| 31 years ago today 11:17 - May 22 with 1346 views | loftboy |
Walking up Wembley way as a 15 year old. |  |
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| 31 years ago today on 11:27 - May 22 with 1327 views | Suffolk |
Took the same walk - aged 14. I remember it better than yesterday! |  | | |
| 31 years ago today on 11:58 - May 22 with 1290 views | Juzzie |
I watched it on TV with my dad as a 14 year old. Still remember leaping around the living room like a demented loon when Fenwick equalised.
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| 31 years ago today on 12:08 - May 22 with 1276 views | Gilligan |
| 31 years ago today on 11:58 - May 22 by Juzzie |
I watched it on TV with my dad as a 14 year old. Still remember leaping around the living room like a demented loon when Fenwick equalised.
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I was 14 too. I went to the replay. I can't really remember the game. But I remember cycling down to Loftus Road after doing my paper round to buy a ticket on Sunday morning. I also remember seeing a Tottenham fan getting attacked outside Wembley after the final whistle. |  | | |
| 31 years ago today on 12:17 - May 22 with 1259 views | Metallica_Hoop |
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| Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent |
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| 31 years ago today on 12:25 - May 22 with 1240 views | BrianMcCarthy |
We'd moved back to Ireland, and I was 12 and a big boy now. Watched both games in the family pub with a huge crowd in, all shouting for Rangers just for our sake.
I'd cried in '76, and so had my Dad. When the cup replay ended I felt like crying again but the ol' fella had a word and I went playing ball out the back instead. In our game Rangers won. |  |
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| 31 years ago today on 12:25 - May 22 with 1240 views | TW_R |
You really didn't want to go, did you?  |  | | |
| 31 years ago today on 12:28 - May 22 with 1228 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| 31 years ago today on 12:25 - May 22 by TW_R |
You really didn't want to go, did you? |
I didn't I went to the '86 one. 
Pic makes me laugh though. | |
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| 31 years ago today on 12:31 - May 22 with 1222 views | Suffolk |
| 31 years ago today on 12:08 - May 22 by Gilligan |
I was 14 too. I went to the replay. I can't really remember the game. But I remember cycling down to Loftus Road after doing my paper round to buy a ticket on Sunday morning. I also remember seeing a Tottenham fan getting attacked outside Wembley after the final whistle. |
I was at the replay as well. I was standing behind the goal when the penalty was taken. I had a drunk Arsenal fan next to me.
I was given abuse by Spurs fans before the game. I thought I was going to get my head kicked in. I went with my dad to the semi final. He parked in with the WBA coaches! I was terrified walking back to the car after the game. Some of the WBA fans were on the rampage smashing up some guys stall for selling QPR scarves and they turned over the newsagents.
I saw a lot of aggro as a kid at football. It didn't bother me - I even thought it funny at times. Following the games mentioned I ceased finding it funny. I was now a target. I stopped going for a while. | | | |
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| 31 years ago today on 16:57 - May 22 with 1135 views | HantsR |
I was sitting on my Land Rover bonnet in Dar es Salaam airport car park waiting for a colleague (whose plane didn't come) with my SW radio glued to my ear! Locals thought I might have been out in the midday sun too long when Fenwick scored |  | | |
| 31 years ago today on 19:31 - May 22 with 1058 views | actonman |
was in mcgees in northfield avenue (last known as the spinning wheel ?)
8 years old coke and crisps in hand (in the process of being converted from liverpool fc)
been an r ever since ! |  | | |
| 31 years ago today on 19:43 - May 22 with 1053 views | MrSheen |
Promotion to the 1st Division, three Wembley appearances (one of which I've forgotten) and a European campaign in my first six years as a Rangers fan. Since then...Someone should have warned me that watching Gary Chivers and Ernie Howe was actually a golden age. |  | | |
| 31 years ago today on 19:46 - May 22 with 1050 views | MkPaul |
Was it really 31 years ago? Feck I feel old now |  | | |
| 31 years ago today on 20:00 - May 22 with 1041 views | AgedR |
What a team.
