Who went to the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final?

I went down with 4 mates in a xr2 fiesta, exhaust dropped off on route...

Made a full weekend of it...

Was at northern final against villa and watched away leg in a rammed stockton arms...

Left the waterfront in stockton at midnight to go queue for tix with thousands of others camped out... that was a great atmosphere

Had a great week end but the drive home was horrendous...😭
 
the_holgate_roof said:
That semi final away leg at Villa was the wettest I have ever been at a match, totally drenched, went on a bus from St Mary’s college that a mate had organised.
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I’ve got 3 matches where I got totally soaked, Villa away, Oldham away New Years Day plastic pitch thrashed, and Sunderland home mid 70’s the programme was all stuck together.
 
HolgateCorner said:
I’ve got 3 matches where I got totally soaked, Villa away, Oldham away New Years Day plastic pitch thrashed, and Sunderland home mid 70’s the programme was all stuck together.
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At all those games Holgate, remember Oldham away, at the top of the away terrace there was an iron gate which you had to put your feet on & swing across a massive puddle to get on the terrace, crazy
 
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Villa away, it was like a bloke was pouring a bucket of water over your head & as the bucket started to empty he got another one & poured it again, how that game was allowed to start, never mind complete, but thankfully it didn't & we have fond memories of the game
 
Erimus74 said:
At all those games Holgate, remember Oldham away, at the top of the away terrace there was an iron gate which you gave to put your feet on & swing across a massive puddle to get on the terrace, crazy
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Yes and if remember correctly there was very little pavement, if any, leading up to the turnstiles, it was just a patch of muddy ground. I went to Oldham for the league cup match when Karanka was manager and it was all different, it had lost its ‘charm’!
 
HolgateCorner said:
Wow, a rare Alan Willey headline! That’s the match, it was a shocking day.
E74 you need to write a book about the Boro, you have a library record of everything, it’s quite amazing really, it needs to be documented.
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Cheers Holgate, would love to do something of that sort, but I think everything has been covered
Even down to the registered players & other stats that I'm presently doing / completing
 
The things I remember the most about the ZDS final was the awful one-off shirt we wore, the never ending fight through the traffic to get out of Wembley after the game and Owen McGee.

Cant remember much of the game, just that it was pretty dull and, after all those years of waiting, a bit of an anti-climax
 
That Villa away game one of my favourite Boro moments as Marco Van Brennan swerves a free kick into the Holte End goal in the last minute. Great view stood behind
it in the away end!
 
Talking of wet games what about Wimbledon at home everyone huddled under the holgate

Got absolutely soaked that day
 
Erimus74 said:
Cheers Holgate, would love to do something of that sort, but I think everything has been covered
Even down to the registered players & other stats that I'm presently doing / completing
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No I think there is another angle you could cover rather than just the statistics and facts and that is the memories to bring the facts to life. I often think this is missing from the Tim Williamson, Fenton, Camsell, Mannion eras. We know the results, the teams, the attendances but what was it like to go and watch a Boro match at the Linthorpe Road ground? Or Ironopolis at the Paradise Ground? What was it like watching Mannion in over 50,000 crowds at Ayresome Park? How was the build up? What did people do before going to the match? Other than what our Dads told us which in my case other than ‘you should have seen Mannion’, it’s all missing in my view.
 
HolgateCorner said:
No I think there is another angle you could cover rather than just the statistics and facts and that is the memories to bring the facts to life. I often think this is missing from the Tim Williamson, Fenton, Camsell, Mannion eras. We know the results, the teams, the attendances but what was it like to go and watch a Boro match at the Linthorpe Road ground? Or Ironopolis at the Paradise Ground? What was it like watching Mannion in over 50,000 crowds at Ayresome Park? How was the build up? What did people do before going to the match? Other than what our Dads told us which in my case other than ‘you should have seen Mannion’, it’s all missing in my view.
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Great post. Wish I had taken the time to record some of my dad's and uncle's memories before they passed away. Very much Mannion's and then Cloughie's era.
 
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