those other goblins in that team of bottlers,Leeds United, won in 12 years!
robertjenkins8 1 year ago
@robertjenkins8 You're a bit of a knob jockey aren't you Robert? Roy Keane was a fucking, dirty, cheating gob shite. Even the paddy's can't fucking stand him.
neiloinsydney 1 year ago 2
Ah, the good old days when players were not urged to kick the ball out of play if someone went down injured...
homesweethome1984 1 year ago 2
possible shout for a penalty .... i've seen them given !
sandcastlejim 1 year ago
A bit high....but Billy was a "wee" feller!
TheWhitehall 1 year ago
Bremner wasn't averse to dishing out the rough stuff himself so makes a change for him to be on the receiving end.
vicsmith5000 1 year ago 2
Proper football played by proper blokes.
councilglasses 1 year ago
Good to see Billy not role around the place.
tallowman3 1 year ago
Bremner wasn't hard just a bully who had a go at players he knew he could push about. That mcreadie who was the Chelsea fullback was renowned for that sort of stuff. He did it to mike summerbee during one game and summerbee tried to strangle him.
Th3M4dH4tt3r82 1 year ago
Billy Bremner gave his fair of clout legal or otherwise. Perhaps this was a bit of khama
telestoe 1 year ago
Anybody who compares King Bremner to Keane scum and glorifies the latter , deserves to drink my piss !
yessae 1 year ago
@yessae well said
67sc41 1 year ago
flying spin kick did dijong watch this?
Jaya365 1 year ago
Play on.
danzig2288 1 year ago
Back in the days when it was a real man's game.
eclectica1 1 year ago
scotland team mates
innit27 1 year ago
Leeds' reputation preceeded them a lot and I think this cost them a lot of calls from the referees that less notorious sides would get in their favor. I think even Bremner understood this and there was probably no hard feelings. Soccer was a rough game back then and to Leeds' credit they took it as well as they gave it.
WatchVenusSpa 1 year ago
If ginger cunts head was as high up as everone elses it wouldn't of happened.... accident i reckon
theslice2 1 year ago
@theslice2 You are a Prick.
peteaholbrook 1 year ago
Get the sponge out ,thatll sort him out.!!!
helltopay1 1 year ago
call bremner a vile cheat, what about roy keane? he smiled when he ended careers and nobody called him a cheat!!!! As for being a footballer billy was easily as good as keane
Leeds were not thugs. A lot of this was started by milions of man utd supporters in the 80's and a reflection of their rivalry. Their 'spokemen' dominate the media
I supported my home team Birmingham not a team out of town
martynhanson 2 years ago 10
What rivalry in the 80s? You were in the Second Division for most of it
MUFC
cajjer 4 months ago
Well, at least McCreadie seemed to care. Thought for a second that he was going to do a Clough-Stokoe...
Lewelltam 2 years ago
I love the way they call it 'dangerous play'.
gusemcontra 2 years ago
hahahah some of the people on here havin a go at bremner
makes me laugh how pathetic they are that they still get worked up after 40years!
hanigan696969 2 years ago 2
Bremner deserved every kick he got, the vile little cheat
guvner67 2 years ago
stay classy..
77Fortran 2 years ago
Can't argue with that. The whole of that Leeds team were the biggest cheats and bunch of thugs the game has ever seen.
knuddle68 2 years ago
they replayed the shot wide, but not the dangerous challenge.
trickynho 2 years ago 2
And they treat a possible concussion with a damp sponge? That was when footie was a man's game!
deptford 2 years ago
a mans game? come off it mate. that was an assault. unbelievable how the ref didnt even give a penalty.
portugalskrilla 2 years ago 2
lol. It was more about the treatment that they gave him than the awful challenge. Bremner was 8 stone of barbed wire but that would have felled the hardest player :O)
deptford 2 years ago 3
fuckin chelsea rent boy
maudsley75 2 years ago
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Good old Eddie, I wish he'd decapitated the dead little cunt.
ysgol3 2 years ago
The bullys got bullied, up the blues.
cockneymark 2 years ago
To all the people who say Chelsea have no history,heres a reminder!
buldic 2 years ago 3
That was the dirtiest game I ever saw, Leeds tried to bully everyone they ever played then, but Chelsea stood up to them and gave it back.
