FA Cup Final loss in 1981 or Luton 83?

jonmcity said:
Luton by a mile, but one thing i do remember was the big crowd singing "we'll support you evermore at the end. I was only young but this made a massive impression on me.
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That was an emotional moment. It was a slow melancholic version - sad but defiant. Weirdly one of of my favourite City moments.
 
Both really but the loss in 81 was my first City kick in the bollocks and the first time I realised I loved City and she was like a girlfriend who would never leave me despite the fact she would promise so much and deliver so little (at the time). I cried that day for the first time over football and generated a hatred for Spurs I have never lost.
 
fa cup by far.... We could come back from a relegation,but loosing a trophy in Wembley.....still hurts me.
 
Xhavenjoe said:
Didn't like either results but Spurs champions league, Wigan F A cup, Chelsea Champions league final and Monaco /Lyon results annoyed me more.

Both spurs and Lutons didn't move on from their wins whereas we have.
Spurs have won feck all since and don't like they will.
People on here talk about the bad old days we've had.
Imagine being a Luton supporter.
David Pleats "Hush Puppy" waltz was only a short term celebration.
They've been relegated, demoted for financial problems, ended up in the conference, played on a plastic pitch, sell any decent player and their ground is horrendous and once had a manager voted in by a supporters popularity vote.
Where they are now in the league is incredible.
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This, and I take a lot of satisfaction whenever things go wrong for any of Spurs, Wigan or Luton.

With hindsight the Luton dancing on the pitch incident was really twattish. I know they escaped relegation but I still think it was classless behaviour given that we went down.
 
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The 81 final hurt me more than anything . I was 10 at the time and fa cup final was the highlight of the season back then .
I’ve hated Spurs more than any other club ever since .
83 a couple of years older and the typical city in me had kicked in by then .
Toxic atmosphere that day in north stand
 
Being a teenager at the time, both were awful to comprehend.
The cup final defeat was so sudden and cruel whilst the relegation was drawn out agony.
 
Think Dennis Tueart spoke for us all when he twatted Brian Horton in the tunnel after the Luton game.
That was and will always be my worst moment, though I hate spuds and their, big headed for no reason whatsoever shitehawk supporters, and probably because of 81.
Wigan pissed me off before 2013 as they always seemed to get a result against us the final defeat made the dislike even more. They still whinge to this day about the Goat scoring the play off semi final winner.
 
The 81 loss was the bigger blow to me personally went to the first game but not midweek replay).The cup was obviously bigger then, huge build up for a week , first trip to Wembley with City. Have never been able to watch that game since and still have a dislike of spurs that can't shake off. Could not go to replay and had a big family do that evening, spent most of it watching the match to be gutted at the end wit the red side of the family taking the p*ss. By the Luton game I was a bit more thick skinned and pessimistic, Francis had gone , Bond went and Benson was put in charge and thought we had settled for mid table mediocrity but never that simple at City and can't remember us winning a game under Benson. Never had the same dislike of Luton and the hatred of Pleat slowly disappeared as that result and relegation was down to the running of the club and Swales.
 
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horlock_was_super said:
Think Dennis Tueart spoke for us all when he twatted Brian Horton in the tunnel after the Luton game.
That was and will always be my worst moment, though I hate spuds and their, big headed for no reason whatsoever shitehawk supporters, and probably because of 81.
Wigan pissed me off before 2013 as they always seemed to get a result against us the final defeat made the dislike even more. They still whinge to this day about the Goat scoring the play off semi final winner.
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Reading Horton’s book atm on holiday, and he references that moment. Apparently, Tueart was only getting another contract if we stayed up, and frustration got the better of him.
 
Both hit me hard as a 9 then an 11 year old. The latter I found almost incomprehensible. However it is the fact that relegation can be remedied with promotion which renders 1983 to the history books. Losing an FA cup final and then winning NOTHING for a further 30 years hurt a lot more in the long run. To some degree the 2011 victory finally put 1981 to bed, however part of me will never feel fully vindicated until we meet Spurs in a final and BEAT the southern b@st@rds!!
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Losing to Spurs was hard, especially after we should have won the first game. But come August and the new season and signing Trevor Francis and Martin O' Neill it was largely forgotten about apart from the TV showing that goal every time we played Spurs or a Cup game
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But Luton was a disaster for the club. And come August the fixture list came out and it was Cambridge, Grimsby, Oldham, Notts County and Carlisle. Clubs that at some point since have been or still are in the 5th tier.
And for Francis and O' Neill in 81, swap them with Duncan Davidson and Gordon Dalziel in 83.
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Not to mention the ‘one game’ wonder Dominic Sullivan. How poor was he?789E605B-BD2A-4628-A7E2-B1FE3059ECBE.jpeg
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Ha! Can't believe he was there long enough for a picture to be taken.
I saw his one and only.game at Torquay and thought he was OK- but then again we were playing Torquay!
One of Billy McNeill 10 Scottish signings / loanees
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If you look at his Wikipedia entry, it doesn’t even mention City as one of his clubs… easily forgotten!
 
81 was far worse for me , 2 long coach journeys in 6 days, had mither on the Saturday and missed 20 mins of the game in St johns , then stuck in car park for about 2hours on the Thursday whilst having to listen to the radio report.
Luton was a shit season not just a shit game, plus I got on the pitch from the Kippax and got a lump of the pitch, thats still in my parent's garden to this day (so my dad tells me). Stoke in 98 was probably worse than Luton for me, especially after the game.
 
Mancity1980 said:
Both hit me hard as a 9 then an 11 year old. The latter I found almost incomprehensible. However it is the fact that relegation can be remedied with promotion which renders 1983 to the history books. Losing an FA cup final and then winning NOTHING for a further 30 years hurt a lot more in the long run. To some degree the 2011 victory finally put 1981 to bed, however part of me will never feel fully vindicated until we meet Spurs in a final and BEAT the southern b@st@rds!!
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We have beaten Spurs in a final, 2021 League Cup, admittedly with limited fans due to Covid. A year that ends in a one when Spurs didn't win!
 
I think hindsight rears its ugly head with this one but it’s fascinating to read everyone’s perspective.
For me I somehow didnt expect to beat Spurs - maybe Cityitis and it wasn’t that long after our Golden period.
Luton I never expected us to lose that last game and still remember the feeling afterwards.
Both shit times but Luton edges it for me.
 
neilhb said:
We have beaten Spurs in a final, 2021 League Cup, admittedly with limited fans due to Covid. A year that ends in a one when Spurs didn't win!
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Yes, I should have been more explicit, we have to beat them in a FA Cup Final to fully exorcise 1981. I remember a few years ago both clubs got to the quarter final stages and I was thinking it’s on! The opportunity to fully compensate for what I experienced as a 9 year old nearly happened then. A league cup final only partially helps.
 
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