VVD is a cunt but that’s a separate argument!
It looked more than a hand to the chest for me!
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Match The Bodø Affair: The Mighty Tottenham vs Bodø/Glimt of Nordland - 2000hrs 1st May 2025 - UEFA Europa League Semi Final Leg 1
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VVD is a cunt but that’s a separate argument!
It looked more than a hand to the chest for me!
Who is more likely to pay a high price for a ticket? A true Spurs fan or a tourist. . I think if prices were lower even more tourists would go.
Yes I went to both too and remember my heart sinking when he got booked. That second leg was something else and certain details will stay with me until I'm even older and greyer. When Ossie hit the cross bar, I seriously thought that our chance to equalise was over and it seemed like ages before the ball came to Robbo to smash the ball in the net. Also the fans getting behind Danny Thomas when he had his penalty saved. When Parkes made the second save, we blew the roof off WHL.
I feel for the younger supporters who don't have these sort of memories to look back on, All we've had in the last couple of decades are 'moments', which are fine in themselves, but not the same as actually landing a trophy.
I found this hopefully it brings back good memories
View: https://youtu.be/kj4VTMX0vyg?si=UtnylW4LZlyCOYwb
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I was born at the beginning of this season
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I found this hopefully it brings back good memories
View: https://youtu.be/kj4VTMX0vyg?si=UtnylW4LZlyCOYwb
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I was born at the beginning of this season
Thanks for that, amazing memories, especially the Feyenoord and Munich games.
The first half against Feyenoord was probably the best football I've ever seen, Hoddle was a master of the ball. I went to the away leg too, and it was a great performance.
My lasting memories of the Munich game was Rummenigge missing an open goal, and the timing of Mark Falco's goal meant we had to hold on for three minutes, as if they had scored, they would have gone through on the away goal rule. I don't think one person left early that night.
For the H Split game, IIRC, Mickey Hazard lost his contact lens either before or after he took that free kick.
Back to the days when we used to smash the minnows of the competition.
Great times, and I hope that our younger supporters experience some of that soon.
I found this hopefully it brings back good memories
View: https://youtu.be/kj4VTMX0vyg?si=UtnylW4LZlyCOYwb
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I was born at the beginning of this season
Quite a bit I had forgotten about the cup run ... important goals from Alan Brazil, contributions from Ally Dick, Richard Cooke and Gary O'Reilly.
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I fucking loved that team and that season so many happy memories - Steve Archibald was such a class act and hoddle a magician
Next season I qualified in my job which meant a 70 hour working week and 1 in 2 weekends so my attendance at WHL dropped considerably- 1977-1984 a personally magical era to be a spurs fan
I found this hopefully it brings back good memories
View: https://youtu.be/kj4VTMX0vyg?si=UtnylW4LZlyCOYwb
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I was born at the beginning of this season
I fucking loved that team and that season so many happy memories - Steve Archibald was such a class act and hoddle a magician
Next season I qualified in my job which meant a 70 hour working week and 1 in 2 weekends so my attendance at WHL dropped considerably- 1977-1984 a personally magical era to be a spurs fan
Did you ever find out? I couldn't work it out.
Mr L Lucan
If (amd it is if) we succumb next week, it will be one of those not too infrequent situations where dominance, and that next goal prove crucial.
Next to no point looking back in life, but 4 nil and that would have been that. It felt we were that close to booking days off, flights, pub seats etc.
Now, it's all manner of conundrums, possibilities and stress relievers.
Would be so good to fast forward the 128 hours, not that I am counting...
Next to no point looking back in life, but 4 nil and that would have been that. It felt we were that close to booking days off, flights, pub seats etc.
Now, it's all manner of conundrums, possibilities and stress relievers.
Would be so good to fast forward the 128 hours, not that I am counting...
Tbh next Thursday cant come soon enough for me so we know where we stand. Bilbao or bust. Definitely watching final in Tottenham if we get there.
I can remember crying my eyes out when we drew 1-1 with Sunderland (I think it was) in '77 which confirmed our relegation. It was absolutely gutting. We only finished 3rd in the 2nd div, but it brought us up. The years after that were tinged with some disappointment, particularly in the league when Liverpool dominated, but the cup glory massively overshadowed that, with the European success being wonderful, but it was the FA Cup successes that put the cherry on the cake, when the FA Cup was almost as big as winning the league.
Football had a more "magical" aura back then, which it has now lost as it's really all about the money now. It used to be the working man's game, it isn't anymore.
Tbh away days are the best. Better atmosphere and banter.
Fair shout!
My first visit to WHL ironically given that I’ve lived a mile from villa park for 25 years was villa on 30th April 1977 we came from behind to win 3-1 to very much keep the dream alive - I thought it was a 5-0 thrashing at Maine road that put us down the following week
I was only young then, under 10, but it was my first vivid memory because it was so traumatic. It may have been the loss at Maine Rd that essentially put us down, but the draw to Sunderland confirmed it. I still have the programme for that game somewhere.
My first visit was in the 74/75 season to a NLD, but I don't remember that match too well. We won that 2-0, so it wouldn't have had that lasting "trauma" effect. The Sunderland game was a drab 1-1, which you'd normally forget. It was what that did to us that made it stick in my memories for a lifetime, much as all those cup glories stick to this day, to greater or lesser extents, e.g. the '81 Cup final because it was so epic. Those goals are etched into my memories. Villa's emotion after scoring "that goal," Crooks' reaction after he'd scored, Tony Parkes sprinting away from his goal after saving the last penalty in the UEFA Cup. Those moments stick with you because of the emotional impact they have.
Newspapers papers already call this the 100 mil CL play off with the mancs
Good point. I didn’t realise we had tried it the other way