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Post by pejic on Oct 7, 2009 17:28:25 GMT
Another great clip elystokie,i really hope Stoke win another major trophy in my lifetime so i can experience that same feeling as the fans of'72 did.
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Post by chiswickpotter on Oct 7, 2009 17:30:55 GMT
i was there at wembley in 1972, but 5-0 against Arsenal and Terry Conroy's goal of the season is my best memory
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Post by mickstupp on Oct 7, 2009 18:27:30 GMT
Fantastic memories..... At Upton Park behind the goal for Gordons penalty save and getting chased back to the tube station after. What a night standing on the Stretford End at the second replay when we almost filled Old Trafford. Queueing up overnight three times that season on the car park behind the Boothen in the depths of winter. Got an extra ticket by saving the vouchers in the programmes all season. Final tickets for 60p!!! Bought a bottle of Champers after the final and had to run back to catch the train. Opened the bubbly on the train and every drop hit the roof. ??? Magical memories.
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Post by march4 on Oct 7, 2009 18:31:45 GMT
Fantastic memories..... At Upton Park behind the goal for Gordons penalty save and getting chased back to the tube station after. What a night standing on the Stretford End at the second replay when we almost filled Old Trafford. Queueing up overnight three times that season on the car park behind the Boothen in the depths of winter. Got an extra ticket by saving the vouchers in the programmes all season. Final tickets for 60p!!! Bought a bottle of Champers after the final and had to run back to catch the train. Opened the bubbly on the train and every drop hit the roof. ??? Magical memories. That night at Old Trafford. It didn't half rain. Got home at goodness knows what time and soaking wet. Did I mind, not one bit - what a feeling!! ;D
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Post by mickstupp on Oct 7, 2009 18:43:11 GMT
Fantastic memories..... At Upton Park behind the goal for Gordons penalty save and getting chased back to the tube station after. What a night standing on the Stretford End at the second replay when we almost filled Old Trafford. Queueing up overnight three times that season on the car park behind the Boothen in the depths of winter. Got an extra ticket by saving the vouchers in the programmes all season. Final tickets for 60p!!! Bought a bottle of Champers after the final and had to run back to catch the train. Opened the bubbly on the train and every drop hit the roof. ??? Magical memories. That night at Old Trafford. It didn't half rain. Got home at goodness knows what time and soaking wet. Did I mind, not one bit - what a feeling!! ;D Spot on M4. It was pissing down. I remember we came out of the Stretford End after the game and a Stokie was kneeling down washing his hair in a huge puddle.......and some think we are mad nowadays. ;D
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Post by granthampotter on Oct 7, 2009 19:03:49 GMT
i remember my best game was notts county away i remember as a 16 yr old going with my dad from grantham , we stood in that open end jam packed wi stokies never seen such a large away following since then of stokies, and course richardsons goal 2 mins from time wow .
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Post by wycombepotter on Oct 7, 2009 19:11:05 GMT
Like many others on here I took the train with my Dad and can remember it like it was yesterday.
Unfortunately like Northants Stokie, and others, I was also at the the first Semi at Hillsborough and to this day I still get upstet about it. The replay at Villa was worse, and just for good measure I thought I would also attend both semis the year after. Even now I still can't bring myself to think anything but animosity about Arsenal.
Like others have posted, at the time as a 14/15 year old I expected many years of glory to follow. How wrong could we be!!!
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Post by waitingforwaddo on Oct 7, 2009 19:25:25 GMT
The 3-2 at Hull was bloody good after going 2-0 down!
And the 3-3 at home to Huddersfield. Remember that?
That was a magical run.
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Post by march4 on Oct 7, 2009 19:27:22 GMT
Looking back over the years. We had a real go at glory before and after the 2nd World War and again in the 70's. I really think the present set up is our 3rd real crack at glory. I know its harder now with the Big 4, but perhaps in one of the cups - who knows ;D
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Post by richardparker on Oct 7, 2009 20:05:24 GMT
Was there alright! (-as a 10 year old). Thanks Stoke City for the memory. It made up for some of the disappointments around the time. (Hillsbro' nd Goodison especially). Went with my dad, brother and brother-in-law on coach. Sat on a crate going down M6/M1 (one of the many filled with Newcy Brown). Brother in Chelsea end (and lived to tell the tale). Also at Old Trafford for semi 2nd replay. In paddock under unfinished Cantilever Stand. Managed to stay reasonably dry unlike you poor lot who were in the uncovered Scoreboard End.
