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Happy days. The first real cup final I remember. I was 9 in 83 so don't remember it as well. Staying up for the replay above and watching it was brilliant.
Back then Cup Final Day was a full day. Watching the interviews in the hotels in the morning, then the coaches would set off and the helicopters would film them en route. Interviews with the fans, celeb fans (who didn't seem such #@&%!wombles back in the day) and other little featurettes. Then there was the match itself. Protestations about the Moran sending off, worries about extra time being 10 v 11, that goal from Norman, then my Nan hoping Kevin got a medal because he's worked so hard for us all year. She was right; not a month seemed to go by without reports of him nearly swallowing his tongue! Ah, nostalgia's not what it used to be. |
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Louis Edwards and Matt Busby sat having a drink in the old executive suite ....so I wandered over asked if they had any spares (I know, )......told them I'd come all the way down from Cumbria and couldn't get one.......not the 10 miles id really come
LE gets out his fat wallet and takes out a ticket ...hands it over..... Face value.....fair play to the bloke |
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They built houses on that shit hole didn't they?
Wonder if you can still stand on the spot Robbo and Leslie scored from? Maybe some top sat surveying reds could see and get plaques down to wind up the berts, another one where they wasted time in the corner whilst being relegated. |
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First game with my mates in the Stretford End was versus Liverpool. Don't remember the score but can still remember the bloke who would prematurely celebrate at every half chance. I know we scored because when we did score, three of us jumped on his back and went tumbling through the crowd. Going to matches was just a great excuse to piss about. |
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Ground full an hour before kick off, singing your balls off.......none of this empty spaces as people wander in looking for their seat ......if you hadn't lost your voice before kick off, it had been a shit match.....
Stand out night for me for atmosphere was the Porto 5-2 game ....we needed a result, we didn't get it but what a night. |
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The contrast between this game and now is actually quite sad. I went to plenty of games in the 80’s bit don’t remember a great deal but that Hughes celebration is the back drop of my childhood.
You had 22 players on the pitch who knew what the game was all about. The winning captain, after getting carried off the pitch, singing United songs then basically saying he was going on the piss to celebrate without anyone batting an eyelid. Even the FA Cup as an institute of the game is long gone. I remember every cup final whether it was United, Liverpool, Wimbledon or Coventry, being shouted to come in and watch the players on a boat outside the hotel or clips from Wembley Way during the build up. There is literally nothing that equates to that feeling now in the modern game. |
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It was something else, wasn't it? What about the away trips? Piling off football specials or service trains in our thousands, trying to avoid or getting escourted to the ground by the local dibble and their friendly Alsations. Being kept in at the end of the game (unless you were in their end) until all the home support had left. Then on the way back, if couldn't avoid it more police with dogs, sometimes running the gauntlet of the home fans etc. It was our passage of rites wasn't it? |
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Didn’t mind Brian Moore though. Maybe I overlooked any barbs toward United as it hadn’t become endemic. |
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