I saw this Leeds United team against my team (Chelsea) at the beginning of the 1970's - I have always been impressed by them and they were, without doubt, the first "Superteam" this Country ever produced.
+Boxersboy1964 I'm not a Leeds fan , or Manchester United , but I think you will find that the "Busby Babes" were the first "Superteam" as you put it this country ever prouduced , . If i'm wrong I will apologise
In lockdown watching old matches ! David Coleman the noise of the crowd , love em or hate em the Leeds side of the early 70s had lots of skill and steel one of the best sides ever.
leeds were better than us and it was fair that they progressed to the final, and they might have taken the trophy if they hadn't been robbed in the final
Yes I totally agree, the old European Cup , so much more entertaining than the vile Bloated champions league, all the teams had great players, when a great coach could make a difference, imagine something like what Brian Clough did with Forest happening in today’s predictable boring game.....
@@spencerglover1 The current league system is all about money and removing the possibility of smaller clubs progressing to the knock- out stages. The massive clubs can afford to lose or draw a few games and still progress. Having the same clubs in last four every year makes it tedious.
Watch Cruyff try his trademark turn at 7:31 and how Gordon McQueen sticks to him like glue. Cruyff was the greatest of the great, but Gordon McQueen as something special, too.
yes indeed, i was lucky enough to be a regular during the glory years, he took a while to settle in, but in due course became just as effective as Jackie Charlton;.
@@mrjones29 Manchester United spent a few years in and out of relegation in the 70s but the club was still massive with great support, old Trafford in the standing era was awesome, Leeds fan ☮️
I didn’t go to this game as I was 4 and my first game was in 1978 against Arsenal and Brian greenhoff was making his debut that Wednesday night...An old Man U favourite if I remember correctly
Cruyff was the greatest player I have ever seen, and Neeskens was not far behind. Yet Leeds made them look ordinary that night. Unquestionably in my mind one of the three greatest English club sides ever, alongside Busby's 1968 Man Utd side and the Liverpool of the late 80s. Also fantastic commentary by the late, great David Coleman.
WELL SAID, living near Leeds I had the pleasure of watching this great side during the whole of it's glory years, 65-75, this was the last great season, from 76 we were past our best,
I was lucky enough to be at this game,Caught the train from Luton £20.00 return! changed at Sheffield. Arrived in Leeds late afternoon. The City was Rocking!! jumped on a double decker bus to the ground and the atmosphere was electric. Got talking to a few lads and they could'nt believe I had come up from Luton, One of the best days of my life, I will never forget it... SUPER LEEDS UNITED.
DWI And you are too young to have ever seen football when it was a game of sport played by real men in stadiums that had electric atmospheres, not overpaid nancy boys playing in sterile surroundings!
Thank you so much for uploading. I am a Dutch man and a huge Barcelona fan. This however the first time I was able to see my two fellow Dutch man Johan Cruyff and Johan Neeskens play for Barcelona. I must say the Leeds played better than Barca here and deservingly won.
Ahh the great days of the European Cup, far more Entertaining than the ugly Bloated Champions league, when teams couldn’t slip up, you had to play your best 11 because the opposition were so good, teams from Eastern Europe were as good as the Germans, Spanish or Italians and English , real football .........
We play Leeds first game of this season, just glad it's not this side. They were summat else. When The Beautiful Game was for blokes, not falling about wankers as is today.
As a long suffering Spurs fan..I don't mind admitting I was also a a fan of Leeds,and any team who played good Football!Sure they were Tough (u hear many a comment they were Dirty!)but I think they just played hard(except for Norman Hunter,who could play&certainly kick lumps out of the opposition!) But the bottom line,they were a fantastic team,with so much talent!. You Yorkshiremen should always feel proud!(I'm absolutely jealous, considering at the crap coming out of Tottenham these days!). And I don't care what anyone says FOOTBALL was better back then!..Now we have more FLASH&Pazazz,a lighter football(which allows the most average player to bend a shot in from 50 yes!)very little Physicality,way to much "diving"! and so on!..But this was the game we loved👍
Thanks. I do not recall teams in Spain allowing 3 players on the field all at the same time until the early 90's. Real Madrid comes to mind: Netzer/Breitner in 74-77; Jensen/Stielike in 77-79; Stielike/Cunningham in 79-82; Stielike/Metgod in 82-84; Stielike/Valdano in 84-85; Valdano/Hugo Sanchez in 85-87... In the early 90's I recall Prosinecki/Rocha/Hagi in 90-92... then, of course, along came the Bosman ruling and the rest is history
I wonder why English clubs filled with British players and managed by an English manager was good enough to beat Barcelona and reach a European Cup final back then, but isn't anymore. The best English clubs now have 2 or 3 British players in their side at best and are always managed by a foreigner.
Do you want 50 000 words. Our good guys were poor people all they had was the ball and the dream. Then came video games/ social media and stranger danger. Not allowed and don't want to go out. Got to learn to love the ball.
A classic game to watch, even now, and there was no shirt pulling in them days, just a great game to watch, apart from the referees decision to give a free kick, I felt that Reaney did his upmost to win the ball fairly.
when English teams were English ,and managers were English. Now it's all foreigners , players that fall and roll around screaming from the slightest touch.
Anybody else like myself who would rather watch the highlights of games like this, rather than the crap that passes for football nowadays. Real players putting in real tackles, and no one rolling around as if they've been shot by a sniper.
Super Leeds in action against Barcelona in the European Cup semi-final at r church Elland Road great atmosphere who are we all leeds aren't we leeds leeds leeds salute !
