memories of Bfc vs Everton Fa cup 1989

Lost 1-0 in a packed to the rafters Oakwell

Top Everton team and Graeme Sharpe scored the only goal

Poor game if I remember

Red hot Currie t-shirts

 

Paul Futcher brought a brilliant flying save from Neville Southall at the Spion Kop end.

 

Great atmosphere. The game wasn't a patch on the two Stoke games that preceded it.

 

we were stood at the back the lower tier of the west stand. So packed in my feet were a foot off the floor. Copper came and tapped me on the head at half time from the upper tier to ask if we were ok

 

Wasn't that the game when Neville Southhall became the subject of a few songs because of his wife's going ons.

 

We were in there too - not quite sure why as we were Ponty regulars. 32,551 shoehorned in to t'Well

 

Neville, where's your wife? etc.

It was a poor game though - I can only remember the goal and the Futcher shot.

 

Remember the home Stoke game well - my first ever BFC game and I was hooked.

Pity we've not had a game like that for many a year; my lad is proving harder to convince!

 

Still got the pink panther that one of the Stoke fans gave me somewhere.

 

My first season, that. No recollection of that season really. Too small to see owt, was more interested in exploring the Brewery Stand, then realising I couldn't see my dad anymore so constantly looking up at faces until I found him again.


[video=youtube;dXPpnGsNREw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXPpnGsNREw[/video]

 

I can remember them starting the game with loads of Stoke supporters still outside. I am sure the club did it on purpose to get them back from when we were being crushed at Stoke.

 

My second-ever Barnsley game. A were ten year owd.

The first one was the week before - Brighton? You had to go to that to get a stub for the Everton game, I think.

Couldn't see a thing. My dad reckons I might have got crushed if we'd actually scored.

 

She's here, she's there, she's every effing where, Neville's wife.

I lost 3 teeth that day. Nowt to do with fisticuffs but an emergency visit to Nutbrown's dentist that morning up Racecommon Road. So I wasn't feeling too great really. Still went with a hankie in my gob. Still have the gap but not the hankie.

That must be the biggest crowd at Oakwell in the last few decades. The replay of the goal shows how packed it was. Good defensive tactics too - let's leave Graeme Sharp unmarked 6 yards out.

Anyone remember the overspill from the Kop? The police had to open a gate in the fence by the front wall due to a crush. Some Everton fans were let onto the pitchside track till it was relieved. Just a couple of months before Hillsborough in the same competition which meant no more big standing crowds down at Oakwell anymore after a few years.

I also went to the 3-3 at Stoke. Currie scored with an unbelievable bit of skill, taking down a long pass. For the Everton game he was hyped up by the announcer who called him on for the pre-match warm-up. I thought that might backfire and he was quiet all game.

 

those were the days,look at the crowd in the video clip,.

i cant remember having to have stubs from previous games tho(could be wrong,it a long time since),as far as i can remember most of us only paid on the gate in those days,in fact i never had a season ticket until the premiership year,mainly due to having to work weekends at the pit.

the neville where's your wife chant had us all pissin ourselves with laughing.

 

Get your wife out for the lads ... If i recall right was one of a few aimed at him.... Seem to recall that nev had a good game in goal that day

 

stoke at home was an unreal atmosphere, I couldn't get to the away game at stoke but I do have the vhs,

 

That remains my favourite cup run even surpassing getting to the semi final in 2008. The way we played Chelsea off the park in the 3rd Round and then that amazing atmosphere in the Stoke replay. That was the biggest crowd I had been in at Oakwell at the time, about 21,000 were there I think. Then the 30,000+ crowd for the Everton game was something else and I remember it being completely packed by about 2 O'Clock that day.

We played very well and were unlucky not to at least get a draw, I remember the pundits on Match Of The Day were very complementary about Barnsley's performance.

That was when the FA Cup really meant something and the crowd and atmosphere was something special.

 

Was at both Stoke games and the Everton one too. Had an inflatable banana, we're all the rage at the time!

 

Re: memories of Bfc vs Everton ZDS cup 1991

Drab affair. Cottee winner

 

Re: memories of Bfc vs Everton ZDS cup 1991

Loads ofEverton fans sat on top of that food hut on Spion Kop