Event Type: 1001 GREATEST FOOTBALL MOMENTS - 2023

2023-02-22

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Nr. 410

SUBS REDRESSTHE BALANCE (1965)

There was a time when, once 22 men had been named for a match, come what may they were the only ones allowed to contest the game. If a cold sponge didn’t do the trick, a team would battle on with ten players or less. However, when in the 1960s it became clear that results were being unbalanced by the inflexibility of the no-substitute rule the Football Association relented, allowing replacements for injury. History was made on 21 August 1965 when Charlton Athletic’s Keith Peacock came on in place of injured goalkeeper Mike Rose 11 minutes into their away match against
Bolton Wanderers.
Chelsea substitute Bert Murray watches from the sidelines on the first day that substitutes were allowed in the English Football League.

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2023-02-21

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Nr. 409

BENFICA PLAY 89,011 ITALIANS (1965)

The San Siro is undoubtedly a great stadium, but for Portugal’s Benfica in 1965 it was the lion’s den. They had won through all the stages of that season’s European Cup and were due to meet the powerful Internazionale in the final on 27 May. The problem was that UEFA had scheduled the final in the San Siro, the home ground shared by Internazionale and AC Milan. The Portuguese were furious at the choice of venue and even threatened to send their youth team unless UEFA relented. The protest was to no avail and despite a heroic performance before 89,000 fanatical Italian fans, they went down 1-0.
With a capacity of nearly 90,000 the San Siro in Milan is one of the most inspiring – and intimidating – theatres in world football.

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2023-02-20

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Nr. 408

LIVERPOOL MARCH INTO INTER (1965)

It was only three days since the Reds had brought the FA Cup home from Wembley for the first time and Anfield was a wall of sound when on 4 May Italian champions Inter Milan took to the field for the first leg of the European Cup semi-final. The Kop was singing ‘Go Back to Italy’ to the tune of ‘Santa Lucia’ when after just four minutes Roger
Hunt put Liverpool ahead. It was a quiet Kop that greeted Allesandro Mazzola’s equalizer six minutes later, but goals from Ian Callaghan and Ian St John finally restored Anfield’s spirits. Liverpool won 3-1. Liverpool travelled to the San Siro for the return leg in a confident mood but there they found Inter in inspired form. The Italian’s triumphed 3-0 and went through to the final.
Liverpool’s Roger Hunt is thwarted by Inter Milan’s Guarneri and Luis Suarez on the return leg which Inter triumphed 3-0.

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2023-02-17

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Nr. 407

THE KOP’S FAMOUS ANTHEM (1965)

Between 1892 and 1965 the Reds had won six First Division titles, but the world’s greatest knockout competition, the FA Cup remained elusive. After Liverpool edged out much-fancied Chelsea in the 1965 semi-final, fans were starting to believe, but due to a miserly allocation of just 15,000 final tickets for each club, many of the Kop faithful despaired of getting to Wembley. Although requests were pouring into Anfield from all over the world, legendary manager Bill Shankly declared, «Any tickets I’ve got are going to the boys on the Kop» – an expression of solidarity with fans who, for their part, had just adopted the Gerry and the Pacemakers hit ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ as their terrace anthem. Liverpool beat Leeds United 2-1 to win the FA Cup for the first time in the club’s history which was music to the Reds supporter’s ears.
In the end Liverpool beat Leeds 2-1 after extra-time and the players celebrated lifting the FA Cup for the first time in the club’s 73 year history.

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2023-02-16

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Nr. 406

BLACK POWER EMERGES AT WEMBLEY (1965)

South African born Albert Johanneson was not the first black footballer to play in England, but he achieved the distinction of being the first to play at Wembley in an FA Cup final. The skilful left-winger was signed for Second Division Leeds United in 1961 and was a fixture in the side when it won promotion to the First Division in 1964. Johanneson’s 1 May 1965 FA Cup final appearance against Liverpool turned out to be the high point of his career, for he was overshadowed over the next two seasons by new signing Eddy Gray and finally left for York City before retiring.
Albert Johanneson spent nine years at Elland Road with Leeds United, but his historic Wembley appearance ended in disappointing defeat.

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2023-02-15

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Nr. 405

BAYERN MUNICH STEP UP (1965)

When the German Football Association decided to establish the Bundeshga as its nation-wide professional football league, Bayern Munich were uncharacteristically in second place in their regional league. Stung by his club’s failure to win promotion in the first year, chairman Wilhelm Neudecker drafted in the famed Yugoslavian coach Slatko Cajkovski to build a team that would go up. Enter Sepp Maier, Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Muller as the axis of a young team that stormed to the Bundeshga in 1965, the second year of the premier division’s life. From that point, Bayern Munich went on to become the league’s most successful club, winning the championship 13 times.
Sepp Maier was the goal keeper of the newly successful Bayern Munich team. He also kept goal for the West German national side.

