1974 FA Charity Shield

1974 FA Charity Shield

Event	FA Charity Shield
Liverpool Leeds United 1 1
Liverpool won 6–5 on penalties
Date	10 August 1974
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Bob Matthewson
Attendance	67,000

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 July 1974 to be replaced by Bob Paisley.

The match was notorious for a display of violence by Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan, who were dismissed after the hour for trading punches. Both players felt they had been harshly treated and took off their shirts, flinging them on to the Wembley track as they left the pitch. The FA fined both players £500 and banned them until September, meaning they would miss eleven matches.

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 game then went to a penalty shoot out and, with the scores balanced at 5–5 in sudden death, Leeds chose their keeper David Harvey to go next. Harvey hit the ball over the crossbar, and Ian Callaghan scored the winner for Liverpool who won the game 6–5.

The match – and the fight between Keegan and Bremner – is mentioned in the stylised novel The Damned United with Brian Clough requesting of Bremner "good, clean attractive football...starting next week at the Charity Shield". In the subsequent film version, the match is included with some of the original footage used.

Match details

Liverpool v Leeds United

10 August 1974 15:00

Liverpool	1–1	Leeds United
Boersma  19'	Report Report	Cherry  70'
	Penalties
Lindsay Hughes Hall Smith Cormack Callaghan	6–5	Lorimer Giles Gray Hunter Cherry Harvey

Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 67,000 Referee: Bob Matthewson

Liverpool

Leeds United

GK 1 Ray Clemence RB 2 Tommy Smith LB 3 Alec Lindsay CB 4 Phil Thompson CM 5 Peter Cormack CB 6 Emlyn Hughes CF 7 Kevin Keegan  60' CM 8 Brian Hall LM 9 Steve Heighway RM 11 Ian Callaghan CF 12 Phil Boersma Substitutes: DF 13 Brian Kettle MF 14 John McLaughlin DF 15 Max Thompson MF 16 Peter Spiring GK 17 Peter McDonnell Manager: Bob Paisley

GK 1 David Harvey RB 2 Paul Reaney LB 3 Trevor Cherry CM 4 Billy Bremner  60' CB 5 Gordon McQueen CB 6 Norman Hunter CM 7 Peter Lorimer CF 8 Allan Clarke CF 9 Joe Jordan RM 11 John Giles LM 12 Eddie Gray Substitutes: MF Duncan McKenzie Manager: Brian Clough

References

• Sunday Times Article on the Match
• Mighty Whites Match Report
• LFC History Article on the Match
• Liverweb Match Report