I was 15 & stranded about 160 miles away from Wembley & Coventry in the depths of the South-West.....
Gutted I never got a ticket.....especially as I had been to watch us beat Stoke in the 5th round....but them were the breaks pre-internet when the only link I had to ticket access was the manager of the U16's youth side I played for.....and obviously all the spares he often got offered had all been snapped up by the glory-hunters.....
So I watched it on the telly at my mates house while drinking diamond white cider & raiding his ma's drinks cabinet......
..by the time Mabbutts knee had cheekily lobbed Clemence, its was cinzano/advocaat/tia maria cocktails all round....
Leeds - Wasn't going to make the same mistake twice. I think I was about the third person into the ground. The most nervous I've ever been in my life. Micky Gynn's equaliser was greeted by the loudest noise I've ever heard.
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Me and my mate were at the Cov station stuck in a massive long queue waiting to board a train, and when we finally got on we heard we were being held up by someone putting something on the line or other. Anyway due to this hold up we arrived late at Wembley and just got in to find Spurs were already one up, and to make things worse as behind the goal was just a huge mass of City fans we ended up somewhere near the back squashed in like sardines and hardly able to see the pitch. But our discomfort was soon forgotten about as we got back in the game and as they say the rest is history.It's funny how you can be among a huge contingent of fellow supporters with hardly any room to breathe,but when your team is playing well and winning you hardly notice and when the final whistle went my pal ended up about six rows in front of me,and I ended up in a mass huddle with other ecstatic Sky Blue fans. What a memorable day and I also remember going in the Rocket pub on our return and having a party of a lifetime in there,and also lining up on the Sunday hungover watching the players on the open top bus parading the Cup along with thousands of other cheering supporters. I doubt if we'd ever reach a Cup Final again but at least I can say I was there the day my football club won the Cup against the red hot favourites !
What a great memory to have drinking with the team after the biggest day for our club. As for the hold up in the morning I heard some idiots put something on the line at Willenhall,which really pissed us all off on the train. Do you recall the drinking ban was on then ? No beer on the trains or at Wembley and it was a hot day as well and had to make do with overpriced soft drinks at Wembley ! Still when me and my mate came out floating on air we got some cans from a shop on the way back to the train,and sunk them before getting plastered in the Rocket back in Cov.Writing about it again it feels like it was last year !i was on the same train - travelled up from Rugby instead of catching one from there and got caught out by the delay. after the game and back home i was outside Brownsover Hall where half the team were staying - well canned and fell off a big wall outside the hotel when the coach arrived - later i was allowed in through the kitchens (knew the owner) and spent about an hour with team members on the p*** - great day and night.
As for the hold up in the morning I heard some idiots put something on the line at Willenhall,which really pissed us all off on the train.
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