You've got to love the commentary by Brian Moore on most of the Seventies & Eighties Finals. Great video of Cup Final Saturdays when you spend the whole day in front of the TV with the build-up and the match.
I miss the old Wembley! Yes it had a dog track around it, but it made the pitch look as if it were on a stage somehow. Throw in the long walk onto the pitch from behind the right hand goal too - those were the days!
One of the things I love about this is no matter the era you’re born there’s pundits, managers and commentators you never saw as players because that’s how you knew them growing up. You always thought you dad was old when they talked about these guys then you reach the same point in life where the young generation only know souness, Keane, Neville, wright etc etc as pundits. Jeez bet some never saw Southgate play There’s so many here I only knew as managers and pundits and it’s amazing to see how good they were
Good post. And it's stuff like this I'm prone to think about a lot. The passage of time fascinates me, boggles my mind and scares me in equal measures. Often I think about football history too, in a similar way. As so often football mirrors the circle of life.
beautifully compiled video, wonderful memories, teams and players, hearing Brian Moore commentate was always a pleasure, there is something very special about the F.A Cup, from the joy of the winners to the amazing cup runs some very small teams have made over the years, it is amazing how many unfancied teams won or made the final looking back at this video, it shows how magical the cup truly is.
To think Ricky Villa's goal is considered one of the best ever scored in a Cup Final. It wasn't even the best scored in that final. Steve McKenzie criminally overlooked.
In the 80s here in the Netherlands there was only once a year an English football match on television and that was the Cupfinal. I remember all of them. More recent ones I tend to forget because of the huge amount of football available nowadays. Also the old Wembley was much much better.
Did you go back to 1953 just to keep The Mags happy? Yes they won 3-1 but against 10 men, like they did in the semi final when they beat York City from the old division 4 by 1-0. Joking aside some great memories there and some cracking goals too. Thanks for the upload. Through a friend I got tickets to the 1987 final. Coventry were awesome that day.
Great video, fantastic memories and superb commentary on many of the clips, the only one I’d change is the 1981 replay one. John Motson’s commentary for the winner is up there with ‘they think it’s all over…..’
Blackpool were 2 goals down v Bolton in the first game shown here and won (1-3 to 4-3) Nearly happened in 1979 Arsenal v Man U -bit of a tough one as nobody would have wanted Man U to win after being 2 down,but we nevertheless didn't particularly want Arsenal to win either,though that was the prefered outcome by a bout a micron.
It's striking how few have been decided by pen shootout. Admittedly that has only really been an option since 2000 (when FA Cup Final replays were removed)
Moved by the photos of the winning teams in the older finals. It was the biggest day for them then. Sadly most are no longer with us but what a peak they achieved as young men. It was their day.
To think players like Stanley Matthews were probably getting 10 quid a week. And the ball weighed a ton. No play acting either just talented players doing it gor the love of the game
15:54 Well done for rightly-crediting George Graham with the goal. It officially went down as Eddie Kelly's goal after Brian Moore(and possibly Jimmy Hill too) said George Graham didn't touch it. There are replays available that show the ball speeds up and slightly changes direction after George swings his foot at it and George himself says he touched it and I have no doubt that he's correct!
You must admit: They neither had gloves nor special training as they have nowadays. Plus the ball weighted a ton. However, I would still consider that goalkeeping has developed the most in the last 60-80 years
Notice in the earlier ones how players aren't falling over every two minutes, and instead just get on with it. Notice how they aren't endlessly passing the ball sideways and backwards and are instead trying to score goals. What happened to this game of ours?
italian footy i believe well i noticed it back in the early 90s when it was on channel 4 ..play acting,time wasting etc what a disgrace also sky fooked everything up
Ten Hag 2 years - 3 reach the finals. 2 FA Cup and 1 Carabao Cup. Won 2 out of 3 finals. Sacked by the Mgt. Arteta 6 years - 1 final. Won 1. Still stuck with the club. Club with no ambition. Damn.....
