Claiming the title

dave abrahams · May 5, 2015

Great whenever you win a trophy, think the first time you experience it is the best.1963 we won the league, got there
an hour earlier to be sure of getting in, pay at the gate then. Everton didn't let us down against Fulham, scored two early goals and won easy 4-1, Vernon got a hatrick, crowd was delirious, singing the songs with over half an hour to go,
match finished, more singing, chanting waiting patiently for the team to presented in the old main Stand,crowd just all in heaven, screaming each players name as they waved back, Tony Kay smoking a huge cigar, no-one wanted to go home,
most of us would have stayed all night, a great day, but maybe that was bettered when we won the FA cup against
Sheffield Wednesday in 1966 coming back from losing 2-0 to win 3-2. To be honest every time we won something was
special, just hope we can see some more, but we are stuck with Billy Liar. So doubt it.

dave abrahams · May 5, 2015

Sorry about that it didn't seem to be registering

Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian · May 5, 2015

dave abrahams said:
Sorry about that it didn't seem to be registering

what was it again ?

Whistlin' Dixie · May 5, 2015

Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
in 85 btw, was it presented to us against QPR ? Seem to remember it being the following game against West Brom ?

Yes. On my 14th birthday (30 years ago tomorrow) And I missed it because I'd had ingrowing toenails removed the friday before.

Next home game was west ham.

4737carlin · May 5, 2015

Hand it over, hand it over, hand it over Liverpool.....

royalblue66 · May 5, 2015

Dario Terracotta said:
I remember that QPR game,2-0 up ten minutes to go,you knew it was ours,I was just staring at the ref willing him to blow the whistle to signify we were CHAMPIONS

Remember that, was in the lower Bullens,sun shining down on a packed G P
Miss them days.

DanEFC92 · May 5, 2015

When will I see you, again?

Debaser · May 5, 2015

1985, no matter how monumental it was, the game when we won the title (home v QPR) was for me, and Im sorry to say, a little anti climatic. Reason being, we so damn good that we knew we were going to win it about two months before the end of the season. LOL, but the run in was fantastic. We were riding a crest of a wave of confidence that was a joy to behold.

1987 was more unexpected. We were not playing football nearly as exciting as in 1985, yes to claw our way back from behind the RS (like they did to us the previous season), was fun. Away at Norwich was a blast.

blue_aussie05 · May 5, 2015

Liverpool totally collapsed in 87. This was the team that did the double the previous year, and had gone through a long period of domestic and, at times, European domination for around a decade.

To see them collapse was both really unexpected and equally comical. The fact it was us that benefited from it was the icing on the cake

royalbalou · May 5, 2015

The game that made it certain that we were gonna win it in 85 for me was Spurs away in the April... won 2-1, Steven and Gray...think Roberts scored a beaut for them to make it edgy but the atmosphere in the away end was fantastic...heady days

Jimboefc97 · May 5, 2015

Make me so jealous reading all these, i'd be made up seeing us win the League cup.

Cels · May 5, 2015

For me it seemed like a dream at the time, and it seems pretty unreal now when I think back to the QPR game. I remember me and my mate looking at one another laughing and saying "We've won it. We've won the League". Don't remember sod all else though. Sadly the bad times came too quickly and were brutal for me, mainly because I believed we'd dominate for decades. I'm really glad to have experienced that great time of us winning the League twice, because unfortunately I don't see us winning it again in my lifetime

blue_aussie05 · May 5, 2015

I remember when we won in 87, we were 9 points behind them with a game in hand in mid March, with only perhaps 10 games left. The RS collapse was epic. They just kept on getting beat while we kept on winning.

We finished 9 points ahead, in effect meaning we had made up 18 points on them over the run in.

The 'hand it over, hand it over, hand it over Liverpool' chants were music to my ears. Loved it. Little did I know at the time, not only would we not win it again, but not even come close. That was 28 years ago.

Toffeelover · May 5, 2015

dave abrahams said:
Great whenever you win a trophy, think the first time you experience it is the best.1963 we won the league, got there
an hour earlier to be sure of getting in, pay at the gate then. Everton didn't let us down against Fulham, scored two early goals and won easy 4-1, Vernon got a hatrick, crowd was delirious, singing the songs with over half an hour to go,
match finished, more singing, chanting waiting patiently for the team to presented in the old main Stand,crowd just all in heaven, screaming each players name as they waved back, Tony Kay smoking a huge cigar, no-one wanted to go home,
most of us would have stayed all night, a great day, but maybe that was bettered when we won the FA cup against
Sheffield Wednesday in 1966 coming back from losing 2-0 to win 3-2. To be honest every time we won something was
special, just hope we can see some more, but we are stuck with Billy Liar. So doubt it.

I was there at that game with my dad. We were in GSE stand. Fab day! AS for the '66 FA Cup, went to all the matches but not Wembley, was taken ill and could not get a ticket!. Even remember going down to Hereford!