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If you look there was a teeny bit if contact on his boot. He 'simulated' the reaction massively but (although we all know he cheated) it is hard to prove. If contact is shown then it 'might' have hurt.
 


Just looking at the sun on immaculate the Wembley pitch.

When the world seemed to stop from 3pm for 2 hours on the same Saturday in May, and legends were made, and kings were crowned.

Growing up in South London, the Palace/Man Utd year was always 'the one' for me, but this runs it close enough. Proper boyhood memories.
 


Just looking at the sun on immaculate the Wembley pitch.
When the world seemed to stop from 3pm for 2 hours on the same Saturday in May, and legends were made, and kings were crowned.
Growing up in South London, the Palace/Man Utd year was always 'the one' for me, but this runs it close enough. Proper boyhood memories.

I wonder if that sense of occasion and magic is still there for younger people or if its just for us older lags that the magic has gone somewhat?

(Vinnie is a liability though)
 
I wonder if that sense of occasion and magic is still there for younger people or if its just for us older lags that the magic has gone somewhat?

I don't think it is just us being old gits to be honest (maybe partly...). It doesn't have the same sense of occasion these days. Partly because of the sheer volume of football on TV these days but mostly because the clubs don't care as much as they used to. When they start picking more or less second teams for FA Cup games it does tarnish the competition doesn't it. That Liverpool team above was one of the great teams and I doubt they rested anyone through the earlier rounds, it just wouldn't have occurred to them. These days you'll get mid-table teams switching half their team for reserve players.
 
I don't think it is just us being old gits to be honest (maybe partly...). It doesn't have the same sense of occasion these days. Partly because of the sheer volume of football on TV these days but mostly because the clubs don't care as much as they used to. When they start picking more or less second teams for FA Cup games it does tarnish the competition doesn't it. That Liverpool team above was one of the great teams and I doubt they rested anyone through the earlier rounds, it just wouldn't have occurred to them. These days you'll get mid-table teams switching half their team for reserve players.

sounds right to me...also the general boredom and lack of stimulation pre-internet times made occasions bigger occasions - filled the void somehow. You might even put on the 3 hours of build up tv...the Road To Wembley etc.

Euros and World Cup can still summon a bit of this for me tbh. Also Spurs run in the CL recently touched on it.
 
I think it's a culmination of factors - Moneyball year zero of the Premier League, Wenger and Fergie openly admitting it was a tournament for their squad players... and those white Liverpool suits (FFS :D ).

I'm just glad I had those memories. Gary Mabbuts left shin, Liverpool Everton 3-2, Wimbledon's giantkilling, Dave Clark 5' Glad All Over and Ian Wright uniting the whole of South London, and, of course, that Gazza freekick over Seaman in the semis teeing up the Forest final.

Nothing like it before or since*

(*That said, the Spurs Champo League cup run and England "It's Coming Home memeathon in Russia was a great time to be alive)
 
Don't see this anymore.

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Saw this at the time on MotD after someone missed a sitter, and loved it - am determined to find proper uses for it after suitable urban posts :thumbs:

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