The Football.....

[postman]

I would like to see the teams of today play on the pitches of the 70's their slippers would fall off straight away.They play on billiard tables today.Just look at the pitch for the 1970 Cup Final ,the Horse of the Year show the year before had chewed it up.The Hereford Newcastle match.
View: https://youtu.be/D1i7XUmCGcg?t=12m53s
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[CanucksTraveller]

So you're saying that the pitches were poor, and that proves or at least supports the view that 70s players were better?

 

[MarkF]

The pitches were poor and the football was slow and crap.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Was interesting to watch (again) the Leeds vs Chelsea FA Cup final during the half-time interlude of the Spuds vs Millwall match. Despite some of my younger years heroes playing over those two matches the skill levels were woefully low.

My favourite is the 1966 World Cup Final - how fat and unfit (by modern standards) those players were, and so slow. The winning team would be blitzed by a top flight team nowadays.

Watch Hurst's first goal, the amount of room he had was incredible by today's standards.

 

[postman]

View: https://youtu.be/tvyJKWF5Q74


Got to admit it was slow and terrible.The pitches were poor and the football was slow and crap.

 

[postman]

Modern football at the top level is far removed from the clod-fest of the 70's - much as I used to love watching it way back then.

Even an average PL team would wipe the floor with the best teams from the 70's. They are way fitter, faster, more skilful and tactically savvy than the players of yesteryear.


LFC in the 1970s
1973 Eighth league title secured

1973 Europe conquered as Reds land UEFA Cup

1974 FA Cup returns to Anfield

1974 Sensation as Shankly resigns

1974 Paisley takes over in the hot-seat

1974 Shoot-out glory lands Shield

1974 Rampant Reds net eleven

1976 Ninth title clinched at Molineux

1976 UEFA Cup won for second time

1976 Reds beat Saints to win Shield

1977 Ten titles for Reds after Hammers draw

1977 Reds conquer Rome to win European Cup

1977 Kenny arrives from Celtic

1977 Shield shared with Man United

1977 6-0 win secures Super Cup success

1978 League Cup replay agony for Reds

1978 Wembley glory as Reds beat Bruges

1979 Villa victory seals league triumph

1979 Arsenal gunned down in Charity Shield

Liverpool clod fest.

Leeds were a good team when they were let off the leash But Liverpool were awesome.A terrible time in the 70's if you were a Pool fan.
Anyway full time called by the Ref.My Dad says Alick Jeffreys was a great player,it's all down to the time you were born in.

 

[MarkF]

View: https://youtu.be/tvyJKWF5Q74


Got to admit it was slow and terrible.The pitches were poor and the football was slow and crap.

Is that in real time or is summat up with it?

 

[postman]

I enjoyed that banter,thank you for joining in.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Modern football at the top level is far removed from the clod-fest of the 70's - much as I used to love watching it way back then.

Even an average PL team would wipe the floor with the best teams from the 70's. They are way fitter, faster, more skilful and tactically savvy than the players of yesteryear.


LFC in the 1970s
1973 Eighth league title secured

1973 Europe conquered as Reds land UEFA Cup

1974 FA Cup returns to Anfield

1974 Sensation as Shankly resigns

1974 Paisley takes over in the hot-seat

1974 Shoot-out glory lands Shield

1974 Rampant Reds net eleven

1976 Ninth title clinched at Molineux

1976 UEFA Cup won for second time

1976 Reds beat Saints to win Shield

1977 Ten titles for Reds after Hammers draw

1977 Reds conquer Rome to win European Cup

1977 Kenny arrives from Celtic

1977 Shield shared with Man United

1977 6-0 win secures Super Cup success

1978 League Cup replay agony for Reds

1978 Wembley glory as Reds beat Bruges

1979 Villa victory seals league triumph

1979 Arsenal gunned down in Charity Shield

Liverpool clod fest.

Leeds were a good team when they were let off the leash But Liverpool were awesome.A terrible time in the 70's if you were a Pool fan.
Anyway full time called by the Ref.My Dad says Alick Jeffreys was a great player,it's all down to the time you were born in.

Yes, yes, yes - see where you are coming from. But, even the relatively low performing (notwithstanding the 2005 CL fluke) LFC teams of this century would fare well against all those LFC teams from the dim and distant past. Sorry, very dim and very distant past.

As an aside, and I know they are now 2-1 up, how bad are LFC playing today?

 

[mark st1]

Modern football at the top level is far removed from the clod-fest of the 70's - much as I used to love watching it way back then.

Even an average PL team would wipe the floor with the best teams from the 70's. They are way fitter, faster, more skilful and tactically savvy than the players of yesteryear.


LFC in the 1970s
1973 Eighth league title secured

1973 Europe conquered as Reds land UEFA Cup

1974 FA Cup returns to Anfield

1974 Sensation as Shankly resigns

1974 Paisley takes over in the hot-seat

1974 Shoot-out glory lands Shield

1974 Rampant Reds net eleven

1976 Ninth title clinched at Molineux

1976 UEFA Cup won for second time

1976 Reds beat Saints to win Shield

1977 Ten titles for Reds after Hammers draw

1977 Reds conquer Rome to win European Cup

1977 Kenny arrives from Celtic

1977 Shield shared with Man United

1977 6-0 win secures Super Cup success

1978 League Cup replay agony for Reds

1978 Wembley glory as Reds beat Bruges

1979 Villa victory seals league triumph

1979 Arsenal gunned down in Charity Shield

Liverpool clod fest.

Leeds were a good team when they were let off the leash But Liverpool were awesome.A terrible time in the 70's if you were a Pool fan.
Anyway full time called by the Ref.My Dad says Alick Jeffreys was a great player,it's all down to the time you were born in.

 

[Slick]

Just how much has my team changed when we celebrate a draw away to the dark forces. Well done Rangers, you shoved the words back down their own throats today.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Steve McClaren sacked by Derby County. He was a great coach, highly rated by Roy Keane, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes, but as a manager he has been out of his depth.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...unty-steve-mcclaren-championship-part-company

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The orange ba was oot in the States tonight

They even had a stop in play to clear the snow...

 

[Smokin Joe]

Feck me, Leicester have only got through to the quarters

 

[potsy]

Feck me, Leicester have only got through to the quarters

Just shows what you can do when you start trying again