toffeepie1878
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just thought i would refresh memories...
its up for grabs now............
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My most beautiful non Everton footballing moment. I can still remember the elation all those years ago.
toffeepie1878
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I was very young but i vaguely remember going to a friends house to watch this.
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<crosses fingers and keeps them crossed>
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This was among my first experiences with English football...i remember thinking how priviliged i was to witness such high drama. Hillsborough had of course been dominating all our thoughts in the previous weeks, no one felt priviliged about that...even those of us far away from the city of Liverpool were shocked and profoundly saddened.
As a young boy freshly moved to Hull from Germany at the tail-end of 1988, having also experienced the city's excitement when Liverpool came to town in an FA Cup tie a month or two before Hillsborough - narrowly losing 2-3 - Liverpool seemed to be everpresent at everything significant that was happening in English football. Other than them, I also remember reading in our family Newspaper (Daily Star, ffs...page 3, tho') about the now-infamous "3 years of excuses and it's still crap" Fergie banner. That was my introduction to Man Utd and generally the way media heap pressure on managers.
Still, I was merely interested but didn't have a team, just didn't feel a connection with either Hull City or the two famous red sides.
Then Everton found me at the Cup Final. I was barely aware of Everton before that game (even back then the media luvvies preferred talking about their red teams). I said to my kopite Nana seconds after kick-off "I'm supporting the blue team". She looked at me in horror. "You bloody what?!?!?"
I look back and still feel priviliged that my introduction to English football was the second-half of the 88/89 season. I may have narrowly missed our glory years, but by the gods there was some epic football.
...and Stuart McCall was just much better than Ian Rush.
As a young boy freshly moved to Hull from Germany at the tail-end of 1988, having also experienced the city's excitement when Liverpool came to town in an FA Cup tie a month or two before Hillsborough - narrowly losing 2-3 - Liverpool seemed to be everpresent at everything significant that was happening in English football. Other than them, I also remember reading in our family Newspaper (Daily Star, ffs...page 3, tho') about the now-infamous "3 years of excuses and it's still crap" Fergie banner. That was my introduction to Man Utd and generally the way media heap pressure on managers.
Still, I was merely interested but didn't have a team, just didn't feel a connection with either Hull City or the two famous red sides.
Then Everton found me at the Cup Final. I was barely aware of Everton before that game (even back then the media luvvies preferred talking about their red teams). I said to my kopite Nana seconds after kick-off "I'm supporting the blue team". She looked at me in horror. "You bloody what?!?!?"
I look back and still feel priviliged that my introduction to English football was the second-half of the 88/89 season. I may have narrowly missed our glory years, but by the gods there was some epic football.
...and Stuart McCall was just much better than Ian Rush.
I was up in Liverpool, watching it on the telly with a mate's 100% kopite family. Never realised seeing grown men cry could actually be hilarious.
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Watched it with my parents. When arsenal scored, you'd think Sunderland had won the cup.
We went mental.
We went mental.
Sums that night up perfectly
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