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Post by Royal Blue on Nov 12, 2024 18:33:04 GMT
Tomorrow sees the 50th annivesary of that famous match but I've not seen any mention of it anywhere. Shame that as it deserves a bit of recognition.
It was before my time but it would be nice to hear from any fans (and players - Gren) who were there as to their recollections of the game. It must have been an amazing night as a fan. It's the kind of thing the club could do a video feature too, collecting the memories from players and fans but I'm not sure if we've got any media students still involved down there?
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Post by doug on Nov 12, 2024 18:40:38 GMT
It was my 1st ever game I was 8 and really didn't appreciate what I was watching. I was so small my Dad sat me on the roof of the cafe/kiosk at the Sealand end so I could see what was going on,realised since that was the pinnacle of the club's achievement (in all guises), but was hooked from then onwards.
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Post by theshed1 on Nov 12, 2024 19:06:52 GMT
What a night the place was absolutely bouncing on all 4 sides the Leeds side had some real talent Loromer Hunter Bremner etc which was what we all came to see really hoping we wouldn't get a tonking, what we actually saw was unreal. From the kick off we weren't overawed and took the game to them and when the 1st goal went in the place exploded and there was only ever be one winner. The kop packed full of yorkshire men fell silent and despite all the internationals at their disposal it was Leeds that got tonked. That night will be with me to the grave UNBELIEVABLE GEOFF
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Post by johnytwodogs on Nov 12, 2024 20:57:59 GMT
It was absolutely heaving, I entered through the turnstile by the kiosk and didn't get much further into the ground than just by the kiosk packed like sardines,incredible scenes never to be forgotten.
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Post by league2 on Nov 12, 2024 21:09:55 GMT
The police estimate for the crowd that night was 24,000.they couldn't stop fans climbing over the wall to get in the kop and the back of the sealand rd end
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Post by Neil Hunt Nonsense Potter on Nov 13, 2024 9:26:02 GMT
Tomorrow sees the 50th annivesary of that famous match but I've not seen any mention of it anywhere. Shame that as it deserves a bit of recognition.
It was before my time but it would be nice to hear from any fans (and players - Gren) who were there as to their recollections of the game. It must have been an amazing night as a fan. It's the kind of thing the club could do a video feature too, collecting the memories from players and fans but I'm not sure if we've got any media students still involved down there?
I was there. Remember it like it was yesterday pissing down all night. They had to go on the pitch at halftime to use forks to drain the puddles I was behind the goal on the kop Leeds fans all around us their faces a picture I remember us putting about 40 passes together and that whole team of international players couldn’t get the ball off us until Billy bremner hacked one of our players down and gave away a free kick. People sitting around the pitch on the cinder path because there was no more room in the crowd 19000 crowd my arse, more like 22000 in the ground it was an unbelievable night once in a lifetime and to think we have people on here saying “get over it Chester city are dead we are what we are” to a point that’s true but this club is a pale shadow of what we used it be Yea I know bla bla 1500 at the old ground Vaughan bla bla but this memory is history Chester 3-0 Leeds and any self centred whining people who have little ambition because they ‘own our own club’ will never experience what I did on that cold wet night in November 1974 Really enjoyed your memories until your last sentence, which was patronising, bitter and wrong. People are proud to own our club because it was resurrected from the shitpile that Barnes/Morrisons/Guterman/Smith/Vaughan dumped it on. We owe nobody anything and compete in the face of some ridiculous money at this level of football. Some of us also have ambitions to see the club back in the football league. You can have both. |
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Post by Royal Blue on Nov 13, 2024 9:37:19 GMT
Thanks for the replies so far, really enjoy the little insights like not getting past the kiosk. Helps paint a picture of what it was like.
Can we leave the old/new club rows please and just keep it to memories of the match in question.
My time at Sealand Road saw a 8k max crowd which was amazing so it's great to hear what 20k was like
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Post by glosblue on Nov 13, 2024 9:50:44 GMT
I was there as a teenager, standing at the halfway line on the old popular side.
