A trip down memorie lane.

[nozer]

Of all the games you have wittnessed over the years and you were offered the chance to go back and relive one game ,what would that game be and why.
My one would be the 66 F.A.Cup Final between Everton & Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 down and to come back and win 3-2 was an amazing achievement even by this great Evertons teams standards , still get a great thrill out of watching this game.
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"Some people say Wolves best days are gone i prefer to think the best are yet to come" Derek Dougan on joining Wolves from Leicester City 1967.

[Gorgie JT]

Without doubt

the 19th of May 2012

Hampden park Glasgow

Scottish cup final

First Edinburgh derby final since 1896 ( six years before hibs last won the cup )

Hibernian 1 Heart of Midlothian 5

days dont get any better than horsing your city rivals in a rival city that was Edinburgh for a day

p.s we also humped them 1896

[Eck]

I watched the 1966 World cup final with my Grandad in Havant. I was 9 and had never watched a football match before,I wondered why he was getting so excited about it. I would like to experience it again as a football fan although i'd probably be rooting for West Germany so we wouldn't get force fed it for evermore. The best match I was ever at was the title decider between Rangers and Aberdeen in 1991. It was a special experience seeing Scotland play West Germany at Hampden in 1969, that is the best International game i've attended.

[derby1884]

No doubts about this one!

January 8th, 1983 Baseball Ground FA Cup 3rd Round
Brian Clough's return to the BBG - to face Peter Taylor.
Derby County 2 Nottm Forest 0

The archetypal FA Cup 3rd Round tie on a freezing cold January afternoon. Rams, near the foot of Div 2, up against the old enemy. Managed by an old friend.

Amazing atmosphere inside the old ground that day. Beer fumes and cigarette smoke pervade the air. The ground sparkles under an early frost. Even first half, no goals. Forest edge it. On go the floodlights. Taylor and Clough ignore one another as they head for the dug-outs. Clough sits back. Taylor urges his team on. They listen. What they lack in skill they make up for in sheer bloody-mindedness. A free kick to the Rams just outside the penalty area. Up steps Archie Gemmill, ex-Ram, ex-Tree, now winding his career down in an attempt to halt the slide at his beloved Derby steps up..........and, in best Brazilian style, the ball loops over the wall, swerves, dips and hits the back of the net.

PANDEMONIUM!!!

Forest push forward - Rams resist. Foster's a rock, Brolly, so maligned in previous months, tracks back at every opportunity. But it's Archie who's the heartbeat. Gemmill is immense, belying his stature, tackling anything in a red shirt that moves. Exhausted, mud-spattered, drained, he has to be substituted.

Can we hold on? It looks less and less likely as Forest try, first, playing the ball down the wings. Then, as time moves on, and with Archie gone, the more direct approach. John McAlle urges his fellow defenders to concentrate, his voice so loud we can hear it 40 yards away.

Minutes to go, Forest desperate, even Clough up on his feet now. The ball holds up in the infamous BBG mud. Hoofed upfield. Anywhere will do now. But it lands at young Andy Hill's feet. It's the biggest moment of his career - and one he would never surpass. He rounds the defender and, with Kevin Hector-like precision, chips the onrushing 'keeper. 2-0!!

And that's how it finished - the bloke in the seat in front of me left with 10 minutes to go. He couldn't take the tension any longer. He looked genuinely ill. I'm a quiet bloke - but this in the one and only time in my life I've joined in the singing from the crowd.

An amazing afternoon - duly followed by one hell of a night out on the beer. Still don't know where I spent the night. Possibly at Derby station on a bench.

I know the FA Cup is derided nowadays - but the centre of Derby was absolutely rocking that night. That result really meant something.

But my abiding memory is of Archie Gemmill's performance - there was something, if you'll pardon the adjective, Herculean about it.

It couldn't be repeated at Pride Park - or any of these modern custom-built stadia. That afternoon, at the risk of sounding hyperbolic in the extreme, it really was as if the ghosts of Steve Bloomer, Jackie Stamps and Jack Nicholas had got together to give the team a helping hand.

Ah, nostalgia, you cannae whack it
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[BAZZABAGGIES]

Last season Wolves 1 Albion 5

[clsyorkshire]

There's a video clip from that Derby game here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhSD_qWVgII


As for mine, it is probably Juventus 2-3 Manchester United on 21/04/1999. Roy Keane was immense that night, probably the best performance I've seen by a single player in a match.
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[Auchinleckian]

Gorgie JT wrote:

Without doubt the 19th of May 2012 Hampden park Glasgow Scottish cup final First Edinburgh derby final since 1896 ( six years before hibs last won the cup ) Hibernian 1 Heart of Midlothian 5 days dont get any better than horsing your city rivals in a rival city that was Edinburgh for a day p.s we also humped them 1896

Hearts 1 Auchinleck Talbot 0 2011-12.

Had a very dodgy linesman not wrongly disallowed our goal in the 94th minute, we'd have taken Hearts back for a replay - which would undoubtedly have been one of the biggest ever shocks in the Scottish Cup.

We had a fantastic day out, and did the Junior game proud. We took about 3,000 fans for the day out, which helped make the gate the largest attendance by a country mile on the day in the competition. It also gave a very welcome boost to the Tynecastle coffers as their owner was in the habit at the time of simply not paying his players.