Leeds discipline should have been better as it was superbly in the return except for one stupid blot by McQueen as he fell into the Barca player's trap & gave a solid face punch, luckily & with superb defence with David Stewart playing a blinder we got thru it only to be denied a win by criminal referee in the final & as always goals count.
@@michaelalexander9386 What a load of crap. Of course you can get cheated and still win. That decision for their free kick was wrong, so they were cheated in that instance.
Reaney was the first non-white player to play for England. History states that it was Viv Anderson, but Reaney was the first. He was of mixed heritage.
Gordon McQueen was a fitting replacement for Jack Charlton, that goalkeeper got so nervous when corners came across. I think that Peter Lorimer may have made a difference if he'd got on. Would have loved to have been there.
Notice the respect given to the referee no matter the decision. Notice no diving or play acting. Notice when somebody got a kick or a knock they just got up and carried on.
You might be right. Real Madrid, though, only used 2 foreigners even in European matches: Cunningham and Stielike were the only foreigners playing in the 1981 final against Liverpool... maybe Barcelona thought: "I am sure these dumb northern Europeans can't tell an Argentinian from a Spaniard...." :-)
another criminal bit of "bent" European reffing with the free kick given for the Barcelona equaliser. Text book tackle from Reaney that you could show any young defender on how to defend. Useless, inept and probarly bribed ref. It was even worse in Paris.
+boss180888 another bent ref disallowed a perfectly good goal from Lorimer, waved away penalty shouts for Leeds and Bayern went on to "win" the final. Leeds fans let them know what they thought.
Has anyone ever noticed that no one...but no one in any of these old clips from the 70's could sew on the number 11 straight?. It is wonky every time..lol..
In today's refs eyes there's around 5 red card tackles just in the first 5 minutes between the battling midfielders. How I miss this version of the beautiful game, a tough man's game. And not a single female commentator or lineswoman to see nor heard.
Five Scottish players in the first eleven (&probably two on the bench: Lorimer & Harvey) in a European Cup semi-final .. what the fuck has gone wrong these days?? SFA should hang their heads in shame. Leeds nearly robbed here as they were in the final that year. Jordan handball like he did v Wales in the WC qualifier v Wales in 1977. Great Leeds team back then.
Right?! How things have changed!! In this footage, I notice the old ref, the back passes to the goalie, the goalie holding, dribbling, then picking up again,.. the forward pestering the goalie during the punt, the goalie having limited steps to punt,.. and the cameramen just inches away from the end line.... And yes, a modern Barca team would put up ten goals in the first half...
ojideagu The speed of play is so much faster now, and the fitness levels of every Barca player are so much higher as well... Just look at how slow these guys are in this footage... The defensive systems weren’t as good either.., maybe we can lower it to 8 goals just for you, hows that?
@@numbers7n The pitches and equipment are 10 times better now. Look at the uneven mud pitches they had to play on back then, stiff boots and heavy balls. it was amazing they were still able to control and pass the ball so well. Your ignorance is disgraceful. Let's see Barca play on these pitches, boots and balls.
ojideagu The things you say are true about the pitch and the balls, but those are smaller factors than the ones I presented. No need for insults though..
Wow, what a game! Great job Leeds. Grit, determination and class. 2 brilliant half volley goals to seal it. Never a foul to gift them the equalizing free kick either.
900k for a player in 1975 though! Crazy money back then, worth it and very few clubs if any others at all could have paid that, Cruyff was fucking amazing, I did the AJAX ground tour recently and his legend lives on, Made really intense after a nice smoke (fuck it, I was in Amsterdam) Seeing the 3 European cups won in a row is amazing Obviously includes the original full size one Amazing player And it was watching players like cruyff that made me fall in love with the game growing up.
I totally agree , if Bobby Moore or Beckenbauer [ cheat ] had made that tackle the referee and linesman would have given them a round of applause and asked them for autographs !!
Highlights how under rated and unsung Paul Reaney was in that great Leeds side.My guess is that he was first on the team sheet before Bremner Clarke Lorimer Giles et al. Should have been an England regular.
What a great Team we had back then we got Robbed in the final should of been Leeds United European champions in 1975 bent Ref cost us big time . Marching on together 🤍💛💙🇮🇨👊🦚
O brasileiro Marinho Chagas jogando no time. Jogava isolado lá atrás sem apoio de ninguém, deixou até passar um gol do adversário. Acho que Cruyff percebeu isso e o chamou para conversar. Marinho falou sobre isso mais tarde.
Impressionante como o futebol se tornou uma 💩 nos dias atuais. Essa época era "de verdade", sem mimimi. Saudades do verdadeiro futebol. Parabéns Marinho Peres!!! Jogou no meu grande SANTOSSS de Pelé, Edu e Cia. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏👏👏👏👏
Joe Jordan (10:34) practising his "heading" technique for that infamous penalty awarded to Scotland against Wales in the World Cup qualifying match in 1977!
That first Leeds goal was poetry..ball drilled up to big man , knock down and half volley finish from BB... love to watch that today, but it just does not happen....RIP Johan..BBrem..Paul Madeley, Yorath etc..great times
Along with Borussia Mönchengladbach, who were five times Germans champions in the 1970s, reaching five European finals as well, which was more than Leeds on both counts.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Perhaps more than Leeds, but perhaps they didn't suffer some of the travesties of justice Leeds did? 73 ECWC final, 75 EC final, 72 league. I'd also say Bundesliga wasn't as tough as English div 1, fewer games & less competitive. If you were to look at how many high profile games Leeds had to play in EC semi's, Fa cup semi's, sometimes playing 2 games in 2 days you might see how Leeds were treated unfairly. Interestingly Moenchengladbach only reached 1 EC final in 5 attempts, 20% success rate...Leeds 50% success rate. Naturally you are entitled to your opinion, as I am & I stand by my original statement.
