1971/72 - The Kick Off Match (Man Utd v Newcastle & Huddersfield v Liverpool - 12.2.72)
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Full 'The Kick-Off Match' programme.
Man Utd v Newcastle - Commentary by Gerald Sinstadt (Man Utd include Law, Best & Charlton)
Huddersfield v Liverpool - Commentary by Keith Macklin
The following week we went to Leeds and got hammered 5-1. Frank O'Farrell went out and bought Martin Buchan from Aberdeen and a bit later Ian Storey-Moore from Forest but we ended up 8th, funnily enough, where George Best predicted we would finish. This was United's 5th defeat on the bounce and that ended in March with a 0-0 home draw to Everton. I used to go home and away back then with my mates from school. Did a paper round mornings and nights to pay for it.
Tony green was a magnificent footballer , his injury was a tragedy
He played for Blackpool too????
His part in Newcastles first goal demonstrating that.
@@seanbonellayep Blackpool and Newcastle, injury prematurely ending his career.
And making the second!
Even though my own team, Everton struggled in this season so soon after winning the league title 69-70, players has more energy a natural skills than what we regularly see in the Premier League. These players had no warm winter breaks mid season, and often played 42 league games and cup games at two per week. Many Liverpool players from this game mentioned its significance later this season It seemed morale was a bit down after going out of the FA Cup a week earlier. And league form not its best. Travelling back from this game the team coach stopped at a Fish and Chip shop and the players and staff had a feast on the journey home. On the Monday spirits were lifted at training after getting two points at a difficult away game. Next game, Liverpool hammered a very good Man City 4-0 at Anfield, that began a winning run that clinched them the league title that season
A week before I became two years old. Proper football here.
Technically this is before it was called "Kick Off Match"(a weird title,by the way!)....just called "Football".....very Ronseal!! I have to say this theme tune must have struck a cord with the nation,when a choccy biscuit company called 'Burtons' uses the tune in an ad,some 8 or 9 years later! Well played,Herb Alpert!
Not that weird a title. Granada had a preview programme Friday night called Kick Off.
@@rotonda4068 oh is that why it was called Kick Off Match then....that explains it.....cheers!
What's weird about Kick Off Match? Seems perfectly correct terminology.
@@seltaeb3302 Not really....A football match kicks off,but kick-off match? It's just a word and a phrase clumped together,out of order!
Fantastic!
Glad you like it!
Tony Green! Wow. Playing against a team full of legends, he shone.
I love the intro card at the start. Retro
Fantastic - Utd looked good to me here, even though it was during their disastrous run which took them from clear at the top at Christmas to mid-table. Newcastle were ferocious, a particularly brutal tackle on Best I thought by Barraclough (a forgotten name to me!) - red card in 2024.
Can we have this football back? So sick of the predictable & antiseptic Premiership currently on offer
Mate yer team didn’t win back then either.
@@jintsfan GFY
Tickets for the away game at Leeds £0.35 & £0.40 pence, in today's money that's £4.00, shows how fans are being ripped off.
When fitba was fitba...Great time growing up,watching real men play real fitba
These were the days of the power cuts hence early kick off for reserve match?
It was called football , Not Kick off
Any one know why that big square behind the goal in the stretty end is with no fans in it .. I was told because the hooligan lads used to throw darts and coins at the away keepers??? So they punished them by making that square???
Manchester United were top at this time
Great times to be a Derby County fan....!
who won
They weren't. They were miles off the pace. Derby County and Leeds Utd fought out the title - though Liverpool had a late run, and were denied by a disallowed goal in a 0-0 draw at Arsenal in the final match of the season. Man Utd by now were in terminal decline.
@@johnholmes8178 indeed they were....they were relegated 2 years later weren't they? Bounced straight back though.....!
@@anthonybailey1966 Man Utd were relegated in season 1973/74. But yeah, 'bounced straight back' ! Wow - bit like Burnley are doing this season.
Best not at his best
I wonder how today’s players would fare on those pitches?