The funny thing is they were Scotland team-mates.
jackHNv 2 years ago
Leeds tried to bully everyone? - Chelsea were the thugs in this game. After Eddie Gray had slaughtered David Webb at Wembley, Ron Harris simply went out and crippled him early in the replay. Harris has admitted this, but did any Leeds player go out and do the same to Charlie Cooke?
helltopo 2 years ago
I think if you watch the whole gam, it's about equal in terms of kicking people.
Leeds might not have hacked Charlie Cooke, but they certainly had a few pops at Ossie and Ian Hutchinson, and quite a few others in both games.
You're not trying to tell me Jack Charlton, Norman Hunter and Johnny Giles were clean players are you?
jackHNv 2 years ago
If you watch the whole 'gam', you'll see that Leeds never tried to cripple anyone the way Chopper did. He intentionally went for Eddie & he's admitted it. As for Jack, Norman & Johnny, they were hard - just like Chopper and a host of other in the game were at the time!
helltopo 2 years ago
Yes I did notice I'd missed an 'e' on game, thanks for pointing it out so succinctly.
Ask yourself why Liverpool weren't reviled when they were dominant, or Man Utd weren't, or Spurs weren't, or Barcelona, AJax, AC Milan, Real Madrid or any of the other "great' teams of the 20th century.
It's because they went out to outplay teams, where Leeds went out to intimidate. The really sad thing is that they were a very good footballing team and didn't have to sink to the depths they did.
jackHNv 2 years ago
Leeds were reviled by certain sections of the press and, and people believe what they read. Yes Leeds were a tough side, but the media inspired 'dirty' tag is as unfair as how many South Americans accuse England of 'cheating' their way to the 1966 World Cup. There is far more video evidence of the skill and flair of Leeds than their 'dirtiness'.
Eddie Gray's performance at Wembley was outstanding, but you know what happened to him in the replay....
helltopo 2 years ago
Eddie Gray was a great player, as were Allan Clarke, Johnny Giles, Bremner and Cooper, all Chelsea did was use the same tactics to nullify their flair as Leeds did to their opponents throughout their glory years.
Look what they did to Kevin Keegan in the charity shield in 74, or Jimmy Johnstone when they played Celtic, or George Best every time they played Utd, or Derby, and on countless other occasions.
They dished it out just as much as Chelse did
jackHNv 2 years ago
Well Leeds didn't do anything to Jimmy Johnstone because they couldn't catch him! Best got rough treatment wherever he went, though Paul Reaney was the man who could match his speed and stop him from playing. The Charity Shield game was a bad tempered one - but Derby? If you're talking about the Hunter - Lee punch up, Lee started that incident with his diving!
helltopo 2 years ago
You're right about Jimmy Johnstone, he was brilliant, one of the best ever.
I was talking about the game at the Baseball Ground when Leeds kicked Derby off the pitch 3 days before they had a European Cup semi-final.
The Lee-Hunter episode was hilarious by the way, and are you saying that Chelsea kicked George Best as well? You're right!
jackHNv 2 years ago
jack - that game where Leeds kicked Derby off the pitch in 'The Damned United' was TOTALLY fictitious, placed in the movie to make Leeds look awful! Check the facts and you'll find Derby beat Arsenal at Highbury that day and nobody got hurt.
This is what I'm talking about when I say Leeds were and still are treated unfairly by the media!
helltopo 2 years ago
Fair enough!
You're right about that one, sorry, but the rest is still true.
You are rightly proud that the Leeds side of the 70s were a very good team, though I think to be called great they would have to have been more successful in Europe, remember at that time they weren't even the best side in Great Britain - Celtic were.
I just think it's sad that they could have been so much more than they were, and I think the cynical mindset they had held them back.
jackHNv 2 years ago
No need to apologise jack, it's the hacks who 'researched' and wrote that movie who should be doing that.