More great things around the corner for Stoke; of that I am confident.
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Post by maine on Oct 8, 2009 2:43:15 GMT
Can't miss out on this thread. I got a ticket via a former Stoke player. Fantastic day. Lots of memories. What a match at Old Trafford! For such an argumentative board it's interesting as to what most of us agree upon. Hudson the finest player I've ever seen in a Stoke shirt-and Storey committed the most disgusting foul ever made against us.
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Post by ihaveadream on Oct 8, 2009 12:15:46 GMT
Went to every game that season home and away. remember the crowds of fans waiting all night at the boothen end to get cup final tickets.what a great night that was, me and my mate got home sunday morning about ten thirty and about two hours later mick brnard called him and gave us sixty tickets with the exspress wish that they only went to genuine potters. we sold all the tickets plus a coach to wembly .did not make a penny profit because everyone was a stokie through and through and you don't do that nto uther stokie's. Good lads Bernie, spiller5521 & Spiller5521's mate.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Dec 6, 2010 10:56:52 GMT
I was at Wembley in 1972. I lived and worked in Wolverhampton at the time (I was 26) and went down by train. Never actually thought we'd win it until it happened. Great days - but the club now is getting close to the buzz we had in the early 1970s.
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Post by mayf on Dec 6, 2010 16:10:23 GMT
My 1st memories of Stoke was watching the semi final on tv and although I didn't get to the final my mum and dad drove us up to somewhere near Barlaston to cheer the lads on their bus ride back.It was another 2 years before I went to my 1st match
I too was at Notts County,I made a big banner that said 'Stoke City are Magic' for the match and me and a mate went on the pitch waving it like mad at the final whistle and we had it hanging out of the car all the way back,peeping everyone we saw on the way....blah blah,blah blah blah,blah blah blah blah,CITY ! lol
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Post by eddyclamp on Dec 6, 2010 19:17:39 GMT
I was there as a13year old.Went down on the coach with Hydronyl factory that was in Fenton(byJTF).Got Tommy Trinder and Harold Wilson`s autograph on my programme. Remember all the grown men crying at Wembley after we had won.I hope one day my young`un can share this and I will be the old man crying. Up early on the Sunday,sat on a window ledge on the Kings hall for hours waiting for the team to arrive waving my home made Stoke flag. I can still see the fans that managed to get on top of the tower of St.Peter`s church. It meant so much winning the league cup in those days,and was considered a major trophy. Happy Days
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Post by skelman on Jan 25, 2011 15:58:54 GMT
I couldn't afford a season ticket in '72, but went to most home games & a few away. Used to play for the school footy team on saturday morning, get chips & a pickled onion & then walk 5 miles with mates along the canal into Stoke.
We always got into the ground an hour before KO to get a place on one of 'the drops' in the Boothen, so we could see better.
I think we ended up queuing overnight, around the car park at the back of the Butler St Stand, 3 times for match tickets that year. There was a fantastic supporter community spirit.
60p to go to THE EMPIRE STADIUM, WEMBLEY to watch a game that still makes me shivver & proud whenever I think about it. Then I touched the cup when the team train stopped at Barlaston & the lads got onto the open top bus, to make their way into the Potteries.
Do you remember - I think the then League Cup had 3 handles?
It was just like a King's/Queen's coronation, only it was better - OUR LADS had won the cup.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 27, 2011 22:16:33 GMT
I was at Wembley behind the goal we scored the winner in like most.
The funny thing is that what I remember most is feeling so depressed at half time due to Osgood"s equaliser.
I loved Notts County of course but it was topped in my book by the second leg play-off game at Cardiff. What a night that was including the mother of all mentals when Jimmy equalised!
