Living your life to 1987 standards

[Sexual Ealing]

And Coventry have won the cup. Why are we doing this again?

[Chico Hamilton III]

Cov were knocked out by non league Sutton United in 87-88 season in the 3rd round. It was humiliating

[spinksy the bfg]

Did the number 7 stop at colmore row or corporation Street in 1987-1988. I might ask the driver to drop me there to give the 1987-88 experince.

[Havencheese]

Sinitta on cassingle!

[Sexual Ealing]

Cov were knocked out by non league Sutton United in 87-88 season in the 3rd round. It was humiliating

So they were. I remember that.

I always (though not in 1987, when I was 9) wanted to write a novel that depicted the great storm of 1987 having no metaphorical significance in the lives of its protagonists. Couldn't be arsed in the end though.

[PeterWithesShin]

Cov were knocked out by non league Sutton United in 87-88 season in the 3rd round. It was humiliating

88/89.

[Chico Hamilton III]

So it was.

87/88 was the last time I went on a football special - to Leeds in the cup. I'd liked to have seen Corbyn travelling in one of them. Then he'd know what being treated like shit was all about.

[kippaxvilla2]

They definitely won it the year we went down.  I remember we played them after they had got to the Semi Final and for some reason our Announcer wished them luck in the Semi Final which bought some applause from their horrible masses.  Oh and we beat them again 1-0.

[Sexual Ealing]

Are we still talking about The Smiths?

[PeterWithesShin]

And iirc Sutton got smashed 8-0 by Norwich in round 4.

[brian green]

I could have given you the perfect plot Sexual.  We spent three months digging the horse manure out of a chalk pit on the Arundel estate.  Hundreds of cubic metres we were going to bag up and sell.  Along came Michael Fish's hurricane and blew it all back in again.

[Havencheese]

Are we still talking about The Smiths?

Nah, Johnny Hates Jazz and Wang Chung.

[Sexual Ealing]

I could have given you the perfect plot Sexual.  We spent three months digging the horse manure out of a chalk pit on the Arundel estate.  Hundreds of cubic metres we were going to bag up and sell.  Along came Michael Fish's hurricane and blew it all back in again.

Sold! As long as it didn't reflect any personal emotional turmoil, of course.

[PeterWithesShin]

Must have been around then for Spagna.

[brian green]

SE I was a bit Hedley Lamarr like (churning, seething) but my crew were mildly amused.  I too planned a novel with the big storm as its mise en scene.  When Freddie Trueman was sued for divorce he claimed he knew exactly where he spent the night in question because it was the night of the Hurricane.  I saw split screen flashbacks - one of Fiery Fred in his underpants trying to close the window shutters and the other of the plaintiff in her chemise trying to get him to leave the shutters and come back to bed.  Should have written it.