That's not the only mistake in 'The Damned United' - there are lots of them and most denigrate Leeds including their version of 'Billy Bremner', the invented snub of Clough by Revie and the equally fictitious game in 1968. Sure it's well acted and entertaining, but imagine if they did a similar hatchet job on Chelsea? The trouble is that people who don't know the era think its fully factual.
helltopo 2 years ago
jack, here's Chopper on the 1970 replay:
'People say that David Webb won the Cup for Chelsea, but I think it was 90 per cent me who won the Cup for that tackle on Eddie Gray. He limped for the rest of the game,'
Fair play to him though - at least he didn't try to pretend it was an accident.
helltopo 2 years ago
Bremner gettin a taste of his own medicine,sorry I know he might have been a great club man and I respect that ,but it's TRUE -No Sympathy!!!!!
MrBazzabee 2 years ago
Regardless of whether or not he caught Bremner, shouldn't he have been for dangerous play..? both feet were way too high.
theyorkshirewhites 2 years ago
Wouldn't you love to transport Drogba/Ronaldo and Co. to these era and show them how MEN played the game!
Imagine the forwards who faced Tommy Smith/Norman Hunter/Peter Storey/McCreadie AND Harris and, arguably, the hardest of the lot=
Dave Mackay!
Mackay once tackled a player hard ad the player got tangled up with Mackay who got up and kept running with the player being dragged around him! lol
Isleofskye 2 years ago 3
That was nothin in the 70's and 80's..played by men not big girls
Gaffer96 2 years ago
It was an accident & credit to McReadie for returning to check on Bremner even though Bonetti is telling him to get upfield. Bremner & McReadie were Scotland team mates, something which went beyond their club rivalry.
helltopo 2 years ago
McCreadie was just going back to Bremner to say "Here you are- you've dropped some teeth Billy"!
A classic clip.
manyhighhills 2 years ago
Totally agree. McReadie stopped in his tracks to check on Billy. The foul was totally unintentional and the player sought no advantage whatsoever. As you point out, he stays back till the trainer arrives. Two top footballers.
1851davidb 2 years ago
Jesus Christ!!!
jkoff76 2 years ago
I liked Mcreadie, the games had Characters in those days, however he should have been locked up for that and I think he knew it.
8742leeds 2 years ago
What position was he playing ..bet he was good with a cross !!
theyorkshirewhites 2 years ago
Dirty Leeds, and captain dirty getting a taste of his own medicine, Bremner the scumbag wouldn't have hung around to say sorry if it was the other way around, Nice one Eddie
Derkayzer 2 years ago
Idiot paddy
kev1954 2 years ago
Are you referring to me (IQ 148) or McCreadie (Scottish)? Kev? Leeds fan? Born in 1954? You sound like the hubby of a woman I'm shagging, that's what we Irish do as you Brits are so inept in bed, why do you think your hen parties all come here?............
Derkayzer 2 years ago
Yeah I am referring to you IQ what???
Does that mean you understand football,obviously not, it is beyond you
8742leeds 2 years ago
'Yeah I am referring to you IQ what???' Is English your first language mate?
Derkayzer 2 years ago
Bremner was not a dirty player, he looked after himself on the field which you should.However a kung fu kick from eddie mreadie you should be locked up for not just booked and whistled.Bremner was a great player and those who think otherwise do not know anything about football
8742leeds 2 years ago
jesus REF f##king unreal.
jimifawcett 2 years ago
Can anyone find me the ron chopper harris tackle on eddie gray? ive been told its pretty horrific.
tomgmaster1 2 years ago
Brilant pity he missed knocking his head off. Dirty Leeds
bpraag 2 years ago
You say dirty leeds then say he should have knocked his head off...hypocrite or what ?
theyorkshirewhites 2 years ago
Man he kicks Billy's head off.
But lets play on - amazin !
Those were tough days and real pro's
ajay999999 2 years ago
I once asked a psychiatrist, what exactly a borderline personality disorder was. She replied 'a nasty piece of work'
Exponents of this title were exemplified in 60's football by the likes of Tommy Smith and Billy Bremner but perhaps most notably by Eddie Mcreadie.
The beautiful game? Not in his case. He seemed to enjoy hurting people. At least Chopper Harris didn't smile as the bones cracked and his face at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale
davidmbutcher14 2 years ago
On another occasion, McCreadie chinned a Roma player who spat in his face, knocked him out cold.
