17/10/1973 England v Poland

What a wonderful game to watch..England were magnificent as were Poland who themselves went on to be a superb side for the following 10 years.

I can remember watching this and although the result went against England I would say that this game was my most memorable world cup moment ever. Such an exciting match from start to finish and one which kept you on the edge of your seat for its entire duration. Watching games nowadays and I seem to get bored after 10minutes.

Poland deserved to be in WC 74. The third place speaks for itself. Tomaszewski in great shape.

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Hugh Johns was one of the best commentators there was.

The Man Who Stopped England. Mr Jan Tomaszewski.

I was at Wembley for this game, and what a game it was. I remember all of us singing "give us a goal" - and Poland then scored! I missed Hector's effort being cleared off the line in the last minute because everyone stood up (I was only 11!), I had a blinding headache at the end and my Dad congratulated some Poland fans after the game. But HOW did England not win?

History of polish football, l like to return to this spectacl.

Not so bad England, drawing against the country which came 3rd in the world cup, and were unlucky, with so many chances and a rare mistake by Shilton. Wales did well to beat Poland and draw at Wembley- very tough group to be in.

Hugh Johns best commentator ever.

The Polish dream team!

Poland deserved a trophy in their 70’s - 80’s they really dominated teams well

pure football. no bullshit, not even names on the shirts.. these were the days..

I attended a game in this group when Wales beat Poland 2-0. I was only 14 but still remember their star Lubanski. Unfortunately he was injured for the World Cup but the Poles surprised everybody in finishing in 3rd place.

Where is foul on Lato and Lato's 100% situation??

Just one word: Tomaszewski.

My late Mum let me stay up late to watch this aged 9. I couldn't believe how good their keeper was (worse luck). In West Germany '74 he was as good as Sepp Maier. England really should have won that night: we had a team full of heroes and a World Cup winning manager. Clever Brian Clough called their keeper a clown, knowing full well it would not only give us a laugh when we needed it, but he'd always be remembered for it. And he is, God rest him.

Tomaszewski's great night!!

DAYS OF POLISH GLORY ...

The Golden age of polish football...

Just barely thirteen when I watched this crucial World Cup qualifier between England and Poland at Wembley on 17 October 1973. England needed a win whereas Poland the 1972 Olympic champions just a draw would be suffice. Five months earlier at Katowice,England had suffered a shock 2-0 defeat to the Poles.But this time around with home ground advantage the English fans had expected the home team to walk over the visitors.Moreover last month on 26 September in a friendly at the same venue England had crushed Austria 7-0. The Poles knew that it would not be easy playing England at Wembley and they came with intentions hoping for a draw. Yes that night England attacked relentlessly and ruthlessly non stop for the duration of the match.The only problem.The England frontline lacked finishing power.The ball would not go in despite the many chances.Allan Clarke,Martin Chivers,Colin Bell and Mick Channon did have chances presented to them.But they just could not apply the finishing touches. It was either the Polish goalkeeper Jan Tomaszeski or the goal post that stood in England's way.And the Poles too had Lady Luck to thank them. For all their dominance England despite equalising with an Allan Clarke penalty just could not score another to qualify for the Munich finals. One of the blackest days in English football but then the home team had no one but only themselves to blame.Chances were a plenty but forwards especially the culprit Martin Chivers left their scoring boots at home. That draw sealed Sir Alf Ramsey's fate as England's supremo.He would continue to take charge but too for two England friendlies with Italy and Portugal in April the following year.

This was the second match I watched in colour. My neighbor invited me over to watch the match I was 12

لقد كان منتخب بولندا في تلك الفتره كبير ولاينسى متخم بالنجوم لاتو و ماجافسكي ودينا وشارماخ نجوم

Jan Tomaszewski was playing almost whole time with broken thumg.

Poland had a spectacular run in World Cup matches. They played 19 qualification and finals games over a 5 year period ending on 14 June, 1978- winning 15 and losing only once to West Germany at the 1974 finals.

Can't understand stand why Clough called the Polish keeper a clown he had an outstanding game that night in keeping England out at Wembley

great team of poland tomaszewski the legend here , on 1974 poland came third without the star lubanski,great team still remember szarmach and deyna scoring ag, italy 2-1-england was good but unlucky in this game

I was at this game behind the goal where the polish team scored . England played very well but the ball just would not go in the net, They got caught out by the sucker punch on the break . bad mistake by Norman Hunter RIP

I still believe had England scored early we Would have won easily - the Crowd where magnificent this night .

