Quote Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanton View Post
On a similar note I had an almost identical experience in 1973 when Sunderland played us 2 days after winning the FA Cup... it’s perhaps my earliest football memory (I was 6) but remember to this day that Billy Hughes from that Sunderland team was my first footballing hero. The FA Cup was fantastic from 1972 all the way through until the late 80’s for me
I remember that game! I was 9.

How could these now-household names be suddenly coming to play us!