Did You Go Halifax Away In the FA Cup in 1980?

[jrb]

I didn't, thankfully.

 

[Stephen230]

Yes. And Shrewsbury the year before. At least the following year was a bit more fun, even if it did end in tears.

 

[Alfie Budd]

I was there that day.
One bit of weird trivia about that game - kickoff was brought forward an hour to 2pm because the floodlights at Halifax weren't powerful enough once it was fully dark for a game where highlights were going to be on TV.

 

[manclad]

Yes. And Shrewsbury the year before. At least the following year was a bit more fun, even if it did end in tears.

I never went to Halifax or Shrewsbury in 1979 and 1980.
But I am happy to say that I managed to attend every single FA Cup game ( including 2 replays) in 1981.
With my younger brother and his pal Keith ( R.I.P ).

 

[City Hobgoblin]

I was there that day.
One bit of weird trivia about that game - kickoff was brought forward an hour to 2pm because the floodlights at Halifax weren't powerful enough for a game where highlights were going to be on TV.

A few car headlamps mounted on up-cycled wooden telegraph poles

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

My dad did

 

[Tarzan41]

Yes sadly. Naively expected us to batter them.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I was at work listening to the game on Piccadilly Radio.

Its a goa - "Oh no"!

 

[inchy14]

I did, muddy as fuck and was at the wall at the front, don’t really remember too much apart from a man hole cover wide open at the side of the pitch and thinking someone could fall down it.

 

[nw42]

Yes to both, got nicked at Shrewsbury station after that game, coppers gave me a good hiding and charged me with D&D, £30 fine.

 

[Chappie]

It's know good claiming you were at York if you didn't do Halifax, Shrewsbury and Lincoln and various other calamities, along the way
"Where were you when you were shit"they all sing.
The simple answer is, I was there, along with thousands of others and that's what makes us F.O.C unique.
We've seen the good and bad times and that in a nutshell is the history clubs problem, they haven't had to deal with shit,until Chelsea and City shook up the cartel.

 

[bluebarry]

Yes and Shrewsbury the previous year. Vowed not to go to an away fa cup game against lower opposition again, but relented and went to Peterborough in 81 (scraped a win, Tommy Booth scored).

 

[Mr Fraser]

Should have been, dad took sis as I won tickets from radio Manchester for alty v orient

 

[chaddblue]

I was only a kid. Remember coming into the house and my dad telling me we'd lost. I thought he was winding me up until 6pm when I saw the pink final

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I had to work probably luckily, I was at Shrewsbury though and was ejected for chucking lumps of ice...err snowballs at the giddy fuckers in that 3 level roof stand in the left side of us.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

When you think we were still very much a big power in 1980. Of course, every neutral loves that “romance of the F.A. cup” shit. I do, too. So long as it’s happening to others.

 

[BlueFurn]

Yes. OMG.

 

[Mancini Manus Domini]

 

[Oldtraffordblue1]

Yes - to appreciate the highs you have to have "experienced" the lows!

 

[Platt Lane veteran]

14 year old me was stood right at the front, to the right of the goal. Still makes me shiver, was it really necessary to remind us about this!