..Si , ..lo único bueno de " éste juego" . Es que me imaginaba y recordaba a " ..Barcelona " con ; Ramallets, Benítez , Gensana ,, Kubala, Martínez , Evaristo, Luis Suarez , Pereda, Villaverde ., Luis Cubilla., Koczis, Czibor...!!! Y no hablar , cuando el " Barca " , .con show de Maradona!! O Barcelona con ; Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Romario !!! ........ ...? ( ..y ahora, ...!! ?. Ésto !!!? qué es ésto..:??... Por favor...... .......... Leeds, si , un buen equipo....y jugando con ..un , gran corazón.../!
fantastic match couldn’t stand Leeds back then but admit to appreciating them know a tram full of characters and great player that was never a foul that led to Barcelona scoring from the free kick the cheating by the ref there for me as backed up by the final
Me Old Man worked at International Harvester in 1975. I seem to recall Barcelona trained at their sports facility down in Apperly Bridge (tho, I was 10 at the time - so best not quote me on that) but IH did end up getting a signed match ball from the lovely lot at Barca...which was raffled off and me dad promptly won...and gave to me. 39 years later - it's stuck in a Morrisons shopping bag - in a wardrobe - sorta gathering dust.
That stayed at what was The Baron of Beef, Highfield Road in Bradford. We waited outside and Neeskens came out and chatted to us for fifteen minutes or so.
Never a free kick as was a great challenge by Reaney. Those were the days when Scotland had players in the great English teams, not even one now. About 7 Scottish players i can think of as part of that squad; Harvey, McQueen, F Gray, E Gray, Bremner, Lorimer & Jordan.
I remember these days of the football scarf tied around one wrist, or through the belt loop of yer trousers. "Take" the opposing fans' home terrace or nick someone's scarf as a trophy to take back home with you. Long hair, big shoes, stupidly wide Oxford bags with the highest damned waistband you could find. WAWAW!
Actually they could sign 5 foreigners. However, 2 or 3 could only be allowed to play. This must have been before that aforementioned rule was in place. This also was after the Spanish League lifted the ban on foreigners. And with Barca, they really capitalised when they signed Cruyff.
This is a very representative game of Cruyff at Barcelona in the period 1975 to 1978: absolutely irrelevant. He was the best player of the world since 1969 to 1974, but he lost all his motivation and love for football after beein defeated by Germany in the World Cup. Just one league and one Spanish Cup as player of Barcelona (73/74-77/78).
I agree. As good as any I've seen between the years you describe. And the German defeat probably had a lot to do with his motivation falling. Also, maybe the years of chain smoking did catch up with him. However, I think Cruyff, when compared with other great players, should be from his Ajax days and the Dutch national team up to end of world cup 74. In that time he was an absolute electric presence on a football field, and he had some fine players, at their peak, around him. The Barcalona team he played in was I think a very ordinary side. These days, they can go around the world hand picking who they want to play for them. Mind you, he did wipe the floor with England in a friendly game in 77.
Abolutely agree with you, Michael. His best time was with Ajax and Dutch team since 1968 to 1974. But when he was playing for Barcelona not Real Madrid nor Atlético de Madrid had great teams, neither. And it was just one league for a player of his level. After the 0-5 defeat at Bernabeu, many madridistas thought that Barcelona had another Di Stefano, but time proved to be a mistake. Cruyff was one of the five greatest, but it is Messi who has emerged as the Di Stefano of Barcelona: his best player ever. Saludos desde España
Well, I will repeat, Cruyff in those 5-6 years was as good as 'Anyone', in the history of the game. But the players Messi has had around him in all of his playing career at Barcelona, has helped Messi a great deal. Let's face it, if Cruyff had stayed at Ajax, they, not B Munich, would in all probability won the Euro cup 3 more times. If Messi moved from Barcelona and went say to an English team such as let's say, Everton, made them in his first season the champions, at the same time as defeating say Manchester United 0-5 on their own ground, and then in the following season take them to a very closely contested semi final defeat in the Euro Champions cup, then I might regard him as being up there with Cruyff. The bold risk Cruyff took to move from strongest team in world football in 73 to a mediocre Spanish team, nobody these days would contemplate such a move. Messi might move to England, but it'll be to Manchester City millionaires not Everton. He hasn't got the guts. And one other thing people forget besides being much more fitness aware these days, is some of the slogging pitches the likes of Cruyff had to play on. They play on snooker tables by comparison these days.
