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
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!
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.
bolton...very cold,cant remember anything about the game,running battles along the ansty road outside the pippin
man u...3 early pints in market tavern before getting on harry shaw coach,regretting this straight away when the driver refused to stop for a piss(no toilets on board in those days)so ended up filling a couple of coke cans and then putting them on the shelf above us only to see them fall on top of a couple of teenagers sat behind us,cant remember anything about the game,got a lift back of a couple of lads who said they were stopping at stoke on the way back,got into stoke centre and found loads of city lads in every pub,end result,some of the worst and prolonged fighting ive seen.
stoke...feeling abit twitchy after being told stoke were out for revenge,got off train late escorted to and from game no trouble,cant remember anything about the game.
sheff weds...as we were boarding our coach from the walsgrave pub,someone noticed the door to the store room was open and we helped our selves to a crate of holsten pils,cant remember anything about game apart from being crushed in the leppings lane end and cov fans fighting amongst themselves.
leeds..got off train at the same time as a load of leeds fans who started throwing coins,bottles etc.at us,cant remember anything about the game.
spurs..got the 1st train to wembley,got carry out and spent the rest of the time til kick off outside wembley taking in the atmosphere and photos,seeing them go 1 nil down and saying to my mate "we are gonna get hammered here" ,getting the piss taken out of me for years for crying at the final whistle,getting a lift back from the station in my mates mark 2 escort and seeing 1000s of people in the streets going wild,standing on the tables in the walsgrave belting out the sky blue song.....
Going to Hillsborough for the F.A Cup Semi final with a car full of people in a clapped out Triumph Dolomite which broke down 30 miles outside Sheffield.
We walked into a small village and knocked on a door, where an old lady opened her home to 6 drunken lads so we could ring a taxi. (well 5 and the driver who'd had 'one or two')
As we settled in to watch ‘Grandstand’ :laugh: the lady got us some tea and biscuits and basically treated us all like one of her family.
When the taxi arrived it was sky blue, with a dark blue bonnet and boot!!! The taxi driver was also a great bloke and got us to the stadium with 10 minutes to spare..
We got in just at kick off and the noise in the Kop End was immense.
I'll never forget one guy crying his eyes out at HT thinking the cup dream was over... then that second half....
After the game we searched around for people we knew to get lifts home and luckily got in the back of a van (which had a mattress in it) that got us home.
There was a Leeds fan in there also.. he was gutted!! hahahaha..
I was 15 and will never forget the old lady, taxi driver and van driver for thier good nature and generosity till the day I die…. WHAT. A. GAME…. WHAT. A. DAY!!!
Our coach got stopped on the outskirts of Sheffield on the hard shoulder of the motorway by the police and they searched us for alcohol.
I remember feeling sick for most of the game until Gynny got the equaliser. That was a brilliant game.
My Dad didn't go to that and when I got home he still didn't know the score. That was in the pre-internet and 24 hour sports news days though.
Sergt Pepper taught the bad to play
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
25 year or 35 year still happy days for Cov
beatin the shit out of wolves to win old 2nd div and get promotion to first priceless
I had to work on the day of the semi but Videod it so I could watch it undisturbed when I got home. I managed to avoid all billboards, TV announcements, radio, friends etc. and settled down to watch the VHS. After about an hor or so my (now ex) wife brought me yet another beer and asked me IS IT INTO EXTRA TIME YET!! DOH!!The semi final was the greatest game I ever went to. The noise, tension, the fear of losing. Once we got to Wembley it was like a day out, no tension, we were going to lose anyway. Well that was how it felt until Benno scored and we then had a great period which made us believe we could do it. Biggest regret? Just being a wee bit too young to go out on the lash
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