We went to Wembley Stadium, twas on the 5th of May, Nineteen hundred and seventy three, oh what a fkg day, We showed them how to chant, and we showed them how to sup, We even showed newcastle how to win the FA Cup
We went to Wembley Stadium, twas on the 5th of May, Nineteen hundred and seventy three, what a ****ing day, We showed them how to drink their beer, we showed them how to sup, We even showed the bastards how . . . . to win the FA Cup There was definitely no mention of the skunks
Maybe the skunk version came along after 74 ? Definitely all I remember- it’s been 50 years ya knaa !
I left home around 6pm the Friday and got home about 9 am Sunday, an experience never to be forgotten. What an early birthday pressie that was.
Went to every match up to Hillsborough and couldn't get a final ticket. Watched the final in the Comrades club Silksworth. Spilled my beer when Porterfield scored then went around town ending up at Marsden Grotto on the beach. What a day bloody brilliant.
Couldn't get a ticket for the semi final driving around west durhamwith a mate listening to the match on the car radio. Managed a final ticket and working in Newcastle at the time with both my boss and his boss Leeds supporters. Went down on the prison warders bus leaving Framwellgate Moor at 11.30pm Friday and back about midnight on the Saturday.
Fifty bloody years man! I was still at school. No ticket for the final but made the rest of the games apart from Reading away. But the memory is as fresh as ever. The Cup was genuinely massive then of course, in a way that is impossible to describe to those not old enough to have witnessed and felt it. We were just walking around feeling like the Kings of the World for months. I hope everyone who goes now and is too young to know that day gets one like it. It just never leaves you.
Saw the team come down Roker avenue then was took by my mam near the Fulwell end to the QPR game to see the F A cup, that's what started me to watch SAFC. Another note i lived in Selbourne street, Roker during the 1964 Man U f a cup game, and me dad said it was pandemonium in that area and i knew a woman who was at the Derby county 1933 cup game 75,000 she sat on the touch line and could not move.
Was 10, dad couldn't afford to go so let me and my boy play out on the street, Japs and Brits, while he watched the final in peace... He started taking me to Roker regularly the following season
First time I've ever watched this match and there are some unbelievable performances at the back from Pitt, Malone and Watson.
Just watched the whole game and it was incredible. No time-wasting from us, just sheer effort. Just as proud now as I was on the day.
I was there and was there for the entire cup run. Only 13 at the time. Left on martindales bus from Bishop at midnight Friday got home around 9am Sunday morning. Thought it would always be like that. Oh well pointless giving up now. Anyway my son and my grandson are going through it with me now. Love it. Always thought the semi final was better than the final for some reason.
I was 7, we lived me my Grandad at the time and he bought a colour TV after the semi final, so the final was the first ever game I saw in colour. Ive wondered what the matchday thread for that final would have been like on here: @RTB would set the tone during the week, line ups, stats, prediction etc. Everyone would be full of nerves, trains and hotels booked. Match day, everyone nervous, but confident. The line ups are in....pretty much as RTB predicted, and Leeds at full strength. Proud as **** seeing the lads walk out at Wembley, seeing them line up in their red tracky tops, singing the national anthem. Kick off. 30 seconds in, bloody hell, that could have been a red for Pitt. Pretty evenly matched so far, a shot from Horswill goes narrowly wide. A cross from Kerr is tipped over by Harvey, we have a corner. Then Clocky would announce, before anyone else has even seen it.... 0 - 1 Porterfield This would then be followed by few GTFI's, a few Gerrins, and a load of these.... I would be bloody marvelous. Dave Watson gets his head to everything that comes into our box, and the back four defend so well that Monty hasn't been tested at all. HT 0 - 1
I couldn't believe Bobby Kerr was putting the ball in the box in the last few mins. I was screaming for him to head for the corner flag Both keepers were very quick (and accurate) to release the ball, no messing about. It was a proper game.
Heavy ball, heavy pitch, lads ran themselves into the ground. Tackles were real tackles then as well, real crunchers. One sub allowed....and not even used. When was the last time a team went 90 minutes without using a sub? 11 players, from division 2, up against the best team in the land. Thing is, for me, if you didn't know which team was which, you would be very hard pressed to tell which was which. We were that good.