Now I dissagree. If you think that Barcelona in the 70s was a mediocre team, then also were mediocre Real Madrid and Atlético in those days. Not the best decade in spanish football at all, but not an irrelevant one: remember that Real Madrid played the semifinals of Champions League in 1973 & 1976, Atlético played the final in 1974 against Bayern, and Barça the semifinal against Leeds in 1975. And I am not talking about Cup of winners cup and UEFA cup.... It would have been almost a miracle to win the European Cup with Barça in 1975 or 1977, as it would have been for Real at the same period, when german and english teams dominated european football. Nevertheless, Barcelona was not Everton or something like that, but a club that was great in the past (50s) and have a terrible sporting crisis for 15 years (since the defeat against Benfica in Berna final, 1961). That Barcelona in 1973-1977 was not the Napoli in which played Maradona since 1984 to 1987, by the way, but a much better club with some great players (Rexach, Neeskens and Sotil, for instance) as teammates for Johan. And one more thing: Di Stéfano arrived to Spain in 1953 to a club that, comparatevely, was much worst than Barça in 1973, and after 11 years that club won 5 champions leagues and 8 ligas, changing forever the history of football. He did that competing with Barça, Bilbao and Atlético, which were a much stronger oposition for Real in those days that it was for Cruyff Real and Atletico in the 70s. Cruyff is a legend, but he lost his motivation and passion for football after the defeat against Germany in 1974. Sorry for my bad english. Saludos
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I saw this Leeds United team against my team (Chelsea) at the beginning of the 1970's - I have always been impressed by them and they were, without doubt, the first "Superteam" this Country ever produced.
+Boxersboy1964 I'm not a Leeds fan , or Manchester United , but I think you will find that the "Busby Babes" were the first "Superteam" as you put it this country ever prouduced , . If i'm wrong I will apologise
+Clive Bindley Always look out for Turks carrying knives.....
+scrabble58
I do mate..all the time :-)
+Clive Bindley Really?? You're happy that innocent people died?? smh fucking Leeds fans, you guys deserve to be where you are now...
Couldn't live with Celtic FC.
In lockdown watching old matches ! David Coleman the noise of the crowd , love em or hate em the Leeds side of the early 70s had lots of skill and steel one of the best sides ever.
leeds were better than us and it was fair that they progressed to the final, and they might have taken the trophy if they hadn't been robbed in the final
Yes I agree ☝️
cheers man, yes we were robbed in the final. respect
Well said sir 🙏☮️
Back in the day when football was a contact sport played by men, not a bunch of overpaid fairies.
Yes I totally agree, the old European Cup , so much more entertaining than the vile Bloated champions league, all the teams had great players, when a great coach could make a difference, imagine something like what Brian Clough did with Forest happening in today’s predictable boring game.....
@@spencerglover1 The current league system is all about money and removing the possibility of smaller clubs progressing to the knock- out stages. The massive clubs can afford to lose or draw a few games and still progress. Having the same clubs in last four every year makes it tedious.
Indeed. Played on pitches, not billiard tables.
that is true...
Watch Cruyff try his trademark turn at 7:31 and how Gordon McQueen sticks to him like glue. Cruyff was the greatest of the great, but Gordon McQueen as something special, too.
yes indeed, i was lucky enough to be a regular during the glory years, he took a while to settle in, but in due course became just as effective as Jackie Charlton;.
At Elland Road " Cattenatcio" is what we saw, the mighty came the mighty fell ,including Charlton, Best and Law. (Nothing To ADD)
the trio of manchester united
Thanks-much appreciated :)
I remember going home thinking 2-1 wouldn't be enough.
just watched this (again) from Raploch( ????) and getting ready to head to "uddersfield" ...WERE NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE....MOT
Wow scots everywhere .....frank and Eddie Gray , billy , big joe , big Gordon Dave Stewart and Lorimer on the bench ......Now we just have managers !
SCOT FOXX if only youse weren’t shit
Weird hearing Leeds singing YNWA.
Leeds deserve, absolute respect. From a long, lived Liverpool fan
From a long lived Man U fan, I agree with you. Leeds and Liverpool were the top dogs in the 1970s.
@@mrjones29 Manchester United spent a few years in and out of relegation in the 70s but the club was still massive with great support, old Trafford in the standing era was awesome, Leeds fan ☮️
I didn’t go to this game as I was 4 and my first game was in 1978 against Arsenal and Brian greenhoff was making his debut that Wednesday night...An old Man U favourite if I remember correctly
I'm so impressed - this Leeds team could really play. So comfortable on the ball, every one of them. And hard, properly hard.
Dirty
@@athelstan927 What do you want from us? We are the Dirty Leeds for a lot of people. One more makes no difference.
Cruyff was the greatest player I have ever seen, and Neeskens was not far behind. Yet Leeds made them look ordinary that night. Unquestionably in my mind one of the three greatest English club sides ever, alongside Busby's 1968 Man Utd side and the Liverpool of the late 80s. Also fantastic commentary by the late, great David Coleman.
WELL SAID, living near Leeds I had the pleasure of watching this great side during the whole of it's glory years, 65-75, this was the last great season, from 76 we were past our best,
Leeds was an interesting team to watch but today's Man City would crush them.
Absolutely, made him look mortal
I was lucky enough to be at this game,Caught the train from Luton £20.00 return! changed at Sheffield. Arrived in Leeds late afternoon. The City was Rocking!! jumped on a double decker bus to the ground and the atmosphere was electric. Got talking to a few lads and they could'nt believe I had come up from Luton, One of the best days of my life, I will never forget it... SUPER LEEDS UNITED.
I was there too in the West Stand, I had a season ticket. Memorable day!
grimeyboy28 you are very old then
do you think you will not grow old, Life is a slow Tragedy,coming to a cinema near you....
DWI
And you are too young to have ever seen football when it was a game of sport played by real men in stadiums that had electric atmospheres, not overpaid nancy boys playing in sterile surroundings!
Were you born in Leeds?
Gotta love Dave Coleman's commentary..The master of emphasis, one-liners and at key moments total silence..A real one-off!
jordan.....yorath.........CLARKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for uploading. I am a Dutch man and a huge Barcelona fan. This however the first time I was able to see my two fellow Dutch man Johan Cruyff and Johan Neeskens play for Barcelona. I must say the Leeds played better than Barca here and deservingly won.
