1974 FA Cup Final: Liverpool vs Newcastle

Liverpool 3 - 0 Newcastle

• Liverpool
  • Keegan 57'
  • Keegan 88'
  • Heighway 74'
• Newcastle

Wembley - Saturday 4th May

Attendance: 100,000

Match Referee: G Kew

Team Line-ups:

At half‑time, with no goals scored, this was theoretically still a match either side might have won ‑ but this was an illusion. Liverpool, composed and well organized, had been steadily tightening their grip.

Newcastle had moments of promise in the first half. In midfield, McDermott played with skill and determination, Smith was at his jinking best and Hibbitt showed excellent positioning and passing.

But Newcastle were disappointing in attack. Tudor's early enthusiasm seemed to fall away after some early frustrations, and MacDonald, the flamboyant 'Supermac', was handled coolly by the Liverpool defence and caused them few problems.

Liverpool's first sharp attacks before half‑time were a foretaste of their liberation and Newcastle's destruction in the second half. Lindsay's fifty-first minute 'goal' looked perfect but was disallowed. Seven minutes later Smith centred from the right, Hall dummied, and Keegan drove the ball high past McFaul. That one counted.

There was a little left now of Newcastle, and Liverpool were running wild. From Toshack's back‑header, Heighway gathered the ball, rounded Moncur and shot just inside McFaul's right‑hand post.

The game was over, but there was still one goal to come. The build‑up involved eleven uninterrupted passes, and the last, Smith's from near the deadball‑line, found its way to Keegan in front of goal: 3‑0.

Bristol C v LIVERPOOL 0‑1; QPR v Leicester C 0‑2, Burnley v Wrexham 1‑0; NEWCASTLE UTD v Nott'm Forest 4‑3, 0‑0, 1‑0 (FA ordered replay. Both replays at Goodison Park)

LIVERPOOL v Ipswich T 2‑0; Bristol C v Leeds Utd 1‑1, 1‑0; Coventry C v QPR 0‑0, 2‑3; Luton T v Leicester C 0‑4; Burnley v Aston Villa 1 ‑0; Southampton v Wrexham 0‑1 Nott'm Forest v Portsmouth 1‑0; WBA v NEWCASTLE UTD 0‑3

LIVERPOOL v Carlisle Utd 0‑0, 2‑0; Man Utd v Ipswich T 0‑1; Hereford Utd v Bristol C 0‑1; Peterborough Utd v Leeds Utd 1‑4; Coventry C v Derby Co 0‑0, 1 ‑0; QPR v Birmingham C 2‑0; Luton T v Bradford C 3‑0; Fullham v Leicester C 1‑1, 1‑2; Oldham Ath v Burnley 1‑4; Arsenal v Aston Villa 1‑1, 0‑2, Southampton v Bolton Wand 3‑3,2‑0; Wrexham v Middlesbro 1‑0; Nott'm Forest v Man C 4‑1; Portsmouth v Orient 0‑0, 1‑1, 2‑0; Everton v WBA 0‑0, 0‑1 NEWCASTLE UTD v Scunthorpe Utd 1‑1, 3‑0

LIVERPOOL v Doncaster R 2‑2,2‑0; Carlisle Utd v Sunderland 0‑0, 1‑0; Man Utd v Plymouth Arg 1 ‑0; Ipswich T v Sheff Utd 3‑2; W. Ham v Hereford Utd 1‑1, 1‑2; Bristol C v Hull C 1‑1, 1‑0; Peterborough Utd v Southend Utd 3‑1; Wolves v Leeds Utd 1‑1, 0‑1; Sheff Wed v Coventry C 0‑0, 1‑3; Derby Co v Boston Utd 0‑0, 6‑1; Chelsea v OPR 0‑0, 0‑1; Birmingham C v Cardiff C 5‑2;PortVale v Luton T l‑1,2‑4; Bradford C vAlvechurch 4‑2; Fulharn v PNE 1 ‑0; Leicester C v Spurs 1 ‑0; Cambridge Utd v Oldham Ath 2‑2,3‑3,1‑2; Grimsby T v Burney 0‑2; Norwich C v Arsenal 0‑1; Aston Villa v Chester 3‑1; Southampton v Blackpool 2‑1; Bolton Wand v Stoke C 3‑2; Crystal Palace v Wrexham 0‑2, Grantham v Middlesbro 0‑2; Nott'm Forest v Bristol R 4‑3; Oxford Utd v Man C 2‑5; Portsmouth v Swindon T 3‑3, 1 ‑0; Orient v AFC Bournemouth 2‑1; Everton v Blackburn R 3‑0; WBA v Notts Co 4‑0, Millwall v Scunthorpe Utd 1‑1, 0‑1; NEWCASTLE UTD v Hendon 1‑1, 4‑0