The great Brian Clough called the goal keeper a clown / Poland went on to finish 3rd in the world cup

Lovely stuff !

Listening to the commentary now it feels like Poland have a few composers at the back! Remember this match like it was yesterday..end of an era that began with the Hungary drubbings 20yrs before.

Now this is real football!

A lot of us remember the match for Tomaszewski's heroics, and Brian Clough's pre-match comments on the 'clown' in goal for the Poles. On the night, the clowns were actually Hunter and Shilton.

To think it was 12 years before an England team qualified again after 1970 is amazing? We had some great players that didn't get to go to a finals Keegan Brooking etc only went at the end of their careers shame really?

Remember the disbelief at England going out that night, we absolutely battered them but simply could not get the winner, however only the Netherlands were better to watch than the Poles at WC74 .

Have you forgot Mc Farland's shameless faul on Lato? Not surprised at all.

Brian Clough called the Poland keeper a clown, i thought he was brilliant, the clown was Shilton.

nie wierze że kiedys polska reprezentacja była taka dobra, a teraz 4 miejsce w grupie na mundialu 18'

The Warsaw Pact! Poles everywhere!!! England just couldn't bang it in!!!

You can clearly see Clarke handling the ball at 10:48, you see it again in slo mo, you can see the referee tapping his hand twice, he awards a free kick from the exact spot where Clarke was standing , and still the commentator has no clue why the goal was disallowed? Wow.

We beat Austria 7-0 a few weeks before and Ramsey famously quoted we played BETTER against Poland!!

Wonderful memories

England have never got over losing the World Cup in 1970, Poland just made it worse, we can't forgive ourselves and every generation no matter how good is afflicted with the memory!

Alf made a few mistakes...made very few..but not playing Bobby Moore in this game cost us years of misery

Jan Domarski's goal in the 57th minute killed off England's 1974 World Cup qualification hopes and thus for the first time since 1950 England missed the boat to the World Cup finals. A defensive lapse by Norman Hunter resulted in Gregord Lato easily disposed the former of the ball and the latter raced through to enable Domarski to slip the ball through between the legs of goalkeeper Peter Shilton.That goal by Dormaski meant that England in the next thirty three minutes had to score twice to make the Munich finals. As such,the home team were desperate not only to equalise but to score another.The equaliser did come a few minutes later and Allan Clarke cooly slotted the ball past Tomaszeski. But for the remaining minutes of the match,tried as they could,England just could not score another that would have sealed England's passage to the 1974 World Cup finals in West Germany. Sir Alf Ramsey was numb with helplessness after the match.Ask about what would be his future as England's supremo he replied,"Who knows?"

this kind of match in Poland we called "defence of Częstochowa" [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jasna_G%C3%B3ra] Because we have only hope before win :) cheers from Poland :D

Went to this game,can't remember much about it as i was chatting my mates girlfriend up....

The most one-sided draw ever!

The frustrating thing is that I really believe this is the best group of individual players England ever. They could have been the best England side ever. They would have been in real contention at the W/c finals in Germany. Shilton, Madeley, Hughes, Hunter, McFarland, Bell, Currie, Channon, Clarke, Chivers, Peters. All truly great players, and many more in reserve. No Kevin Keegan, and Francis Lee wasn’t even selected.

whenever im feeling down i come and have another watch of this

Two thoughts: Tony Currie was a great player and he won far too few England caps; why did Norman Hunter not just belt that ball into the stands?

El portero polaco extrordinario

Looking back on it England didn't have the wit to create many clear cut chances.

For all their faults this England team contained some of the most talented players of the decade: Bell, Channon, Chivers, Clark, Currie, Hughes, Hunter, Madeley were all outstanding footballers: yet somehow a team with less "spectacular" individuals (Hurst, Mullery, Peters, Beardsley, etc) achieved far more in 1966, 1968, 1990 and 1996.

Good luck english, we will meet in next year in the euro qualifiers

The Poles were a tough outfit to crack on that night.

303 Squadron

I never forget Poland’s keeper. Is Shilton still playing for England? 😂

I remember reading that a yank journalist wrote that the atmosphere that dark night was " like being at the Nuremberg rally back in das 30 ts " .

THE PROBLEM WITH ENGLAND'S FORWARDS WAS THAT THEY TEND TO AIM THEIR SHOTS DIRECT AT THE POLISH GOALKEEPER RATHER THAN PLACED THEM BEYOND.

