FA Cup FA Cup Final 22/23

[ECYellow]

Well Hoddle wasn't, he didn't play. The Hoddle game was a league match a few years earlier.

Yes, I was actually referring to Lineker who (I think!) scored two that day.

Hoddle was earlier.

 

[MarkG]

Can I add. The kids with “ can I have your shirt player xxx” cardboards.
It’s a stain on modern football and probably dad’s hoping to make a few quid on eBay.

Also why did the Man City players all have to switch to Winners26 shirts ? Some of whom even get on back to front like Roofe when we got promoted from L2.

Wasn’t sure quite what was happening after all the presentations. Haaland was sat on his own at the goal post. The pub had turned the commentary off. It looked to me like he was either just drinking in the atmosphere or maybe thinking this was his last Wembley final or last final with Man City ?

 

[SteMerritt]

Yes, I was actually referring to Lineker who (I think!) scored two that day.

Hoddle was earlier.

Yeah Lineker definitely played, although I think he only scored 1? Can't be bothered to check.

One of the main memories I have of that day was Nayim doing a blatant dive next to Steve Foster (I think it was) right in front of the Oxford fans trying to cheat his way to a penalty, then getting loads of abuse every time he touched the ball afterwards.

 

[Scotchegg]

Mabbutt scored the first, followed by Linekar and two from Gazza in, arguably, the greatest individual performance I've ever seen against Oxford.

Gazza was truly world class at the time, and I don't think he was ever quite the same again after his injury and his drinking.

But I also remember that Oxford were far from disgraced that day. Martin Foyle, Les Phillips, Jim Magilton and Paul Simpson were all excellent. But I think our defence would have struggled against any top sides, let alone Gazza and Linekar in their prime.

 

[Chris on a Bike]

1991? Ends with a 1. Was it Tottenham?

Mabbutt scored the first, followed by Linekar and two from Gazza in, arguably, the greatest individual performance I've ever seen against Oxford.

I guess you missed Aaron McLean for Grays at Grenoble Road then?

 

[SteMerritt]

Mabbutt scored the first, followed by Linekar and two from Gazza in, arguably, the greatest individual performance I've ever seen against Oxford.

Gazza was truly world class at the time, and I don't think he was ever quite the same again after his injury and his drinking.

But I also remember that Oxford were far from disgraced that day. Martin Foyle, Les Phillips, Jim Magilton and Paul Simpson were all excellent. But I think our defence would have struggled against any top sides, let alone Gazza and Linekar in their prime.

Les Phillips was immense, and we were in the game all the way up to Gazza's second.

 

[bazzer9461]

1991? Ends with a 1. Was it Tottenham?

I guess you missed Aaron McLean for Grays at Grenoble Road then?

Didn’t he spin and put it in the net? If my memory serves me right in by the near post on the right east stand end?

 

[sideshowrob]

Mabbutt scored the first, followed by Linekar and two from Gazza in, arguably, the greatest individual performance I've ever seen against Oxford.

Gazza was truly world class at the time, and I don't think he was ever quite the same again after his injury and his drinking.

But I also remember that Oxford were far from disgraced that day. Martin Foyle, Les Phillips, Jim Magilton and Paul Simpson were all excellent. But I think our defence would have struggled against any top sides, let alone Gazza and Linekar in their prime.

I would argue that possibly the greatest individual performance against Oxford was Georgi Kinklaze for Manchester City at the Manor in February 1997. He scored 2 in a 4-1 win and virtually ran the show for City.

 

[SteMerritt]

I would argue that possibly the greatest individual performance against Oxford was Georgi Kinklaze for Manchester City at the Manor in February 1997. He scored 2 in a 4-1 win and virtually ran the show for City.

He was certainly very good that day, but I'd still go with that Gascoigne performance. It wasn't just the two goals, it was the overall performance.

Honourable mention to Jermain Defoe for Bournemouth, that was another great match by an opposition player.

 

[Bitter]

He was certainly very good that day, but I'd still go with that Gascoigne performance. It wasn't just the two goals, it was the overall performance.

Honourable mention to Jermain Defoe for Bournemouth, that was another great match by an opposition player.

Kinkladze for Man City at the Manor? Some performance that was, on the box as well to rub it in more.

 

[Emilio]

Also why did the Man City players all have to switch to Winners26 shirts ? Some of whom even get on back to front like Roofe when we got promoted from L2.

Yeah, that's a bit odd. I always presumed Roofe doing it in a way to put himself in the shop window, so anybody looking at those photos would know his name and the impact he had on a promotion-winning side. I noticed Dunkley followed suit after a while too. But these players are at Man City, so even if they were to want a move, all potential suitors already know their name.

All in the ego, I guess.

 

[tonyw]

Honourable mention to Jermain Defoe for Bournemouth, that was another great match by an opposition player.

Boxing Day when he was a kid on loan from the Hammers, if I recall?

His glorious lob from the edge of the box was one of two occasions I can recall the Oxford crowd clapping an opposition goal (that was the Kemp season, so we knew we were already doomed by then!). The other, weirdly, was Manny Omoyimni running the whole length of the pitch to score for Gillingham, also on loan from the Hammers, a year or so before we signed him.

 

[Boris]

Boxing Day when he was a kid on loan from the Hammers, if I recall?

His glorious lob from the edge of the box was one of two occasions I can recall the Oxford crowd clapping an opposition goal (that was the Kemp season, so we knew we were already doomed by then!). The other, weirdly, was Manny Omoyimni running the whole length of the pitch to score for Gillingham, also on loan from the Hammers, a year or so before we signed him.

There were also a lot of rather stupid Oxford fans who cheered every Bristol Rovers goal when they beat us 6-2 because they thought (wrongly, as it turned out) that they would therefore stay up at Swindon's expense. We, of course, were already relegated by then

 

[Yellowmike]

Zola in the FA cup replay at Chelsea in 1999 was awesome.

 

[sideshowrob]

Boxing Day when he was a kid on loan from the Hammers, if I recall?

His glorious lob from the edge of the box was one of two occasions I can recall the Oxford crowd clapping an opposition goal (that was the Kemp season, so we knew we were already doomed by then!). The other, weirdly, was Manny Omoyimni running the whole length of the pitch to score for Gillingham, also on loan from the Hammers, a year or so before we signed him.

Also when Aldridge scored for Liverpool at the London Road end.