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1000’s of us including probably many on here travelled to OT for the Cup SF vs Liverpool. After a fantastic win at high flying QPR confidence was high. What do you remember about the match?
My memory was a nice spring day and being in the corner paddock area of the ground. Can clearly see the wooden steps of the terrace. They had a team full of stars. Keegan Toshack, Thompson Hughes etc. Completely battered us but thanks to a fantastic display particularly by Shilton and the Tank we somehow survived another day, which of course would be at Villa Park the following Wednesday. I have no idea how we didn’t concede but they fought like tigers, a lot more than the current lot
 
I was there.

Firstly, I remember going down to City to buy the tickets, queueing round the ground and buying tickets at the turnstiles, then into the ground, on to the Kop and then out the exits. That was the first time I'd seen inside Filbert Sreet with the ground empty

At OT we were in the left hand corner (Sk4/West Stand if you like). On the OT terraces in those days was a brick built structure. No idea what it was for but we stood directly behind it.

I don't really remember anything about the game, just being 10 at the time, but I remember sitting in the car in the car park afterwards trying to get out when there was a group of fans fighting right in front of us. After it broke up some scouser got a crooklock from his car and threw it through the window of the City coach that was at the side of us.

I didn't go to the replay but remember the family all got together at my aunts house and my dad and two uncles went. I remember the disappointment at the result and I think we watched the highlights on Sportsnight as we waited for them to get back from Villa.
 
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I remember leaving Villa after the replay. I thought I was going to die in the crush trying to get down the steps.
It was so scary.
 
I was wandering around OT with my mate and his Mum,a scouser came over and tried to nick my Silk scarf, my mates Mum clouted him 🤣🤣
Remember being in the lower terrace at the scoreboard end it was rammed!
 
Crikey 50 years,yeah I was there and the replay at Villa, lost my cup rosette in the crush on the way out aged 12 that was the end for me 😭
 
Blimey. I went with me mum on the Supporters club bus. I would have been 12.
My main memories are stopping at Matlock Bath on the way ( wtf was the driver on?) and it was full of people dressed as cowboys. Then after the replay sitting on the coach from Villa Park trying not to blub when ‘Seasons in the Sun’ came on the radio.
 
David_Nish said:
Blimey. I went with me mum on the Supporters club bus. I would have been 12.
My main memories are stopping at Matlock Bath on the way ( wtf was the driver on?) and it was full of people dressed as cowboys. Then after the replay sitting on the coach from Villa Park trying not to blub when ‘Seasons in the Sun’ came on the radio.hi
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I will always remember went with my mate 0 0 if I remember rightly old Trafford only time I have been there, good ground even in them days. We were in lower tier behind goal. I always remember the bus broke down on way home on motorway. I got a right slap when I got home about 2 in the morning. Such good days as a kid 👍
 
l remember the day and night very well, bus from the monsell club, ended up in the Paddy pubs around Moss Side after one of the lads got nearly blinded after some scousers bricked our coach, and the driver took him to hospital in Manchester. We seemed to think it was a good idea to have a drink in each pub, then put the windows in, kids eh!

Mostly between 15 and 18 year olds. The scousers ran off and left their car, it got altered a bit.
 
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Going up on the Wainfleet bus from nuneaton, there had been accident on the motorway so we were stuck in traffic hence we missed the kick off. Some good lad's on that bus mind.
 
Coach from Humberstone Gate, parked up inside OT cricket ground and seem to remember a couple of hairy moments with locals after the game. We were lucky to get away with 0-0, but that made me even more convinced that it was ‘our year’.
 
I was at OT too. It was my third visit. In 1969 we lost there and got relegated as a result. This was my first relegation, got used to it now.
In 1973 we were back under Bloomfield and beat them 2 - 1. Their goal was a penalty. That year they were so bad that their goalie took the penalties.
In 1974 after QPR and Luton before that we were flying. No way anyone was going to beat us, certainly not the Scouse.
They absolutely battered us, Shilton was magnificent.
Is it really half a century ago ? How time flies. One of the best City teams ever. Possibly the best, though the title winning team obviously achieved far more. But look at the names, Shilton, Weller, Worthington, Cross....
 
LGFOX said:
1000’s of us including probably many on here travelled to OT for the Cup SF vs Liverpool. After a fantastic win at high flying QPR confidence was high. What do you remember about the match?
My memory was a nice spring day and being in the corner paddock area of the ground. Can clearly see the wooden steps of the terrace. They had a team full of stars. Keegan Toshack, Thompson Hughes etc. Completely battered us but thanks to a fantastic display particularly by Shilton and the Tank we somehow survived another day, which of course would be at Villa Park the following Wednesday. I have no idea how we didn’t concede but they fought like tigers, a lot more than the current lot
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Thanks LG.
 
LGFOX said:
1000’s of us including probably many on here travelled to OT for the Cup SF vs Liverpool. After a fantastic win at high flying QPR confidence was high. What do you remember about the match?
My memory was a nice spring day and being in the corner paddock area of the ground. Can clearly see the wooden steps of the terrace. They had a team full of stars. Keegan Toshack, Thompson Hughes etc. Completely battered us but thanks to a fantastic display particularly by Shilton and the Tank we somehow survived another day, which of course would be at Villa Park the following Wednesday. I have no idea how we didn’t concede but they fought like tigers, a lot more than the current lot
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Exactly as I remember it. Can't better that.
 
