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"Watch Classic Matches Again"

Joey66 said:
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That is the one! Had never seen it until posted here recently and so I have seen it a few times now. I was nearly 9, have hardly any recollections apart from the sandy boggy pitch, excellent speck on line with the goal line, the penno, just willing the second half to end, the delirium among everton fans outside singing a great long chant with the players names to yellow submarine and the Harry catterick chant to the Hare Krishna chant! And seeing some little Leeds kid about my own age in tears......... Thought of him the next season on my way home from Villa Park!!
 
For some reason the computer won't let me quote page 30 but the top post on it is the 1967 Everton V man U game.

Harvey, Ball, Kendall and Alex Young VS Best, Law and Charlton.

Unusual for the time in that we see extended highlights of a full game. There are two or three flashes of skill from Alex Young that if Best had done them would appear on hundreds of youtube videos. Best does nothing of note.

Best is remembered as the dancing master of British football, the epitome of elegance and grace. Anyone watching that video can see that Alex was at least his equal but Best played for the Post Munich media darlings with every shimmy and touch magnified by a hundred retellings and he became a soap opera whereas The Vision merely played football for a football club.

Alex Young was George Best's equal as a footballer. The creative fulcrum of hearts greatest ever team and our idol. The world would scoff but its true.
 

rbm said:
For some reason the computer won't let me quote page 30 but the top post on it is the 1967 Everton V man U game.

Harvey, Ball, Kendall and Alex Young VS Best, Law and Charlton.

Unusual for the time in that we see extended highlights of a full game. There are two or three flashes of skill from Alex Young that if Best had done them would appear on hundreds of youtube videos. Best does nothing of note.

Best is remembered as the dancing master of British football, the epitome of elegance and grace. Anyone watching that video can see that Alex was at least his equal but Best played for the Post Munich media darlings with every shimmy and touch magnified by a hundred retellings and he became a soap opera whereas The Vision merely played football for a football club.

Alex Young was George Best's equal as a footballer. The creative fulcrum of hearts greatest ever team and our idol. The world would scoff but its true.
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I agree to your sentiments and know where you are coming from. Can you imagine if Ball, Harvey and Kendall played in that Man Utd team along with the media gushing.....they would all be sirs now and I don't think that is an exaggeration...plus Harvey and Kendall would have had at least 40 England caps. Up until the mid to late 50's Man Utd were a nothing team...our attendances were much higher also....it was the worldwide symphathy of the Munich disaster that made Man Utd what they became. Good in the 60's poorish in the 70's nothing much in the 80's then we all know what happened when football started in 1992. I don't mean it to sound callous when I refer to the munich disaster but it really brought them to the forefront. I had a soft spot for Utd in the 60's and early 70's for the very same reason.
 
banno said:
I agree to your sentiments and know where you are coming from. Can you imagine if Ball, Harvey and Kendall played in that Man Utd team along with the media gushing.....they would all be sirs now and I don't think that is an exaggeration...plus Harvey and Kendall would have had at least 40 England caps. Up until the mid to late 50's Man Utd were a nothing team...our attendances were much higher also....it was the worldwide symphathy of the Munich disaster that made Man Utd what they became. Good in the 60's poorish in the 70's nothing much in the 80's then we all know what happened when football started in 1992. I don't mean it to sound callous when I refer to the munich disaster but it really brought them to the forefront. I had a soft spot for Utd in the 60's and early 70's for the very same reason.
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Agree with you. I have respect for United. OK they are a franchise brand now but they have produced great players and fine teams.

What irks is the whole hoo ha that has surrounded them. George Best was a lovely player, elegant and graceful but in trawling through youtube vids I have found precious few of these dribbling runs that beat 5 players we hear so much of but see so few of. More often than not beats a man before pushing the ball too far and losing it. How many cup finals of any type did he play in? One. We are told he scored all his goals from the wing....no he did not. All the post 1967 vids show he played as a free ranging centre forward whatever number he wore. Everton, Liverpool, City and especially Leeds had comparable teams with comparable players.

Imagine an injury free Eddie Gray playing for a media favourite? Imagine Alex Young?

