1971 Fa Cup Final on ESPN Classic

[NWR]

Points so far.

 

Hair was not too long.

Shorts the right length.

Ref has not blown his whistle yet and play flows.

Very fast game.

Bloody good viewing.

 

I was listening to this in the car with my dad on our way back to Wales from Oldham. I was a 9 year old United fan who just loved football and didnt know about rivalry and tribal hatred.

The thing I remember the most was the whoahh about Charlie George goal celebration. Isnt that when footballers started kissing each other? Thats what my Grandad always said "Poofs they all are"

[Nebraska Red]

thanks for the reminder.

 

first game I ever saw on a color TV at my uncle's house, they were the rich and snobby ones with their fancy TV, and I remember being a little upset after the game.

[surf]

Points so far.

 

Hair was not too long.

Shorts the right length.

Ref has not blown his whistle yet and play flows.

Very fast game.

Bloody good viewing.

 

I was listening to this in the car with my dad on our way back to Wales from Oldham. I was a 9 year old United fan who just loved football and didnt know about rivalry and tribal hatred.

The thing I remember the most was the whoahh about Charlie George goal celebration. Isnt that when footballers started kissing each other? Thats what my Grandad always said "Poofs they all are"

 

most sensible thing you've said on this forum ever

 

[NWR]

6 mins to go. Hughes is down with cramp. Nobody gives a f*** and they play on. No sign of any players threatening to kill others if they dont kick the ball out of play.

[Murphman]

I was 17 my girlfriend was an Arsenal fan, the whole family were, fanatics, they went to Wembley, me and her watched it at her house on the first colour TV I'd ever seen. Afterwards, her dad bought a vinyl LP, each side had the commentary, when I went round he'd put it on right where Brian Moore screamed, "Charlie George, 2-1!! And play it over and over when he felt like taking the piss. He's now well over 80 and he gave me a lift to The Emirates last month, with his missus and his lovely daughter with whom I'm still good friends. That side was proper 'emerging', the second in the Shankly dynasty, after the bitterness of defeat we had pretty much uninterrupted success for 20 years. That was a great arsenal team too, I could never understand how it never went on from there.

Edited January 13, 2009 by Murphman

[NWR]

I was 17 my girlfriend was an Arsenal fan, the whole family were, fanatics, they went to Wembley, me and her watched it at her house on the first colour TV I'd ever seen. Afterwards, her dad bought a vinyl LP, each side had the commentary, when I went round he'd put it on right where Brian Moore screamed, "Charlie George, 2-1!! And play it over and over when he felt like taking the piss. He's now well over 80 and he gave me a lift to The Emirates last month, with his missus and his lovely daughter with whom I'm still good friends. That side was proper 'emerging', the second in the Shankly dynasty, after the bitterness of defeat we had pretty much uninterrupted success for 20 years. That was a great arsenal team too, I could never understand how it never went on from there.

 

 

Kennedy went on to win a bit.

[Murphman]

Kennedy went on to win a bit.

 

 

He was the only one though. I went to a supporters club D&D, met George Armstrong and Peter Simpson, both were great players, so were George and Radford, Kelly and a few more but they just drifted from winning the double into nothing really.

[NWR]

Liverpool fans singing we shall not be moved for the last 5 mins after stvie H goal. LoL

[matty]

Afterwards, her dad bought a vinyl LP, each side had the commentary, when I went round he'd put it on right where Brian Moore screamed, "Charlie George, 2-1!! And play it over and over when he felt like taking the piss.

 

What a c*nt.

[Murphman]

What a c*nt.

 

 

He did it for the wind up, I was 16 years old and a lairy little fecker, at aged 82 he went to Paris, his first ever European Cup final, over 70 years a fan, can you imagine?

 

Something youngsters like Stevie H and Caruso couldn't manage. hehe....

Edited January 13, 2009 by Murphman

[NWR]

Something youngsters like Stevie H and Caruso couldn't manage. hehe....

 

Whats that? Good humoured rivalry and banter between football fans?

 

 

Re your avatar. I went to see his first tour (Back in black) in Southampton.

Edited January 13, 2009 by NWR

[Murphman]

Whats that? Good humoured rivalry and banter between football fans?

 

 

Re your avatar. I went to see his first tour (Back in black) in Southampton.

 

 

No you twot, getting to a European Cup final

[NWR]

No you twot, getting to a European Cup final

 

 

Funny that. At the time you didnt.

 

 

Ooops misread it as "Could not imagine what its like to go to a European cup final.

 

I will get my coat

Edited January 13, 2009 by NWR

[Murphman]

Re your avatar. I went to see his first tour (Back in black) in Southampton.

 

 

I can't stand them. Like the twot that I am I let that fact out into the public domain, Dave G was onto it like a flash.

[Jacks Jackie Jackson]

I was 17

 

 

You were 17 in 1971? So that makes you, what, 100 or something now, doesn't it? If my English is correct, you must be.

[dorgie]

I was 17 my girlfriend was an Arsenal fan.............

 

 

He did it for the wind up, I was 16 years old and

 

I knew it, you've been knocking years off your age for 40 odd years now.....u must be, what, 74 ? by now if u went by the Gregorian calendar rather than the Murph calendar

 

Edited January 13, 2009 by dorgie

[stressederic]

You were 17 in 1971? So that makes you, what, 100 or something now, doesn't it? If my English is correct, you must be.

 

Murph now counts his years in ice ages

[Gravy]

Whats that? Good humoured rivalry and banter between football fans?

 

 

Re your avatar. I went to see his first tour (Back in black) in Southampton.

 

I saw the first tour as well - Hammy Odeon. Also saw them with Bon Scott twice in 79. Bloody brill they were

[NWR]

I saw the first tour as well - Hammy Odeon. Also saw them with Bon Scott twice in 79. Bloody brill they were

 

Bon Scott and his music being twice as good?

[Gravy]

Bon Scott and his music being twice as good?

 

Nah, but for a long haired 15 year old they were fantastic. 5 rows from the front. Remeber it like yesterday. However, looking back, there is definitely an arguement for them being better with Brian Johnson - Back in Black arguably their best album.

 

Got tickets for June. Should be great. Saw thenm again a few years ago after a long gap - fantastic they were.

[NWR]

Nah, but for a long haired 15 year old they were fantastic. 5 rows from the front. Remeber it like yesterday. However, looking back, there is definitely an arguement for them being better with Brian Johnson - Back in Black arguably their best album.

 

Got tickets for June. Should be great. Saw thenm again a few years ago after a long gap - fantastic they were.

 

Angus had to take gulps of Oxygen from a portable tank when I saw him in 82, what the f*** is it like now?

[Jacks Jackie Jackson]

Angus had to take gulps of Oxygen from a portable tank when I saw him in 82, what the f*** is it like now?

 

Is that question directed at Murph?

[Murphman]

I knew it, you've been knocking years off your age for 40 odd years now.....u must be, what, 74 ? by now if u went by the Gregorian calendar rather than the Murph calendar

 

 

 

To be PRECISE, I was 17 in 1971 but hadn't reached it at the time of the cup final and was still actually 16. So feck off the lot of yers!!

[New York Red]

I cried my eyes out after that game.

 

But exactly thirty years later I was there in Cardiff to witness US beating Arsenal 2-1.

 

Great symmetry.

 

Oh and George Graham trying to take credit for the goal.