Make a nice comment and get 2 snide replies...why?
Lol
Cruyff my favourite player of all time, pure genius (Leeds fan since 72)
Leeds werd daar keihard genaaid bij de vrije trap voor de gelijkmaker. Was in de verste verte geen vrije trap
Ahh the great days of the European Cup, far more Entertaining than the ugly Bloated Champions league, when teams couldn’t slip up, you had to play your best 11 because the opposition were so good, teams from Eastern Europe were as good as the Germans, Spanish or Italians and English , real football .........
European Cup for CHAMPIONS ONLY !
fantastic atmosphere and brilliant commentary - Leeds were robbed in the Final for what should have been their crowning glory. What a team they were.
Dirty Leeds
We play Leeds first game of this season, just glad it's not this side. They were summat else. When The Beautiful Game was for blokes, not falling about wankers as is today.
@QuickQuickSlowSlow55 Those in glass houses........ etc, illiterate, socialist ignoramus that you are!
@@VictorOctavian Exactly!
You said it - can you imagine todays premier league ponces lasting more than five minutes in the 70s
Can you even spell? You're a disgrace
Oh my god. I should have known that if I went onto a video based in the 70s I would be surrounded by ultra conservative boomers.
I feel that Paul Reaney was an unsung hero of those glory days of the Great Leeds Utd sides of that time !
HE WAS A GREAT DEFENDER - WHO COULD PLAY AS WELL
Great footage, this Leeds team were some side, how good was Paul Reeney BTW! Love the old atmosphere in the stands!
Celtic fan, Always liked Leeds United, great club great support.
Inolvidable equipo del leeds de esa época, los bremner, Giles, lorimer, clarke, y antes con j. Charlon y m. Jones, equipo de leyenda!
the tackles were crunching in them days and the players just got on with it unlike today lol
As a long suffering Spurs fan..I don't mind admitting I was also a a fan of Leeds,and any team who played good Football!Sure they were Tough (u hear many a comment they were Dirty!)but I think they just played hard(except for Norman Hunter,who could play&certainly kick lumps out of the opposition!)
But the bottom line,they were a fantastic team,with so much talent!.
You Yorkshiremen should always feel proud!(I'm absolutely jealous, considering at the crap coming out of Tottenham these days!).
And I don't care what anyone says FOOTBALL was better back then!..Now we have more FLASH&Pazazz,a lighter football(which allows the most average player to bend a shot in from 50 yes!)very little Physicality,way to much "diving"! and so on!..But this was the game we loved👍
Reaney made that second goal for Leeds. He was a class, quality player.
Thanks. I do not recall teams in Spain allowing 3 players on the field all at the same time until the early 90's. Real Madrid comes to mind: Netzer/Breitner in 74-77; Jensen/Stielike in 77-79; Stielike/Cunningham in 79-82; Stielike/Metgod in 82-84; Stielike/Valdano in 84-85; Valdano/Hugo Sanchez in 85-87... In the early 90's I recall Prosinecki/Rocha/Hagi in 90-92... then, of course, along came the Bosman ruling and the rest is history
I wonder why English clubs filled with British players and managed by an English manager was good enough to beat Barcelona and reach a European Cup final back then, but isn't anymore. The best English clubs now have 2 or 3 British players in their side at best and are always managed by a foreigner.
England doesn't even have a lot of quality players, and every big European club nowadays is mostly foreigners.
Because Barca then were nowhere near as good as Barca now. Nationality has nothing to do with skill.
Do you want 50 000 words. Our good guys were poor people all they had was the ball and the dream. Then came video games/ social media and stranger danger. Not allowed and don't want to go out. Got to learn to love the ball.
its not about the sport anymore. football is used for business and propaganda these days. sad but true
One of the best British/Irish sides ever. Would give any team a really good game. Just a freak coming together.
Great game, passing outstanding, kicking lumps out of each other but still oozing skill, commitment and determination.
I was there and you just had to admire the ball skills of Cruyff on that night. Just brilliant and it was a fantastic night for Leeds.
Leeds really really was the best club team in the world in the early 70,s ....without doubt !!
Maybe in England, but the best club in Europe was Ajax, the club Cruyff was playing for until 73. Won the European Cup 3 times in a row.
A classic game to watch, even now, and there was no shirt pulling in them days, just a great game to watch, apart from the referees decision to give a free kick, I felt that Reaney did his upmost to win the ball fairly.
Reaney did shoulder charge a bit but that was nothing in them days but Europe is high standards so don't give anything away.
And no passing the ball back and spitting
when English teams were English ,and managers were English. Now it's all foreigners , players that fall and roll around screaming from the slightest touch.
Yeah, you're right. they were British. my mistake
Celtic V Leeds in 71 European Cup semi final was epic....still a record attendance I think. A genuine Battle of Britain 。
Negative it was may 1970.im 67 I know was at the game at elland road.
what he said was Leeds was the best team back then but got cheated out of many cups because of the referees.
Anybody else like myself who would rather watch the highlights of games like this, rather than the crap that passes for football nowadays. Real players putting in real tackles, and no one rolling around as if they've been shot by a sniper.
Me,i have a collection of more than 1000 games from the 70s and 80s,can't stand the football of today.
Reenie and Clarke were the bollocks.
Super Leeds in action against Barcelona in the European Cup semi-final at r church Elland Road great atmosphere who are we all leeds aren't we leeds leeds leeds salute !
