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Middlesbrough fa cup 1988

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I was in the lower gwladys for that 2nd replay, the bigger roof hadn't been on long and the wind was that strong it was still circulating right to the back under the upper gwlads.
*edit, think this was the replay?



I wonder why there was no coverage,even just the goals,if not extended highlights of the first match at Goodison when nearly all our games in the fa cup in the 80s had some sort of cameras there.
 
Reminiscing with my brother about great away followings we remember at Goodison we recalled as schoolboys that 4th round cup tie in 88 when second division Boro brought 6k and never stopped singing from 2.45pm, it was bordering on tribal, the tricolour chant was ringing out incessant .
We were in the paddock and remember a Boro fan risking his life climbing from the park end terrace to the stands up a drainpipe, as there was so many of them crushed in the standing section. Anyone else witness that ?
Noise they made that day was scary for a young boy standing so close to them.
Who remembers that game?
I went, I remember them causing all kinds of havoc on county road before the match. I went to the replay up at ayresome park, one of the most intense atmospheres I've ever seen Everton play in (certainly away from home). After the match up there, the coach I was on drove past a park, or it might have even been a cemetery, loads of their fans where in there anyway with their bricks, put every window through on the left side of our coach(I think quite a few of the coaches got done), chilly journey home across the Pennines that night!
 

Was this the one with a late Trevor Steven winner at some point?
As SNB says, the late equaliser. I didn't go but listened to the radio coverage on Radio City with the rest of the family. May have been Clive Tyldesley commentating (there was another guy who did Everton games as well but can't remember his name). Anyway, relying on the commentary we knew there was a minute left and we had a free kick, and whoever was commentating then said, "One last throw of the Dice for Everton" and I just knew we would score - we did in those days! Then dancing round the room and standing on the furniture took place by all hands!!
 
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As SNB says, the late equaliser. I didn't go but listened to the radio coverage on Radio City with the rest of the family. May have been Clive Tyldesley commentating (there was another guy who did Everton games as well but can't remember his name). Anyway, relying on the commentary we knew there was a minute left and we had a free kick, and whoever was commentating then said, "One last throw of the Dice for Everton" and I just knew we would score - we did in those days! Then dancing round the room and standing on the furniture took place by all hands!!

As SNB says, the late equaliser. I didn't go but listened to the radio coverage on Radio City with the rest of the family. May have been Clive Tyldesley commentating (there was another guy who did Everton games as well but can't remember his name). Anyway, relying on the commentary we knew there was a minute left and we had a free kick, and whoever was commentating then said, "One last throw of the Dice for Everton" and I just knew we would score - we did in those days! Then dancing round the room and standing on the furniture took place by all hands!!
Utter pandemonium in the away end that night! The fa cup really did mean something back then.
 

Us & Boro had many offs in them days !!
Yep certainly were.
We always seemed to get them in the cups as well.
Didn't we have a forth replay in one?
I walked a dad and lad boro fan down to get a taxi after one of them,
I certainly wasn't a saint at the time ,but it had gone well over the top.
They were getting knifed all over the place.
Could not have it on my conscience to let them walk down Langham street after what I had seen going on.
Saying that always liked boro proper fans.
 
Yep certainly were.
We always seemed to get them in the cups as well.
Didn't we have a forth replay in one?
I walked a dad and lad boro fan down to get a taxi after one of them,
I certainly wasn't a saint at the time ,but it had gone well over the top.
They were getting knifed all over the place.
Could not have it on my conscience to let them walk down Langham street after what I had seen going on.
Saying that always liked boro proper fans.
I think one went to a fourth game, a third replay, I always thought Boro were ok lads, always showed up to be fair !!
 

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