Great video, but with a couple of errors. Eddie Kelly was credited with Arsenal's equaliser in 1971, not George Graham. Also, we keep hearing how Ricky Villa's winner was the greatest goal in an FA Cup Final when it wasn't even the best goal of the game. Steve Mackenzie's volley blows it off the pitch.
I think you seriously overrate it at terrible 😂😂😂😂, 50’s football, with those big heavy balls and the boots, was so slow. I played in the early 60’s and the laces on the ball would leave some interesting marks after you headed it.
How is it that i didn't follow the cup for all the 2010s, i was shocked to see Hull in the final, or to find that Palace had been back since 1990 then even more shocked to discover that Wigan had won it, and yet I still somehow knew that Pardew's moves were an embarrassment?
My dad was at the 1953 final,he is still bemused to this day why they credit mortensen with a hat trick, when his first goal was clearly an own goal, coming off the Bolton no 10 hassall
i think the best match was not a final but the 3-1 THUMPING of Arsenal by the Mighty Spurs in 1991, semi final, that will never go from my memory :-) FORZA SPURS!!!!!!
That Blackpool goalkeeper had a shocker in the 1953 final - I doubt if he could believe he walked a way with a winners medal. Is thre a better goad that Steven Gerrards last minute thunderbolt in 1996?
@PeterHolman-id9pu , chuckle, I don't know about that, but that could quite possibly be my dad! He's been mad about that goal since 1958!!! (and my mother's family were Bolton fans!)
This works as a guide to when the TV action replays were taken over by 10 year-olds, making it difficult to see the goals because of the jerky camera style.
Really enjoyed this video but I stopped enjoying it when the mid/late 90s started it just became repetive Chelsea Man Utd Arsenal Liverpool them Man City came along copy and paste football died in the 92/93 season
At least Wigan Portsmouth and Leicester won. Too young to remember the other two but I remember the 2021 final and it's one of my favorite football memories despite me not being a Leicester fan.
It's because the money disparity as a % between top sides and those below became higher. For instance, Utd were the richest club in the 80's but only spent about 20% more than rivals- not enough to guarantee success, jump forward to the 2000's when Chelsea spent 100%+ more than Utd and 400% more than Arsenal- that buys success. Then City broke the rules that were put in place to stop this in the 2010's so their success is illegitimate.
Both those games were dreadful, and punctuated by John Motson's almost ecstatic exultations of Glenn Hoddle..."A tremendous pass there by Tony Currie, almost as good as the one Hoddle did earlier." Never heard such biased commentary before or since.
You've got to love the commentary by Brian Moore on most of the Seventies & Eighties Finals. Great video of Cup Final Saturdays when you spend the whole day in front of the TV with the build-up and the match.
Yeah so many memories , looking back Brian Moore was a fantastic commentator. I was lucky growing up in that time.
The best footy commentator ever in my opinion, such a distinctive tone to his voice and spoke with such enthusiasm like a true football fan.
Unfortunately never got to commentate on a Gills cup final win
David Coleman was the best but he got replaced by the awful Motty.
I always loved how he always said "It's in there"
I miss the old Wembley! Yes it had a dog track around it, but it made the pitch look as if it were on a stage somehow. Throw in the long walk onto the pitch from behind the right hand goal too - those were the days!
One of the things I love about this is no matter the era you’re born there’s pundits, managers and commentators you never saw as players because that’s how you knew them growing up. You always thought you dad was old when they talked about these guys then you reach the same point in life where the young generation only know souness, Keane, Neville, wright etc etc as pundits. Jeez bet some never saw Southgate play
There’s so many here I only knew as managers and pundits and it’s amazing to see how good they were
Good post. And it's stuff like this I'm prone to think about a lot. The passage of time fascinates me, boggles my mind and scares me in equal measures. Often I think about football history too, in a similar way.
As so often football mirrors the circle of life.
