[Football] Wales v Scotland 1979 BBC iplayer

[Neville's Breakfast]

A game with actual fans and atmosphere !!
I used to love the British Home Championship when I was a kid.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

the welsh were robbed

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Northern Ireland were the last winners

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

used to be the best week in football

Saturday-FA Cup Final

Wednesday-European Cup Final

Saturday-England-Scotland

3 live games in a week

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Were the games shown on tv ?

 

[Weststander]

the welsh were robbed

Wasn’t that 1977 at Anfield when Joe Jordan hand-balled on the Welsh box and the hopeless officials said it was a Scotland pen.?

 

[Weststander]

Were the games shown on tv ?

Yes, live.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Wasn’t that 1977 at Anfield when Joe Jordan hand-balled on the Welsh box and the hopeless officials said it was a Scotland pen.?

indeed

it was like a home game for the Scots

the ref would have got lynched

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Yes, live.

Thought so. Probably explains why I enjoyed it so much (that and England being rubbish in World Cups in the ‘70s).

 

[wolfie]

Went to England v N Ireland at Wembley in the early 70s. Scorers were Charlton, Hurst, Peters and Best (Wow !!!)
It was Bobby Charlton's 100th cap as well.

England v Scotland used to be almost as big as the cup final a week earlier.

 

[Weststander]

indeed

it was like a home game for the Scots

the ref would have got lynched

So obviously the blue shirted arm of Jordan, a ridiculously biased Archie McPherson gets the old vaseline out.

 

[Beach Hut]

I went to England v Scotland at Wembley when the Scots were banned so only around 60,000 Scots turned up all drinking cans of some Tartan rubbish type ale

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Went to England v N Ireland at Wembley in the early 70s. Scorers were Charlton, Hurst, Peters and Best (Wow !!!)
It was Bobby Charlton's 100th cap as well.

England v Scotland used to be almost as big as the cup final a week earlier.

I went when Wales won at Wembley,first time in about 80 years

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

England v Scotland used to be almost as big as the cup final a week earlier.

if not bigger

 

[Weststander]

Thought so. Probably explains why I enjoyed it so much (that and England being rubbish in World Cups in the ‘70s).

A couple of good ones for me were:

May 78 - we won at Hampden in front of 120,000 .... Coppell I think ruining their pre-winning the WC game.

Mid-80’s another win at Hampden, outplaying them and Steve Bull was quality.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

A couple of good ones for me were:

May 78 - we won at Hampden in front of 120,000 .... Coppell I think ruining their pre-winning the WC game.

Mid-80’s another win at Hampden, outplaying them and Steve Bull was quality.

any win at Hampden was special back then

remember both games

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

A couple of good ones for me were:

May 78 - we won at Hampden in front of 120,000 .... Coppell I think ruining their pre-winning the WC game.

Mid-80’s another win at Hampden, outplaying them and Steve Bull was quality.

Such a shame that these games became a casualty of crowd trouble. Familiarity with the players from the Football League and the games played as local derbies made them special.

 

[Weststander]

any win at Hampden was special back then

remember both games

For the Steve Bull game we watched it round a mate’s flat in the centre of Brighton, everyone got pissed celebrating.



Goals at 2:35 and 8:00.

After a century of being nip and tuck between the two nations, by then under Robson we were imho becoming superior for good. Waddle, Steven, Robson, Butcher, Walker, Gazza a class above,

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

For the Steve Bull game we watched it round a mate’s flat in the centre of Brighton, everyone got pissed celebrating.



Goals at 2:35 and 8:00.

After a century of being nip and tuck between the two nations, by then under Robson we were imho becoming superior for good. Waddle, Steven, Robson, Butcher, Walker, Gazza a class above,

yep

Liverpool & United were littered with decent Scottish players

then they started buying Scandinavian ones

shame really

even the Welsh games in Wales were nip & tuck

great era for British football

 

[Eeyore]

yep

Liverpool & United were littered with decent Scottish players

then they started buying Scandinavian ones

shame really

even the Welsh games in Wales were nip & tuck

great era for British football

I remember England getting thumped 4-1 in Wrexham. Such a strange place for an international of that magnitude.