That was normal then, orange ball & player's gave their all. I rmbr a match like this when Leics C. Keith Weller came out wearing a pair of nurses black stockings. It hit the main news!
That was part of the game snow or mud all types of playing conditions and the game went on...now... Its like a carpet ..maybe soon they wont play if it rains!...the players of today would want more money to play in these conditions and they would struggle in it anyway
I went to a derby v Liverpool probably return game at the baseball ground Bobbie George and super sub Davies for derby up front at the back super players Roy McFarland and Colin Todd .both teams at the top Keegan got the better of Todd scored . think Liverpool won 1 nill . after the game us Liverpool fans walking through a long alley derby fans threw bricks and slates from nearby terrace houses been demolished ambushed incocent people seen young girl head cut open and old fellow s hurt to police no where.i didn't go to anymore Liverpool games away and soon just watched my home town club Walsall I was 17 then and still remember it .I have never liked derby and often hope they lose.some might say Liverpool have been in trouble to and they are right.but when you see bricks and slates blood tears and crying stays with you more than the great football you just watched
Another wonderful example of life in the 70s. Sport, fashion, music. Top players used to live on normal housing estates then next to ordinary people, sure they were on good money but not tens of thousands a week! I remember Kenny Burns lived a few doors away from my friend in Toton Nottingham. My friends Mum told him he was driving too fast on the estate. He took it on the chin. This was when Forest were Euro champs too. So much to remember......
Absolutely right. Don't listen to rubbish-quality neo-Thatcherite ideologues who constantly peddle exaggerated mythology about this era which misrepresents it hugely!
Wonderful Footage, It just would not happen these days....
I loved playing football in the snow but that must have been borderline playable!
can you imagine todays fukin namby pambys playing in those conditions...
Great excitement in the snow at Anfield two great teams battling it out
Fun, spontaneity, skill, atmosphere, honesty, and Innocence with a capital I. Gone forever with the overpaid millionaires of today.
True...game would probably be postponed these days!!
If that was today they would send the players for a holiday to Somewhere hot and a nail manicure
No players wearing gloves either. Well... keppers maybe (couldn't see) but no namby pamby bollocks in the 70s.
Would the game, with the covering of snow, be played or POSTPONED these days??
Hardly perfect conditions. But in those days football was contested by MEN.
That was normal then, orange ball & player's gave their all. I rmbr a match like this when Leics C. Keith Weller came out wearing a pair of nurses black stockings. It hit the main news!
That was part of the game snow or mud all types of playing conditions and the game went on...now... Its like a carpet ..maybe soon they wont play if it rains!...the players of today would want more money to play in these conditions and they would struggle in it anyway
Real football played by hard men.
I was at this game!
Fantastic pitch.
The ponces
Derby should have won.
The real footballers, the real times!
I'd like to see Man City try to knock it about on this
That's true!!
This is real football. Today's is, well, a different ball game. I blame David Beckham! Mind you Georgie Best..
Derby still wore a white shirt. The ref should have changed it.
Christ I can only just about see the ball!
What ball...
Fun ,honesty, spontaneity, atmosphere, skill, innocence with a capital I. A time gone forever with the overpaid millionaires of today.
So damn true!
This was the first game I went to. stood in the boys pen near the corner flag next to the Kop.
I'm just curious. Did the weather clear as soon as the match finished? 😂
Lucky Liverpool weren't playing Leeds that day...
today`s player`s would be in intensive care, if they to play in those conditions.
I couldn't see a bleeding thing! All credit to the two teams and the officials for trying to put on a show in such adverse and inclement conditions.
I went to a derby v Liverpool probably return game at the baseball ground Bobbie George and super sub Davies for derby up front at the back super players Roy McFarland and Colin Todd .both teams at the top Keegan got the better of Todd scored . think Liverpool won 1 nill . after the game us Liverpool fans walking through a long alley derby fans threw bricks and slates from nearby terrace houses been demolished ambushed incocent people seen young girl head cut open and old fellow s hurt to police no where.i didn't go to anymore Liverpool games away and soon just watched my home town club Walsall I was 17 then and still remember it .I have never liked derby and often hope they lose.some might say Liverpool have been in trouble to and they are right.but when you see bricks and slates blood tears and crying stays with you more than the great football you just watched
The ball wasn't rolling so was unplayable. Great fun!
Another wonderful example of life in the 70s. Sport, fashion, music. Top players used to live on normal housing estates then next to ordinary people, sure they were on good money but not tens of thousands a week! I remember Kenny Burns lived a few doors away from my friend in Toton Nottingham. My friends Mum told him he was driving too fast on the estate. He took it on the chin. This was when Forest were Euro champs too. So much to remember......
Absolutely right. Don't listen to rubbish-quality neo-Thatcherite ideologues who constantly peddle exaggerated mythology about this era which misrepresents it hugely!
Like watching spot the ball.
Somethings wrong none of the outfield players are wearing gloves wtf
walk on........in snow shoes.
Real men real football !!