Today's video flashback is from the late 1960s when two quality teams, Leeds United and
Manchester United, faced each other at Elland Road.
The video footage is interesting for several different seasons. It's in black and white. Plus
you get to watch the opening of the show for a program that's simply titled "Football" with its
title music that sounds like it's going to be the Match Of The Day theme but quickly transpires
into a different song.
It's called a sitter. The ball is right in front of the goal, it's easier to score, harder to
miss, but somehow the ball refuses to go home to the net. The player's face is agape in disbelief.
He has missed a sitter. And he will be remembered for it. It might be the only thing he is
remembered for.
Much has been made of the demise of Leeds United AFC. We are all familiar with the tale of gross
overspending, Ridsdale's goldfish, and a descent into the third tier of English football. Football
supporters have little sympathy for a club that reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League
in 2001 and are now playing in League One due to its own negligence.
