Wembley 1981

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pete1970

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Was watching the highlights on video this afternoon
Im not one to moan about results
But still cant believe McKenzie hitting the post in the second half
So close to glory, still it all came right years later (Apart from Wigan!)
Any one else have memories that day?
 
I was 10 and watched it on tv with my dad and his mates. Was gutted when Hutchison scored the OG. Went to the replay and even though the result I loved it. remember thinking how great wembley was going to be and it was a shit hole.
 
I was there. Only Wembley final of ours that I've managed to get a ticket for. I think much of the feeling of melancholy about that game is knowing in hindsight how it was the last glimmer of glory for many, many years.
 
I was 17 that day and was on one of the first finlands coaches to arrive at Wembley , quite naively just jumped of the coach and went into the ground, what a shock at the end of the game to come out and see what seemed like a million coaches with finlands written on the side, spent the next hour walking up and down endless lines of coaches. Will never forget that great banner 'Gerry how is a taxidermist he stuffs cockerels, tops!!
 
I was 11 , watched it on tv.... :( for some strange reason,still hurts me !
ps...I don't give a shit for wigan
 
I was 18 - 4 of us went from Coleraine only 2 with tickets. Train to Larne, ferry to Scotland, train up to Glasgow then change to Manchester, coach to Wembley.

For some reason I think my ticket cost me about £3.60 and other 2 lads picked up tickets from an agency type place
 
squirtyflower said:
I still have nightmares of Mckenzie hitting the post from two yards out
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Aye, he flicked it with the outside of his right foot when he should have hit it with his left foot and saved us all the trip back in midweek and countless replays of THAT goal.

We actually sold 30,000 tickets for the replay as of course all the FA's hangers-on weren't arsed about the replay and the clubs got a bigger allocation. Unfortunately Spurs fans bought up nearly all the "neutral" tickets direct from Wembley and had well over 50,000 there with the inevitable trouble in sections where the two sets of fans were mixed.
 
lancs blue said:
Aye, he flicked it with the outside of his right foot when he should have hit it with his left foot and saved us all the trip back in midweek and countless replays of THAT goal.

We actually sold 30,000 tickets for the replay as of course all the FA's hangers-on weren't arsed about the replay and the clubs got a bigger allocation. Unfortunately Spurs fans bought up nearly all the "neutral" tickets direct from Wembley and had well over 50,000 there with the inevitable trouble in sections where the two sets of fans were mixed.
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We had trouble on the train platform on the Saturday
A nice Spurs fan threatened my girlfriend, tough guy
 
It was he first ever FA Cup replay at Wembley & it was the centenary final .I remember there were loads of Spurs fans in our end ,but they didn't stay for long
 
Travelled down with the Leicester & Rubgy branch (living in the shit hole called coventry at the time) and the coach broke down outside Luton.... new bus picked us up and were there in plenty of time.
My mate Loz made a cardboard sky blue top hat and had 4 cans of beer inside it.... made it through the turnstile!
Spent Saturday night in London with the London branch somewhere..... made it back to cov around 1am and had a 5 mile walk back home.
Went the Thursday too...... long quiet journey home.....
 
Was in Coventry at the time at the Poly. A lecturer friend managed to get me a ticket and drove us down on the Saturday. Thought Caton and Reid were brilliant and was gutted when Mckenzie's shot hit the post. Remember Ricky Villa being substituted and as he walked in front of the City fans he got a great reception and we thought we had seen the last of him.

In the replay I missed the magnificent Mckenzie volley as a fracas was going on in the City end. A long journey back that night to Cov !!!
 
It was a glorious cup run especially the Norwich home tie, Everton replay and of course the semi, probably some of my best memories of being a City fan.

In hindsight the final was a good summing up of what the next 30 years would bring. I had tears in my eyes when Perryman lifted the cup, for sure.
 
It was a great Cup run and especially enjoyed the game at Peterborough as fellow Middleton lad Tommy Booth got the winner. City fans that day were singing a song adapted from Adam Ant and the Ant Music song.

It was a great team and loved seeing youth players making their mark, Ray Ranson,Nick Reid, Tommy Caton, Dave Bennett and Tony Henry. Amazing transformation when John Bond signed Hutch, Bobby Mac and Gerry Gow. Was hard to imagine the roller coaster that the next 30 years was to bring. Great memories of 1981.
 
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I feel great , with nowadays team,but I will always love the team of those days...
 
I was 19, went down with a mate, and we both got a kicking from a group of Spurs fans on the way to the ground. Hated the bastards ever since.
 
squirtyflower said:
We had trouble on the train platform on the Saturday
A nice Spurs fan threatened my girlfriend, tough guy
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BooksReject said:
I was 19, went down with a mate, and we both got a kicking from a group of Spurs fans on the way to the ground. Hated the bastards ever since.
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Yes I always had the feeling back then that Spurs fans, a bit like the rags, made sure to pick on smaller groups of opposition fans or those who couldn't fight back.
 
The 2 items what really made me hate that club still to this day, when we arrived by minibus those Spurs guys were running around in white boiler suits clockwork orange style, with star of David drawn in with felt tip, looking for small groups of city fans, after the 1sr game one tried to get on our coach but got something he didn't expect? The other was what I saw on TV after the replay, Joe corrigan walked in the Spurs dressing room and congratulated the scumbags, he was totally ignored by perryman and his scumbag side. For me we lost the cup in the 1st game, it was travesty that the replay was down there, ( in fact Spurs only played one game outside landan which was the 1st semi final at sheff weds, they were drawn out for the 3rd 4th 5th and qtrs all at home? My thoughts about hacket (ref ) at that replay were that he favoured the landan side, as for villas goal the city players were so frightened to tackle him they knew it would have probably a penalty and booking, but the biggest mistake was by bond not playing our two most experienced players Dennis tueart and Tommy booth in the replay a monumental mistake which I felt cost city the cup.
 
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