Leends mi equipo en principios de los 2000 era un equipazo y le sigo con el leends espero q suba en este año ..vamos leends....
Leeds discipline should have been better as it was superbly in the return except for one stupid blot by McQueen as he fell into the Barca player's trap & gave a solid face punch, luckily & with superb defence with David Stewart playing a blinder we got thru it only to be denied a win by criminal referee in the final & as always goals count.
This Leeds team were fantastic , skilled , committed and versatile .....great team !!
RIP Johan Cruyff great days beating the might of Barcelona shame we got cheated in the final
Got cheated here too, that was never a free kick for their goal, clean ball winning tackle by Speedy Reaney!
@@CB-xr1eg If they won they didn't get cheated.
@@michaelalexander9386 What a load of crap. Of course you can get cheated and still win. That decision for their free kick was wrong, so they were cheated in that instance.
Reaney was the first non-white player to play for England. History states that it was Viv Anderson, but Reaney was the first. He was of mixed heritage.
LEEDS UNITED ETAIT UNE DES MEILLEURS EQUIPES AU MONDE A CETTE EPOQUE ET ILS ONT MANQUE DE CHANCE ET SURTOUT VOLE PAR LES ARBITRES
Gordon McQueen was a fitting replacement for Jack Charlton, that goalkeeper got so nervous when corners came across. I think that Peter Lorimer may have made a difference if he'd got on. Would have loved to have been there.
Strange watching keepers taking a pass back in their hands.
Nao imaginava o quanto era bom esse time do Leeds!!!
Grande logo dos ingleses e não foi falta no gol catalão, errou feio o Juiz
British players playing for a great British club..... whats happened to British clubs since those great days. Some childhood heroes on that pitch.
Notice the respect given to the referee no matter the decision. Notice no diving or play acting. Notice when somebody got a kick or a knock they just got up and carried on.
David Coleman was a lousy commentator. Hugh Johns was the best of this era.
You might be right. Real Madrid, though, only used 2 foreigners even in European matches: Cunningham and Stielike were the only foreigners playing in the 1981 final against Liverpool... maybe Barcelona thought: "I am sure these dumb northern Europeans can't tell an Argentinian from a Spaniard...." :-)
another criminal bit of "bent" European reffing with the free kick given for the Barcelona equaliser. Text book tackle from Reaney that you could show any young defender on how to defend. Useless, inept and probarly bribed ref. It was even worse in Paris.
+Les Ives what happened in paris?
+boss180888 another bent ref disallowed a perfectly good goal from Lorimer, waved away penalty shouts for Leeds and Bayern went on to "win" the final. Leeds fans let them know what they thought.
Les Ives so nothing to do with barcelona, ok.
+Les Ives Totally agree.
+boss180888
he was talking about bent referees not Barcelona..dumb fuck!
What a lousy referee - superb tackle by Reaney. Should have been 2-0.
Has anyone ever noticed that no one...but no one in any of these old clips from the 70's could sew on the number 11 straight?. It is wonky every time..lol..
In today's refs eyes there's around 5 red card tackles just in the first 5 minutes between the battling midfielders. How I miss this version of the beautiful game, a tough man's game. And not a single female commentator or lineswoman to see nor heard.
Leeds were the best English team ever forget your Liverpool’s Man Utd, and forget that dirty tag cos they played great football
How many champions' cups Leeds win? And national titles? I assume that other teams won "slightly" more. Don't be angry, dude: they call it stats
Before Liverpool claimed it as their own after Heysel/Hillsborough - every team ( inc Man United ) used to sing it !
I was fortunate enough to be there . ... What happened in the final was a disgrace !
Five Scottish players in the first eleven (&probably two on the bench: Lorimer & Harvey) in a European Cup semi-final .. what the fuck has gone wrong these days?? SFA should hang their heads in shame. Leeds nearly robbed here as they were in the final that year. Jordan handball like he did v Wales in the WC qualifier v Wales in 1977. Great Leeds team back then.
Look at how unfit that referee looks, hahaha He'd never get away with that these days.
Funny to watch a Barcelona team that could hardly string 3 passes together.
Right?! How things have changed!! In this footage, I notice the old ref, the back passes to the goalie, the goalie holding, dribbling, then picking up again,.. the forward pestering the goalie during the punt, the goalie having limited steps to punt,.. and the cameramen just inches away from the end line.... And yes, a modern Barca team would put up ten goals in the first half...
@@numbers7n 10 goals? Don't be stupid do you know how good these teams were.
ojideagu The speed of play is so much faster now, and the fitness levels of every Barca player are so much higher as well... Just look at how slow these guys are in this footage... The defensive systems weren’t as good either.., maybe we can lower it to 8 goals just for you, hows that?
@@numbers7n The pitches and equipment are 10 times better now. Look at the uneven mud pitches they had to play on back then, stiff boots and heavy balls. it was amazing they were still able to control and pass the ball so well. Your ignorance is disgraceful. Let's see Barca play on these pitches, boots and balls.
ojideagu The things you say are true about the pitch and the balls, but those are smaller factors than the ones I presented. No need for insults though..
Wow, what a game! Great job Leeds. Grit, determination and class. 2 brilliant half volley goals to seal it. Never a foul to gift them the equalizing free kick either.
Indirect free kick, I'm assuming for obstruction, you never see that nowadays.
