Chaos, Fury and Clough: Liverpool v Leeds, 1974
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
The Overlap
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the latest episode of The Overlap’s football history podcast, It Was What It Was.
In this week’s episode, we take an in-depth look into a game that was full of trouble -The 1974 Charity Shield at Wembley between Liverpool and Leeds, during a time when behaviour on and off the pitch was declining English football.
Journalists Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper delve into the social context and lead up to the game, including a new Liverpool under Bob Paisley and a new Leeds under Brian Clough as they head into the game with uncertainty on both sides.
Jonathan and Rob also provide a detailed analysis of the match itself, including key players, key incidents that lead to fighting on the pitch and the aftermath of the game on both clubs and English football.
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| 0:00.0 | Players have got to realise they can't throw punches. |
| 0:10.0 | You can do it in rugby and get away with it, but it must not happen in soccer. |
| 0:14.0 | The charity shield at Wembley was to have been a great showcase to launch a new season. |
| 0:19.0 | The FAA just wanted to make the game more accessible to a wider range of people. |
| 0:23.4 | It was a chance for the champion of clubs to show what they could do. |
| 0:27.2 | But they blew it. |
| 0:29.7 | Well, welcome to It Was What It Was. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm Rob Draper. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm here of Jonathan Wilson. |
| 0:34.3 | That was F.A. Secretary Ted Croker talking about the most infamous charity shield |
| 0:39.8 | or what we now know as a community shield, perhaps of all time in 1974, which turned into a bit |
| 0:46.1 | of a brawl and a bit of an embarrassment for the game. Ted Croker, who of course is the grandfather |
| 0:51.0 | of Eric Dyer, interestingly, but was a sort sort of big wig at the FA at a time. |
| 0:56.0 | People were appalled at what went on in this charity shield. |
| 0:59.7 | So Jonathan, can you set the scene for Charity Shield? |
| 1:03.6 | Kind of just a preseason friendly. |
| 1:05.2 | It doesn't really matter. |
| 1:06.3 | There's no real intensity on it. |
| 1:07.9 | What on earth happened in 1974 to make it such a big story? |
| 1:11.3 | So you should say the reason we're doing this now is that this season's |
| 1:14.6 | Charity Shield, Manchester Night against Manchester City, |
| 1:17.2 | falls on 50 years of a day since this brawl. |
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