Only time I've ever bet on a Blues game was that Pompey quarter and I won £500 backing us to lose. I saw the ref was Steve Bennett and knew there was no way we were going to be allowed to win.
Tbf we were shit that day, could have had Jasper Carrott as ref
Didn't we lose to Sunderland at home when there was an easy passage to the final that year I think milwall made the final that season
Yeah we had Sheff Utd at home in the quarters if we won the replay. Not sure if that means we'd have deffo played Millwall in the Semis, would we have been a different number? Dunno
The number is the number of the tie so would have.
Bryan Hughes’s Wrexham did us when we would have had Chesterfield in the Quarter Final I think. Boro in the semis.
CharcyThe number is the number of the tie so would have.
Bryan Hughes’s Wrexham did us when we would have had Chesterfield in the Quarter Final I think. Boro in the semis.
Bastards
1971 - 2 Season
Quarter final v Huddersfield Town
St Andrews - c. 55,000 packed in.
Bob Latchford and their keeper caught each other in an aerial duel - their keeper had to go off.
Result - 3 - 1 Blues.
Buddy Mercerdo you remember the boro fan ,taken out by the police,he was a giant.Middlesbrough Q/F in 1975
Attendance of over 47,000, St Andrews was rammed
Absolute carnage when Hendrie scored the winner
Buddy Mercerdo you remember the boro fan ,taken out by the police,he was a giant.Middlesbrough Q/F in 1975
Attendance of over 47,000, St Andrews was rammed
Absolute carnage when Hendrie scored the winner
Unlikely as he couldn't remember who scored for us
Le ModYeah we had Sheff Utd at home in the quarters if we won the replay. Not sure if that means we'd have deffo played Millwall in the Semis, would we have been a different number? Dunno
Yep, we were premier league and Sunderland, Sheff U and Millwall all championship.
I’m still gutted now.
Mario kempes 78Didn't we lose to Sunderland at home when there was an easy passage to the final that year I think milwall made the final that season
Talking of Sunderland, anyone go to the FA Cup game at Roker when we won 1-2? Last minute winner by Martin Kuhl that trickled over the line. We got pelted by 2 pence pieces during the game. Fook me it was cold that day. All the houses near the ground had their coal fires on. It was GRIM!
Herefordshire Cider BoozerMario kempes 78Didn't we lose to Sunderland at home when there was an easy passage to the final that year I think milwall made the final that season
Talking of Sunderland, anyone go to the FA Cup game at Roker when we won 1-2? Last minute winner by Martin Kuhl that trickled over the line. We got pelted by 2 pence pieces during the game. Fook me it was cold that day. All the houses near the ground had their coal fires on. It was GRIM!
I was at that game. Trailing 1-0 ,until late on. If I remember correctly Mick Harford got the other goal.
Sheep2I've seen us lose 4 FA cup quarter finals.
Watford, Liverpool, Portsmouth and Bolton.
I was going to the FA cup semi-finals and final in 1984. Then I wasn't.
I've never been. I am still upset about this.
Liverpool, just a nightmare. We were embarrassingly bad. Horrific.
I wanted Bruce to go after that and did not regain faith in him.
Portsmouth was disappointing. We weren't great and I have no idea why McLeish didn't go for it. There was brief hope when Ridgewell scored. Then the ref played on. Gutting. We were at the side it went in and we could see it had gone well over the line.
It did not help that I went back to Fratton on the Tuesday and we beat them easily.
Bolton. I'm ok about this one. We'd already won at Wembley. KP scored a great goal for us. Bolton played well though and probably deserved it.
Went to all of them.
Still haven’t got over Watford. I was in a house share with a Watford fan at the time.
Liverpool - people near us were still arriving when others were leaving!
Portsmouth- I was in line with that Ridgewell goal too. It was so blatantly a goal.
Bolton - iirc we had horrendous injury problems and no fit striker so that one was gutting too.
You didn't end up in the hotel where the Blues players were staying before the game right on the sea front did you? Carnage.