FlaviusConstantius 2 years ago
People are saying things like "Chealsea scum" but you'll notice that McCreadie constantly goes back, even after play has continued for a length of time to see if Bremner is ok that to me suggests gentlemanly play unlike today where so called "professional" fouls are an almost accepted tactic. While fans have to suffer over paid poncy gits like Ronaldo. What happened to football.
ProcolHarum1967 2 years ago 19
@ProcolHarum1967 Yes you are dead right, McCready was never a dirty player, it was dangerous play, but more accidental, and anyone knocking your team, should noye exactly what you said, McCready is really concerned, and shows it,, and I'm a LFC man
redredreds100 1 year ago
he dived !
leenyburghers 2 years ago
He didn't get dropped. He slipped, and put Lee down with a great right cross
lkijju 3 years ago
didnt he just. ginger haired bastard fights like a girl.
superleeds30 3 years ago
hunter wudve got dropped just like he did against little franny lee
iactuallwill 3 years ago
wouldnt have done it on hunter, big norman wuda knocked his bollox in
dagenhamdave77 3 years ago 2
Eddie Mcreadie's Blue and White Army!
Chelsea1ManU0 3 years ago 2
yes mayve your right your very calm considering my comment respect
raggmanss 3 years ago
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fuck that scottish ginger scum bastard and fuck leeds
raggmanss 3 years ago
Come on, no need for that, and anyway McCreadie was Scottish too. But in those days they were real men, each team had its chopper or 2, none of the namby pamby diving you get today. We 'ad it toof when i were a lad, worked down pit 26 hour a day from age of 5- if you were lucky. I'm just surprised Bremner didn't get up and carry on at once. Great memories.
mizofan 3 years ago
Good on you mizofan!
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
Pack that shite in...FFS, England's footballers had nothing but respect for us, both at Hampden and Wembley, and vice versa from ours to yours.
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
He never touched him.
cockneymark 3 years ago
hah Bremner's a phallus
TopherPVFC 3 years ago
Brilliant... the hairs still stand up on the back of my neck watching this game. Imagine Ronaldo playing in this? I'd pay anything to watch that!
Mizofan, Chelsea have always been hated even before the money... but I prefer us to be hated than adored. No one like us we don't care!
galiciaterrasanta 3 years ago
well in eddy also went on 2 manage us. kick dem northern wankers in
FamousCFC66 3 years ago
Ah yes, great days. Very dirty match. At the time Revie's Leeds were most hated in England, for their success + dirty play, going for the treble. Chelsea had Osgood, Cooke, Hudson (missed the final), but they weren't just prima donnas either! Now with the money it's Chelsea hated.
mizofan 3 years ago
By a mile ...
BOTH THE MOST LOATHED TEAMS IN NORTHERN EUROPE
FACT!!!!
spursloyal71 3 years ago
Scotland team-mates aswell
innit27 3 years ago
The good ol days, no stopppin play cos Ronaldo's hair is out of place, men gettin on with it not kickin the ball out cos substitute number 8 has cramp after 12 minutes and a long season of 4 second half appearnces on the long run in the Rich Man's League. Whoops, I meant "Champions", i.e. finishing 4th, League. Take a penalty? Moi?
Hirsute63 3 years ago 11
Bremner had it coming as always. Nice job Eddie.
Britishrailer 3 years ago
cock!
tunafishpie123 3 years ago
ask yourself why a penalty wasnt given.doesnt it seem odd that leeds were conspired against when they played in cup finals....think about it!
jonnyrottensp 3 years ago
Utter Fucking rubbish.
JamieWom 3 years ago
the whole game was played as "advantage", should've finished 4 a side. but it doesn't matter, because they played on. real men, fighting for that shit
xSoccerxCorex 3 years ago
4 a side - not sure -I re watched the whole game a while ago and maybe only 3 v 2 - glorious clip of when it was a contact sport,I think it would be re-labelled MMA these days.
lavish88 3 years ago
If a team is reduced to 7 players, the game has to be abandoned. It's in the rules. i)You'll react furiously to this. ii)You've never read the rules. iii)You'll react furiously when you realise you've never read the rules.
