Replay didn't HAVE to be at Wembley. Greedy Swales sold us out for money.
Pretty sure it was arranged well in advance and became the norm before finals got decided on penalties. The 82, 83, 90 and 93 Finals all had Wembley replays.Was there any discussion on it being anywhere else? Long time ago.
I may be completely making this up but I have a vague memory of it saying in the programme on the Saturday that if the game was a draw, it would be replayed at Wembley on the Thursday.
Almost certainly a printing error which was quite common back then when there was a load of manual processes involved in creating each page. For photographs to be printed in those days you had to scan it to create 4x colour separated negative films of the developed image, one each for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK. Each one of those films would have been combined with the rest of the page in order to make the plates and only when all four plates are on the machine do you fully know it has worked properly. May even have been a single colour printing press in 1981 where the sheet of paper is passed through four times and the plates and ink are changed between passes.The picture is inverted, look at the steps and dug out area on the right side, hence the picture appears to have been taken from the tunnel end BUT the tunnel is clearly at the far end. Also the advertisement boards are facing left, again to give the appearance of the picture being taken from the East Stand. I assume it was a printing fuck up and they thought no one would notice.
Thanks for the info.Almost certainly a printing error which was quite common back then when there was a load of manual processes involved in creating each page. For photographs to be printed in those days you had to scan it to create 4x colour separated negative films of the developed image, one each for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK. Each one of those films would have been combined with the rest of the page in order to make the plates and only when all four plates are on the machine do you fully know it has worked properly. May even have been a single colour printing press in 1981 where the sheet of paper is passed through four times and the plates and ink are changed between passes.
I’m guessing these were printed between the two games so if spotted on the press, there may not have been enough time to fix it. They have simply placed the photo negatives face up when they should have been face down (or vice versa), probably.