That Arsenal FA Cup game was one of the best ever. To go to Highbury and win with that goal was brilliant. Still remember being in the Clock End and it being so packed getting pushed UP the terrace. Suppose that doesn't sound too safe these days, but it was one of my most memorable matches.
I remember going to the old Colchester ground back in the 80's - I am sure it was an early round of the FA Cup. We were all standing at the back of an old ramshackle stand that was falling to bits and the back of it was old rusty corrugated iron sheeting. All through the game we had been bashing and kicking this sheeting to keep the noise up, when all of a sudden a couple of sheets fell out the back and a couple of us went with them and landed about 5 foot down on the ground in a car park or school or something. Luckily we were just a bit dazed and started getting pulled back into the stand when a couple of coppers came running round and shouting at us, so we got back in the stand and legged it down near the front - the game did not stop and they just put a couple of coppers near the hole to keep people falling through. Imagine nowadays? there would have to be a risk assessment and barriers and blokes in hi-vis jackets and stuff...
Some chanting form our fans against the hull goalie.. quite a few years back..... I cant remember who he was.... but he was, as large, as the chant said....
Ian McKechnie? He also used to kop some stick from Watford fans when he was previously with Southend.
Issa was very funny. Didn't see too many games that season, but glad I saw that. Didn't see the Brian Owen goal but certainly remember the fuss and amusement for a week or two afterwards. Was at Stamford Bridge when Alan Hudson scored a ghost goal against Ipswich. Ball hit the stanchion having curled round the post outside the goal, and bounced back onto the pitch. Ref (and many other people, unlike when Reading 'scored') assumed it had gone in and out. So that was funny. Do we have stanchions at all now?
Ah yes....3-1 to Watford at Highbury in the cup. I was actually in the Arsenal end having to keep really quiet but thoroughtly enjoying every minute Thanks guys
Yes I was there too.... and was already near the front, I was only 8 at the time so almost got squashed but had a protective brother with me fortunately One of the funniest things I've ever seen for us - can't remember who it was against but the keeper had kicked the ball up top, Devon White had jumped for it... he landed just as the ball landed at his feet! Otherwise, a lot of the funny stuff is the banter between the fans!
When I was younger, I went to a league cup game, there was a floodlight failure and the game was PPed, then for the next game the pitch was frozen and called off. Does anyone remember against who? I don't.
Not sure about that, but remember an evening game against Oxford Utd (I think) in the late 90's (I think) in the League Cup (I think) which was delayed before KO by the lights failing. I also think this was the game when... Queuing to pay to get into the Upper Rous with some friends (one an Oxford fan) we were asked 'Which is the queue for ticket holders?" I replied, "Far queue, mate." General laughter all round, comments like ' no need to be so rude to the gentleman...' etc One of the people I was with was Vince, cartoonist of this parish. I was chuffed when he turned the event into one of his little gems. (punter replies ' I only asked...' Just looked on the BSaD archive but it's no longer there, unfortunately.
I remember the home game v Wigan in the Prem abandoned due to a waterlogged pitch and the next game was at Fulham on New Years Day. It was a 0-0 draw at the Cottage and was so boring when there was some drizzle, there was a chant from us of "this is unplayable" - I dread to think what the Fulham fans thought.
In the 70s we played a league cup game against Reading which we won 5-0. What was so strange was that the fog was so thick it was impossible to see what was happening. I was in the Rookery and could hardly see the nearest goal. When we scored at the Vicarage Rd end we knew nothing of it in the Rookery. We heard what sounded like a distant cheer which worked its way round the ground in stereo. By the time the cheer got to us we finally twigged that we had scored. There was also he friendly against Bohemians of Prague. It wasn't quite so foggy for that game until the Chimney in Shrodells Hospital started to spew out smoke that sank onto the pitch.
[video=youtube;5O7Jl7CnYwU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O7Jl7CnYwU[/video] Just for Tommy Wright's arse up & Super KP slaying the dirt yet again.
[video=youtube;5O7Jl7CnYwU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O7Jl7CnYwU[/video] Just for Tommy Wright's arse up & Super KP slaying the dirt yet again. This is from ALS but I remember them well. The second position is held in high esteem as we revert back to Wearside’s school of hard knocks. Sandwiched in between was Howard Wilkinson, who whilst was manager of Leeds United, likened the challenge made by this player on Leeds’ Peter Haddock to a tractor steamrolling through. Please rise for the formidable insanity and quality banter that was John Kay. Adapted by the Roker followers to be known as ‘The Red and White Tractor’, Johnny Kay’s no nonsense approach to football was lapped up by the Sunderland fans. Like the characters before him in the top five, on more than one occasion Kay has displayed his wild ways. There was the incident against Charlton when Kaysie aimed a classic head butt at the opposing forward, prompting a fan to run on the pitch in protest at John’s red card. The main memory though of the stout full back was on the day that yielded the demise of his Sunderland career. In a league match at home to Birmingham City, Kaysie threw himself into yet another typical challenge, but with the pitch waterlogged, John came off the worse, immediately showing signs of a broken leg. In an age where we see players carted off on gas and air, John Kay lying upright on his stretcher decided to ‘row’ himself off the Roker turf, much to the amusement of the nearby Don Goodman and medical staff. Hereby clearly displaying his tough mental attitude, his high standards of banter, combined with an unbreakable resolve that puts him near the top of the chart. He’s red, he’s white, he’s ****ing dynamite... Johnny Kay, Johnny Kay.
