1974 FA Charity Shield

The 1974 FA Charity Shield was a football match played on 10 August 1974 between 1973–74, champions Leeds United and 1974 FA Cup Final winners Liverpool. Bill Shankly led Liverpool out onto the pitch for the last time, he had retired in May 1974 to be replaced by Bob Paisley.

The match will be forever remembered by the display of violence of Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan who were dismissed after the hour for trading punches in true playground style. In the climate of tough 1970s football, both players felt they had been harshly treated and for no good reason took off their shirts, flinging them on to the Wembley track as they left the pitch.

The FA fined both players 500 pounds and banned them until September meaning they would miss 11 matches. It was the first Charity Shield ever to be shown on television.

The match finished 1-1, Phil Boersma had opened the scoring for Liverpool in the 20th minute, but Trevor Cherry headed home Leeds equaliser in the 70th. The goals were just a distracting sideshow to the violence though.

The game then went to a penalty shoot out and, with the scores balanced at 5-5 in sudden death, Leeds bizarrely chose their keeper David Harvey to go next. Harvey thumped the ball over the bar, and Ian Callaghan smashed home the winner for Liverpool who won the game 6-5.

The penalty shoot out scorers for Liverpool were - Alec Lindsay, Emlyn Hughes, Brian Hall, Tommy Smith, Peter Cormack, and Ian Callaghan.

Match details

footballbox
date=1974-08-10
time=15:00
team1=Liverpool
score=1 – 1
report= [http://www.lfchistory.net/redcorner_articles_view.asp?article_id=549 (Report)]
report= [http://www.lfchistory.net/redcorner_articles_view.asp?article_id=1837 (Report)]
team2=Leeds United
goals1=Boersma goal|19
goals2=Cherry goal|70
stadium=Wembley Stadium, London
attendance=67000penshootoutbox
penalties1=
penaltyscore = 6 – 5
penalties2 =

References

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/football_league/article4492972.ece Sunday Times Article on the Match]

* [http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/matches/19740810.htm Match Report]

* [http://www.lfchistory.net/redcorner_articles_view.asp?article_id=549 LFC History Article on the Match]

* [http://www.liverweb.org.uk/report.asp?rec_id=3906 Match Report]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xH2ueGntDM Youtube Video of the Match]