Wembley Revisited: 30 Years On

[The_Don_ORiordan]

Going back to 89/90 they talked about going to Wembley the week before to watch Rovers vs Tranmere in the Leyland Daf (not Sherpa van tommy) final.
Who can forget Mr Brian Hill from Kettering and the goal that never was........meaning we’d have to wait an extra week before breaking that Wembley duck......

I also remember the run in differently to the guys, I seem to remember us stuttering away at places like Wigan ( on the grass hill) not winning a load of games in a row (that was definitely the season after guys).

Up the Maggie’s I’m sure can correct my memory......

[Jeekay56]

Up the Maggie’s I’m sure can correct my memory......

My memory isn't as good as I'd like , perhaps upthemaggies could point us in the right direction?

A google search throws up a carouselhosting link which doesn't seem to work.

My favourite memory from that time was Charlie Palmer's goal at Brum, but then, see above re my memory.

[upthemaggies]

My memory isn't as good as I'd like , perhaps upthemaggies could point us in the right direction?

A google search throws up a carouselhosting link which doesn't seem to work.

It keeps going down because of the amount of traffic to the server during lockdown, the mirror backup works though, here's the 1989/90 page........
http://tvset.byethost12.com/utm/ncfc8990.html

we were unbeaten in the final 6 away games plus the Bolton play off game before going to Wembley, we had been poor away though from New years day until losing to Tranmere on March 19th but we wouldn't lose again that season.

This page includes the Evening Post reports and quotes from the Wembley final
http://tvset.byethost12.com/utm/maggies13.html?19900527

Tables at the bottom show we had the best home record in the division.

[Jeekay56]

we were unbeaten in the final 6 away games plus the Bolton play off game before going to Wembley, we had been poor away though from New years day until losing to Tranmere on March 19th but we wouldn't lose again that season.

I remember listening to Colin Slater's commentary on the Bolton game on the drive home from work, (I worked at Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station at the time, please don't tell seriouspie, I couldn't deal with him judging me not worthy). The following year I drove my son and two of my brothers up to Ayresome Park for the away leg against Boro. As we were walking to the ground one of their fans said to us " there's nothing for you here today lads", Phil Turner proved him wrong.

Best memory from that game was taking the mickey out of a portly boro fan, "who ate all the pies?"