Leeds had 11 internationals playing, were league champions, and reached the European Cup (Champions League) final that season, where they very controversially lost 2-0. So by winning 3-0 we were obviously champions of Europe on aggregate... It would be like thrashing a full strength Man City today.
Trevor Storton was immense, they didn't know what to do with the (sadly just passed) Derek 'Dai' Draper (small and quite weedy, but unbelievable in the air), and John 'Jesse' James did the business up front. I later heard it was the first time in his career that Billy Bremner had ever been substituted.
The Leeds manager was sporting afterwards (Jimmy Armfield?), and congratulted us on the win, unlike the Newcastle manager in the next round (Joe Harvey?), who claimed we were just 'kick and rush'. That game included possibly the best save ever seen at Sealand Road, when the great Grenville Millington tipped an absolute thunderbolt from Malcolm MacDonald ('Supermac') round the post at the home end to keep the clean sheet.
I kept all the programmes and newspaper cuttings from that run. A few years later, when I came home for Christmas from University at the end of the first term, I found my dad had thrown them all away. He also threw away all my Corgi toys (including the Batmobile with the flaming exhausts, and the James Bond DB5 with the ejector seat), but that's another story...
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Post by waggoner on Nov 13, 2024 10:24:37 GMT
I was there as a teenager, standing at the halfway line on the old popular side. Leeds had 11 internationals playing, were league champions, and reached the European Cup (Champions League) final that season, where they very controversially lost 2-0. So by winning 3-0 we were obviously champions of Europe on aggregate... It would be like thrashing a full strength Man City today. Trevor Storton was immense, they didn't know what to do with the (sadly just passed) Derek 'Dai' Draper (small and quite weedy, but unbelievable in the air), and John 'Jesse' James did the business up front. I later heard it was the first time in his career that Billy Bremner had ever been substituted. The Leeds manager was sporting afterwards (Jimmy Armfield?), and congratulted us on the win, unlike the Newcastle manager in the next round (Joe Harvey?), who claimed we were just 'kick and rush'. That game included possibly the best save ever seen at Sealand Road, when the great Grenville Millington tipped an absolute thunderbolt from Malcolm MacDonald ('Supermac') round the post at the home end to keep the clean sheet. I kept all the programmes and newspaper cuttings from that run. A few years later, when I came home for Christmas from University at the end of the first term, I found my dad had thrown them all away. He also threw away all my Corgi toys (including the Batmobile with the flaming exhausts, and the James Bond DB5 with the ejector seat), but that's another story... Shit!!! sod the programmes that would be worth good money now |
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Post by Moltisanti on Nov 13, 2024 10:41:45 GMT
Really enjoyed your memories until your last sentence, which was patronising, bitter and wrong. People are proud to own our club because it was resurrected from the shitpile that Barnes/Morrisons/Guterman/Smith/Vaughan dumped it on. We owe nobody anything and compete in the face of some ridiculous money at this level of football. Some of us also have ambitions to see the club back in the football league. You can have both. That I would love to see, but it will never happen. The model we adopt is just too restrictive sadly. Get out there and find some investors then and attend some games yourself to BOOST the coffers |
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Post by dc2cfc on Nov 13, 2024 10:43:00 GMT
In terms of the game and build up,
Before the game was there an expectation that the crowd would have been so big? Was it predicted so it would be packed over the maximum?
I can imagine every person in schools and businesses in the city would have been talking about going beforehand
What happened for the next league games did they go back to really low attendances again?
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Post by sticks on Nov 13, 2024 11:51:06 GMT
Me an the my gf were there in the sealand end squashed the railway sleepers that we stood on were bending with the amount of people on them i still have the paper cuttings an proggrame amazing atmosphere an night
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Post by picasso on Nov 13, 2024 12:26:50 GMT
Cracked me up that ending.
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Post by oldnotdecrepit on Nov 13, 2024 12:32:48 GMT
I was at college. My dad queued for tickets for us, then on the day, finished work early drove all the way to college and pick me up, returning the same night. I didn’t miss a single game from that run but this was just the best. Unbelievable and I do believe the greatest cup upset of all time………….although some folk will have others. Agree, the attendance was well over the official figures. What. A. Night.
