Favourite FA Cup semi final memory [POLL]

[One Peter Butler]

I was only at ‘91. I went home exhausted from the emotion of it all.

Interesting that people are recalling the Slater quarter final. I remember the North Bank singing “We all agree, Slater is better than Gascoigne”. Not sure anyone believed that! Although I struggle to recall seeing a West Ham player rip a defence apart like he did that night.

Would love to win it again this year!

[Jon]

Frank.

Went to the first game at Villa Park. Amazing experience for a 12 year old.

Listened to the replay on the radio at home. Dev's goal is also something to behold....Magical, dancing feet.

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[woodford]

Frank.

Went to the first game at Villa Park. Amazing experience for a 12 year old.

Listened to the replay on the radio at home. Dev's goal is also something to behold....Magical, dancing feet.

Make you right. I went to Villa Park, closest ive ever come to being crushed i think, IIRC a strangely hot day as well

Went to Elland Road, just unreal.

This was back in the day when people used to do up the front of their house in team colours for cup final day. And TV coverage started at about 9.00 in the morning. Remember Cup Final 'Its a knockout'

Felt like the whole country watched back then

[old fart]

My first ever game was the 1964 semi at Hillsborough
took me years to work out it wasn't always like that

[OohAahButler]

Bill.

I watched the game from the forest end (in my colours) as my forest supporting neighbour sorted the tickets. Even in the midst of them, even as they were banging in their goals, it was all you could hear. Lots of them were slapping me on the back telling me how in awe they were at our support. Talk about mixed emotions...

[Oldun]

Sorry but mine was 1964 against the great Man U at Hillsborough ,rain all day ,muddy pitch and Bobby was King .

[The Old Man of Storr]

Alan Taylor acored 2 goals in the Quarter Finals , the Semi Finals and The Final of the 1975 FA Cup - some of us have been around a bit longer - great second goal vs Ipswich .

[Francoisvander or else]

Voted Frank, what a night and will never forget the journey home on the football special, great days. Now can we have a "worst League Cup" semi final memory poll :lol:

[woodford]

Voted Frank, what a night and will never forget the journey home on the football special, great days. Now can we have a "worst League Cup" semi final memory poll :lol:

easy, Oldham

[Porkeyes]

Bill.

I watched the game from the forest end (in my colours) as my forest supporting neighbour sorted the tickets. Even in the midst of them, even as they were banging in their goals, it was all you could hear. Lots of them were slapping me on the back telling me how in awe they were at our support. Talk about mixed emotions...

I was halfway up the Holte End standing by the fence next to the Forest fans. They were just so confused as it went on and on and got louder and louder. They tried to compete at times and you could see their mouths moving but couldn't hear a thing. Our support that day really was the best. It had an electric feel to the whole day. I remember the roads up there just littered with scarves and every other car/van seemed to have West Ham packed into it. We got there really early and there was already a 150-a-side skins vs shirts match going on outside the ground and every pub rammed out to the max one in one out. Proper West Ham fever that day.

Imagine if we had won.

[sicknote]

But to be fair

Oldham was a bloody good laugh

Show me the way to go home

The stripper, he’s on here

And the coin operated scoreboard

[hammerleroy]

Most recent Marlon at Villa Park 2006, and Riggotts miss in the dying seconds!!! Cue "we're all going on a European tour". Oh and driving away seeing Andy Gray and co-commentator get right behind a minibus full of Hammers. They were stuck, got shedloads of abuse and Gray could stand it no more so knowing the backstreets, obviously, pulled out and took off! Then came Cardiff...……………………….

[ILoveWHU]

My personal favourite is not in the poll - the semi final v Man Utd in the quagmire at Hillsborough in '64

What a day and what a result

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAHmJO9ZMcc

[Big George]

And the coin operated scoreboard

I went to the league game shortly after, it took another battering.#

80 I was on a school trip in France, struggling to get Radio 2 on MW. Surrounded by teenage Hammers, that was fun.
91 lost my voice the day before I started a job in radio...
06 has to be the favourite, Chastour's excellent bar and spent the game in the company of UtJ :raver:

[DaveWHU1964]

Porkeyes - We were maybe a bit further up than you in the Holte End but the Forest parallel to us were just the same. They looked bewildered and certainly not like they were two, three, four up and we still wouldn’t stop. You could see that whatever had happened on the pitch, off it they KNEW that they were simply not in our class.

There were times I honestly felt I’d not be very well, let’s just put it like that, iI didn’t stop singing but it wasn’t the day to stop. The proudest I’ve ever been of our support. A Millwall mate who hates us paid the best backhanded, unmeant compliment when I next saw him - “we’d have done that” he claimed.

[leyton Hammer]

Franks header always, it was my first West Ham match not at the Boleyn and I got 2 days of school to attend the game. To this day it is my favourite West Ham match and I really hope that one day I can make a new claim to a favourite moment.

[davids cross]

Alan Taylor acored 2 goals in the Quarter Finals , the Semi Finals and The Final of the 1975 FA Cup - some of us have been around a bit longer - great second goal vs Ipswich .

That was a record at the time TOMoS...

Think it still stands.....

It was towards the early days of my support of this tragic old club....

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[uptonspark]

Was at all three but, for me personally, it has to be Frank.

[brothernero]

Cant believe no one has mentioned Ogbonna's extra time stoppage time winner v Liverpool under Super Slav.


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[goa127]

I voted for frank but the 91 one was special. I couldn't vote because it was the only one I wasn't at, but watched it on TV. I normally pay scant attention to chants but that day the support was astonishing, and the team responded magnificently, despite being down to 10 men, they still pushed forward and created good chances.