April 4th 1987 - one of the best fan quips ever

[Deggo]

As o say, I'm sure we played Arsenal the week before Cjelesa as I remember them queuing for final tickets after the match. The final would have been the day after we won at Chelsea. Arsenal beat them with Charlie Nicholas scoring the winner? After old big nose had scored, too (which might have been he first time ever?)

Correct it was the first time they'd lost when that $#@! Had scored

 

[Khalekan]

This is getting spooky mate,I was there and had the exact same bet as you,to this day the only winner in the national I ever backedlol

It wasn't the only National winner Ibever backed, Dario......but it was the last.

I haven't bet the winner since

 

[Dario Terracotta]

It wasn't the only National winner Ibever backed, Dario......but it was the last.

I haven't bet the winner since

Rounded off a great day though mate way back in 1987

 

[Khalekan]

Wasn't it the other way round? I think we win at Arsenal the previous Saturday, with Clarke lobbing Lukic in front of thousands of us at the old Clock End.

Mooncat smashing that one in off the underside of he bar (if my memory serves me right) was out of nowhere. I loved him from that moment on.

Wasn't it also the Old Firm Derby the same day? Maori Venture winning the National? I certainly remember sitting in the mini bus all the way back to southport absolutely soaked to the skin!

I didn't want to say that but indeed it was the other way round

We took six points from two tough away games in a row.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

As o say, I'm sure we played Arsenal the week before Cjelesa as I remember them queuing for final tickets after the match. The final would have been the day after we won at Chelsea. Arsenal beat them with Charlie Nicholas scoring the winner? After old big nose had scored, too (which might have been he first time ever?)

It was the first time ever.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

I didn't want to say that but indeed it was the other way round

We took six points from two tough away games in a row.

Anyone remember the game a couple of weeks before that?,Charlton at home,think we were one down,played terrible,it looked like the league was lost,we turned it around in the last few minutes,Shaggy Stevens got the winner with the biggest fluke I've ever seen us get,a clearance from a Charlton defender on the edge of the box rebounded of Shaggys knee and past the bemused keeper,a real turning point that day

 

[mmmmsnouts]

The state of that pitch. Looks like they could have fought a World War I battle on that field. No wonder QPR gave up and put down plastic back then.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

I remember an away game at Highbury, could have been 88/89, Grand National day, had done a quid each way on Little Polveir at 50/1 and it won! The result came over the tannoy and I was the sole cheer it seemed. Pretty sure we lost that day (Kevin Campbell?), so the only thing I cheered.

 

[Deggo]

Anyone remember the game a couple of weeks before that?,Charlton at home,think we were one down,played terrible,it looked like the league was lost,we turned it around in the last few minutes,Shaggy Stevens got the winner with the biggest fluke I've ever seen us get,a clearance from a Charlton defender on the edge of the box rebounded of Shaggys knee and past the bemused keeper,a real turning point that day

The only home game I missed that season,at my uncles wedding in Romford,spent about an hour looking for a police station to ask them the result while the reception was going on

 

[Khalekan]

Anyone remember the game a couple of weeks before that?,Charlton at home,think we were one down,played terrible,it looked like the league was lost,we turned it around in the last few minutes,Shaggy Stevens got the winner with the biggest fluke I've ever seen us get,a clearance from a Charlton defender on the edge of the box rebounded of Shaggys knee and past the bemused keeper,a real turning point that day

Oh yes, I remember it.

Was Ian Snodin sent off that day?

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Oh yes, I remember it.

Was Ian Snodin sent off that day?

Got me there mate,even better win if he was

 

[Khalekan]

Got me there mate,even better win if he was

It might have been the season before....in fact I think it was.

His debut against Charlton after he came from Leeds.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Oh yes, I remember it.

Was Ian Snodin sent off that day?

Yes he was. I'm sure a Charlton player walked with Snodin, Andy Peake? We won 2-1 though. Jim Melrose scored the Charlton goal, having bagged a hat trick against us early in the season at Selhurst, where we lost 3-2. Went to both games.

 

[bflefc]

I remember Watford away around the same time (March/April) and it was a live game on the Sunday. We either drew or lost and I was convinced we'd blown it. The Arsenal/Chelsea double-header put us right back in it, and the RS had a wobble in that league cup final and then a league game or two and we drove on past them. Aside from the Derby (famous for the Sheedy v sign to the Kop!) we never looked back

 

[Khalekan]

Yes he was. I'm sure a Charlton player walked with Snodin, Andy Peake? We won 2-1 though. Jim Melrose scored the Charlton goal, having bagged a hat trick against us early in the season at Selhurst, where we lost 3-2. Went to both games.

Yay.......you see that @BlockHead ........sometimes my memory doesn't let me down