The infamous disgrace at Wembley.

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Sendings-off at Wembley Stadium have been few and far between - most of them
involving Scum players like Ray Wilkins, Paul Ince, Paul Scholes, Andrei
Kanchelskis and a few others I could mention - but in 1974 there were two
dismissals which shocked the watching nation.

August and the traditional curtain-raiser for the coming season - a Charity
Shield encounter between League Champions Leeds United and FA Cup winners
Liverpool. Leeds, under the guidance of Don Revie, were the Manchester
United of their day - cunts who won everything and played the dirtiest kind
of football you could imagine. Liverpool were the well-oiled Shankly
Machine. Well, they were until Shankly packed in a few weeks before to spend
more time on his allotment in Bootle. But on the pitch that day were some of
the nation's finest talents: Allan Clarke, Peter Lorimer, Mick Jones, John
Toshack, Ian Callaghan, Steve Heighway and Emlyn Hughes. The stage was set
for a classic encounter between the country's top two clubs, yet nothing
could have prepared the fans for what was to happen on that sunny August
afternoon.

Midway through the second half, with the score deadlocked at 0-0,
Liverpool's England superstar Kevin Keegan and Leeds skipper Billy Bremner
began trading punches in the centre circle. Instead of watching the game,
cameras turned their attention to the scrap as it gathered momentum. Bremner
threw a left hook which missed Keegan, who then threw a right cross and
twatted the ginger little cunt a good 'un. Then Keegan stamped on his
head and punched him some more, the pair of them rolling around on the
hallowed Wembley turf. Other players then came into the fray - most notably
Norman Hunter with a broken bottle and Tommy Smith with a crowbar that he
used to keep down his sock. Terry Yorath pulled a knife on Larry Lloyd,
while Ray Clemence, racing out of his goal, hit Paul Madeley with a sock
full of billiard balls.

Both Keegan and Bremner were sent from the field by referee Dermott
McDermott of Angelsey, and both tore off their shirts in disgust. Keegan was
seen to stamp his feet on the touchline and scream: "Right, I'm not playing,
then!" at the top of his voice. Bremner, equally frustrated and angry at
being a ginger twat who had besmirched the day with his loutish behaviour,
tried to say it was his ball and he was going home. In the aftermath both
players were fined heavily and banned from playing football for eleven
matches, which gave Bremner loads of time to ponder his future as a dirty
little get and Keegan the opportunity to go and crash bikes on TV's
'Superstars'.

Truly a great footballing moment.

You've put this up before, Tone, but doesn't hurt in the reread.

I have, meanwhile, an idea and I shall see if it pans out over the next day or two...

I've put it up before????

Aaaargh.......I told my old woman I had the beginnings of dementia and she just laughed.

If she'd have been thinking quickly, she'd have said "that's the fourth time you've said that to me in the last hour"