FA Cup Memories

[Heathblue]

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city v spurs 1977

BBC Match Of The Day
January 1977
FA Cup 3rd Round
Cardiff City 1-0 Tottenham
Commentator Alan Weeks#CityAsOne #Cardiff #THFC #FACup pic.twitter.com/A0dFMuhVRq

— TV Football 1968-92 (@1968Tv) January 4, 2024

This would have been my introduction to heavy duty football violence, I went over to Cae Glas shops in the morning and the fella who ran Garrods at the time advised me to keep aware, being 16 just laughed it off, I wasn't laughing in the Central bus station when the Spurs emptied into the station, I was a bit quicker then and thus avoided a right shoeing, an eventful day on and off the pitch but a great win when the cup mattered. In the grange end, in line with Sayer seemed surreal with mental celebrations

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Gloucester City away fa Cup

Night Of The Living Dead

[The Bloop]

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FA Cup memories:

Blake's winner against Man City and winning at Ayresome park.
Bowen's og in the game against Crewe. They were 2 divisions above us, we outplayed them twice and lost at Gresty ice rink in the replay.
Leeds.
Trailing to Chasetown but reaching a final that Ramsey should have started.
Playing Bristol City in the snow.
Not much to have enjoyed since.

We've played 31 FA cup ties since the FA cup final in 2008 and won 9.

Weve been knocked out a few times by lower league opposition, but when was the last time we beat a Premier league team in the Cup?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Weve been knocked out a few times by lower league opposition, but when was the last time we beat a Premier league team in the Cup?

Newcastle, 2014.

[insider]

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Weymouth 83 was a bad memory for me a window cleaner scored a hat trick to beat us but we did go on to get promotion that year so perhaps the old saying of concentrating on the league worked out for us that year.

[KingOfSiamIAm]

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Regarding the Everton game in 1977. City’s goal, scored by Tony Evans, was excellent as he finished off a great passing movement - we ran Everton ragged in the first half, but ran out of steam a bit after the interval and lost out to a controversial Duncan McKenzie goal.

Hi theotherbobwilson…

Why was Duncan McKenzie’s goal controversial?

From my memory, throughout the game he was getting the usual non-stop abuse from our fans, that the opposition best player always used to get.

I was in the Grange end that day and I remember the ball arriving at him with his back to goal. He “turned on a sixpence”, but it took as long as an oil tanker would take to turn. All the while, all the players seemed bamboozled by his amazing ability to turn and no one made an effort to tackle him.

After he scored, he went to celebrate, but stopped in his tracks and turned back to face the Grange end and began to raise his hand. I thought he was going to stick his fingers up, maybe he was, but then thought better of it, and he actually gave a little wave to the crowd.

It was a long time ago and I must have been about 14ish at the time, but that is how I remember McKenzie’s goal.

[splott parker]

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Leeds at home, my earliest FA Cup City memory. On the Bob Bank I was more or less in line with Billy Bremner as he let fly with the winner for them twats (I didn’t refer to them as twats in those days though:hehe:). 4th January 1963, can still picture the little ginger git hitting it and his double fisted celebration:furious:

Earliest non City FA Cup memory is Burnley’s Adam Blacklaw, stranded, going the wrong way from Danny Blanchflower’s pelanty in the ‘62 Final.

[BLUETIT]

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Was Southport away, an FA CUP game ??

Great day out anyway :xmashehe:

[City123]

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Newcastle, 2014.

Only to lose at home to Wigan

Believe the last time we knocked out a higher division side was Middlesbrough when we reached the final and that was the first team since beating Leeds

[the other bob wilson]

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Hi theotherbobwilson…

Why was Duncan McKenzie’s goal controversial?

From my memory, throughout the game he was getting the usual non-stop abuse from our fans, that the opposition best player always used to get.

I was in the Grange end that day and I remember the ball arriving at him with his back to goal. He “turned on a sixpence”, but it took as long as an oil tanker would take to turn. All the while, all the players seemed bamboozled by his amazing ability to turn and no one made an effort to tackle him.

After he scored, he went to celebrate, but stopped in his tracks and turned back to face the Grange end and began to raise his hand. I thought he was going to stick his fingers up, maybe he was, but then thought better of it, and he actually gave a little wave to the crowd.

It was a long time ago and I must have been about 14ish at the time, but that is how I remember McKenzie’s goal.

I was on the Bob Bank and, as I remember it, McKenzie and Albert Larmour chased a long ball which the latter looked to be in charge until he went down and McKenzie was left with a one one with Ron Healey. It seemed to me to be the sort of challenge which would usually be seen as a foul, but nothing was given and, although I may be wrong, I don’t remember the players arguing too much about it with the officials, although the crowd definitely thought a goal shouldn’t have been given.

I can remember reading an interview with McKenzie a few years ago in which he said although it looked like a foul, it wasn’t one + I think he said Larmour kicked his foot and that’s why he fell over.

[goats]

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Start of the run which led to losing to Everton at home in the fifth round. Fourth round was the famous 3-2 win over Wrexham. Billy Ashcroft equalised in the 89th minute and John Buchanan scored the winner almost straight away.

Many thought at the time that it was Cardiff's year to win with it being 50 years since 1927.

Big crowds at Ninian Park for those days in all three games. 27868 v Tottenham, 28,953 v Wrexham and 35,582 v Everton. League average that season was 12 thousand.

The Wrexham game was on Match of the Day as well, but I think that the Everton one wasn't because of a BBC strike.

Fa cup games seemed to have bigger crowds than division one back then

[goats]

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Gloucester City away fa Cup

Night Of The Living Dead

I remember going there too….were we 1 or 2 down in the home leg and scored two really late goals

[City123]

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Championship clubs and their achievements in the FA Cup: https://www.reddit.com/r/Championshi...ements_in_the/

Poor Rotherham...

[splott parker]

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I remember going there too….were we 1 or 2 down in the home leg and scored two really late goals

Morys Scott scored all 3 of our goals in the tie. Whatever happened to Morys Scott?

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

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I was on the Bob Bank that day and was convinced the McKenzie tapped Larmour’s ankles. Watching it back, I think I was way off the mark, seemed a legit goal.

I was right in line with it Steve and i am sure McKenzie stepped on the heel of lamour's boot and then got away from him. He seemed to take on a few players and calmly slot the ball in the net.
Spedger