42 years today

[Woodman scoreboard]

We lost to qpr in the fa cup semi final at Highbury

[Kit Kat Chunky]

We lost to qpr in the fa cup semi final at Highbury

What a disappointing day that was.

As soon as Bob Hazell flattened Andy King, our game was over.

[MrFizz]

My Dad is still seething. He's goes red as a beetroot if he sees or hears Clive Allen.

[Kit Kat Chunky]

My Dad is still seething. He's goes red as a beetroot if he sees or hears Clive Allen.

He knew fuck all about that goal.

[throstle]

Clive Allen went to the 67 league cup final - he was destined to haunt us.

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[SuperBob2002]

Also, it's 19 years to the day since we beat Everton 1-0 at home on the Great Escape season. Where has the time gone?

[baggiebloke]

On returning home from the match, my mother asked me if I cried when we lost.

"Cried"? I thought, why the fuck would I cry.

We'd won the Cup 14 years previous, won the League Cup 16 years previous and had recently been in a raft of other Cup finals, semis and a UEFA Cup quarter final.

It was pretty obvious to me at the time that we'd soon get to another Cup final and most likely win something.

[throstle]

You were more optimistic than me. Maybe after the semi final defeat in 78, there was a case that we'd be back. But in 82 I left the game thinking that was it, we had blown our chances for a very long time.

[Woodman scoreboard]

I left school the day before

Shoot me now

[cornishbaggie]

It was the third losing semi I had been to, optimism was certainly waning that I would ever see us lift the cup again.