Date: March 4, 1972
Venue: Elland Road
Director: Don Revie
Conductors: W. Bremner & J. Giles
Orchestral Scorers: P. Lorimer, 3 sheets. A. Clarke, 2 sheets, a sheet apiece by M. Jones & J. Charlton.
Not so much tiki-taki, more a ballet suite at the LUFC football academy.
A fient, then a flick from Bremner to Giles, the latter back heels to Clarke with the outside of his ballet pumps. Another passage of play with the Saints unable to stop, their destruction pending, a pirouette from Bremner, his legs are long, not in proportion to his small frame, the ball is passed throughout the team, no need for a goalkeeper!
Interplay at its best, Bremner and Giles do a pas de deuce just outside the Saints box, the audience gasp then more applause "we want 7, we want 7" then shouts of "more, more, more"....Bremner smiles at Giles, but the latter glares back, he's a perfectionist, the ball is his property he feels, he's in no mood for flippancy. Hunter's had enough of this and sends 35 yard diagonal pass to Jones, left to right, the accuracy is breathtaking, Clapping breaks out again, it's early March, but the audience thinks it's Christmas and birthday combines. The game ends.
BBC Commentator, Barry Davies: "To say that Leeds are playing with Southampton is the understatement of the season"
The production of "The Destruction of Saints" came just 2 weeks after another Revie production "The Annihilation of Man United, 5 - 1"
This has been an LUFC production of Ballet with the co-operation of Southampton FC.
THE DESTRUCTION OF SAINTS
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Jealous that I never experienced the 70s glory years. But thankful I was around for the club emerging again under Wilko. Important not to forget the past, but equally important to try and get the club back to those first division hay days in the future. However distant...
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Shaun,
Every club that has a history like ours has fans that like to reminisce, doesn't mean they are living in the past, it means they appreciate what we once had.
I was fortunate to have been at that game and others that stand in the memory, some under Wilko too...!
It's those games that formed many a Leeds fan, that moulded us.
I just hope that one day we celebrate occasions like that again.
I want us to find our 'almighty chasm' again, not just for me, but for folk like you and the rest that have been force fed the mediocrity since our last league title win.
Great memories NJS.
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Unforgettable Eric...unforgettable...wish the whole game was televised...uk wide audience
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This is why Steve Morison is the answer
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Cannot believe anyone is moaning about reminiscing about the Glory Days. It was this great side that inspired many thousands of non- Yorkshire people, including myself, to support Leeds United. And still we travel over every season in great numbers from to watch our team.
Its hard to believe that we were once the best team on the planet and this should never be forgotten.
Excellent article
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'Poor Southampton don't what day it is'.....I hate watching all that, knowing that our present set of players will be like isthmian league players compared to that wonderful, wonderful side....
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Brian Clough 1974
Jimmy Armfield 1974-1978
Jock Stein 1978 (Aug - Sept)
Jimmy Adamson 1978-1980
Allan Clarke 1980-1982
Eddie Gray 1982-1985
Billy Bremner 1985-1988
Howard Wilkinson 1988-1996
George Graham 1996-1998
David O'Leary 1998-2002
Terry Venables 2002-2003
Peter Reid 2003 (Mar - Nov)
Eddie Gray 2003-2004
Kevin Blackwell 2004-2006
Dennis Wise 2006-2008
Gary McAllister 2008 (Jan - Dec)
Simon Grayson 2008 - 2012
Neil Warnock 2012 - 2013
Brian McDermott 2013 - 2014
David Hockaday 2014 (June - August)
Darko Milanič 2014 - (September - October)
Neil Redfearn 2014 -
Since the great Don Revie - How many of them have made you think, you know what we might be on to something here...!
One...? Two...?
Wilko shone bright for a while admitted but who else...?
Get the man in that role right, give him the correct backing (and by that I mean more than just financially) and we'll reach the Dizzy Heights again, until that happens we're never going to succeed.
Sadly.
Just an opinion.
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Good sentiments Harj
Agreed Eric
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Just Wilkinson and O'Leary for me Eric.
"You know what, help!!!" is a larger group: Adamson, Reid, Wise and Big H.
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Like Eric I was also at the game. As a young lad of 12 was watching on ther Lowfields shelf. I was priviliged to witness a great team at the peak of its powers
We could have probably scored ten that day if we had really gone for it and we did not get the first goal until more than half an hour had been played
To link the present,just back from the Ipswich game. The work ethic was immense and the best midweek performance for some time.
Everyone gave 100% and that is all you can ask and that is exactly what the great Leeds team did game in game out