My 3 stand out memories are in no particular order...my 1st game which was opening day of the 76/77 season. A 2-2 draw with Arsenal. Monty in goal and macdonalds debut for them after leaving the mags. Nice summers day in the roker end. Also when we beat Chelsea in fa cup with Armstrongs late header. And...when Rangers came to town in Bennets testimonial in summer of 93!
My first game in 67 v norwich fa cup mid week I can still remember the lights and how green the grass looked and as an 11 year old kid how I had the best mam in the world cause she had taken me 26 miles on a bus ( which took ages) so that I could see my hero's. Then she stood in the Fullwell end so I could sing along. Childhood seems so long ago now.
Vic Halom's goal verse Man City 1973 that went in the Fuwell End....magic night....did he f*cking wellie that or what....
The night they brought the FA Cup back to Roker Park, with the coffin 'RIP Leeds Utd' brilliant atmosphere, never forget that.
Bloody hell, i remember that, i had a season ticket that year and me ma and da took someone else to the final, i was 10 then and the cnuts thought i was too young to go to wemberley. True was a great night.
Charlie Charlie Charlie chants, "Peanuts" tanner a bag , the pitch side straw , cracket my dad made and me dangling on a stanchion in Roker End standing on the terraces hairs on back of my neck tingling walking to the hallowed ground Man U cup games - so many more memories ... maybe not paddling to toilets in the Fullwell End -
I was fortunate to get to both mate, but my old fella wasn't too happy like cos he said I should have given him my ticket. **** that!!! Wembley was brilliant as was the home coming and i'll never forget either of them mate. Great days.
The Arsenal / Tottenham games in the 60,s FA cup run were amazing events, but the Man C night in 73 and what followed, was pure magic, and will never ever be surpassed.
Benno vs Speedie and Armstrong's late header in the fa cup against Chelsea in '92 - I was only a kid when Benno chucked speedie in the crowd - stood in the roker end watching it but it was immense
standing in the original roker end in the 1970's was great, seeing the f a cup paraded in 1973 after the QPR match, my first ever match !. The night we played Ipswich they were top of the old 2nd division and we were (guess what) fighting relegation and we beat them 3-0, it bucketed down all afternoon and night I still don't know how the pitch survived that.
