Hopefully no more surprise results tomorrow night


Rovers were 13/2 with Bet365Winstonswhite wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:19 amWas it that much of a surprise?
Last night Rovers were 10/3 to win. Tonight Fleetwood are 12/1
HUSH
One name in football I will never, ever, forget. Dickie Guy.
49 years ago....remember it like it was last week
If there was anything that i don't want to remember that was it .
Surely only 48? don't make us that can remember feel older.As well as Wimbledon we have been on the recieving end of a few cup shocks over the years.Lincoln the obvious one along with Bury Port Vale Telford Blackpool Darlington Scunthorpe and Cheltenham I'm sure there is a few more
Blackburn played very good football and deserved the winburnleybonzo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:43 pmCredit where its due, Rovers played really well last night. Tenacious in the tackle, quick on the break, should have scored more. Leicester looked dreadful, perhaps they are nowadays?
Yep you are dead right...of course 49 years ago we were at Hillsborough and my young self had a major disappointment in life. Looking back it just prepared me for my life ahead (watching The Clarets).Ptangyangkipperbang wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:19 pmSurely only 48? don't make us that can remember feel older.As well as Wimbledon we have been on the recieving end of a few cup shocks over the years.Lincoln the obvious one along with Bury Port Vale Telford Blackpool Darlington Scunthorpe and Cheltenham I'm sure there is a few more
That was one of my worst ever experiences at a football match.
Think we battered them but couldnt score?Taffy on the wing wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 4:57 pmThat was one of my worst ever experiences at a football match.
They battered us.
Hey Buxton, love the slightly understated ‘half decent’. The game was played mostly in their half but old Dickie was equal to everything. He did pretty much the same again at Leeds in the next round but they only drew there, unfortunately losing the replay. I remember being so shocked I wasn’t even angry, they were a Southern Premier League side away to a (then I think) top six First Division (PL) side. We had a good side and we really should have battered them.Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 6:51 pmThink we battered them but couldnt score?
Their keeper had a half decent game.![]()
Half decent is all he gets. (I'm still trying to get over it)houseboy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:17 pmHey Buxton, love the slightly understated ‘half decent’. The game was played mostly in their half but old Dickie was equal to everything. He did pretty much the same again at Leeds in the next round but they only drew there, unfortunately losing the replay. I remember being so shocked I wasn’t even angry, they were a Southern Premier League side away to a (then I think) top six First Division (PL) side. We had a good side and we really should have battered them.
On the subject of the Wimbledon match in '75, I was in an east London pub about 20 years ago and got introduced to an older bloke because I was a Burnley fan. He immediately brought the match up, waxing lyrical about it. I said: 'Did you go?' He said: 'Did I go? Did I go? I was playing.Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 2:25 amHalf decent is all he gets. (I'm still trying to get over it)
Ok. He was brilliant.
Was it a Fletch header he somehow kept out, low down in the Beehole End?
I was really gutted they didn't get past Leeds. Dickies pen save gave them the replay. Was it at Chelsea,?
Truth being, Wimbledon are a real life football fairy tale, when they went from non league to winning the cup in not much over a decade after beating us.
It's just a crying shame they're now just a franchise, long past their roots, and the people that once followed them.
A bit of an insight into what professional footy is now.
Go on. Who?Quicknick wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 12:36 pmOn the subject of the Wimbledon match in '75, I was in an east London pub about 20 years ago and got introduced to an older bloke because I was a Burnley fan. He immediately brought the match up, waxing lyrical about it. I said: 'Did you go?' He said: 'Did I go? Did I go? I was playing.
Reminds me of when BBC bumped into Tommy Lawrence in Liverpool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U_PUbQGA4U