Waddock had Hoddle in his back pocket all game, until Clive Fxcking Thomas body checked him...well that's how I remember it...I was 10 mind. |  |
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| 31 years ago today on 20:30 - May 22 with 1029 views | Loft1979 |
| 31 years ago today on 11:58 - May 22 by Juzzie |
I watched it on TV with my dad as a 14 year old. Still remember leaping around the living room like a demented loon when Fenwick equalised.
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SAme here. I still watch it on you tube. |  | | |
| 31 years ago today on 21:22 - May 22 with 994 views | FredManRave |
| 31 years ago today on 20:00 - May 22 by AgedR |
What a team.
Waddock had Hoddle in his back pocket all game, until Clive Fxcking Thomas body checked him...well that's how I remember it...I was 10 mind. |
Bloody Hell AgedR! Can you change your name please. I always thought, with a profile name like that, you were about 70 years old. But you're not, you're younger than me (albeit by 1 year). Still, change your name to Plenty to OffR or something equally suitable, please.
You're as aged as (the woman) you feel.
Cheers. |  |
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| 31 years ago today on 22:06 - May 22 with 975 views | hamptonhillhoop |
I was 11 years old and in the upper tier of the terrace with my dad. Have a vivid memory of looking to my right during extra time and the end erupting. I'd chosen the time when we scored our only ever goal in an fa cup final to have a daydream and miss it. Went to the replay too. Lower tier terrace ticket £4.00. Still got both of them |  | | |
| 31 years ago today on 22:24 - May 22 with 959 views | AgedR |
| 31 years ago today on 21:22 - May 22 by FredManRave |
Bloody Hell AgedR! Can you change your name please. I always thought, with a profile name like that, you were about 70 years old. But you're not, you're younger than me (albeit by 1 year). Still, change your name to Plenty to OffR or something equally suitable, please.
You're as aged as (the woman) you feel.
Cheers. |
Yes, when I signed up, it was a roose to pull young women who might admire the more mature poster.
As it turns out, the site is full of middle aged cheese lovers.
Like me. | |
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| 31 years ago today on 03:37 - May 23 with 915 views | SydneyRs |
I didn't have tickets for the first game but did go to the replay. I was 12.
On the day of the final we drove down to see the fans walking to Wembley from Loftus Rd, many telling us we were going the wrong way etc. Great scenes and I was so jealous of those with tickets.
Watched the game at home in full R's gear, flags etc. Spurs were star studded and all over us, we lost Clive Allen early to injury and he missed ther replay too. Peter Hucker was magnificent and only a deflected Hoddle shot in extra time finally beat him. We went nuts when Fenwick scored. Stainrod long throw, Bobby Hazell flick on - get in! Me and some mates walked around the streets afterwards with our flags - we were so proud.
Got home from school on the Monday to discover my Dad had tickets for the replay, ecstasy. We were sat up to the right of the QPR end. Our fans were magnificent all night, totally outsung Spurs.
The penalty for Spurs was clear cut and they were ahead after only 4 mins or so. The lower tier of the QPR end was divided between Spurs and us, there was a bit of fisticuffs after they scored, usual 1980s stuff. I think at least one person got punched after every goal in those days!
After they scored we murdered them, don't know how we didn't win it just wasn't to be. I remember wildly celebrating a goal before realising it had ben disallowed and John Gregory hitting the bar. Agonising but at the same time a very proud night where our second division side dominated a very good Spurs team. I clearly recall being blown away by the atmospehere and how fantastic the QPR fans were. We have lost that kind of atmosphere forever sadly.
I compare the pride that night to what I feel about the current squad and it is such a contrast.
The following season was the first where I went to nearly all home games. We were turning up every week with the only question being how many we would win by, happy days! | | | |
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