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Probably the toughest/dirtiest game of football you will ever see.

1970 FA Cup final: The most brutal game in English football history

I'm old enough to remember this game and, even by standards of the time it was brutal. Amazingly only one yellow card was given out.
I'm not condoning the tackles at all, but you look at some of the tackles that were put in and the players, on the whole, got up and carried on (after a quick rumpus).
How the game has changed.
 

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Probably the toughest/dirtiest game of football you will ever see.

1970 FA Cup final: The most brutal game in English football history

I'm old enough to remember this game and, even by standards of the time it was brutal. Amazingly only one yellow card was given out.
I'm not condoning the tackles at all, but you look at some of the tackles that were put in and the players, on the whole, got up and carried on (after a quick rumpus).
How the game has changed.
What about the Vinnie Jones haymaker at the star of the cup final v Wimbledon. Not even a card for that. I have seen this final a few times and it it crazy what they could get away with. Even watching the old Big Match programmes from that time you are often wincing at the tackles
 

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And this is what the likes of Souness want to go back to? The referee has had a shocker as well, maybe standards have improved more than we think on that front.

Pathetic behaviour really, like watching Sunday League in the ghetto.
 

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And this is what the likes of Souness want to go back to? The referee has had a shocker as well, maybe standards have improved more than we think on that front.

Pathetic behaviour really, like watching Sunday League in the ghetto.
Or Northern sunday football. I've played north and south and when I moved south it was a MUCH MORE GENTILE sport. Players laid off and jockeyed block your route. Oop north your legs would be gone before you had chance to blink.
 

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The only reason they did it is because they got away with it. Every team had someone that would take out an opponent that caused a threat. Some teams had more than one.
 

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I remember when Fulham were in the old 3rd division and we signed Doug Rougvie who was an old fashioned centre back with a reputation for a short fuse. If any of our players got chopped the Hammersmith End would start singing "Dougie's gonna get you" and 9/10 he did!
 

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The only reason they did it is because they got away with it. Every team had someone that would take out an opponent that caused a threat. Some teams had more than one.
Dave Mackay was a tough no nonsense Spurs defender in the 60's and there is a famous photo of him lifting up Billy Bremner, a Leeds nasty, by the throat. Unfortunately I don't have a copy!
 

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Dave Mackay was apparently as scary as they come. Went to a Q&A with Peter Osgood many moons ago and he suggested he wasn't "quite right" which seems apt seeing some of the old games and pictures like this
 

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Can you imagine the modern player being on the end of some of those 'tackles', they would still be rolling this time next year :ROFLMAO:

The “enforcers” from this era were low on skill and speed. They wouldn’t get anywhere near modern players, they would be chasing shadows.
 

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Same as IanM this is the 1st Final that I remember too.

What was interesting was that the tackles were worse than you get today, but most of those the players fouled just got straight up and remonstrated the player who fouled them instead of rolling around and playing dead.

Also only one substitute was allowed, before 1967 there were no subs and injured players used to hobble around if they could
 
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