Season 1999-00 - Everton vs Leeds United - video Dailymotion

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00:00At Goodison Park on October the 24th 1999 in a Premiership matchup that saw 9th play first in the league standings

00:09Everton were hoping to bounce back from a 4-1 defeat at Highbury

00:12While Leeds hadn't lost in any competition since a 2-1 defeat against Liverpool way back in August

00:19Walter Smith recalled club captain Dave Watson who was on the brink of his 38th birthday

00:25Watson played alongside Richard Goff in an

00:28experienced defense. Goff was only four months his junior. It was only the third time the two had played together

00:33David Unsworth pushed up into midfield in place of the injured Abel Xavier. Francis Jeffers was still suspended

00:40Leeds striker Michael Bridges had already scored seven goals for his new club since his transfer from Sunderland

00:47They fielded the same side that had beaten at Locomotive Moscow in the UEFA Cup

00:53Stephen McPhail continued in midfield with David Hopkin and Darren Huckabee on the bench

00:58Leeds were aiming to make it 11 straight wins and extend a club record

01:04Your match commentator is John Champion

01:09Leeds United in record-breaking form

01:13Little wonder they sit proudly on top of the English Premier League with 25 points from their opening 11 fixtures

01:19and buoyed by yesterday's results

01:22Manchester United's defeat at Spurs

01:25Arsenal winning 3-2 in a thriller at Chelsea with that Canu hat-trick

01:32This does represent a chance for Leeds to cement their position at the top

01:44Bridges couldn't keep it within bounds

01:46David O'Leary employing a youthful strikeforce combined age of Mrs. Kewel, Bridges and Smith is just 61

01:54Compare that with Watson and Goff at the heart of the Everton defence

01:59combined age 75

02:04Here's Michael Ball for Everton

02:06Off goes Kewel and there is one of those veterans, Watson

02:19Not quite stride for stride with the young Australian

02:27McPhail

02:30Kewel

02:33Flag was up

02:36Dermot Gallagher from Banbury in Oxfordshire is the referee

02:39a commercial manager of non-league Tame United

02:43When not engaged in the middle

02:57Not many spare seats around Goodison today. A crowd of roundabout 37,000 expected

03:06Gary Kelly

03:15Collins, now Kevin Campbell, 1-0 Everton

03:26Cleanly crisply taken

03:33Set up by John Collins

03:36There's something about Goodison that brings out the best in Kevin Campbell

03:42Averaging a goal a game here

03:48Perfect start for Everton and the league leaders are behind

03:57Kewel up against Watson

04:00Goodison

04:04Nigel Martin beaten already by a very well-constructed goal

04:12Woodgate

04:21There's Bridges

04:25Offside

04:29Good finish mind you

04:34It's a pretty filthy afternoon on Merseyside rain lashing down. It's for a good slippy surface

04:43Get the best games on wet pitches as the ball zips about players slide in with tackles

04:55Bradaby

04:57McPhail

05:00Oh

05:10Strong Scottish influence to this Everton side unsurprising with Walter Smith in charge

05:15five Scots in the starting 11 today

05:18Goffin we're John Collins Scott Gemmell Don Hutchison

05:24They played international football for Scotland

05:29And

05:33It's an Englishman who backed the goal Kevin Campbell

05:41Down by Libia

05:53Needs don't appear too

05:56Concerned by the fact that they're trading the goal has come so early in the game

06:00And they have been scoring so freely of late

06:05Fresh from that 4-1 thumping of locomotive Moscow at Elland Road on Thursday in the UEFA Cup

06:19Kelly

06:27Oh, yeah

06:30Oh

06:37Bridges

06:45Eight goals for the season already for Michael Bridges two of the young guns combining to outgun Everton

06:55Created by Kewel finished by bridges

07:00Leads back on terms they trailed for little more than 10 minutes

07:13And that's brought Walter Smith down

07:16the directors box

07:19To oversee this change Scott Gemmell is withdrawn and Mark Pembridge comes on

07:26Some fight to the central midfield battle

07:36Gotta be

07:39For Pembridge now Don Hutchison

07:46That's a super second

07:56You

08:01Finished with plenty of style

08:07Hutchison played Cameron and with the goalkeeper on his way down Campbell chipped him