Yeah I spotted Andy Grey
Glen Hoddle
Kevin Keegan
Ray Wilkins
Was really fun to watch this video.
This is actually commitment fairplay
Brian Moore and John Motson’s screams when goal went in are legendary. Absolute legends.
beautifully compiled video, wonderful memories, teams and players, hearing Brian Moore commentate was always a pleasure, there is something very special about the F.A Cup, from the joy of the winners to the amazing cup runs some very small teams have made over the years, it is amazing how many unfancied teams won or made the final looking back at this video, it shows how magical the cup truly is.
This is amazing. Thank you for this.
An absolute masterpiece
This is some good work bro. Thank you for this
Gosh - that is excellent editing - and wonderful to hear Ken Wolstenhome and Brian Moore again.
To think Ricky Villa's goal is considered one of the best ever scored in a Cup Final. It wasn't even the best scored in that final. Steve McKenzie criminally overlooked.
100%
💯 percent agreed. Winning goals are always remembered with rose coloured glasses.
Couldn't agree more. I just posted exactly the same thing before seeing this. Glad someone else thinks the same.
In the 80s here in the Netherlands there was only once a year an English football match on television and that was the Cupfinal. I remember all of them. More recent ones I tend to forget because of the huge amount of football available nowadays. Also the old Wembley was much much better.
Did you go back to 1953 just to keep The Mags happy? Yes they won 3-1 but against 10 men, like they did in the semi final when they beat York City from the old division 4 by 1-0.
Joking aside some great memories there and some cracking goals too. Thanks for the upload.
Through a friend I got tickets to the 1987 final. Coventry were awesome that day.
you earned a sub! awesome content.
Great video, fantastic memories and superb commentary on many of the clips, the only one I’d change is the 1981 replay one. John Motson’s commentary for the winner is up there with ‘they think it’s all over…..’
Thank you for this magnificent compilation.
THIS HAS BLOWN MY MIND!!!!!!
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Great video. No one team really dominated in the 50s, 60s and 70s and to most parts the 80s. Unlike today
not just that .. these were the days what the likes of the FA and LEAGUE cup REALLY meant something
Thank you for the memories. FA Cup was so special to us growing up in the seventies.
This is really good stuff. Original commentary without any annoying background music.
Brilliant video. Love the pics of the winning team. Superb memories
11:27 only team to come back within 90mins 2-0 down and win fa cup. Up the toffees!
Blackpool were 2 goals down v Bolton in the first game shown here and won (1-3 to 4-3) Nearly happened in 1979 Arsenal v Man U -bit of a tough one as nobody would have wanted Man U to win after being 2 down,but we nevertheless didn't particularly want Arsenal to win either,though that was the prefered outcome by a bout a micron.
It's striking how few have been decided by pen shootout. Admittedly that has only really been an option since 2000 (when FA Cup Final replays were removed)
Once upon a time, the whole country followed who won the Cup. Nowadays no-one gives a toss.
Great video, many thanks.👍
Arsenal:14
Man united:13
Liverpool:10
Tottenham:8
Chealsea:8
Man city:7
Liverpool have won it 8 times not 10
Get your facts right
Aston Villa have 7 too.
1959 Forest v Luton, the scorer Roy Dwight is Elton John's uncle. Great video well done.
Cousin - my mistake
Absolutely wonderful.
Thanks for sharing
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Hi Nice to meet a forest fan . I'm from England, also a forest fan .
@@DECKER1982 Doing well in the prem so far. Nice too see this vid without any background music.
@@Kkk-k7o7x Manchester City tomorrow
@DECKER1982 👍Go Forest Go!!!
Moved by the photos of the winning teams in the older finals. It was the biggest day for them then. Sadly most are no longer with us but what a peak they achieved as young men. It was their day.
Thanks for the post.
Top video. Thank you
What a video🙌
To think players like Stanley Matthews were probably getting 10 quid a week. And the ball weighed a ton. No play acting either just talented players doing it gor the love of the game
And the ball weighed a lot less than the clogger boots . . . I hated those, especially in mud
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15:54 Well done for rightly-crediting George Graham with the goal.
