Spurs v Man Utd (1965)

Tottenham Hotspurs defeating Manchester United 5-1 at home. Jimmy Greaves scores a blinder.

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[HitMeQuick]

let's play that formation every week. 2-3-5!

[whiteman703]

THE GREATEST goal scorer ever !!

[u2mixer]

It's ALWAYS good to watch Utd get beat as I'm a LIverpool fan BUT Jimmy Greaves and Bobby Charlton have to be 2 of the greatest players of all time.

I tilt my hat to both of them.

[sahir33]

hey where is giggs?haha

[MrRepublikOfMancunia]

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[sebastiansap2003]

@Krzyszczynski Yes Bobby Charlton hit that with his left foot. Players now earn £100,000 a week and can only use one foot

[Krzyszczynski]

@smudger1979football : in them days strikers didn't HAVE a weaker foot - they trained and trained to bring the non-dominant one up to scratch. Nat Lofthouse (another great goal-hanger from a slightly earlier era than Greaves) used to play training games with an old carpet slipper on his right foot, simply so's he'd have to use the left to have any chance of scoring.

[kisbie]

@HitMeQuick In the case of this clip, you can see that the attacking players' positions as given are not far removed from the truth, but Bobby Charlton is actually a lot deeper than a real centre forward would be. Going by the names on the teamsheet, United are probably using W-W (3-2-3-2), which was pretty popular until 4-4-2 came along.

[kisbie]

@HitMeQuick From the footage, it looks like it might actually have been the 1966 World Cup where the BBC began displaying accurate formations. After that, I think they mostly just showed the players listed from 1-11 - until the early 90s - and the commentator went through the list. But I have seen newspaper cuttings from the 70s where 2-3-5 is still being displayed for all sides, despite it having been outmoded by the W-M (3-2-2-3) decades earlier. (Which itself was out of date by the 50s!)

[HitMeQuick]

@kisbie It did seem odd although of course Ardiles tried something similar with 5 up front when Kilnsmann was with Spurs. I wonder how they chose to show Ramsey's wingless wonders on the TV then. Maybe you know...

[kisbie]

@HitMeQuick They didn't actually line up like that. 2-3-5 dropped out of fashion back in the 20s. But for some reason it wasn't until the 70s that TV and newspapers stopped using it as the 'default' formation for their graphics.

[0586730O2]

look at the formations at the beginning looks like 2-3-5!! how would a modern side nowadays do playing this formation!!