Pre Maradonna if you ask me when Joe Jordan handled that ball. 12:36
900k for a player in 1975 though! Crazy money back then, worth it and very few clubs if any others at all could have paid that,
Cruyff was fucking amazing,
I did the AJAX ground tour recently and his legend lives on,
Made really intense after a nice smoke (fuck it, I was in Amsterdam)
Seeing the 3 European cups won in a row is amazing
Obviously includes the original full size one
Amazing player
And it was watching players like cruyff that made me fall in love with the game growing up.
We are so proud we're shouting out loud, we're singing Leeds, Leeds, Leeds!
That was a great tackle by Reaney that lead to the 1-1 free kick. Terrible refereeing even back then
I totally agree , if Bobby Moore or Beckenbauer [ cheat ] had made that tackle the referee and linesman would have given them a round of applause and asked them for autographs !!
Highlights how under rated and unsung Paul Reaney was in that great Leeds side.My guess is that he was first on the team sheet before Bremner Clarke Lorimer Giles et al. Should have been an England regular.
What a great Team we had back then we got Robbed in the final should of been Leeds United European champions in 1975 bent Ref cost us big time . Marching on together 🤍💛💙🇮🇨👊🦚
O brasileiro Marinho Chagas jogando no time. Jogava isolado lá atrás sem apoio de ninguém, deixou até passar um gol do adversário. Acho que Cruyff percebeu isso e o chamou para conversar. Marinho falou sobre isso mais tarde.
Marinho Peres
9:27 The days when keepers could handle balls footed back to them.
50/50 ball,nearly took keeper's head off.😂😂😂.
Leeds united,of the U K, verses the current best club team on the planet, but back then, Leeds were robbed blind.
1 nil!! classic Coleman
Impressionante como o futebol se tornou uma 💩 nos dias atuais.
Essa época era "de verdade", sem mimimi.
Saudades do verdadeiro futebol.
Parabéns Marinho Peres!!! Jogou no meu grande SANTOSSS de Pelé, Edu e Cia.
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Joe Jordan (10:34) practising his "heading" technique for that infamous penalty awarded to Scotland against Wales in the World Cup qualifying match in 1977!
Can you imagine if Eddie Gray wasn't so injury prone?
He would have been a world beater.
Imagine today's bunch of prima donnas facing some of this tackling. Marinho able to give it with the Leeds lads.
my first game i watched on tv aged 7 .ref was a cheat been paid off by barcelona///still back in prem next year give man utd a good kicking boys
That first Leeds goal was poetry..ball drilled up to big man , knock down and half volley finish from BB... love to watch that today, but it just does not happen....RIP Johan..BBrem..Paul Madeley, Yorath etc..great times
Terry Yorath R.I.P....
ps: Has anyone told HIIM yet?
43 years ago today, my Dad was there. Leeds the best team never to win the European cup.
I think it was Tony Book, Man City captain, that said Leeds were the best team in Europe during the 70s, for some 5 years!
leeds got robbed and cheated by the ref in the final against bayern munich in paris
Along with Borussia Mönchengladbach, who were five times Germans champions in the 1970s, reaching five European finals as well, which was more than Leeds on both counts.
Peter Day,
They were not better than Liverpool, Ajax, Bayern and Monchengladbach.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Perhaps more than Leeds, but perhaps they didn't suffer some of the travesties of justice Leeds did? 73 ECWC final, 75 EC final, 72 league. I'd also say Bundesliga wasn't as tough as English div 1, fewer games & less competitive. If you were to look at how many high profile games Leeds had to play in EC semi's, Fa cup semi's, sometimes playing 2 games in 2 days you might see how Leeds were treated unfairly. Interestingly Moenchengladbach only reached 1 EC final in 5 attempts, 20% success rate...Leeds 50% success rate. Naturally you are entitled to your opinion, as I am & I stand by my original statement.
..Si , ..lo único bueno de " éste juego"
. Es que me imaginaba y recordaba a " ..Barcelona " con ; Ramallets, Benítez , Gensana ,, Kubala, Martínez , Evaristo, Luis Suarez , Pereda, Villaverde ., Luis Cubilla., Koczis, Czibor...!!!
Y no hablar , cuando el " Barca " , .con show de Maradona!!
O Barcelona con ; Rivaldo, Ronaldinho,
Romario !!!
........
...? ( ..y ahora, ...!!
?. Ésto !!!?
qué es ésto..:??...
Por favor......
..........
Leeds, si , un buen equipo....y jugando con
..un , gran corazón.../!
Fixed final.
How many overseas players in the Leeds team...?
Sir David 0
fantastic match couldn’t stand Leeds back then but admit to appreciating them know a tram full of characters and great player that was never a foul that led to Barcelona scoring from the free kick the cheating by the ref there for me as backed up by the final
Me Old Man worked at International Harvester in 1975. I seem to recall Barcelona trained at their sports facility down in Apperly Bridge (tho, I was 10 at the time - so best not quote me on that) but IH did end up getting a signed match ball from the lovely lot at Barca...which was raffled off and me dad promptly won...and gave to me. 39 years later - it's stuck in a Morrisons shopping bag - in a wardrobe - sorta gathering dust.
ebay!!
thepublic housebrandcom i have a liverpool ball signed by hansen and co in a similar boat, although it is on display...
They did train at thackley football club
There is a them football pitches in Apperley Lane at the bottom of my old school in the grounds were Bradford City sometimes train.
That stayed at what was The Baron of Beef, Highfield Road in Bradford. We waited outside and Neeskens came out and chatted to us for fifteen minutes or so.
Love to see Leeds back in the prem. I'm a Man Utd fan and i know they hate Utd but loved playing them.
