30 years ago today. Spurs in the FA cup

Just really embarassing from everyone who thought that was a good idea. Hang your heads in shame.
I remember shouting at the police horse line that it was our knobheads they should have been facing off...
 
There was a gobby Spurs fan at the front of the North Stand who kept coming onto the side of the pitch when they scored giving City fans the Vs.

I swear I have never seen anyone fly through the air so far after he was hit by a City fan when they invaded the pitch. He must have gone back 3 rows.

My cousin and I still laugh about it when we talk about the old days.
 
Came out of the ground absolutely stomach churningly gutted! Absolute bedlam in the Kippax when Sheron scored and I remember us all singing 'If you want to go to Wembley fuckin sing'. Then it all turned to rat shit as per fucking usual. Ran on the pitch for about 5 seconds then thought better of it when I seen a huge shire horse heading right for me. Silly I know. Went home, drank a full bottle of Glenfiditch, went out and caused fucking murders. A truly black day in our not always illustrious history. 30 years ago, Christ!
 
It was the beginning of the end. Spurs lost 6-0 to Sheffield United the game before, without Neil Ruddock it looked as though they couldn't defend, but had already beat us twice 1-0 at our place.

I think it was our first QF as a top flight club since 1981 (2 in 87/88 under Machin) and every one since went the same way, Ipswich, West Ham, Blackburn, Spurs, until Hughes broke the spell.

Over 28 years for a QF win (bar FMC)? Sparky always a legend thereafter...
 
I was only 12 and my Dad made us leave when the pitch invasion started - seem to think we stopped somewhere on the way back to the car that had TV’s in the window - was there such a place near Maine road? my memory isn’t great , and by then the horses were on the pitch
 
Yep. The QPR away was brilliant, my first away trip to "that Lundun". Proper patched up team from us too, I seem to remember Ranson playing (?) Awful pitch where the ball kept on stopping dead in our area and Les Ferdinand being thwarted by Coton x lots.

The least said about the Spurs match the better. Remember being totally gutted by it :(
Nope. We beat Barnsley in 5th round 2-0 at home. QPR was 4th round . Beat Reading 4-0 away in 3rd round replay
 
We could see Hansen, Lynam an Jimmy Hill from the Kippax in their studio in the newly opened (and disappointin small) Platt Lane. Hansen got a good reception as he had backed us to win the cup, as did Lynam just because he was Des. Hill got the usual wanker chant. You could see the other 2 laughing. Apart from the amazing start from Sherin that was the highlight. So gutted.
watched it back later on video. Jimmy Hill saying that the invasion was more evidence that stadiums should be all seaters. The invasion came from the seats, they had the big fences up on the Kippax then.

We had a good side, did this follow the win away at QPR? Best away day for me.
Nope. We beat Barnsley in 5th round 2-0 at home. QPR was 4th round . Beat Reading 4-0 away in 3rd round replay
 
I was only 12 and my Dad made us leave when the pitch invasion started - seem to think we stopped somewhere on the way back to the car that had TV’s in the window - was there such a place near Maine road? my memory isn’t great , and by then the horses were on the pitch
I was 15. Was in the kippax with mates from school. When the horses came on and just stood there and nothing seemed to happen for a few minutes I thought it would get called off so me and a mate left. Was walking back to the Bus stop when we went in to a corner shop and it was on the TV and the match was back on. Saw the penalty miss and the end in the shop.
 
I remember watching this and having that feeling that - finally - we'd get to Wembley. I don't know why, but every City fan had this expectation it was our year.

Looking back, it was just typical City really and part of me thinks it was just part of that slide into shitdom that ended in 1999. When I look back, those years from the late 80s to 99 were truly awful and this was just one of them games that took us down a peg.

The worst bit though was that my Mum and Dad wouldn't let me go to City until the problem with hooligans had gone away. This game sealed it for my Mum and I'd have to sneak down to Maine Rd to watch us play shit and lose :)
 
I was a 21-year-old in the Kippax that day and, like most people around me (about a third the way down, 10 paces to the left of the steps), thought it was our year. The roof nearly came off when Sheron scored. I was so upset when it all went tits up and there was the pitch invasion that I left on my tod. I walked round the back of the North Stand and across the Main Stand forecourt on my way to Wilbraham Rd, when I saw that the big blue gate between the Main Stand and Platt Lane was open. I walked in and watched the last few minutes, including Phelan's goal, standing not more than a few yards from the touchline, with no stewards or police bothered in the slightest. Bit surreal really.
 
Still remember that ,i was 10 years old in main stand for that 1 ,remember phelans goal an madness after,
 
In the main stand for the Spurs cup tie as I had an ST in there for six seasons. Convinced we'd win as I always was, and still am.
 
Its painful days like these that makes our current success so much sweeter , the Rags ,Dippers , Goons have never experienced the hardship some of our supporters have, their loyalty hasnt been tested like ours , a barren spell for them is ending the season outside the top four and not making a cup final for a couple of seasons.
Its games like this that makes you more resilient our support just got stronger and stronger the lower we sank , my lad was with me 12 years old and in tears on the Kippax after the Spurs game and he could have easily gone with the crowd and supported the Rags but he stood with me on the Kippax for the next near 20 years and the ecstacy and joy of 2012 and Aguero was something money couldnt buy.
 
On the Friday night before the game I got a belter of a black eye as a result of an accident ( not fighting).
Went into work on Monday morning and got a right bollocking off the boss for being a football hooligan. No one believed me when I pleaded my innocence
 
Its painful days like these that makes our current success so much sweeter , the Rags ,Dippers , Goons have never experienced the hardship some of our supporters have, their loyalty hasnt been tested like ours , a barren spell for them is ending the season outside the top four and not making a cup final for a couple of seasons.
Its games like this that makes you more resilient our support just got stronger and stronger the lower we sank , my lad was with me 12 years old and in tears on the Kippax after the Spurs game and he could have easily gone with the crowd and supported the Rags but he stood with me on the Kippax for the next near 20 years and the ecstacy and joy of 2012 and Aguero was something money couldnt buy.
Great read that mate
 
When Spurs went 5-1 up (I know, I know) my dad went “come on” and we left. When we got back to the car I found out it had finished 4-2, phelan had scored a wonder goal and there had been a pitch invasion.

I got the train back to London where I was living that night and was fuming. It wasn’t helped by the singing spurs fans. I still feel embarrassment about what happened the next morning. I was in work and the boyfriend of one of my colleagues rang the office and I happened to answer. I’d met him a few times before and he was a big Tottenham fan, a nice bloke. He asked for Gina, and I just said “You fucking Tottenham ****” and put the phone down on him.
 
Alan Hansen tipped us for the cup and we believed him. Also we always get stuck into Tottenham. The perfect storm.
 
It was the beginning of the end. Spurs lost 6-0 to Sheffield United the game before, without Neil Ruddock it looked as though they couldn't defend, but had already beat us twice 1-0 at our place.

I think it was our first QF as a top flight club since 1981 (2 in 87/88 under Machin) and every one since went the same way, Ipswich, West Ham, Blackburn, Spurs, until Hughes broke the spell.

Over 28 years for a QF win (bar FMC)? Sparky always a legend thereafter...
Mark Hughe never got us past the 3rd and 4th round in his two years then got sacked brfore we went out in the 5th under bobby
 

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