Cup final loss against Wigan V cup final loss against Spurs

[allyboy]

I was 10 at the time of the Spurs Final and I cried my eyes out when Ricky Villa scored that goal.
It was like losing the Champions league Final now.

v Wigan I couldn't give much of a shit as I knew we'd be in lots more finals.

 

[Balti]

I only went to the Saturday game in the 81 game an watched the replay on TV. I don't recall being too gutted at that age.

Last year I was fucking fuming at the total unprofessional performance from the players and the Mancini story leaking.

It was a very poor day for me.

yep me too

 

[Wilf Wild 1937]

Spurs by a country mile. I was 20 and living in London at the time and their supporters were vile before, during and after both
games. We should have won the first game but the Gods were against us. The second was cruel with being 2-1 up at one point.
Wigan fans were okay. I don't begrudge them their success, they were the better team on the day. In 81 we knew it would
probably be a long time before we were back again. John Bond's buys were good players but a short term fix. We were all
aware that the club was in financial trouble. I guess none of us realised just how long it would take though! After the Wigan
game I felt that we had basically wasted a season but we would be competing for many, many more honours in the years
to come.

 

[Puppet Master Silva]

Probably sounds weird but following the "AGUEROOOO" season I couldn't really buy into last season particularly much in terms of emotions. I was so spent from the 2011/2012 season that last year really didn't have that much impact on me, as well as not getting a ticket for Wigan I was a lot less disappointed than I would of been for any other season. This season I'm right back into it. Also I wasn't alive for the Spurs final so have no ill feeling towards that.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I was 10 at the time of the Spurs Final and I cried my eyes out when Ricky Villa scored that goal.
It was like losing the Champions league Final now.

v Wigan I couldn't give much of a shit as I knew we'd be in lots more finals.

That's how it was for me...the biggest game of my life at 11 years old, and I never even contemplated we might lose it. I knew we'd win, even after the drawn game. Cried my eyes out after the replay.

Wigan was nothing. It's hard to comprehend for young fans how big the cup final was then. It was as glamourous as winning the league.

 

[Blue Elvis]

Fuck that was our last good season for 30 years. I was pissed off the Wigan final but utterly crestfallen after the 81 final especially as we'd scored both goals in a one-all for fuck sake.
Then in the replay MacKenzie scoring the best goal ever scored in an FA cup final only to then be usurped by tricky fuckin Ricky Villas 'goal'
Yeah 1981 for me.

Made the 1-1 draw but couldn't afford the replay.
Gutted, took me weeks to get over it. We didn't deserve to lose, played our hearts out.
P####d off with John Bond for not playing Tueart (one of my favourite players).
Still think MacKenzie's goal was better than Villas.

Wigan, gutted. Got over it by time I'd got back to my car. We didn't deserve to win and Zabba aside ,didn't think any of the team played their hearts out.
Think we are owed a performance against Sunderland but expecting it to be close.
CTID

 

[mancunial]

Spurs nothing hurt more than those two games, 1 not beating them 1 st time 2 the fact that the replay was back at wembley for the very 1 st time, I always felt if it had been played at villa or sheff weds we would have lifted it, spurs through the whole campaign only played once away from home which was their semi which ended in a replay which was In fact played at highbury , it was an hurt that I still feel to this day, because I felt we could possibly gone from strength to strength instead of the dramatic downward spiral over the next few years. For me one of the biggest cock ups was not playing Dennis tueart and tommy booth for the replay as I felt we needed experience for the wembley replay. A travesty for the club and fans as an whole something we couldn't recover from.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Wigan hurt me,luckily my lad decided to give it a miss.
Spurs.Fucking hell that was my earliest memory of City as a 7yr old and my love for the club was formed back in 81 when I was only 7 yrs old. I remember crying when Villa scored that goal...

 

[pride in battle]

Went to both games 81.....gutted we lost but we put up a great fight over the two games....fast forward to Wigan....gutless, spineless, you name it...it's making my blood boil now thinking about it!!

 

[Santiago Street]

I was 11 when Spurs beat us, I was so disappointed that I didn't get a ticket for the 1st match and was so happy when my dad came home with a replay ticket for me. It never crossed my daft little mind that we'd lose, I was heartbroken, managed to hold in the tears till we were on the train home then cried myself to sleep, it meant everything, to me.

When Wigan beat us, to be honest I was mildly disappointed but nothing more.

A man gains perspective in 33 years, the FA Cup Final isn't what it was and we've just had the most brilliant couple of years as City fans so it was not in any way a comparable experience.

Still can't believe we didn't fuckin win it though

But I've never ever been as upset by a loss as Luton83. Tears just flooded down my face as we drove away up Lloyd St. "It's happened before son and it'll happen again, there's no point getting upset" my dad told me.