It officially went down as Eddie Kelly's goal after Brian Moore(and possibly Jimmy Hill too) said George Graham didn't touch it.
There are replays available that show the ball speeds up and slightly changes direction after George swings his foot at it and George himself says he touched it and I have no doubt that he's correct!
Footy peaked in the mid 90s to early 2000s tbh and I love the look of footy in the 80s.
You work really hard bro
5:24 VAR check required
Nice bro this is history
Until the 70s the commentary for every goal was 'It's a goal!'
Cold video
Please also make a video about fa community shield from 2000 to 2024 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Heavy leather ball , gbh allowed on the goalkeeper, ah those were the days 😊
The FA Cup was a highly valued prize but now is seen by the larger clubs as a bit of an annoying distraction.. Shame really.
Great thread. Nice looking back through the years. Btw how bad was the goalkeeping early days hahaha 😂
You must admit: They neither had gloves nor special training as they have nowadays. Plus the ball weighted a ton. However, I would still consider that goalkeeping has developed the most in the last 60-80 years
magnificent . just brilliant.. from stan moreteson to garnacho...
My word, what a smashing video of goals. And history. RESPECT.
1993 Final was an example of pure sportsmanship
1 hour of commentators becoming more and more hysterical.
Notice in the earlier ones how players aren't falling over every two minutes, and instead just get on with it. Notice how they aren't endlessly passing the ball sideways and backwards and are instead trying to score goals. What happened to this game of ours?
italian footy i believe well i noticed it back in the early 90s when it was on channel 4 ..play acting,time wasting etc what a disgrace also sky fooked everything up
Ten Hag 2 years - 3 reach the finals. 2 FA Cup and 1 Carabao Cup. Won 2 out of 3 finals. Sacked by the Mgt.
Arteta 6 years - 1 final. Won 1. Still stuck with the club. Club with no ambition. Damn.....
Just striking how depressingly predictable football has become with the same old faces.
Great video, but with a couple of errors. Eddie Kelly was credited with Arsenal's equaliser in 1971, not George Graham. Also, we keep hearing how Ricky Villa's winner was the greatest goal in an FA Cup Final when it wasn't even the best goal of the game. Steve Mackenzie's volley blows it off the pitch.
Hutchinsons goal in the first game was a corker too,
43:37 - possibly the best goal in the history of the tournament.
Aaarh em gud old days lad when we shovin the goalie fair play ! 😉
Can you do the champions league
So the Matthews final was basically terrible goalkeeping 😂
i believe the likes of karius and booby mimms were watching goalies back in tha day
I think you seriously overrate it at terrible 😂😂😂😂, 50’s football, with those big heavy balls and the boots, was so slow. I played in the early 60’s and the laces on the ball would leave some interesting marks after you headed it.
How is it that i didn't follow the cup for all the 2010s, i was shocked to see Hull in the final, or to find that Palace had been back since 1990 then even more shocked to discover that Wigan had won it, and yet I still somehow knew that Pardew's moves were an embarrassment?
5.50 Roy Dwight,Reg’s cousin.Reg of course changed his name to Elton John.
1999 the greatest year of my life.. United treble and my son was born....
How did you find the old videos😅？
Arsenal's first goal in 1971 was attributed to Eddie Kelly after George Graham admitted he hadn't touched the ball.
Dimatteo's goal. A classic. '97.
My dad was at the 1953 final,he is still bemused to this day why they credit mortensen with a hat trick, when his first goal was clearly an own goal, coming off the Bolton no 10 hassall
Turn off after it gets 2000 that's when Money ruined a great Competition. Became predictable and boring.
Spot on!
So Portsmouth and Wigan winning the cup was predictable?
@@gavst79Won the FA Cup once
@@gavst79 2 in 23 yrs and that's not predictable. 😂
@@gavst79think that's what you call a prime example of exception to the rule.
