east-stand-nic Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 I was at the semi final at WHL where we lost to Liverpool in extra time and Mark Wright broke his leg. Unlike the 1984 semi, we always new we were likely to lose this one, but still very disappointed on the day. Anyone else there?
SotonianWill Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 (edited) At a time of great football club depression, at least we have these “on this days” to cheer us up. on this day we lost to liverpool in a semi final and our player broke their leg. great. in all seriousness this semi final never gets talked about but everyone goes on about everton at highbury for obvious reasons I guess. Edited 6 April, 2023 by SotonianWill 2
Weston Super Saint Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 Imagine the threads in 2053. On Boxing Day it will be something along the lines of "I remember 30 years ago today when we had some little Welsh fella as our manager, we got tonked by Brighton FFS, but still, at least we were seven leagues higher back then". Good times! 2
Kenilworthy Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 2 hours ago, east-stand-nic said: I was at the semi final at WHL where we lost to Liverpool in extra time and Mark Wright broke his leg. Unlike the 1984 semi, we always new we were likely to lose this one, but still very disappointed on the day. Anyone else there? yes I was there. And we put up a pretty decent performance. I think we were better than in 84. But we were up against a much better side. What made it difficult against Liverpool was not only their great players, but also the cheating they got away with that referees did nothing about. Danny Wallace spent much of the game with Hansen dragging him back by the neck. It would be interesting to see how that team would fare under VAR. 2
Lee On Solent Saint Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 43 minutes ago, Kenilworthy said: yes I was there. And we put up a pretty decent performance. I think we were better than in 84. But we were up against a much better side. What made it difficult against Liverpool was not only their great players, but also the cheating they got away with that referees did nothing about. Danny Wallace spent much of the game with Hansen dragging him back by the neck. It would be interesting to see how that team would fare under VAR. Yeah, was there as well. Was 13 at the time so don't really remember too much of the game. Strangely enough, I remember more from the 84 semi final than this game. Probably due to the late goal etc.
Turkish Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 2 hours ago, SotonianWill said: At a time of great football club depression, at least we have these “on this days” to cheer us up. on this day we lost to liverpool in a semi final and our player broke their leg. great. in all seriousness this semi final never gets talked about but everyone goes on about everton at highbury for obvious reasons I guess. Another tale of heroic failure with a bit of bad luck thrown in. when the skates get to a cup final they play team from the championship and scrape a win. When we get to a cup final We get Forest, who would be European champions that season, in 2003 one of the best teams in history, 2017 a goal incorrectly disallowed and our best player out injured. 2
OldNick Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 1 hour ago, Kenilworthy said: yes I was there. And we put up a pretty decent performance. I think we were better than in 84. But we were up against a much better side. What made it difficult against Liverpool was not only their great players, but also the cheating they got away with that referees did nothing about. Danny Wallace spent much of the game with Hansen dragging him back by the neck. It would be interesting to see how that team would fare under VAR. That is my enduring memory. The ref allowed them to get away with it
hackedoff Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 1 hour ago, OldNick said: That is my enduring memory. The ref allowed them to get away with it Would love to see a VAR league table ( if one exists ) of all the decisions for and against each team ( rightly or wrongly ) that lot would be miles ahead. 2
Give it to Ron Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 I still remember everyone going Nooooo as Bond tried to head it back and Rush being ready to pounce for that. David Armstrong was brilliant that day covering for Wright 2
fanimal Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 Stood on the side lower terrace with the lovely friendly scousers sat above us great fun not Hansen should have seen Red several times bad luck all round 1
Tom & Gerry Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 We never really looked like scoring as I recall. Our best chance was to nick one towards the end of normal time when we managed a bit of pressure, but when it went to extra time we had nothing left. I think our season fizzled out as well after that. Still it was a good Liverpool team that went on to do the double.
Nordic Saint Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, east-stand-nic said: I was at the semi final at WHL where we lost to Liverpool in extra time and Mark Wright broke his leg. Unlike the 1984 semi, we always new we were likely to lose this one, but still very disappointed on the day. Anyone else there? Yes, I flew back from the Middle East just for this game. I had to buy a half season ticket in order to get my ticket for the match. I gave the season ticket to a mate before I flew back. I remember the Liverpool fans seemed quite intimidated by us after the game. We were all singing 'Southerners' in the tube station on the way back and the Liverpool fans kept very quiet. Of course, they wouldn't be today. Edited 6 April, 2023 by Nordic Saint
OldNick Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 24 minutes ago, Nordic Saint said: Yes, I flew back from the Middle East just for this game. I had to buy a half season ticket in order to get my ticket for the match. I gave the season ticket to a mate before I flew back. I remember the Liverpool fans seemed quite intimidated by us after the game. We were all singing 'Southerners' in the tube station on the way back and the Liverpool fans kept very quiet. Of course, they wouldn't be today. We drove back the wrong way and ended up in the middle of Liverpool fans going back. They were very quiet.
Andrew Watson Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 Was there with mates, as alluded to we were not fancied to win, so was disappointing but expected. However the 1984 loss to Everton was very hard to take for players and supporters alike.
alehouseboys Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 Bad couple of years for us where the scousers are concerned - missing out on the title by 3 points to the red scallies and two consecutive semi defeats to both. The WHL semi was yet another disappointing day out.
alehouseboys Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 3 hours ago, fanimal said: Stood on the side lower terrace with the lovely friendly scousers sat above us great fun not Strange set-up. WHL was basically split in half, we had the Paxton end of the ground, they had Park Lane but for some reason they had a section above Saints fans on the Shelf and had free reign to continually lob stuff over onto those below. That was a miserable walk back to Seven Sisters and took forever to get back on the tube as we were told there was fighting going on further down the line which stopped the trains.
Graffito Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 I remember coins being thrown. Mad decision to put them on the shelf above us.
Wurzel Posted 6 April, 2023 Posted 6 April, 2023 Christ was that 37 years ago? 😕. Yes I was there, and I now feel about 20 years older than I did 2 minutes ago
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