Borussia Mönchengladbach and Hamburg players walk out for an DFB Cup tie in the snow back in 1973.

French football team Olympique de Marseille unveil incredible Eddie Van Halen tribute at Stade Vélodrome. Magnifique!.

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 The day Hans Segers was reprimanded on the pitch by a policeman. htt

 

Feyenoord's Joop Hiele celebrates his side's goal against Ajax at Amsterdam's Olympic stadium in 1980.

 

 

Bayern Munich's Jean-Marie Pfaff dives the right way to save Roland Grahammer's penalty during a match against Nürnberg in 1985.

 

Norway's goalkeeper Tore Antonsen thwarts another England attack during their infamous 1981 World Cup Qualifier.
You know the one... "Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana..."

Clive Walker scoring v Oldham Athletic at The  Bridge in 1980. 

 

 

This Gennaro Gattuso story about Paul Gascoigne during their time at Glasgow Rangers in the mid 1990s  is brilliant.

 

 

The moment Karel Poborsky stunned Portugal at Euro ‘96 with this brilliant chipped goal.

 

Ref Ken Aston inspects the pitch at Selhurst Park before postponing the FA Cup clash v Leeds United in 1965.

 

From 20 years ago. One of my favourite headlines.

Neil Warnock“The sooner we get fans back the better. I'd like to get booed at least one more time before I retire." 😀

A deserted stadium. West Ham were forced to play behind closed doors in the 1980/81 Cup Winners Cup after crowd trouble.

 

The Santiago Bernabeu in 1957.
A crowd of 120,000 watched the European Cup Semi Final first leg against Man Utd

 

Stanley Matthews receives his Ballon d'Or  in 1956.

 

The  1977-78 Player of the Season...for Barnet...Jimmy Greaves!

 

 

The great Jimmy Greaves at Barnet in 1978.

Greaves is arguably one of the greatest goalscorers English football has ever seen.  In a career which had already spanned 20 years, Greaves held the all-time record of 357 league goals in just 516 matches. 
He also scored 44 times for England in just 57 internationals, leaving him 2nd in the all-time table for his country.   

  At 37 years of age, Greaves wasn’t the frightening striker of old as he’d reverted to a deeper role in midfield. 

But he still had a presence on the pitch.  This was his first outing at this stage of the cup and he was quoted in the programme as saying “if we can beat Peterborough and I play in the Second Round as well, I’ll have gone through the card.”  

Despite playing from midfield, Greaves scored 25 goals that season but his place in the cup game was in doubt after he’d being sent-off on the Tuesday in a game at Chelmsford City.

  The game was abandoned when the home side were awarded a hotly disputed penalty. 

The keeper saved, but when the ref ordered a re-take, Billy Meadows, Barnet’s manager, completely lost it and Greaves refused to walk when the ref showed him the red card.  Barnet managed to hastily arrange a league game with Hillingdon Borough on the Thursday, which Greaves sat out, allowing him to take the field on Saturday.

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England v Scotland , May 1975 The entry of the two teams.

England won 5-1 . Scotland’s goalkeeper Stewart Kennedy never got over the experience of losing 3goals inside the first  20 mins England were really flying that day. 

 

 

All change for Kennedy at Station Park. Kennedy stayed at Rangers winning 2 more League Titles and 2 League Cup winners medals.
He moved to Forfar in summer 1980 and one of his first games was back at Ibrox in a League Cup tie. He played for Forfar until 1991.    Shoot Magazine.

He then  played one match for St Johnstone at Dunfermline Athletic on 1 Jan 1992 at the age of 42 years plus 123 days.

This was his only appearance. Regular keeper  Lindsay Hamilton being sent off v Hearts  the previous Sat.

Kennedy kept a clean sheet that New Year’s Day as Saints won 3 – 0.😀

 

 

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1 hour ago, erskblue said:

England v Scotland , May 1975 The entry of the two teams.

England won 5-1 . Scotland’s goalkeeper Stewart Kennedy never got over the experience of losing 3goals inside the first  20 mins England were really flying that day. 

 

 

I was at that game with my Dad. My first trip to Wembley. A nightmare of a game for Scotland and especially Kennedy.  It wasn't a bad Scotland team that day but they were just overrun. Revenge was gained two years later with Scotland winning 2-1.

 

Mark Hughes and Gary Lineker during their spell playing for Barcelona in 1986

 

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This advert was in Shoot from 15th March 1980.

 

Turnstiles being installed at Wembley ahead of the 1923 FA Cup Final.

 

Rainer Bonhof, Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Bebeto (Flamengo) and Romario (Vasco de Gama) 1986.

Sunderland 1 -0  Leeds United 😀FA Cup Final of 1973

Bob Stokoe waves to the delighted and very probably disbelieving,Sunderland supporters.