Fabulous video, but 'and still Ricky Villa! WHAT AN AMAZING GOAL!' is the correct commentary. Ta, anyway
i think the best match was not a final but the 3-1 THUMPING of Arsenal by the Mighty Spurs in 1991, semi final, that will never go from my memory :-) FORZA SPURS!!!!!!
21:29 The longest 77 minutes of my life ⚒️⚒️⚒️
Bob Stokoe won it in 1955 as a player, and as a manager in 1973, how many have done that?
A fair few I think. Matt Busby, Don Revie, Kenny Dalglish, Terry Venables, George Graham, Vialli, Di Matteo and most recently Mikel Arteta
Joe Mercer
Bill Shankly.
That Blackpool goalkeeper had a shocker in the 1953 final - I doubt if he could believe he walked a way with a winners medal.
Is thre a better goad that Steven Gerrards last minute thunderbolt in 1996?
Eric Cantona winner. Thread needle.
Ah 1953 remember the day well I do
Great history.
53:00
5:33 - Lofthouse said "I can't believe I got away with that"!
I was thinking the same thing. An obvious foul (even GBH as someone suggested above) 🙂
@PeterHolman-id9pu , chuckle, I don't know about that, but that could quite possibly be my dad!
He's been mad about that goal since 1958!!!
(and my mother's family were Bolton fans!)
how did they find so many old clips?😳😳😳
It's all public bc it's from the BBC
@ that's cool!👌👌
Shocking how bad the goalkeepers were on some of these early finals.
2:08 The first ever recorded dive??
Clean penalty
R.I.P Butch
This works as a guide to when the TV action replays were taken over by 10 year-olds, making it difficult to see the goals because of the jerky camera style.
It is a tough call as to what has improved more over the years - the TV camera quality or goalkeepers.
the goalies oh my days way back in tha day
@buffalosowljah No doubt the old timers will say it is the black and white footage that makes them look like Sunday morning keepers
well at least i got to watch the toon win the cup
Newcastle utd lost in back to back finals against the newly crowned league champions, arsenal in 1998 and man utd in 1999
Really enjoyed this video but I stopped enjoying it when the mid/late 90s started it just became repetive Chelsea Man Utd Arsenal Liverpool them Man City came along copy and paste football died in the 92/93 season
At least Wigan Portsmouth and Leicester won. Too young to remember the other two but I remember the 2021 final and it's one of my favorite football memories despite me not being a Leicester fan.
It's because the money disparity as a % between top sides and those below became higher. For instance, Utd were the richest club in the 80's but only spent about 20% more than rivals- not enough to guarantee success, jump forward to the 2000's when Chelsea spent 100%+ more than Utd and 400% more than Arsenal- that buys success. Then City broke the rules that were put in place to stop this in the 2010's so their success is illegitimate.
Them 2 spurs qpr games were the worst 2 games of football ive ever seen in my life. And believe me because i support Everton.
Both those games were dreadful, and punctuated by John Motson's almost ecstatic exultations of Glenn Hoddle..."A tremendous pass there by Tony Currie, almost as good as the one Hoddle did earlier." Never heard such biased commentary before or since.
stevie g was brilliant
Who else just skipped ahead to the 90s?
Yeah!
Do the same for the world cup
So many forgettable finals in the modern era, bar a very few exceptions. Watching the competition become less special in real time.
5:23 the reaction if this happened today lol
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Cup kings Arsenal whipping everyone's behind 😊
1989... you can see how traumatised the Liverpool players looked
I am only 2 minutes in and I have already learned one thing. Keepers in the 50s were awfull
Is that onana in goal
My goodness! Those goalkeepers in the first clip of 1953 final! They’re embarrassing!
Wouldn't it be great if the camerman/producer didn't zoom in at the most crucial moments of the goals: it throws your view out of sinc.
Good video but the constant changing of camera angles makes it a horrible watch.