If you're a blue of a certain age and need cheering up

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This has probably been posted (??), but it's the full game of us v spurs in the 95 semi. One of our best performances in my life time! I hadnt spotted it before on youtube but if you have a an hour or 2, kick back, get a Belgian beer, enjoy and relive the moment. I didnt go, but managed to kick a cup through a patio window whilst celebrating Matt Jacksons opener. My mum wasnt happy!

I caught the back end of us winning leagues and cups in the Eighties which I am so fortunate to have done, but this was one of the top performances that came around after a pretty turgid spell - against a team that were being touted by all media as the nailed on winners.

Things to note:
The style of football on show was by far, more entertaining /fun than the tippy tap stuff we see today - I think
We knew how to take a corner - c/o Andy Hinchcliffe
Joe Parkinson was boss
Anders Limpar was a talent
David Unsworth at that time had pace
We worked our b*ll*x off
John Motson was a decent commenator
Clattering challenges were allowed
Semi Finals shouldnt be held at Wembley
Our fans can destroy any opposing fans - COYB

 

My dad won some money backing ‘Royal Athlete’ the day before in the Grand National. I’m not sure how much he won, but I know that he was a 40/1 outsider. It felt like an omen.

My dad also lost the stub from his ticket (the part you need to gain entry) just as we were about to enter the gate. It flew off the ticket into some industrial estate next to Elland Road.

I had to go in on my own as a 10 year old (well, I was with some feller my dad kind of knew and we had driven to Elland Road together, but he was a stranger to me).

I was only young and I was upset because I didn’t know what was happening with my dad. A steward escorted him to his empty seat seconds before kick off.

My dad said the stewards didn’t want to know until another blue suggested that he tells a policeman what had happened. The policeman made a difference apparently, and it was agreed that if nobody was in his seat come 3pm, then he could enter.

Quite surprising when you think about it. I think most people would have thought my dad was blagging, but he wasn’t, and he ultimately gained entry to Elland Road with an incomplete ticket just before 3pm.

To then annihilate Spurs in the way we did made for quite the day out!
 

Dymak said:
My dad won some money backing ‘Royal Athlete’ the day before in the Grand National. I’m not sure how much he won, but I know that he was a 40/1 outsider. It felt like an omen.

My dad also lost the stub from his ticket (the part you need to gain entry) just as we were about to enter the gate. It flew off the ticket into some industrial estate next to Elland Road.

I had to go in on my own as a 10 year old (well, I was with some feller my dad kind of knew and we had driven to Elland Road together, but he was a stranger to me).

I was only young and I was upset because I didn’t know what was happening with my dad. A steward escorted him to his empty seat seconds before kick off.

My dad said the stewards didn’t want to know until another blue suggested that he tells a policeman what had happened. The policeman made a difference apparently, and it was agreed that if nobody was in his seat come 3pm, then he could enter.

Quite surprising when you think about it. I think most people would have thought my dad was blagging, but he wasn’t, and he ultimately gained entry to Elland Road with an incomplete ticket just before 3pm.

To then annihilate Spurs in the way we did made for quite the day out!
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Great story, and a great outcome.
 
patvandenhowdareyou said:
This has probably been posted (??), but it's the full game of us v spurs in the 95 semi. One of our best performances in my life time! I hadnt spotted it before on youtube but if you have a an hour or 2, kick back, get a Belgian beer, enjoy and relive the moment. I didnt go, but managed to kick a cup through a patio window whilst celebrating Matt Jacksons opener. My mum wasnt happy!

I caught the back end of us winning leagues and cups in the Eighties which I am so fortunate to have done, but this was one of the top performances that came around after a pretty turgid spell - against a team that were being touted by all media as the nailed on winners.

Things to note:
The style of football on show was by far, more entertaining /fun than the tippy tap stuff we see today - I think
We knew how to take a corner - c/o Andy Hinchcliffe
Joe Parkinson was boss
Anders Limpar was a talent
David Unsworth at that time had pace
We worked our b*ll*x off
John Motson was a decent commenator
Clattering challenges were allowed
Semi Finals shouldnt be held at Wembley
Our fans can destroy any opposing fans - COYB

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Was only a kid but I remember feeling like we wouldn't get bear that season once rolled took over, even utd in the final, I just thought we win this
 
That very dodgy penalty was the only goal we conceded in that entire cup rrun, if my memory is correct

But agree with however said the three sides of the ground thing. Soon as I saw that and heard the noise of our fans, knew we'd win
 
The atmosphere was unreal, from beginning to end. From turning off the junction on the M62, until arriving back home.

I did see a couple of (quite mouthy) cockneys, but they were few and far between, and it was otherwise just blues everywhere!

It was a Sunday, and back then the shops didn’t open early like they do now. I remember being in this massive queue for a shop, and when it eventually opened up blues were coming out with baskets and baskets full of lager cans. I was a kid and I’d never seen anything like it.

Before the game, we had these massive banners that were being moved over the heads of the fans in our crowd. I’d seen it on the TV at other grounds but never with Everton, and it was something that I’d really wanted to experience for years.

I was preoccupied and concerned about my dad when all this was happening, so I didn’t get to enjoy it as much as I should have done, but still, the atmosphere was ELECTRIC!

The game itself was a dream! They never really had a sniff, and when they did get slightly back into it with their dodgy penalty, Amo came on and sent the blues into bedlam!

I remember it being chocca outside after the game, but our singing was so loud and so buoyant! We really were on the march, and we really were on the way to Wembley! Something that I’d heard sung so many times before, but this time it was real, and it was unbelievable!

I remember some blues that had made an impromptu banner with ‘4-1 AMO’ written on it, and they hung it over a bridge that crossed over the M62 motorway. All the blues travelling back were beeping their car horns in acknowledgment and appreciation!

There was such a buzz around Merseyside after this game, and if confidence wasn’t high beforehand (and I agree that it was), it most certainly was afterwards.

The T-Shirt sellers in the lead up to the final made an absolute fortune. There were loads and loads of different designs that would mention things like ‘Dogs of War’, ‘Joe’s Royle Blue Army’, and there were loads mentioning the upcoming cup final, and there were loads about Duncan Ferguson with daft slogans like ‘you’ve just been Dunked’ lol.

Whilst not everyone could afford to buy their kid the official kit, it seemed like me and everyone I knew had at least one of these T-shirts that were about £7 each, and we all buzzed off them!

You can see a fair few of the T-Shirts I’m talking about in this absolutely boss video, which does a very good job of capturing exactly what we are talking about:


 

Mad watching a game of football with no one falling over just cos they’re touched (Klinnsman aside). No faking being assassinated.

See tackle on Jackson 38 mins. If that was today whoever is tackled would be rolling around for ages and prob red card.

Shame we’ll never get this version of the game back again.

Also, how good were we. I just remember thinking ‘we’re gonna regret this’ in 1st half,and dreading all second til the 3rd went in!
 
Blast_of_Cannock said:
Didn't Joe Royle say something like "sorry to disappoint everyone by ruining the dream final" in his interview after the match? Love him 💙
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He said something like “Sorry about your dream final, but bollocks to it, and that’s spelled with a double L”.

Again, that captured the whole vibe of that time! Joe Royle and the 1995 Dogs of War.

People laugh at me when they see that the PIN number to my phone is 1995, but I don’t care. 1995 was an absolute dream for me!
 

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