Yes I know there’s a section for these, but this is big! After 39 years waiting to see the TV highlights of this epic night (previously there was only a fuzzy 2 minute vid of the goals), someone’s recently put it on YouTube. What a night!
Ours was some team as well, don't know what average age was but had we kept that lot together then we could have really gone on to do something.
I wasn't allowed to go to this game as it was a schoolnight
me too, but sometimes had to miss the end to catch the bus homeI was allowed to go to night games as my Dad didn't want to miss out! I was 15 when this was played.
Same here mate. Was living in Kettering and the old man was a site manager on a school build in Cov. He got tickets off Gerry Daly in the main stand - and drove back to pick me up to go back to the game.I was allowed to go to night games as my Dad didn't want to miss out! I was 15 when this was played.
I was 6 and my old man only had a box for league games, he was in the Sky Blue Stand I think, and I can kind of see why he wouldn't have wanted me there..I was allowed to go to night games as my Dad didn't want to miss out! I was 15 when this was played.
My old man wanted us to go to the second leg, but I said no for some reason. I don’t know why - turned out to be a good decision with the trouble and us losingWas a brilliant night.
Return leg probably the scariest English game I've been to
Same here mate. Was living in Kettering and the old man was a site manager on a school build in Cov. He got tickets off Gerry Daly in the main stand - and drove back to pick me up to go back to the game.
Top 3 HR games along with Spurs 4-3 in 86 and the 3-2 v Man Utd in 97.
Yeah - the game had everything. Good quality football from both sides. I was in the Sky Blue Terrace also - a Christmas game, so my sister and kid brother were there too. Still gets a mention. Unfortunately the old man died a year or so later, but still good memoriesSpurs 4-3 is my number one of all time- everything about it, the queues to get in beforehand, hearing the tannoy announce the teams from outside the Sky Blue Terrace entrance, hearing the shock from people that Nick Pickering had been dropped, feeling genuinely physically sick desperate to get into the ground, clocking that they were wearing our away shirts, then being treated to the most wonderful, exciting, rollercoaster, magnificent game I ever saw. And big chunks of the ground for some reason singing along to Reet Petite at half time
What's SPG stand for?One of the best home games I ever seen at Highfield Road without question, the return at Upton Park certainly not for the feint hearted battles with the ICF and SPG all night.
What a great watch. The football authorities are a disgrace for how they've ruined the game in this county at the behest of very rich people.Yes I know there’s a section for these, but this is big! After 39 years waiting to see the TV highlights of this epic night (previously there was only a fuzzy 2 minute vid of the goals), someone’s recently put it on YouTube. What a night!
Agree completely. A proper game with both teams giving everything. The way we were taught to play. (Although I was shit)What a great watch. The football authorities are a disgrace for how they've ruined the game in this county at the behest of very rich people.
sorry about your dad.Yeah - the game had everything. Good quality football from both sides. I was in the Sky Blue Terrace also - a Christmas game, so my sister and kid brother were there too. Still gets a mention. Unfortunately the old man died a year or so later, but still god memories
It’s alright mate - a long time ago. Fond memories.sorry about your dad.
There aren't many specific moments that I can close my eyes and 'see again' as they had so much of an impact- Houchen diving for the Cup Final goal right in my direction is one, and Cyrille hanging in the air right in front of the West End just about to score the winner in this match is another. Those moments will stay with me forever I reckon.
Loved Hunt and Daly (best player on the pitch that night)Forgotten how fast football used to be.
2 of my favourite players - little Danny Thomas and Steve Hunt.
Remember us signing Hunt and thinking he had to be brilliant as he came from Pele's club. Also being a kid I was waiting for him to go off on someone with his karate skills
Same here mate. Was living in Kettering and the old man was a site manager on a school build in Cov. He got tickets off Gerry Daly in the main stand - and drove back to pick me up to go back to the game.
Top 3 HR games along with Spurs 4-3 in 86 and the 3-2 v Man Utd in 97.
Amazon product ASIN 1785313037I was there as a youngster!
And for the Watford quarter final as well.
The West Ham 1st leg is simply my all time favourite game at HR. 2-0 down. 3-2 up. As someone posted above I will never forget the celebrations after the third goal.
Difficult to explain now but the LC semi-final was a huge deal for us/every club in 1981. I don’t think we’d been in any semi-final before - never mind getting to Wembley. And the LC was viewed very seriously as something worth winning then.
It was a fantastic young team as well with a great manager. There’s a very decent book out about our team in 1981 and our LC campaign - worth a read.
‘Bodak’s the name, goals are my game’! He was a very talented player who was playing in the wrong era - a couple of years later it was all route 1 and getting it into the mixer. Terrible football on heavy pitches. In the modern era, Bodak would be highly valued.I don't suppose anyone has any footage of the 5-0 Watford game in the previous round do they? I was there and one of my earliest Sky Blue memories (looking up at the scoreboard from the old kop) yet I can't remember Peter Bodak's goal. I was talking to him and he told me it was his best one despite everyone remembering the Man City goal instead. I asked Dean Nelson and if anyone has it, he is most likely to, but so far drew a blank.
Thx.
Both players make it into my all time City team. Absolute class. I do recall Steve (who was a silky player) getting sent off at HR for sparking someone out.Forgotten how fast football used to be.
2 of my favourite players - little Danny Thomas and Steve Hunt.
Remember us signing Hunt and thinking he had to be brilliant as he came from Pele's club. Also being a kid I was waiting for him to go off on someone with his karate skills
35,608 at the West Ham game.Ohhhh yesss. Garry Thompson. OG. Norwich. 5-4/ Bristol 2-2 bloody Gerry Gow and this game all equal in my opinion. Was it 36903 there?
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