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Originally Posted by zoraster
Given I was still a passionate United fan back then and practically had a heart attack at that moment it is indelibly etched on my memory. Gordon Smith was the generous striker.
It is a shame the replay was such a damp squib and it did take the edge off winning the cup a wee bit. 3-0 up at halftime and the season was done. The second half was a bit pointless and I think everyone would have been happy to call it a match at the break and let us have a party and still get home at a reasonable hour. Thursday night replays were never ideal... I still don’t know why they didn’t just push it back the whole week to the next Saturday. Then again it did mean we won it on Sir Matt’s birthday, and it is a damn sight better than a shoot-out so it wasn’t all bad.
Boilermaker, regarding the song; You’ll Never Walk Alone was a classic football song that all clubs used to sing for quite a long time. It only started to drop out of circulation and become seen as an exclusively Liverpool/Celtic song fairly recently, although I can’t pin down when. Possibly it was post-Heysel when we all shunned everything Scouse for a while, but I feel it was already beginning to fall out of fashion elsewhere in the late 70s.
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Thanks zoraster, which would be your favourite final you've seen ? The last 10 minutes of the 79 Arsenal v United spring to mind but pity the game was poor till that point, 82 Spurs v City first game was a decent game but the replay was better, 87 Coventry v Spurs was a cracking game and would probably get my vote, the 89 Liverpool v Everton is up there along with the 90 United v Palace first game and imo the last of the good finals, I know many thought Liverpool v West Ham was good last year but I've never been able to get into the games played at the Millenium Stadium and hopefully the new Wembley will have the atmosphere of the old one.