Wirral Spurs
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Just posted the same on A&C's post. That night was so special.
Nostalgia - 1981 FA Cup Final
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ralphs bald spot
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So many memories the cup run starting at QPR and never leaving London until the semi at Hillsborough which is poignant for what happened a few years later plus Clive Thomas and Kenny Hibbitt. - Then the replay at Highbury and waking back down the Seven Sisters road with thousands of Spurs. Living in Tottenham and its a thing that's lost now, loads of the shops pubs and houses were done up I particuarly remember Whitehall St the flats opposite the ground being covered in Blue and White bunting and balloons
The first game at Wembley with time disappearing faster than I can ever remember thank you Mr Hutchinson. Getting back home from the first game and getting into the queue for tickets in the early hours. The queue went all the way down Park Lane and virtually back all the way down Northumberland Park.
The Replay I just remember Wembley literally bouncing when Crooks scored after that its all a bit blurred. Got back to Tottenham after driving back in a mates car down the North Circ which was a procession of Blue and White. and then going down the High Road. i believe the team got back with the cup and Crooks was waving it out the window below the clock,
The day after the Friday I wouldn't like to have guessed what the absenteeism was like in Tottenham that day as I remember it being like a match in the pubs in the afternoon and evening and that seemed to last to Sunday when they did the procession.
Great times
The first game at Wembley with time disappearing faster than I can ever remember thank you Mr Hutchinson. Getting back home from the first game and getting into the queue for tickets in the early hours. The queue went all the way down Park Lane and virtually back all the way down Northumberland Park.
The Replay I just remember Wembley literally bouncing when Crooks scored after that its all a bit blurred. Got back to Tottenham after driving back in a mates car down the North Circ which was a procession of Blue and White. and then going down the High Road. i believe the team got back with the cup and Crooks was waving it out the window below the clock,
The day after the Friday I wouldn't like to have guessed what the absenteeism was like in Tottenham that day as I remember it being like a match in the pubs in the afternoon and evening and that seemed to last to Sunday when they did the procession.
Great times
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That Crooks goal was the best moment of my Tottenham supporting life! Saw us win the Uefa in '72 at WHL, was a kid, saw us win it in '84 with the Tony Parks save. The Crooks moment was something else completely and can never explain it! You had to be there! It wasn't even a winning goal, but the energy it created was something else!
After he scored, and we got settled again, I was a couple of stands up behind the goal, there were jumpers, jackets, hats and shoes flying overhead. That's when I realized that I was one shoe short. I'd lost my shoe. Remember thinking..."I've lost my fucking shoe...sock on concrete!" Didn't think about it again and when Villa scored, we all went nuts, and the same thing happened, a load of clothing was tossed up in the air. Settled down again and my mate, with shoe in hand, said, "Is this yours?" It was my shoe! The whole night was crazy, and that Crooks goal was my Spurs moment!
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