Season 78/79, the promotion season to Division 1. Played away at the then unstoppable Nottingham Forest and lost 3-1. Although it was 1-1 at one point. One of the Seagull Special trains broke down on the way. I was only 9 and didn't go. But doubtless other NScers can fill in the details. But that was the only Quarter Final appearance. They'll be lower league teams who have been there more.
Yep. Taking the missus with me that game, too. :/
Stand corrected although we’ve never got to the quarter finals (6th) like tonight’s fixtures then?
Tonight is the fifth round.
The fifth round or the quarter finals as there are 4 matches in this round. The fifth round of the FA Cup consists of 16 teams and precedes the quarter finals.
I thought round 6 was QF! Oops
Thank you. Been a right muddle over this. Of course I blame the Albion. If we’d got this far more than once in a blue moon we’d all be familiar with!
Easy mistake to make. But, yeah, one less round. Albion only in the last eight in 1978. Odd stat really.
Yes, you are right. The goalless draw between Aston Villa and Sheffield United in the 2019/20 season saw Villa stay up and Bournemouth go down, with only a point separating the two. If only goal-line technology was working that day...I think I'm right in writing that Villa only stayed up that season because of a wildly dodgy call on whether the ball had crossed the line against them late on in the season. Their cup run might be viewed a little differently if they'd sank back from whence they'd came like they should have. Alas, we live in the worst leg of the trousers of time.
Absolutely p!ssed down. My sister got a fur coat from a charity shop that day and insisted on wearing it. It stunk the car out when it was wet on the way home, so we threw it out the window on the motorway.
Must have been a long journey home. Didn't you have to go through London back then ?
He's never won anything in a proper league
Yep, but really didn't use to think anything of it. Always used to drive into London for gigs and stuff in those days. Can't remember the last time I drove into central london.
I was there. (We went by coach). Brilliant atmosphere, when we equalised (I think it was Ward) we went, well 'mental' doesn't begin to describe it. Remembering singing "We're proud of you" to the players as they clapped us at the end still makes me a bit emotional even today.
