2 Games, Any Significant Memories ?

[Damo70]

Random thoughts from the ManUre/Arse double header over Christmas:

- we absolutely stuffed Man Utd and it could have been 5-0
- the Arsenal game was a lot tighter, but held on and deserved the victory against the then champions
- the queues outside the Holte for the ManUre game were ridiculous
- Derek Mountfield's header against Arsenal seemed to take forever to drop into the goal
- the Man Utd game was probably the last time I ever stood on the Holte with my older brother (the person who first started taking me to games)

Wasn't Mountfield's header from a position where he was in no mans land because the famous Arsenal back four were all half way up the pitch with their hands up for offside? I seem to remember Gorgeous George being a tad grumpy about it after the game.

[pauliewalnuts]

Random thoughts from the ManUre/Arse double header over Christmas:

- we absolutely stuffed Man Utd and it could have been 5-0
- the Arsenal game was a lot tighter, but held on and deserved the victory against the then champions
- the queues outside the Holte for the ManUre game were ridiculous
- Derek Mountfield's header against Arsenal seemed to take forever to drop into the goal
- the Man Utd game was probably the last time I ever stood on the Holte with my older brother (the person who first started taking me to games)

That was a great christmas.

If I remember correctly, we serenaded Ferguson with "Fergie Fergie on the dole". Didn't turn out quite that way.

[usav]

If I remember rightly ? Platt scored the 2nd by beating their offside trap before Donkey Adams pulled one back. I've probably got it on VHS somewhere.

Hmmm, I just looked it up and I think you are right.  It was Platt's header that won it in the second half - that was the goal that seemed to take forever to loop into the net.

[Kevin Dawson]

Platt scored the first (great takedown and smashed it past Lukic), followed by Mountfield's header in the 2nd half from a Tony Daley cross....somewhat muted celebrations for a couple of seconds as he looked yards offside......

[Richie]

If I remember rightly ? Platt scored the 2nd by beating their offside trap before Donkey Adams pulled one back. I've probably got it on VHS somewhere.

Hmmm, I just looked it up and I think you are right.  It was Platt's header that won it in the second half - that was the goal that seemed to take forever to loop into the net.

Platty got the first in front of the Holte in the first half. 2 Arsenal Centre halfs (O'Leary being one of them) turned their backs as he looked like he was going to shoot. Knocked it in between the 2 of them and poked it past Lukic.

Fantastic goal and mayhem on the Holte.

Mountfield got the header for number 2 in the second half with Arsenal appealing for offside.

[usav]

Ok, so I was right all along.  Everyone else was confusing me.  :-)

[Pat McMahon]

Random thoughts from the ManUre/Arse double header over Christmas:

- we absolutely stuffed Man Utd and it could have been 5-0
- the Arsenal game was a lot tighter, but held on and deserved the victory against the then champions
- the queues outside the Holte for the ManUre game were ridiculous
- Derek Mountfield's header against Arsenal seemed to take forever to drop into the goal
- the Man Utd game was probably the last time I ever stood on the Holte with my older brother (the person who first started taking me to games)

That was a great christmas.

If I remember correctly, we serenaded Ferguson with "Fergie Fergie on the dole". Didn't turn out quite that way.

You are probably right Paulie but in my head it was their fans singing Fergie on the dole.

IIRC there wasn't too much in the way of public transport that Boxing Day and I was back from Paris for xmas and stayed with my mom who had somehow moved to Billesley. I got a lift into town from my brother in law who was working as a copper in Smethwick and had to spend about 3 hours in MacDonalds at the top of the ramp waiting for the time to go to VP. It was either that or walk all the way from Billesley. Well worth it though.

[pauliewalnuts]

I was also wondering whether the Arsenal game was the one where Tony Adams had just been sent down and we were singing "are you watching in your cell?"

Wrong year, though.

[usav]

As well as the Fergie songs, there was also the "thank you very much for Paul McGrath" song, which was both topical and factual all at the same time.

[Damo70]

As well as the Fergie songs, there was also the "thank you very much for Paul McGrath" song, which was both topical and factual all at the same time.

I seem to remember that being sung long and loud. As for chants about Fergie's job, I think both ends of the ground were singing songs about that.

[gervilla]

The Arsenal game was live on Irish T.V.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.