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  1. Kev b

    Kev b Well-Known Member

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    So if you could go back and watch a match again which match would it be...

    This is a 2 part question.

    First answer a match you actually watch.

    Second answer please, a match you missed but would have love to have been there.
     
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    I'd re-live the Bradford game in 1997. Goes without saying. Said it anyway.

    I never saw the great side featuring McCarthy, Banks, Glavin et al. So one of their best games.
     
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    match watched Home v Grimsby promotion from 4th division First time we ever achieved anything significant since I stated going. Missed the KO due to queues over 21000 there for a 4th division game

    match I missed but wish I had been there. Promotion game to Prem V Bradford Didn't get to many games that season due to distance and lack of money

    match I would love to have watched if time travel permitted Cup final replay. That has to be our greatest ever match when we won the cup
     
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    Todays date 1981 Fulham away on a Friday night, the one when Glyn Riley went in goal and we won 2-3

    I missed the Chelsea cup game due to being laid up after a heart attack, watched the game on tv trying my hardest not to get over excited;)
     
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    Liverpool away league cup 1981? 16,000 reds fans there by the final whistle ..... but about half missed at least the first half due to fog and traffic jams. I got in at half time. 0-0 v the European Cup holders at full strength. Just fantastic
     
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    I saw the whole game. :) we could have won it too and didn't need an inspired Goalkeeping display like the on Steele produced a few years ago
     
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    Barnsley 4-3 Fulham, early season circa 1983 I think.

    3-0 after 8 minutes, pulled it back slowly but surely and won it with some almighty backing from the crowd. To a 14 year old, we felt invincible at times in those days. Fantastic period to support the Reds.
     
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    We had a great team in those days. Was a pleasure to go every match
     
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    Wasn't that Tony Cunninghams debut, and I think Super Mac was the Fulham manager.
     
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    Yes, that's right - he scored the winner.
     
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    Rewatch Liverpool away in 1981

    Match I didnt see but would have like to have been there ... 1912 FA Cup final
     
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    Rotherham away 81/2

    2nd division, won 4-2. Luckily the match was televised and the highlights are on youtube. Ian Banks took all the plaudits for his hat-trick but man of the match for me was Stuart Barrowclough, best wing-play I've ever seen for the Reds.

    The Huddersfield 7-1 (that goal by Barnard) would have been a good match to attend but at least I got to watch it on the telly.
     
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    Re: Rotherham away 81/2

    I didn't miss many matches that season but regret missing the Rotherham match. Would have loved Fulham away same era too.
    Best match I saw. Man city at home, aylott header. The whole day and atmosphere will stay with me for ever. From bunking off school in Bradford in the afternoon, buses and trains to Barnsley, queuing, the atmosphere to rushing home to see highlights on midweek sports special. Lovely
     
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    V Grimsby when we got promoted from the 4th division.

    1912 Cup final.
     
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    Match I watched would be West Ham 2-5 Barnsley in the Littlewoods Challenge Cup in '87. My family are West Ham supporters and I was living in Ponte at the time so I went down on the supporters coach with a mate. 2 down at half-time, level at full-time and then we took them apart in extra time.

    Match I missed would be the promotion against Bradford.
     
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    The 4-1 win against Leeds on New Years Eve 2011. We were awesome, I'd brought two non-Barnsley fans with me who thought we were awesome, I wasn't hungover like a New Years day game, i thought we were on the verge of something special, went out in York and got hammered that night laughing at Leeds fans AND...I'd just found out that morning I was going to be a dad. Amazing day.

    Chelsea Odejayi game. Thanks to the ludicrous 4 tickets per season ticket holder me and my dad didn't get tickets. Still an open wound today that one.
     
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    3 to relive would be Grimbsby at home promotion from the 4th.
    the Rotherham and Bradford matches a close 2/3

    Matches missed any with Tommy Taylor playing and the 1912 final wth biglil...
     
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    I'd love to relive the Bradford game as an adult. I wasn't old enough to go out round tarn afterwards. Now that would've been special.
     
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    1985 2-1 victory fa cup away at Southampton



    2-1 victory fa cup v Liverpool 2008
     
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    I would love to relive the emotions of the Bradford City match. The game itself, then the reflections after the match, reflecting that after watching us at the bottom of Division Four, being knocked out of the FA Cup by non league opposition, we had finally reached the Promised Land.
    To have been able to watch the 1912 FA Cup Final replay must have been something special.
     
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