EuropeanCannon 3 years ago
and they called leeds dirty.
chelsea scum.
mattyfryer89 3 years ago
The match was shown on ITV as well? They used to show the cup final on both channels in those days.
madogthesheep 3 years ago
why was brian moore commentating on a bbc film? he was i.t.v commentator
ellandrd1306 3 years ago
stupid scot git
seattlerob7 3 years ago
Bruce Lee's a big McReadie fan.
GodzOfThunder 3 years ago
Chelsea scum
lurcherdog13 3 years ago 3
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l3ydy 4 years ago
Yawning!!! is that the best you can do?
DiggermanNo1 4 years ago
Little boy jBlobby, what's the matter, didn't your mum hug you enough, or did your dad touch you down below?
How did you become such a perv?
DiggermanNo1 4 years ago 2
jBlobby1859, You should be so luck, if you had been with my wife last night she would have got so pissed off with your premature ejaculation problem she would have told you to go home and play with your toys like a good little boy.
DiggermanNo1 4 years ago
diggermanNo1 - nobody cares what u think!! so take your mams skirt and go play on the motorway!!!
l3ydy 4 years ago
The trouble with Bremner was he liked to act hard and dish it out but he couldn't take it.
DiggermanNo1 4 years ago
Can't for the life of me think what Eddie McCreadie is doing asking the little ginger gobshite if he is all right, McCreadie should have given him another good kicking while he was on the ground wondering what day it is.
DiggermanNo1 4 years ago
jblobby1985: Yeah --- you and who's army?
DiggermanNo1 4 years ago
Leeds United cheated out of championships and cup finals; European and domestic by referees 'period'. Leeds I think were 1-0 up before McCreadie's foul in the penalty area. Should of been 2-0 with penalty. Nuff said.
EstelleCecil 4 years ago
Ha Ha - stitch that one you litte GINGER gobshite!!!
DiggermanNo1 4 years ago
ouwatchinga different game you dickhead!!!!
finianboy 4 years ago
he never touched him ref!
ValkyChelsea 4 years ago
Those softies players of the seventies...
Pepgominola 4 years ago
Back when football was played by Men.
Blackmace 4 years ago 3
In those days, if the players wanted to kick each others heads off each others shoulders, what can a referee do, but say, fucking idiots!
blokezed 4 years ago
One of the reasons this final was so violent was the appalling refereeing. You would've had to commit murder to get even a booking in this match. That and the fact the teams hated each other.
H4rryF 4 years ago
Let me tell you a secret, Leeds and Chelsea loved each to death.
blokezed 4 years ago
it very nearly was to death
H4rryF 4 years ago
lol quality
SuperHoops13 4 years ago
i thought decapitation in the box was a penalty!
hazetwood 4 years ago
Yes it is, but not for Scottish people, apparently.
blokezed 4 years ago
I was wondering where Bremner Bird and Fortune came into this... heh, should read the description more closely!
jsd23 4 years ago
God, this is what it must feel like to be 85, most people with the same experiences have died. There must be some that remember the Leeds/Chelsea 'happy times'.
blokezed 4 years ago
It was obvious a Scottish Bremner/McCreadie setup, just to keep it going, what I wonder. The bloody wind-ups that they were. Brilliant times. These lads are heroes.
blokezed 4 years ago
Makes me laugh the failed sliding tackle by Jackie Charlton on Peter Osgood. Was it true he was nicknamed after his famous uncle, Jackie Milburn- there was nothing Jackie Milburn about that tackle, the long streak.
blokezed 4 years ago
Sorry, meant via Australia not from Australia obviously.
blokezed 5 years ago
This clip must be from Australia or somewhere. I've come across this before, and I think the explanation is that the BBC used to buy LWT(part of ITV) football highlights for export to Australian TV and elsewhere, putting "BBC action replay" etc. on the video. Good to hear the brill Brian Moore again, and to see players also sadly not with us anymore.
blokezed 5 years ago
Yup ITV.
BXCZHS 5 years ago
Funny, action replay says bbc tv but the late great Brian Moore was on ITV?
iamthepig 5 years ago