Ramsey should have started
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Always remember the date because of Steve Thompson's song.
"...and on the 17th of May, we'll go down in history."
Ramsey should have started
I wonder where the kid is [aged 6 to about 8]now.
On the way out of the stadium he said to his father,
"Never mind dad we'll win it next year"
I was at Wembley that day and remember looking round at all the City flags and feeling such pride. Bluebird flags from all over the world, Oz, Canada and Finland to name but a few. I've always loved the FA Cup, but never thought I'd see my team play in it.
Back in the day (I'm 52) the FA Cup was huge. Coverage would start from about 9am with fans from both teams competing in 'Its A Knockout' type of games etc, and go on well after the game had finished. We didn't get much live football on tv back in the 70's and 80's so I'd look forward to this for ages.
The strange thing about this is, I've watched every cup final on tv since Southampton v Utd 1976, apart from ours! I recorded the game but was that gutted I couldn't watch it when I got home. I don't think I've seen the winning goal since that day, as I turned the news over the next day too.
After 11 years I'm still not ready to watch it.
Haven't watched either 'final' after the fact. Probably never will. The Blackpool one haunts me more I'd say though, the FA cup run was reward enough in itself. I still think "what would've happened" had we won that play off final.
Despite losing (no surprise there) the league cup final is the one I'll treasure most for going toe to toe with Liverpool and that equaliser.
It was a great cup run. The home game against Wolves was some of our best football and then that magical win at the Boro. I was trying to soak up the atmosphere in the final but the whole day just went too quickly. It's something I'll never forget though.
Just think, all the little darlings who were 10/11 then, are little shits now of 21/22 !!!!!!
Still borrowing off dad
I always thought that that day in 2008 was proof of the old saying “it is better to travel than arrive” the build up from semi final victory onwards was fantastic. The anticipation of the day was exciting, got butterflies in the stomach travelling up then the news of the team selection was disappointing and then the game started in it went downhill from there. The train journey back to High Wycombe station to collect my car and subsequent trip home was absolutely miserable. Like to do it again though.
Great memories chatted with her indoors about that very same thing this morning , about the midday to teatime TV watch whole families would watch it .
I have to say I've not watched many modern (not 3pm) FA Cup games , other than going to our own , which took my breath away seeing so many City fans in a cracking stadium.
How sad it is now , where you see two Premiership sides ,and one is a massive underdog.
Were turning into other leagues , where the few dominate .
Middlesbrough was the highlight for me - we went to a decent Premier League side and played them off the park.
The one thing that always frustrates me about that day, was our lack of quality up front.
When you think of some of the prolific strikers we’ve had over the last 30 yrs, we just didn’t have a natural goal scorer in that final.
JFH was at the end of his career and fell over more times than Norman Wisdom.