08:18Would get rather be

08:26Heart

08:28It's cure

08:31Recovery by Watson not far short of his 38th birthday

08:37Veteran of League Championships with Everton

08:42On the last of their nine titles back in 1987

08:51Ian Hart

08:55Woodgate's effort deflected over

09:02Still only 18 Jonathan Woodgate

09:10Contrast to some of those around him

09:1437 Watson nearly 38

09:20Pensionable age for footballers

09:23It's rather bait swing and a miss

09:29You have a scored two career goals for Leeds Lucas rather be

09:37Bridges

09:41Sliding in was Alan Smith

09:46Four days short of his 19th birthday

09:53The time of James, please

09:59Age a theme and a factor at both ends of the scale in this game the oldies and the youngsters

10:18Leeds winners of the last ten games in all competitions

10:23Breaking a club record that had stood for 68 years

10:29David O'Leary delighted with the progress that his babies as he calls them a making

10:40Cure Oh Gerard stranded

10:45Harry kill scores a spectacular goal for Leeds

10:49Did he really mean it?

10:53Oh

10:56Well his reaction suggests that really

11:00It was meant as a cross

11:03Just floated towards the back post

11:07Gerard wasn't that far off his line in fact, but it's 2-2

11:11Harry Kelly is Leeds longest-serving player

11:18Is Hutchison

11:21Would you believe it?

11:24Everton take the lead for the third time

11:30And there's still nearly ten minutes to play in this game

11:33Slight element of fortune to it

11:36Bambi might have been penalized for foot up and then a big deflection off Radebeck, but Hutchison will claim it

11:44But he's got the ball

11:47He's got the ball

11:50He's got the ball

11:53He's got the ball

11:56He's got the ball

11:59He's got the ball

12:01But Hutchison will claim it

12:12I think if anything the rain has helped the spectacle

12:17A much quicker game than we might have had in dry conditions

12:22It's half-time, it's a pity to interrupt the entertainment

12:26Let's hope for more of the same in the second half

12:29Kevin Campbell with a pair of goals for Everton

12:32Don Hutchison has scored as well

12:35Bridges and Kewel, maybe with a mishit cross, scoring for Leeds

12:39And at half-time here at Goodison, it's Everton 3, Leeds 2

12:44Everton's throw

12:50Nick Bambi, a native of Yorkshire, but not the Leeds area, he comes from Hull

