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Axel Freed said:
Last min equaliser in the 2-2 cup tie is among the top 5 most berserk celebrations ever
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Limbs and walking sticks .it was bedlam on that West Yorkshire open terrace.i loved all my trips to Leeds rd ,back in the day....I went to their new ground in later years and felt under whelmed.
There was no edge to it. I can't even remember the name of it .
I'll never forget Leeds Road.
 
Kippax77 said:
The 'entertainment' straight after the game was probably as tasty as your pie.
Let's just say their fans weren't happy with us equalising so deep into injury time
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Was a bloody good day out and cracking sat afternoon fa cup away from home ..in the days when City got terrace standing and separate away seats in one of their rather shabby looking stands.i loved that ground. The FA Cup had only ever been a tv thing for me before that day
As soon as I got on that terrace and heard the roar of away Blues just before k.o sat 3pm .I fully understood what Cup football in real life,Was all about.
,.....Brilliant. Udders gave us a right game and were well up for it on and off the pitch.
 
Kippax77 said:
Heysel didn't help football much back then
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I’d left school a couple of years before Heysel but already football had become a hobby not to be acknowledged in polite society.

Our career advice woman at school told us under no circumstances admit you’re into football on job applications or at interviews.

Compare that to now where every politician can’t wait to be photographed wearing an England shirt during a World Cup. Or telling bullshit stories of how they were on the terraces every week in their younger days.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
Was a bloody good day out and cracking sat afternoon fa cup away from home ..in the days when City got terrace standing and separate away seats in one of their rather shabby looking stands.i loved that ground. The FA Cup had only ever been a tv thing for me before that day
As soon as I got on that terrace and heard the roar of away Blues just before k.o sat 3pm .I fully understood what Cup football in real life,Was all about.
,.....Brilliant. Udders gave us a right game and were well up for it on and off the pitch.
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What a following we took to both games. I was on the side terrace for the first game. The Gidman goal is right up there in terms of going bananas.
I missed the 2nd replay - had to head back to polytechnic. My dad went on his own in the car - “it was carnage son.”!!
 
It was a great following.very noisy and There was a crackle in the air outside the ground on both days,partc the replay,which even with the rain,was still a eagerly anticipated match. There was all sorts going off around the ground before and after.i do miss those days tbf
A great cup tie.
Gildman always looked classy, even as a seasoned veteran full back who was clearly into rock music.,he still loved to attack on the over lap
It was probably fitting that in the 1st game on the Saturday, it would be his late goal that kept us in the tie.... a thing of beauty ,...from a platform of bedlam....the natives were not happy outside...

I couldn't make the Maine rd 1st replay but got to the 2nd replay in the pouring rain ,out on that open terrace again,another meat pie, really good atmosphere.
I know some bloke chucked his walking sticks / Crutches on the pitch/ at the ref ?
That may have been the first game tho...it was just a brilliant double header at Leeds Road.
I'm pretty sure Huddersfields ground had 2 names back in the 80s,but I can never remember the other...does anyone know ?
 
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dennishasdoneit said:
It was a great following.very noisy and There was a crackle in the air outside the ground on both days,partc the replay,which even with the rain,was still a eagerly anticipated match. There was all sorts going off around the ground before and after.i do miss those days tbf
A great cup tie.
Gildman always looked classy, even as a seasoned veteran full back who was clearly into rock music.,he still loved to attack on the over lap
It was probably fitting that in the 1st game on the Saturday, it would be his late goal that kept us in the tie.... thing of beauty ,...from a platform of bedlam....the natives were not happy outside...

I couldn't make the Maine rd 1st replay but got to the 2nd replay in the pouring rain ,out on that open terrace again,another meat pie, really good atmosphere.
I know some bloke chucked his walking sticks on the pitch/ at the ref ?
That may have been the first game tho...it was just a brilliant double header at Leeds Road.
I'm pretty sure Huddersfields ground had 2 names back in the 80s,but I can never remember the other...does anyone know ?
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Crutches were thrown on pitch during first game.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
It was a great following.very noisy and There was a crackle in the air outside the ground on both days,partc the replay,which even with the rain,was still a eagerly anticipated match. There was all sorts going off around the ground before and after.i do miss those days tbf
A great cup tie.
Gildman always looked classy, even as a seasoned veteran full back who was clearly into rock music.,he still loved to attack on the over lap
It was probably fitting that in the 1st game on the Saturday, it would be his late goal that kept us in the tie.... thing of beauty ,...from a platform of bedlam....the natives were not happy outside...

I couldn't make the Maine rd 1st replay but got to the 2nd replay in the pouring rain ,out on that open terrace again,another meat pie, really good atmosphere.
I know some bloke chucked his walking sticks on the pitch/ at the ref ?
That may have been the first game tho...it was just a brilliant double header at Leeds Road.
I'm pretty sure Huddersfields ground had 2 names back in the 80s,but I can never remember the other...does anyone know ?
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Kirklees Stadium?
 
Kirklees, McAlpine, John Smiths, Galpharm are all names the new stadium has been called at various times.

Don’t think Leeds Road was ever known by another name.
 
johnnytapia said:
What a following we took to both games. I was on the side terrace for the first game. The Gidman goal is right up there in terms of going bananas.
I missed the 2nd replay - had to head back to polytechnic. My dad went on his own in the car - “it was carnage son.”!!
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I don’t think there’s any footage of the Gidman goal which is a shame but in an age now where everything in life is captured digitally it’s nice to hark back to a time when you only have the images in your own mind of such a special moment - one of those mental celebrations where you’re absolutely breathless at the end of it and you’re stood nowhere near where you were stood and if you didn’t have hold of your mate you can’t see him anywhere
 
Stephen230 said:
Kirklees, McAlpine, John Smiths, Galpharm are all names the new stadium has been called at various times.

Don’t think Leeds Road was ever known by another name.
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I think it was, late 80s. It came up in a quiz and it bugged me at the time because I always knew it as Leeds Road, but it had another name (which I can't remember...)
 
City Hobgoblin said:
I think it was, late 80s. It came up in a quiz and it bugged me at the time because I always knew it as Leeds Road, but it had another name (which I can't remember...)
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Glad someone else agrees. I've even spent time on Google but gave up
Does anyone know the other name for Huddersfield Towns old ground ?
 
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