1971 FA Cup Final

[Dipesh42]

was on yesterday in Fox Sports World ...Does anyone have the lyrics to the "Show me the way to go home" song...It was sung quite a bit

[anfield]

I watched that too, our defense was all over the place but Clem was amazing in goal. One thing that stuck out was how most of players from back then would be considered physically inadequate for the premiership today. They looked like a typical Gerrard tackle might break them in half.....the goalkeepers could barely get the ball past the half way line and all the crosses seemed to float in rather than zip in as is the norm today........more finesse and less power so to speak.

[Guest Stephen King]

Balls!

[Dipesh42]

Bobs Wilsons pick up and roll,pick up and roll and pick up,roll and then hoff got a bit tedious as well ...those balls must have felt like they were made out of concrete

[fyds]

I was there for that game- it was seriously fecking hot.

[kop205]

i am assuming it is the one that has always been sung..

 

"Show them the way to go home

We're tired and we want to go to bed (for a w***!)

Cause they've onbly half a football team

Compared to the boys in red"

 

Always thought it was 'THEY'RE tired...'?

[SkippyjonJones]

first game I remember watching. the day that I realised that I was a Liverpool supporter. Had my first kit by xmas -even though the rest of the family were blue!! Luckily I had a nuetral grandmother who bought it for me or the subversion may have eventually worked!!

Edited May 25, 2006 by NHE

[Bootle Buck]

Thank God we signed Keegan a couple of months later. Alun Evans was crap.

 

There were a couple of great Smithy tackles to be admired.

[Guest Red Flame]

I watched that too, our defense was all over the place but Clem was amazing in goal. One thing that stuck out was how most of players from back then would be considered physically inadequate for the premiership today. They looked like a typical Gerrard tackle might break them in half.....the goalkeepers could barely get the ball past the half way line and all the crosses seemed to float in rather than zip in as is the norm today........more finesse and less power so to speak.

Errr, I don't think so. Tell that to the Marines .... and to Tommy Smith !!

 

The day was exceptionally hot even for a day in May. It was gloriously hot, one of the hottest of the year. The players were in danger of dehydrating according to the coaching staff and their comments after the game. The shirts that the Liverpool players wore was also a factor in driving up their body heat. They were of a thick woven material and were far too heavy. By contrast, Arsenal wore new-fangled lightweight shirts that helped keep them cooler although the Gunners were also severely affected by the conditions.

[autumn319]

any photo?someone?

[Ostrich Man]

any photo?someone?

[autumn319]

charlie george.

[Jim Price]

Always thought it was 'THEY'RE tired...'?

That's what I think. Anny's wrong.

[Guest Grumpyoldman]

Thank God we signed Keegan a couple of months later. Alun Evans was crap.

 

There were a couple of great Smithy tackles to be admired.

 

we hadn't replaced Sir Roger by this stage. All part of Shank's rebuilding process.

 

I remember Alun Evans hitting the wall behind the goal head on once. Just got up and walked away as if nothing had happened.

 

I think it is 'They're tired' as well....what I always used to sing anyway.

[Scally Bob]

Thank God we signed Keegan a couple of months later. Alun Evans was crap.

 

There were a couple of great Smithy tackles to be admired.

 

Kevin Keegan was a Liverpool player two days after the game was played. Shanks famously said that we'd have won if he'd been playing that day. Because we didn't sign him before transfer deadline day he had to wait until the season was finished to complete his move. We agreed it with Scunny that he stayed there until the end of the season but he was at Wembley as part of the official Liverpool party.

 

I went to the match, my first Cup Final. It was boiling and both teams had endured long seasons-Arsenal had won the League at Spurs on the Monday night.

Edited May 26, 2006 by Scally Bob

[Guest mick the baker]

I was at the bayern munich game when evans scored his hat trick,he played his part, but was glassed in a nightclub in birmingham and shortly after was sold,my other abiding memory was when he scored against the toffees at old trafford in the 71 semi.

[New York Red]

we seemed to have quite an ageing back 4 didn't we?

 

They all looked old in those days. Alec Lindsey looked like he was a fifty year old farmer, but I bet he was in his late 20's at worst. Larry Lloyd was in his early 20's I believe. Lawler may have been 30. Tommy Smith was in his mid 20's also, which is hard to believe really. He always had an old face.

[New York Red]

lindsay was 23.

lloyd was 22.

chris lawler was 27.

tommy smith was 25.

 

so i was wrong.completely wrong.

was it a good game to watch?or was it a high tension game?

 

Massive difference in the standard of play compared to today. Very wierd to see the ball getting knocked back to the goalkeeper so much also.

 

It was a pretty good game, but the extra time was excellent. Three goals scored, Liverpools came in the first minute of extra time from Heighway. Then Arsenal got the equalizer through an Eddie Kelly goal that George Graham famously tried to take the credit for. Then a scorcher from Charlie George to win it.