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Great FA Cup Final memories...

  • 21-05-2016 5:24pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    ...when it used to be the blue riband event in the English game?

    Brighton travelling to the final in '83 by helicopter. It seemed so exotic and exciting. In the future, all teams would travel that way...surely...


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  • #2
    pavb2
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    Not great but Gazza's reckless challenge against Coventry sticks in the memory. Don't think he was ever the same player after.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    Keith Houchen's equaliser v Spurs...his second great FA Cup moment afair...

    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1bcdyl_keith-houchen-diving-header-video-1987-fa-cup-final_sport


  • #4
    Guy:Incognito
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    pavb2 wrote: »
    Not great but Gazza's reckless challenge against Coventry sticks in the memory. Don't think he was ever the same player after.

    Cant have been that memorable. It was against Forest :)


  • #5
    brianregan09
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    Hasn't been many today lol


  • #6
    Beasty
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    Didn't realise Brighton were in a helicopter. Was in a coach on the way to the ground myself - that was my first final.

    Turning up at Wembley to find Jim Leighton had been dropped was certainly a surprise. Arguably that (and not Mark Robins goal at Forest) was the turning point on the club's history.

    Was directly in line with Cantona when he scored a very special winner in '96.

    Of course '99 was also pretty special, but that was simply the aperitif before a trip to Barcelona

    However the most special memory for me was '85. That was the first time I actually saw us lift the cup as I could not get time off work for the 1983 replay

    Was behind the goal in which Whiteside scored. Had a camera and managed to take a photo just as the ball was curling past Southall into the bottom corner....


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  • #7
    Zaph
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    This is the one I'll always remember

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS86N47DK-8


  • #8
    tayto lover
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    The '79 final Arsenal v United was very good. 3 - 2 to the Gunners.


  • #9
    Zaph
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    The '79 final Arsenal v United was very good. 3 - 2 to the Gunners.

    The last 5 minutes of that game were incredible.


  • #10
    Skylinehead
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    "It's only Ray Parlour"


  • #11
    Andre 3000
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    The Gerrard Final


    The aul lad and the brothers are all Pool fans. Seeing the wave of emotion from them on that scorching hot day was unreal. What a final, absolutely mental.


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  • #12
    Beasty
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    Zaph wrote: »
    The last 5 minutes of that game were incredible.
    And with that comment you've just brought back my worst memory....


  • #13
    Beasty
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    Beasty wrote: »
    And with that comment you've just brought back my worst memory....
    and so I'll just throw this one up

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruHAe0rT5Ig


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
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    No one picked Vinnie Jones tackle on Steve McMahon yet? Ooof...

    http://youtu.be/RdsJnQrI-kU


  • #15
    Zaph
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    Beasty wrote: »
    and so I'll just throw this one up

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruHAe0rT5Ig

    Now that was just uncalled for :(


  • #16
    Beasty
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    Zaph wrote: »
    Now that was just uncalled for :(
    T'was my first great memory....


  • #17
    Paully D
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    Jimmy Montgomery's double save.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZmFoo4payA


  • #18
    Zaph
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    Beasty wrote: »
    T'was my first great memory....

    Thankfully I'm just that little bit too young to remember it. West Ham v Fulham in 1975 is the first cup final I remember.


  • #19
    Beasty
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    Beasty wrote: »
    However the most special memory for me was '85. That was the first time I actually saw us lift the cup as I could not get time off work for the 1983 replay

    Was behind the goal in which Whiteside scored. Had a camera and managed to take a photo just as the ball was curling past Southall into the bottom corner....
    On the coach on the way back (to Leeds of all places!) we started singing (to "one man went to mow")

    10 men went to win
    Went to win at Wembley...

    Wonder what they'll be singing tonight?:)


  • #20
    Ari Some Strikeout
    Posts: 0 ✭ Ari Some Strikeout


    Today


  • #21
    The Backwards Man
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    Gary Mabbut's excellent near post volley into his own net in 1987.



    Even as a 9 year old I took great pleasure in the misfortune of others.


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  • #22
    That_Guy
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    Pardew dancing like a smug so and so when they went 1-0 up... Only for them to go on and lose to 10 men Manchester United.

    Glorious.


  • #23
    Johner
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    Won't beat this one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8JGH6es7DE


  • #24
    chrislad
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    One of my earlier FA Cup memories. Lingards goal wasn't too far off this today.


  • #25
    Johner
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Y0kqrtUBc


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