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Sky Blue Memories
Hi all,
I know it's increasingly difficult to celebrate the 25yr anniversary of our finest moment as we slip further away from ever repeating the feat, but I thought it might be an idea to keep a thread going of memories of the Cup run up until 16th May??
So...I was too young to go to the away matches, but as an 12yr old before the 3rd round match v Bolton I was given a signed football on the pitch for winning a 'Spot-the-difference' competition in a previous programme.
Also got free tickets for the Main Stand, so sat there with my Dad freezing in my parker jacket watching a straightforward win. (oh and the club lost the photo they took of my presentation...some things don't change...I've still got the ball though)
Anybody else go to the Bolton game??
PUSB
Sergt Pepper taught the bad to play
Yep, was there in the west end.
3-0 at halftime, on a frozen pitch if I remember. Job done, took it easy second half, they did not fancy playing, we had the right attitude from the start.
Missed the next round, away at manure, but went to every other game, all away. And the mancs wanted SAF sacked, lol......just like some of our impatient fans with recent managers, they fail to see the bigger picture.
Maybe, just maybe, with less vitriol and more support for Gordan and his team, we might have stayed up......
I was there.
Probably wouldn't have gone as I was living in Bristol at the time and it was a feezing cold day with snow forecast, but a guy I was working with at the time had been at university with one of the Warburton family (the bakers - who owned Bolton at the time) and he'd been told we could get tickets off him for the Diectors' Box. Of course when we got there Bolton had over-filled their allocation as it was a big game for them, but we did get a cup of tea in some ante-room before taking our (ordinary) seats.
I remember a pretty easy win on a pitch that froze more as the game went on. Micky Gynn was the star - low centre of gravity really worked for him on that pitch!
In the end, I was really glad I went as I ended up going to all the cup games that year.
Mind you - I went to all the cup games this year (if you overlook the first 15 minutes.....).
King-Dion (30-03-2012)
I went to all the games except the quarter final and semi final.I can remeber listening to the leeds game live on the radio, and as most of my mates were leeds fans who did'nt want to know the score, as they wanted to watch the extended highlights about an hour later on television, i had to keep quiet and not say anything. I just sat there in my mates tele room with the smugest grin on my face, so they knew what had happened just not the actual score.
I could'nt go to the Quarters as i played footie then and it was an important game, but i was so sidetracked wanting to know the score that i had an absolute nightmare and later recieved a thrown shinpad from the manager at full time.
The Rev
Last edited by The Reverend Skyblue; 10-01-2012 at 06:38 PM.
Went to every round, never missed a game home or away for years (apart from my brothers wedding) though as there was always a car load who used to go from the saracens head, just about managed to get a ticket for the final though, the old man bought it for me in the spurs end.
Went down to wembley with the lads on the tube thinking what we going to do about getting in to the cov end. As we got off the tube some bloke come up and asked me if I wanted to swap it for a Cov ticket, so sorted.
Still have the st georges cross bed sheet that I wore that day and a flag although thats gone purple now with age and the sheet a bit mouldy but not going to throw either away.
Last edited by ICHAN; 10-01-2012 at 06:59 PM.
Sorry for highjacking your thread, but a few people have said they wanted a sticky like the "Jimmy Hill Years" on the old CT Forum. So here it is, but rather than restrict it to Jimmy's era, it's open for all years in the past. Sometimes it's better than talking about the present!Originally Posted by MusicDating
The Reverend Skyblue (10-01-2012)
Remember standing outside the Main Stand about 2.30 and a load of Bolton toughies came round the corner and all of a sudden a brawl broke out all down King Richard Street, with this new Sky Blue crew called the Legion had never heard of them before but they walloped the Bolton lot all over the place.
LastGarrison (10-01-2012)
No, don't mind at all!
If a shared memory can shake off the apparent acceptance of our fate and stir up some forgotten passion for our club, then that's gotta be a good thing.
Nonleagueherewecome (10-01-2012)
"top of the league with Dowie and Tim, Frankie Bunn and John Harbin was quite a memory"
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