900000 thou for Cruyff what would he be worth now 1000000 mill easy
*9000000000
What would bremner be worth?
r3d3y3si 55 million
Nothing wrong with reaneys tackle , deserved win by leeds .
Pull in Kenny from Liverpool and you've got most of the Scottish International team (excluding Alan Rough the trainee goalie)
Fuckin ell what shit control everyone had! That kick off had everyone losing the ball and the ball bouncing off their legs about 2 metres.
Wonder if Maradona knew of this match re Jordan.
40 years and very high quality!!!
Never a free kick as was a great challenge by Reaney. Those were the days when Scotland had players in the great English teams, not even one now. About 7 Scottish players i can think of as part of that squad; Harvey, McQueen, F Gray, E Gray, Bremner, Lorimer & Jordan.
Robertson at Liverpool
I remember these days of the football scarf tied around one wrist, or through the belt loop of yer trousers. "Take" the opposing fans' home terrace or nick someone's scarf as a trophy to take back home with you. Long hair, big shoes, stupidly wide Oxford bags with the highest damned waistband you could find.
WAWAW!
All of Leeds goals in both legs were made by the renowned and feared aerial power of Joe Jordan!
When they extinted the Fairs Cup Barca played Leeds as they were the clubs that had one most. Barca won that one but there doesn’t seem to footage
Actually they could sign 5 foreigners. However, 2 or 3 could only be allowed to play. This must have been before that aforementioned rule was in place. This also was after the Spanish League lifted the ban on foreigners. And with Barca, they really capitalised when they signed Cruyff.
This is a very representative game of Cruyff at Barcelona in the period 1975 to 1978: absolutely irrelevant. He was the best player of the world since 1969 to 1974, but he lost all his motivation and love for football after beein defeated by Germany in the World Cup. Just one league and one Spanish Cup as player of Barcelona (73/74-77/78).
I agree. As good as any I've seen between the years you describe. And the German defeat probably had a lot to do with his motivation falling. Also, maybe the years of chain smoking did catch up with him. However, I think Cruyff, when compared with other great players, should be from his Ajax days and the Dutch national team up to end of world cup 74. In that time he was an absolute electric presence on a football field, and he had some fine players, at their peak, around him. The Barcalona team he played in was I think a very ordinary side. These days, they can go around the world hand picking who they want to play for them. Mind you, he did wipe the floor with England in a friendly game in 77.
Abolutely agree with you, Michael. His best time was with Ajax and Dutch team since 1968 to 1974. But when he was playing for Barcelona not Real Madrid nor Atlético de Madrid had great teams, neither. And it was just one league for a player of his level. After the 0-5 defeat at Bernabeu, many madridistas thought that Barcelona had another Di Stefano, but time proved to be a mistake. Cruyff was one of the five greatest, but it is Messi who has emerged as the Di Stefano of Barcelona: his best player ever. Saludos desde España
Well, I will repeat, Cruyff in those 5-6 years was as good as 'Anyone', in the history of the game. But the players Messi has had around him in all of his playing career at Barcelona, has helped Messi a great deal. Let's face it, if Cruyff had stayed at Ajax, they, not B Munich, would in all probability won the Euro cup 3 more times. If Messi moved from Barcelona and went say to an English team such as let's say, Everton, made them in his first season the champions, at the same time as defeating say Manchester United 0-5 on their own ground, and then in the following season take them to a very closely contested semi final defeat in the Euro Champions cup, then I might regard him as being up there with Cruyff. The bold risk Cruyff took to move from strongest team in world football in 73 to a mediocre Spanish team, nobody these days would contemplate such a move. Messi might move to England, but it'll be to Manchester City millionaires not Everton. He hasn't got the guts. And one other thing people forget besides being much more fitness aware these days, is some of the slogging pitches the likes of Cruyff had to play on. They play on snooker tables by comparison these days.
Now I dissagree. If you think that Barcelona in the 70s was a mediocre team, then also were mediocre Real Madrid and Atlético in those days. Not the best decade in spanish football at all, but not an irrelevant one: remember that Real Madrid played the semifinals of Champions League in 1973 & 1976, Atlético played the final in 1974 against Bayern, and Barça the semifinal against Leeds in 1975. And I am not talking about Cup of winners cup and UEFA cup.... It would have been almost a miracle to win the European Cup with Barça in 1975 or 1977, as it would have been for Real at the same period, when german and english teams dominated european football. Nevertheless, Barcelona was not Everton or something like that, but a club that was great in the past (50s) and have a terrible sporting crisis for 15 years (since the defeat against Benfica in Berna final, 1961). That Barcelona in 1973-1977 was not the Napoli in which played Maradona since 1984 to 1987, by the way, but a much better club with some great players (Rexach, Neeskens and Sotil, for instance) as teammates for Johan. And one more thing: Di Stéfano arrived to Spain in 1953 to a club that, comparatevely, was much worst than Barça in 1973, and after 11 years that club won 5 champions leagues and 8 ligas, changing forever the history of football. He did that competing with Barça, Bilbao and Atlético, which were a much stronger oposition for Real in those days that it was for Cruyff Real and Atletico in the 70s. Cruyff is a legend, but he lost his motivation and passion for football after the defeat against Germany in 1974. Sorry for my bad english. Saludos
Carlos Simancas also 1 european cup in 1978 I think 🤔 ⚽️, Cruyff was better as a coach than as a player for Barcelona ⚽️
Great team back then Leeds as a villa fan cruyff the best player I ever saw live.