Leeds captain Billy Bremner (left) and Liverpool captain Kevin Keegan were fired through referee Bob Matthewson in the 1974 FA Charity Shield match in Wembley (PA).
The match between Leeds and Liverpool on the opening day of the new Premier League season will revive an intense rivalry that erupted at Wembley one afternoon in 1974.
Brian Clough’s league champions met bob Paisley’s FA Cup winners in the Charity Shield on August 10 with Don Revie and Bill Shankly, the men who had established their respective clubs as engines of the national match, after handing over the reins in the closed season.
Liverpool emerged victorious after a penalty shootout in which Leeds goalkeeper David Harvey missed his team’s sixth attempt to give Ian Callaghan a chance to win it, but the game will be remembered for the expulsions of Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan in the second half after a terrible experience.Fight.
Norman Hunter of Leeds (centre) and referee Bob Matthewson retain Kevin Keegan (second from left) liverpool after he and Billy Bremner face off (PA)
Eddie Gray, who was standing in line with Bremner that day, told the PA news agency: “I don’t forget that Billy got an opportunity from Kevin Keegan and it had nothing to do with Billy.
“I think Kevin Keegan thought Billy had committed a foul to him, but it wasn’t Billy, it was Johnny (Giles) who did, yet Billy was given Kevin’s weight and a small piece came in and either of them was sent.”
Both men took off their T-shirts of disgust after receiving walking orders from referee Bob Matthewson and were then sentenced to 11 ban games and fines of 500 euros, notable punishments at a time when the field in the area may be less strict.
Gray said: “You used to make a lot of skirmishes back then.That’s how the game was played back then. There is no quarterback asked or given, that the type of game is Array
We thought it should have been crazy, but we did and everyone started making a song as they got closer and closer, Champions, so it was a wonderful moment.
Leeds and Liverpool competed for the highest honors of English adjustment and prospered in Europe for a decade or more as Revie and Shankly built some wonderful teams, with the Reds defeating Yorkshire in the 1965 FA Cup final thanks to the extra time of Ian St John.Winner.
However, it was a 0-0 draw at Anfield that secured the name of the 1969 league for Revie’s men that remains in Gray’s mind.
He said: “There have been moments in the games over the years between the two clubs, but from the point of view of Leeds United, the victory of the club’s first league championship stands out and that happens at Anfield.
Don Revie told us to walk to the Kop and get the applause of the Kop.We thought he’d have to be crazy, but we did and everyone started making a song as we got closer and closer, “Champions,” so it was a wonderful moment.”
Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa will close his horns with Premier League winner Jurgen Klopp on the first weekend of the new season (Richard Sellers/PA)
The existing Leeds team may have barely made a harder assignment for their first weekend back in the Premier League after a 16-year absence, but Gray is sure they will make their mark at Anfield and beyond.
He said: “I think they will be provided to compete in the Premier League.I’m not saying they’re going to be tough at all next season, but I think they deserve to feel comfortable enough to end up in the middle of the table.”, the most sensitive part of the table.
“I can’t wait to be there and I think Marcelo Bielsa will be ahead to take on Jurgen Klopp.”
Meanwhile, Leeds demonstrated Thursday afternoon that they had accepted an FA fare brought in after players lit flares on the Derby field while celebrating the promotion.
One on the club’s official online website said: “Leeds United can verify that we have won an FA fee related to an FA R20 rule violation during our derby county matchup.
“He accepted the position.”