Villa - Arsenal 89-90

[Exeter 77]

I have a vague memory of the Boxing Day game being either an 11:00am or 11:30am kick off.

Edit: It was originally a midday kick off and was delayed by 15 minutes according to this Guardian retrospective.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/that-1980s-sports-blog/2022/jan/14/manchester-united-alex-ferguson-ralf-rangnick-humbled

[kippaxvilla2]

https://youtu.be/arND1ZN9unY?si=ZNOyJqsfq4jxUDtH

[Chip Butty 111]

That was 3 days after we beat United at home 3-0 on boxing day....wonderful times.

They really were...I was lucky to be stood on Holte Lower for both games..the Arsenal game was a good contest from memory..the Utd game we toyed with them, they were awful, ran them ragged.

[dcdavecollett]

That was the game where the United fans chanted, "We want Fergie out!" long and loud at the end.

[cdbearsfan]

We beat Chelsea 3-0 away on New Year's Day, too. I remember thinking their goals looked like Subbuteo goals.

[dcdavecollett]

Ha!

You've started a real controversy here, cdb; do you mean the crappy plastic 70s ones that kept breaking or the more robust 50s/60s efforts that had some metal in them?

[cdbearsfan]

I think the ones I had were eighties, sorry! It had Nigel Spink vs Watford on the box.

[cdbearsfan]

Found it online!

[PeterWithesShin]

That has to be the FA Cup game but they did some editing on the Watford shirts.

[cdbearsfan]

As a child I always wondered whether it went in or not. Now I know (about fifty seconds gone in video below).

[PeterWithesShin]

I was Upper Trinity for that game. I was convinced we were going to win the FA Cup after we won.

[dcdavecollett]

Yeah, I shared that feeling, if only on the basis I couldn't get over the fact we'd beaten Watford 'easily' when the score could have been about 6-6!