Not knocking United or Best. He was lovely talent. Just looking for some balance behind all the guff and blather and sentiment.
 
banno said:
I agree to your sentiments and know where you are coming from. Can you imagine if Ball, Harvey and Kendall played in that Man Utd team along with the media gushing.....they would all be sirs now and I don't think that is an exaggeration...plus Harvey and Kendall would have had at least 40 England caps. Up until the mid to late 50's Man Utd were a nothing team...our attendances were much higher also....it was the worldwide symphathy of the Munich disaster that made Man Utd what they became. Good in the 60's poorish in the 70's nothing much in the 80's then we all know what happened when football started in 1992. I don't mean it to sound callous when I refer to the munich disaster but it really brought them to the forefront. I had a soft spot for Utd in the 60's and early 70's for the very same reason.
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Only know what my old man told me about Utd back then but he reckoned Duncan Edwards(RIP) would have been the rock that England built their team around in the 62 and 66 World Cups,he once told me it may have been the last game at Goodison before the disaster he saw him score a long range effort past Albert Dunlop,looked a beast of a player from what I've seen of him,so very sad that disaster who knows Bobby Charlton may well have drifted into obscurity as he was a reserve back then but for that.
 

rbm said:
Agree with you. I have respect for United. OK they are a franchise brand now but they have produced great players and fine teams.

What irks is the whole hoo ha that has surrounded them. George Best was a lovely player, elegant and graceful but in trawling through youtube vids I have found precious few of these dribbling runs that beat 5 players we hear so much of but see so few of. More often than not beats a man before pushing the ball too far and losing it. How many cup finals of any type did he play in? One. We are told he scored all his goals from the wing....no he did not. All the post 1967 vids show he played as a free ranging centre forward whatever number he wore. Everton, Liverpool, City and especially Leeds had comparable teams with comparable players.

Imagine an injury free Eddie Gray playing for a media favourite? Imagine Alex Young?

Not knocking United or Best. He was lovely talent. Just looking for some balance behind all the guff and blather and sentiment.
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I remember reading somewhere Bestie rated our own Tommy Wright his most difficult opponent.
 
Dario Terracotta said:
I remember reading somewhere Bestie rated our own Tommy Wright his most difficult opponent.
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I think from memory that Tommy and Leeds Paul Reaney were the opponents he really rated....no Harris/Hunter/Anfield Iron filth just top class F-Bs able to keep him in check.

I seem to be criticising Best. I am not. I'm just tying to achieve a bit of groundedness away from all the United supporting media guff tha usualy inflates him into some superman miles away from anyone. Strip away all the pop cultural trivia of fashion and women and looks etc and we have a delightfully talented but by no means uniquely talented player.
 
rbm said:
I think from memory that Tommy and Leeds Paul Reaney were the opponents he really rated....no Harris/Hunter/Anfield Iron filth just top class F-Bs able to keep him in check.

I seem to be criticising Best. I am not. I'm just tying to achieve a bit of groundedness away from all the United supporting media guff tha usualy inflates him into some superman miles away from anyone. Strip away all the pop cultural trivia of fashion and women and looks etc and we have a delightfully talented but by no means uniquely talented player.
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Nah mate,my old man saw most of his games home and away against us and he rarely turned up,as an aside my old fella reckoned old Bobby Moore was terrible when he used to play uslol
 
Joey66 said:

part one is here the links to the rest of the game is obtainble from this link its in 3 parts I think -
good viewing
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That game should be compulsory, mandatory viewing for any/every Everton manager... of how to send a team out to play with strength, muscle, passion, firepower and all at pace. The birth of the Holy Trinity with the Golden Vision tackling and scoring sublimely. As Dario says, you simply cannot get tired of watching this game.
 
allezlesbleus said:
That is the one! Had never seen it until posted here recently and so I have seen it a few times now. I was nearly 9, have hardly any recollections apart from the sandy boggy pitch, excellent speck on line with the goal line, the penno, just willing the second half to end, the delirium among everton fans outside singing a great long chant with the players names to yellow submarine and the Harry catterick chant to the Hare Krishna chant! And seeing some little Leeds kid about my own age in tears......... Thought of him the next season on my way home from Villa Park!!
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The noise we generated in the Stretford End that day was amazing.
 

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