I went to both games also 10 years old. I think the replay at Villa may have been my first night match. I have very little if any memories of the first game. Except crates and crates of beer lined up down the aisle of the coach. Nobody thought to bring a bottle opener and one of the old boys was opening them all with his teeth.

I used to stand on a stool my old man made (still have it in my garage) at Villa park when Toshak? Scored their first I took off like a torpedo in the crowd surge. My old man fell over the stool, gashed and bruised all his shins. Just about clawed my way back through the crowd and back on the stool and then Glover equalises. I'm off again!

Came out the ground bawling my eyes out and then some scouse twat says ( you know the accent) "Never mind son ya can tell ya grandchildren ya saw Kevin Keegan!"
Never liked scousers since!
 
glosfox said:
I went to both games also 10 years old. I think the replay at Villa may have been my first night match. I have very little if any memories of the first game. Except crates and crates of beer lined up down the aisle of the coach. Nobody thought to bring a bottle opener and one of the old boys was opening them all with his teeth.

I used to stand on a stool my old man made (still have it in my garage) at Villa park when Toshak? Scored their first I took off like a torpedo in the crowd surge. My old man fell over the stool, gashed and bruised all his shins. Just about clawed my way back through the crowd and back on the stool and then Glover equalises. I'm off again!

Came out the ground bawling my eyes out and then some scouse twat says ( you know the accent) "Never mind son ya can tell ya grandchildren ya saw Kevin Keegan!"
Never liked scousers since!
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Brian Hall scored the first Glos just after HT. After our equaliser ( mayhem in the Holte End) Keegan scored a screamer and then Toshack got the 3rd just before the end.
We drove back to Cropston in total silence. My folks, me and my mate ( who I was with at Bristol on Friday!)
Got home and my mum, normally quite reserved, poured herself a large Sherry and lit a fag. After the first drag she spoke for the first time since leaving Birmingham.
‘Sod it. Thought it was our year. Bloody scousers!!
 
I was 15 at the time, went with a school M8.
Remember old Trafford being baking hot, I was at ground level and the shimmering/haze from the turf, the noise, incredible.
The reply I begged my mom to take me..lol.. took me along with my sister. But ended up one of the saddest days of my life, remember crying on the coach coming back just couldn't hold it in. The thing that has always stuck in my mind that two Liverpool supporters where killed on the motorway going back from the game. 50 years ago, wow.
 
Genuinely shocked to learn of all these accounts of immoral behaviour from Liverpudlians pre-Thatcher. Surely Mancunians in disguise or time-travellers from 15 years hence? Perhaps you were all mistaken and none of it actually happened?
 
Keegan lobbed Shilton from some way out. It was said that Shilton's all white kit made him more noticeable or maybe he just couldn't stretch high enough. Same thing happened earlier in the season at Derby.

I'm no fan of Liverpool but that was the start of an era for them when they could pass any team to death long before Man C did it.
 
OldFox said:
Keegan lobbed Shilton from some way out. It was said that Shilton's all white kit made him more noticeable or maybe he just couldn't stretch high enough. Same thing happened earlier in the season at Derby.

I'm no fan of Liverpool but that was the start of an era for them when they could pass any team to death long before Man C did it.
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Their team was full of stars who absolutely massacred Newcastle in the final. A formidable force
 

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I think that loss at Villa was the hardest to take of the many I have seen over the years. Nobody spoke a word on the bus back to Coalville.
The FA Cup was so special in those days & we usually put up a good show in it & I was convinced that the great team we had in 74 was going to finally pull it off. Such a shame that the Bloomfield team won nothing
 
I was at King Ed in Coeville (fuck I was ard) and there was a scouse kid in the same year. We ran the poor fucker all over the school and he was shitting hedgehogs for a fortnight ‘till we calmed down.
 
Tonga Mel said:
Genuinely shocked to learn of all these accounts of immoral behaviour from Liverpudlians pre-Thatcher. Surely Mancunians in disguise or time-travellers from 15 years hence? Perhaps you were all mistaken and none of it actually happened?
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We had a right set too in the coach park at Villa, one of the bastards ripped my shirt, I was formulating my excuse all the way home, my mother didn’t buy it and I got a right bollocking
 
Ibbo said:
I was 15 at the time, went with a school M8.
Remember old Trafford being baking hot, I was at ground level and the shimmering/haze from the turf, the noise, incredible.
The reply I begged my mom to take me..lol.. took me along with my sister. But ended up one of the saddest days of my life, remember crying on the coach coming back just couldn't hold it in. The thing that has always stuck in my mind that two Liverpool supporters where killed on the motorway going back from the game. 50 years ago, wow.
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I never knew that!
 
Me and my late Sister Audrey were at Old Trafford that day, what an amazing atmosphere with loads of schoolmates up there as well, also bunked off school for the replay at Villa Park a few days later…
 
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