Was that really a penalty? The English player seemed to fall awfully easily.

Sir Alf Ramsey should have recalled Geoff Hurst and Francis Lee for this crucial World Cup tie with Poland at Wembley on 17 October 1973. But he did not and paid the price.The rather clumsy Martin Chivers was ineffective and had Hurst and Lee being available they could have tucked away those chances. The front line of Channon,Chivers and Clarke misfired and missed so many chances which could have sealed an easy win for England. The Poles were hardly in the game at all except for the goal by Jan Domarski. Why and how did England missed all those chances?And England forced no less than twenty six corners and had dominated the proceedings for the entire match.The misfiring Martin Chivers could have made way for Kevin Hector much earlier but one wonders why Sir Alf had not done it much earlier.Chivers as we all know had played his last game for England and was not recalled for England's next friendly with Italy at Wembley in November.Norman Hunter made a blunder of it all as he miskicked and allowed Gregorzt Lato to race through allowing Dormarski to deliver the killer goal.Clarke equalised at 1-1 five minutes later but it was too little too late.

My father shook the television so much the glass bulbs in the back blew up/ for those of you who don't know what I'm on about Google it you won't believe it but it's true / you could make your own televisions in them days

The England players were so much in a hurry to get on with the ball and to go in for the kill.This must have unsettled them. Instead they should have been more cautious and take their time to gradually built up their attacks. The Poles knew that the home team was under tremendous pressure to deliver in the goals and they concentrated on tightening up their defence to make sure that England did not get an early goal.

A gdzie jest ten moment gdzie Lato wychodzi sam na sam i Anglik łapie go za koszulkę??????:)))))

srew you !! english boys !!!!

oczywiście Tomaszewski bronił świetnie, ale ewidentnie słabo u niego było z wyjściami do piłki (źle obliczał jej tor lotu) i jej piąstkowaniem

Jerzy Corgon - Walking Telephone Pole........groan!!!

Les anglais ont eu de la chance sur ce match : Lato ne jouait pas. Qui était le meilleurs buteur du championnat anglais ? Il leur manquait un joueur pour pousser les ballons au fond (cela s'est confirmer dans le match qu'ils ont joué après contre l'italie).

In the beggining I thought this was a Monty Python sketch

Shilton:-D

That ball just did not want to go in lol

England no wingers since 66 people like summerbee armstrong and hinton frozen out

Why was Channons "Goal" disallowed?

A discolated finger goalkeeper would be off for a month these days 😂😂😂

4 46 A f _ in pen or whot _ we went to war for these clones _ I don't know ? Great support hear !

Why was the England goal disallowed?

En los 70s fue negro para la selección de Inglaterra no fue al mundial de Alemania en el 74 y tampoco en Argentina 78 ya que Italia fue primero de su grupo y para colmo enfrento ala campeona olímpica que era Polonia dejándolos fuera con todo y boby moore

Was that the late Brian Moore commentating ?

What was wrong with England's disaollowed goal at 10:50??

Knocked us back years !!! Why no Bobby Moore????

Jaaa chce pooooolskeeeeee

42 corners

What was wrong with Channons goal ?

Poland were dead lucky in this game. England had 40 odd attempts on goal 2 goals disallowed hit woodwork..unbelievable. The Dice of Fate have been thrown and we went 30odd years of bad luck and poor refereeing decisions .

How did we not win 25-nil ?

Has anyone ever called Shilton to task for diving over the ball ?

Poland were a very good side then and england should have scored six!!

10:05

I really respect English people. Probably they are most intelligent and powerful nation in whole history. Shakespeare, the Beatles, FC Liverpool, Churchill, Newton, Tony Blair, John Cleese... Other people may smell their panties. But... Poles were unexpectedly better this evening.

Murphy's law, bad luck, jinx...... THE ⚽ WOULDN'T PASS THE WHITE LINE

Robbed....The most one sided 1-1 draw in football history.

England post 1970 lost Bobby Charlton and had no natural ball winner..

it was all england atack atack

Spurs' Martin Peters was wasted at midfield.He should have been deployed to his usual role as a goal poacher.

england had to win ,moore was droped by alf for this game

Let's face it, when the iron curtain came down Eastern European football just became awful. Poland had an amazing generation of players there. Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, USSR would emerge as other great teams. But their football hasn't been what it was for 30 years now and it's clear why.

I prefer England 3 Poland 0 1986 Lineker hat-trick 🤣

On any other night 5 - 0 for england. Shilton was useless.