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6 hours ago, I DONT MIND said:

January 1986, arrived in Sheffield a little worst for wear our designated driver parked in St marys church car park within a stones throw of the away end.

Managed to get into the ground just as the match kicked off, rare for those days some of our crew has seat tickets, others had standing tickets, i had aquired a seat ticket, the away end was in full song c8000 Derby fans chanting Arthur Cox's Black and White army the noise was near on deafening. The match progressed the Rams were playing better than their oppositon a full division above them.

The Blades breakaway with 10 minutes or so and the now Roy Hodgson sidekick, Ray Lewington places a scruffy shot past Mark Wallington into the goal. The 8000 are silenced briefly, the flag goes up for offside and it is disallowed, Cacophony in the away end is resumed with a greater volume than before the annulment. 

A furher 10-15 minutes go by, Derby are still in the ascendency, we get a corner, it is swung over by Jeff Chandler?, Captain Marvel rises a above the United defence and buries his header into the back of the net.

Derby fans are in raptures, the match sort of peters out with Derby holding the Blades quite comfortably, the final whistle blows and the super rams are in the Fifth Round.

Coming out of the ground the atmosphere is a little hostile with the natives unhappy that their own (obviously offside) goal was disallowed and the FA cup adventures curtailed for another year.

We embark in our vehicle to head back into the God's county and decide to have a few refreshment stops on the way home, much singing and dancing in Chesterfield, Clay Cross, Shirland, Ofton and Marehay.

i get dropped off at home c 8pm, it is cold evening and the frost is spreading it's silvery sparkly fingers over the lawn and driveway around the house.

i suddenly click that i  was supposed to be taking my new very attractive girlfriend out for the night, i had forgot completely with the euphoria of victory celebrations and the intense alcholic haze.

I smelt strongly of man sweat and stale bitter etc. so i had 30 minutes to run a bath and make myself presentable for the said young lady who was to arrive in our Taxi at 8.30pm and then onto Derby for a night of Dancing and more alcohol.

Got in the bath and the next thing i know i wake up with a cold shock, it is pitch black and the water of my once steaming bath is tepid.

With pounding head i get gingerly out and start to dry myself and get myself warm.

i look at the clock it is 3am, suddenly in blind panic i realise that i had a date 6 hours plus before.

i search the house vainly expecting the said young lady to be there instead i find the inevitable Dear John letter on the mantlepiece.

 

 

 

 

Wow what a day? Hope it was worth losing your bird over! 

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Kernow
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Great idea for the new game. Can’t wait to get the answer only to scroll down and see somebody else got it about 3 hours before me

admira
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I was at this match as a ten year old with my ipswich supporting Dad. At the end of the game, a Rams fan put me on his shoulders and walked me up Portman Road with the away crowd. One of my favou

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Was this The King’s last game?  Watford in 1982?

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You would have to use this game @admira wouldn’t you!!  A true sliding doors moment.  And nearly 10 years later I’ve still never watched it on TV or YouTube, not even highlights.  I went on one of the club coaches and when I got home I watched my saved recording of the 5-0 demolition of F****t.  Just so I could go say that was the last game I watched.

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1 hour ago, FlyBritishMidland said:

You would have to use this game @admira wouldn’t you!!  A true sliding doors moment.  And nearly 10 years later I’ve still never watched it on TV or YouTube, not even highlights.  I went on one of the club coaches and when I got home I watched my saved recording of the 5-0 demolition of F****t.  Just so I could go say that was the last game I watched.

I know that feeling. Have never re-watched that one, or the Villa defeat, and took me years before I could watch the goals from the Leicester final in the 90s too (even though I'd assumed I would find proof that Martin Taylor had been fouled... wouldn't have changed anything anyway and was too painful!)

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3 hours ago, FlyBritishMidland said:

You would have to use this game @admira wouldn’t you!!  A true sliding doors moment.  And nearly 10 years later I’ve still never watched it on TV or YouTube, not even highlights.  I went on one of the club coaches and when I got home I watched my saved recording of the 5-0 demolition of F****t.  Just so I could go say that was the last game I watched.

 

2 hours ago, jameso said:

I know that feeling. Have never re-watched that one, or the Villa defeat, and took me years before I could watch the goals from the Leicester final in the 90s too (even though I'd assumed I would find proof that Martin Taylor had been fouled... wouldn't have changed anything anyway and was too painful!)

Not just me then!

I've never watched the Leicester, QPR or Villa games back. 

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10 minutes ago, cannable said:

I don’t actually mind the Villa final

I don’t know if it’s because I was at Elland Road for the semi and knew nothing could top it 

I actually thought we'd probably lose to Villa as they were flying and was even more in that camp when I saw the starting line up .  Roos pissed me off making it easy for them and I got more pissed off when Marriott came on and Mings s*** his pants for 25 minutes, when he'd previously spent the game pushed up on the halfway line scratching his arse.  Was always going to be a tight game though in the toughest playoff set of teams I can remember.

The QPR and Leicester ones were proper awful as I'm sure in both cases we'd have stayed up and built.  Redemption was quick after Leicester.  Not after QPR. 

We had a real chance in the year we played Hull and should have gone up.  That Ipswich injury too Thorne was crucial, followed by the ridiculous 3rd Hull goal at the end of the game at home.  They were crap. 

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On 24/11/2023 at 09:28, admira said:

110. One for the oldies. Year, opponents and memories. 4-6 away defeat, goals not necessarily in the correct order. 

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 Nobody got that. Southampton 1964

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8 hours ago, admira said:

111.. Year, opponents and memories. 3-0 home win, goals not necessarily in the correct order. 

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European Cup v Slovan Bratislava, didnt go as i was on a Family Holiday to spain 1975.

 

Believe the win set up the next tie v Real Madrid!!! (went to both those games though)

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34 minutes ago, admira said:

112. Year, opponents and memories. 1-7 home defeat, bad day at the office.

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Well it's Liverpool and I think it was in the second half of the season, so I'll say 1991?

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