12:57Ball

13:00Glanced off Woodgate

13:03Campbell went down in stage one

13:06Ball

13:09Glanced off Woodgate

13:11Campbell went down in stages

13:13And Dermot Gallagher gives the free-kick

13:16And an injury to Lucas Radeby in the process

13:24Sender Baku has given good service to Leeds

13:27He joined in the Howard Wilkinson era

13:30Came with another South African, Phil Messinger, who was a striker

13:36Acknowledgement from one injured player to the other

13:38Campbell seems in better shape than Radeby at the moment

13:46Pembridge

13:48Hutchison

13:50Guided round the post by Nigel Martin

13:57Reacted as if he saw it rather late

14:01A daisy-cutter from Hutchison's right boot

14:10Collins

14:12Radeby

14:14Unsworth

14:16Oh, what a chance

14:19For Don Hutchison

14:24Hooked on in hope by Unsworth

14:28Quickest to react was Everton's number 10

14:45Goff

14:53Collins

14:55It's Batty

15:00Leeds being made to struggle more in this game than in

15:03Most of their other fixtures this season

15:07Watson left it a little short and Gerrard did well for Everton

15:12Now the break's on at the other end

15:15And down goes Hutchison and he looks plaintively at the referee

15:19Who says no foul

15:20Well, had he given a free kick against Lucas Radeby there

15:23He might well have had to issue a red card as well

15:29There are no covering defenders helping out Radeby

15:33I think that was a foul

15:36Leeds have had a major slice of luck there

15:40This is Campbell

15:42Weak finish

15:43Continues to be a really engaging contest this

15:52David Batty

15:55McPhail

15:57Michael Bridges

15:59Had a go

16:00And

16:01Steered it just wide

16:03Leeds carry such a threat up front

16:06One of these young players, Bridges and Smith and Kuehl

16:10Bollier breaking from midfield

16:19Second season of

16:21This

16:23Is the

16:25Final

16:27Of

16:29The

16:31Second season of David O'Leary's tenure

16:38Leeds fifth and then fourth in the last two seasons

16:42Playing in the UEFA Cup for the second campaign running

16:46Signs of progress at Elland Road

16:50Kuehl

16:54And still Harry Kuehl

16:55Kuehl

16:59He's 21

17:01And he appears to have the world at his feet, Harry Kuehl

17:08And a world class talent in those feet

17:13No defender could get close to him

17:18Woodgate

17:20Hart

17:23Watson

17:25Bollier

17:37Bridges

17:41Huckabee

17:43Bridges!

17:45That's a lovely goal

17:51A really lovely goal

17:56Scored by a class act

18:02Signs of his talent when he was playing for Sunderland but now it's really coming to fruition

18:12And Darren Huckabee the substitute

18:15Helped in its creation

18:18Three times Everton have led

18:21Three times Leeds have pulled level

18:26Bollier

18:30Huckabee

18:33Behind by Weir

18:35Everton being troubled by Huckabee's pace

18:38That's why he's been sent on

18:55Hart, the regular taker of all the Leeds set pieces

19:05Batty

19:08Bridges

19:14Hutchison

19:17Collins

19:25Huckabee

19:32Kuehl

19:35Bollier

19:37Picked away from him by John Collins

19:47Weir

19:50Here's Campbell and out comes Nigel Martin

19:55Leeds have won on this ground once in the last decade

20:02That's offside

20:04It's a miss anyway by Michael Bridges

20:05Michael Bridges

20:24Leeds fans singing their club's anthem with some gusto

20:31Showing plenty of resilience today, Leeds United

20:35And off goes Huckabee

20:38Always looking to release him

20:44Kicked by Boll

20:55The pace of this game has been ceaseless

21:06Chisholm

21:10Armby and Pembridge in a two-man Everton wall

21:18Hart

21:25The, fairly close to his ideal position for a free-kick, Ian Hart

21:30Wide on the right, plenty of room to swing it in

21:36He'll now take the corner from the opposite side

21:43Woodgate

21:45Leeds are in front

21:52For the very first time in a topsy-turvy game

22:02Everton's marking went awry for once

22:06Woodgate gets his third senior goal

22:12Now it is a game that Everton have to chase

22:22Goff for Unsworth

22:30Free kick is given against Jonathan Woodgate

22:35Unsworth

22:45Unsworth

22:47Where? Yes!

22:534-4

23:01And in stoppage time, a first Everton goal

23:04For the Scottish defender, David Weir

23:11And if it stays this way, if it stays this way

23:16Who can deny that both these sides don't deserve something

23:20For such rich entertainment

23:29Woodgate

23:33Woodgate

23:38Dirty days

23:40Lead to attractive football

23:44There's a truism in the sport

23:46And it's certainly been the case today

23:49Nightmare day for coaches there

23:54If they had their way

23:56Football would be a much more sterile game

24:02A bit of juggling by Unsworth

24:07Woodgate

24:09Woodgate

24:12Woodgate

24:14Woodgate

24:16Woodgate

24:19Woodgate

24:21Collins

24:29Well played, both teams

24:33A minor classic

24:34Eight goals shared

24:35Everton in front three times

24:37Leeds hitting the front with 18 minutes to play

24:40Weir rescuing a point for Everton

24:43Everton 4, Leeds 4

24:48A scoreline that reflected the attacking football

24:50On display throughout at Goodison Park

24:53Everton reached the heights of 6th place in March

24:55For the first time since 1996

24:58But a failure to score any goals

24:59In their final three home games of the season

25:01Meant a finishing place of 13th

25:04Leeds managed to stay top of the league

25:06Until the end of January

25:08Then defeats to Liverpool and Manchester United

25:10Amongst others saw them slip back

25:12Despite a four game losing streak

25:14They managed to hang on to third place in the table

25:16And thereby qualify for the Champions League

25:19Golden times, but they weren't to last

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