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Post by mistersausage on Jan 28, 2011 21:59:57 GMT
Meadow Lane for me too. Awesome awayday ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 19:29:52 GMT
i didnt get to the final - but the celebrations outside the kings hall watching the team bus go through the city was great
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Post by costkickaboagenawo on Mar 3, 2011 13:00:24 GMT
Yeah I was there.....in the bloody Chelski end!! Me Dad got tickets on 'the cheap' so instead of being with all the Stokies... me, dad, nan & grandad with other rellies were the lone red and white figures amongst all the blue! For a while anyway as I had me Stoke hat and flag whipped away from me by some irate Chelski fan as we went one-up! We were a little quiter when George got the winner! Still a great day, and the spectacle of seeing the Stoke end a mass of red and white still gets the hairs on my neck (none on me 'ead!) prickling!
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Post by timfielding2001uk on Mar 23, 2011 18:52:56 GMT
Me and my two mates Mick & Derek had watched most of the League Cup ties that season.
The long haul in the snow to Hillsboro for the reply then the night at Old Trafford, watch a match?
We qued up all night to get our Tickets for Wembley, joining the que at about 9.00pm under the Wieldon Road Railway Bridge.
Went to Wembley on the train from Stoke and it was like all of The Potteries were there, what a day out.
Then back to Stoke Town Hall on Sunday afternoon, could we see this again?
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Post by idreamadream on Mar 30, 2011 19:47:17 GMT
can not remember if we had only drew with nott county would we not had gone up
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Post by wevewonit2times on Apr 1, 2011 13:22:40 GMT
Turnstile H, entrance 62, cost 60pence, stood right behind goal, a 13 year olds dream was in bits at the final whistle
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Post by wevewonit2times on Apr 1, 2011 13:25:03 GMT
Still got me ticket stub!! now priceless!!
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Post by steve66 on Apr 4, 2011 23:07:07 GMT
I was there in '72 as a 16 year old, best feeling in the world winning at Wembley, semi final's V the arse were also epic,seem to remember big John Richie had a golden opportunity at Hillsborough to put us three up then it all went belly up!
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Post by superpot on Apr 20, 2011 7:42:51 GMT
I was there with my owd man and I was a 13 year old.Full of optimism that we would win and WIN we did. The Stoke team of the 70's were in my opinion the best team we have ever put out on the turf. That said I mean no disrespect to the boys who made us proud last Sunday. Speechless performance. Watched it in Spain on tv and scared my daughter half to death with my screaming! Shame we had such a poor ref against Arsenal in the semi's then when Charley George was at least 120 yards offside!
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Post by superpot on Apr 20, 2011 7:47:42 GMT
Who else was in the Boothen end against Man United when we had a massive attendance of 49,000 + and the United fans came in behind the Boothen enders in around mid 70's? Don't know the exact date but here fans were totally mental and were throwing bits of roof stuff down into the crowd. We were getting squashed big time from the surge of the United fans behind. Some plonker let them in at our end!
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Post by greenhoff74 on Apr 24, 2011 13:37:05 GMT
I don't remember that but can recall 45,000 against BIll Shankly's Liverpool on Easter monday to see us win 2-0. This was when Shankly patted Hudson on the back for one of the greatest performances he had ever seen.
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Post by pegleg on Apr 26, 2011 22:18:59 GMT
Yeah, i was at the Man U game. It was a midweek game as i recall. The Stoke End was full; the Man U fans couldn't get in so they let them in the Boothen. There were still thousands outside te ground when the game kicked off.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2011 0:13:48 GMT
The FAC (when it really did mean something) semis against Arsenal were great to be at but felt we were cheated at the time and almost 40 years later still do, I can do bitter and twisted.
This yeh!
Never made Wembley in 72 as a 12 year old we got 10 bob(50p) pocket money all in loose change so yer trousers fell down when you put it in yer pockets ;D My oldest brother was 17 and worked on Lotus shoe factory if I remeber right he took me Stoke every week god bless him hes no longer with us.
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