Originally Posted by
Currieisgod
Cup final day - Just what it said on the tin - "A day" it certainly was, It used to start about 9-00am at the players hotels where we found out who was having what for breakfast, Then there used to be "Its a Knock out" as well as fans on Wembley way as early as 10-00am,
Then there was the camera on the team coaches, the players soaking up the atmosphere in their posh suits and saying that they had never witnessed anything like it etc but to be fair to the players it must have been some experience playing at Wemblerlee back in the day.
The "Abide with me", bit used to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and there was even a section where we just listened to the Band whilst also listening to the views of "The Panel" with Cloughie, Malcom Allison, et al, unless of course you watched it on the BBC and in the company of David Colman, Jimmy the Beard Hill.
I could never understand why the viewing figures were so wide ie BBC 10 million and ITV only 6 million as i thought Brian Moore was a great commentator,
The cup final was a great occasion and I remember all the neighbours flocking to one particular house because they had a Colour TV, Great days and the famous lines of commentary - like "Keegan".......1 - 0... "Goals pay the rent"..."and Keegan pays his dues"....Class, pure class