The sight of Hearts playing for time when they had a corner, and trying to retain possession against a non league side, will live with me forever, as will the sight of all the Hearts fans being very generous in their applause of what we so very nearly achieved at the final whistle.

Enjoy your Cup Final win, but just remember it had the potential to have been so very different but for that ****ing linesman!

[paulo]

2010/11 Ipswich 1 Norwich 5

I have been lucky to see Norwich win at poorman road 4 times, but this one was the best! Having beaten them at home 4-1 earlier in the season, I never thought we could top that but we did.

There are loads of games I could go back to further in our history but this one wins it for me, as soon as we were 2 up we knew we could just enjoy ourselves as there was only going to be one winner.

I remember saying on the night when we got back to the pub in Norwich that I just did not want to go home as I did not want the night to ever end!

[Gorgie JT]

Auchinleckian wrote:

Gorgie JT wrote: Without doubt Hearts 1 Auchinleck Talbot 0 2011-12. Had a very dodgy linesman not wrongly disallowed our goal in the 94th minute, we'd have taken Hearts back for a replay - which would undoubtedly have been one of the biggest ever shocks in the Scottish Cup. We had a fantastic day out, and did the Junior game proud. We took about 3,000 fans for the day out, which helped make the gate the largest attendance by a country mile on the day in the competition. It also gave a very welcome boost to the Tynecastle coffers as their owner was in the habit at the time of simply not paying his players. The sight of Hearts playing for time when they had a corner, and trying to retain possession against a non league side, will live with me forever, as will the sight of all the Hearts fans being very generous in their applause of what we so very nearly achieved at the final whistle. Enjoy your Cup Final win, but just remember it had the potential to have been so very different but for that ****ing linesman!

Not ofen away teams are afforded any applause at Tynecastle.
A replay would have been good though.
Always nice to visit grounds i havent been to before,though would have probably had a pre-match pint somewhere more exotic like cumnock

[Auchinleckian]

Was at Cumnock for the Junior Old Firm derby today, and can confirm that Cumnock is a really exotic place - where you can catch very strange, exotic diseases just by being there! We won 2-0 so stay top of the league.

[Dorking]

Palace 4 Liverpool 3, FA Cup Semi Final 1990.

Not only the most significant result in the clubs history (in terms that the final is our 'biggest honour'), but the manner of the victory. A great game that swung back and forth, but also lets not forget that Liverpool were the most dominant team in English football both at the time, and for the previous 20 years. On their way to surely another double, and they had thrashed Palace 9-0 earlier that season in a breathtaking lesson of total football.

A privaledge to say 'I was there', don't know how I'd have felt if I had missed it.

Please someone invent a time machine!

[stretford ender]

After all the success we have been spoiled with it may sound mad not to pick the likes of our first premier league v blackburn 93(i know oldham beat villa the day before),beating liverpool in cup finals,barcelona 99 or moscow 08..
For me id love to go back to 1975 man utd 5 sheff utd 1,united back in the 1st division,me there with my beloved dad and grandad and a stretford end packed with people who had a genuine love for the club and knew how to support a team....and 10p for the programme....

[highlandjambo]

Well this is very hard, Gorgie JT got in first, for 39 years we have had to listen to 7 - 0, 7 - 0 from the wee teams fans and all the rest of the crap that comes with it, BUT NOT ANY MORE, because on a glorious sunny day on the 19th of May 2012 The Heart of Midlothian finally put it to bed by winning 5 - 1. What a feeling, beating your biggest rivals on the biggest derby match ever and leaving them 111 years since they won the Scottish Cup. 5 - 1 WE ONLY WON 5 - 1. HAPPINESS IS BEING A JAMBO.

[Eck]

highlandjambo wrote:

Well this is very hard, Gorgie JT got in first, for 39 years we have had to listen to 7 - 0, 7 - 0 from the wee teams fans and all the rest of the crap that comes with it, BUT NOT ANY MORE, because on a glorious sunny day on the 19th of May 2012 The Heart of Midlothian finally put it to bed by winning 5 - 1. What a feeling, beating your biggest rivals on the biggest derby match ever and leaving them 111 years since they won the Scottish Cup. 5 - 1 WE ONLY WON 5 - 1. HAPPINESS IS BEING A JAMBO.

You'll have seen this story....excellent.
http://sport.stv.tv/football/c.....ad-number/

[highlandjambo]

Yes a seen this Who is he trying to kid, we knocked Dundee United out of the league cup on Wednesday in a penalty shoot out and Peter Houston would not let Rudi take a penalty incase he might not want to score against Hearts WHAT CRAP. He would have loved to score the winning goal against us and he should have told the manager exactly what he thought of him, all sportsmen want to WIN. If the boot was on the other foot and Hibs won 5 - 1 and Leigh Griffiths scored and went back to Wolves, who he is on loan from he would have done the same. The Hibees love winding us up as well, like a said we have had 39 years of the 7 - 0 humping on New Years Day 1973. HAPPINESS IS BEING A JAMBO.

[Eck]

Part of the fun of football is winding up your rivals. As for not wanting to score against Hearts,that is just stupid. Everyone in the game is motivated by a strong desire to be a winner.Whoever said it's not the wining,but the taking part that counts,does not understand sport. Nobody likes to be on the losing side.