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2023-02-14

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Nr. 404

SIR STANLEY BOWS OUT (1965)

Stanley Matthews played his final professional game on 6 February 1965, five days after his 50th birthday – and the ‘Wizard of Dribble’ still claimed he had retired too early. That last match was his 710th as a professional in a career that was split between Stoke City and Blackpool. In that time he was voted the Football Writers’ Association’s Footballer of the Year twice, European Footballer of the Year – and he was never booked. Such was his standing in the game that his testimonial on 28 April drew stars from around the world. Having earned a CBE during his playing career, Matthews was finally knighted in the year of his retirement.
Matthews hangs up his boots, appearing in an all-star Stoke City team for his testimonial. Changing alongside the old master is Jimmy Greaves.

 

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2023-02-13

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Nr. 403

UNITED THEY FALL (1965)

To say the two Uniteds disliked each other would be a massive understatement. Manchester United and Leeds United had already clashed in the 1964-65 season and bad blood was boiling by the time they came to face each other in the sem- final of the FA Cup on 27 March 1965. Fouls flowed from both sides and an hour in all hell broke loose when a dash between Manchester United’s Denis Law and Leeds United’s Jack Charlton sparked an all-out brawl, leaving Law’s shirt in tatters along with the reputation of both teams. The most telling scoreline in the goalless draw was Manchester United 24 fouls, Leeds ten.
Players anxiously look for the loose ball in the Manchester United box during the FA Cup semi-final replay at Nottingham’s City Ground.

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2023-02-10

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Nr. 402

JOCK STEIN ANSWERS CELTIC’S PRAYERS (1965)

Celtic hadn’t been doing well. In fact, they’d gone eight years without a trophy, but just six weeks after Jack Stein became the first Protestant to manage the Cathohc club, Celtic won the Scottish Cup. That was in 1965 and in 1967 he took the club to a Scottish domestic treble. Stein’s greatest achievement, though, was in Europe and he guided Celtic past the mighty Inter Milan to win the 1967 European Cup and become the first British side to lift the trophy. Astonishing as it may seem, he achieved all this with local talent. All his players were born within 30 miles of Glasgow.
Jock Stein meets his new players on his first day in charge. His arrival brought an almost immediate turnaround in Celtic’s fortunes.

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2023-02-09

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Nr. 401

MATCH-FIXING ENDS CAREERS (1965)

In 1963, when he left Sheffield Wednesday for Everton, Tony Kay was England’s highest paid professional, but a £50 bet when he was still with Wednesday was to end his career and put hun behind bars for ten weeks. Kay had bet that his team would lose against Ipswich Town, a wager that entangled him in England’s most sensational match-fixing investigation. In 1965 ten League professionals were found guilty, jailed and banned from playing for life. Former Scottish professional Jimmy Gauld was judged to be the ringleader and sentenced to four years, while others received sentences of between four and 15 months.
Tony Kay arrives at Mansfield magistrates court to hear his fate. He was to spend ten weeks behind bars for his crime.

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2023-02-08

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Nr. 400

RINUS BRINGS ‘TOTAL FOOTBALL’ TO AJAX (1964)

Marinus Michels, known as ‘Rinus’, was an Ajax man through and through. He played his entire career at the Amsterdam club and went on to coach a squad that produced some of the finest football of the time. The style was known as ‘total football’, a system that allowed any player to fill any position, ensuring that their structure on the pitch was never dragged out of shape. This required supreme fitness and skill, and Michels’ exacting training regime not only produced a squad of elite athletes, but also helped players argue for professional status and full-time wages.
Rinus Michels was a tactical genius whose football knowledge got the best out of a hugely talented generation of Dutch players at Ajax.

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2023-02-07

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Nr. 399

SCHÖN MAKES GERMANY GREAT (1964)

It was a happy day for East German-bom Helmut Schön when he made it across the border to the West after World War Two and began a flourishing career as a manager that ultimately led to his appointment as assistant coach to the West German national side. It was an even happier day for West Germany in November 1964 when Schön succeeded Sepp Herberger as coach. Under his guidance the national team became runners-up in the 1966 World Cup, took third place in 1970, became European Champions in 1972, World Cup winners in 1974 and European Championship runners-up in 1976.
As an East German Helmut Schön’s journey to become coach of the West German national team was even more remarkable.

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