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Post by deesideblue1 on Nov 13, 2024 13:35:31 GMT
Me an the my gf were there in the sealand end squashed the railway sleepers that we stood on were bending with the amount of people on them i still have the paper cuttings an proggrame amazing atmosphere an night Have you married her yet? Long time to hold out |
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Post by agl on Nov 13, 2024 14:34:21 GMT
One of my first games. My abiding memory is the bank of Leeds fans stretching for what seemed to be miles up the terracing in the night sky. SAG would have had an absolute meltdown 🤣
We were pretty formidable at home in those days. Was a bit too young to appreciate what was arguably our greatest ever team. The League Cup was a proper competition in those days.
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Post by Churton Blue on Nov 13, 2024 15:13:35 GMT
Lucky enough to have been there as a 15 year old.
The crowd was double any game I had attended in the past so seeing the place full was spectacular.
Much to the amusement of my friends on the bus on the way there I actually thought we had a chance. People in school who did not support Chester shook my hand and congratulated me the next day !
Hard to imagine now but Leeds Utd were the team most followed by the glory hunters in many parts of the country.
In terms of the scoreline and the respective positions of the clubs involved the most impressive giant killing in English football.
We totally outplayed them which is as unbelievable now as it was at the time.
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Post by Moltisanti on Nov 13, 2024 15:44:19 GMT
Have to delete yours then because you quoted it.
You’re right I shouldn’t have responded to Waggoners angry rantings and agenda about the club.
A real shame he had to change the subject of the thread.
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Post by nytram on Nov 13, 2024 16:08:36 GMT
Maybe just maybe you will, in your own words, not to react to other people (assume it's not just Waggoner) angry rantings about the club and everything in general (or are you saying it's for this thread only).
A little time please before you 'react'then please give an informative response.
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Post by theshed1 on Nov 13, 2024 16:10:23 GMT
Come on mods a thread about the clubs greatest night being siderailed
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Post by nytram on Nov 13, 2024 16:17:57 GMT
Can someone upload a video of the night.
By the way, maybe being ignorant here but who is Avfo?
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Post by johnytwodogs on Nov 13, 2024 16:20:13 GMT
One thing that sticks in my mind while queuing to get in you could hear match announcer saying, beware of pickpockets we are informed there is a gang operating in the stadium.
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Post by nytram on Nov 13, 2024 16:36:01 GMT
Remember getting into ground!!Then not able to go anywhere apart from right corner of Sealand Road. Did anyone climb the floodlights seem to remember. Major memory is of Derek Draper and Jessie James, especially, in mud covered shirts with both players socks down (as they used to) running around with Leeds players in White kit covered in mud totally wondering what was going on.
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Post by theshed1 on Nov 13, 2024 16:37:46 GMT
Can someone upload a video of the night. By the way, maybe being ignorant here but who is Avfo? Unbelievably there were no TV cameras there that night the only video I have seen is a montage from the Chronicle I'll see if my tech savvy is up to putting it on. As for AVFO I don.t know but he puts a lot of info on here |
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Post by theshed1 on Nov 13, 2024 16:40:30 GMT
There you go not bad for an oldun link |
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Post by Royal Blue on Nov 13, 2024 17:22:48 GMT
There you go not bad for an oldun linkGreat montage thanks! I think if the TV cameras had been there it would get a lot more coverage and be brought up a lot more like other cup upsets.
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Post by Moltisanti on Nov 13, 2024 17:29:52 GMT
Maybe just maybe you will, in your own words, not to react to other people (assume it's not just Waggoner) angry rantings about the club and everything in general (or are you saying it's for this thread only). A little time please before you 'react'then please give an informative response. I can’t understand your grammar sorry. |
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Nov 13, 2024 17:56:25 GMT
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Post by Royal Blue on Nov 13, 2024 18:24:35 GMT
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Post by jamescfc on Nov 13, 2024 18:28:07 GMT
Yeah, but hear me out. Nobody can remember it and we lost to Brian Little Aston Villa in the next round. That’s a defeat for me. |
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