timbo
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Post by timbo on Apr 14, 2023 14:07:10 GMT
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Enzo
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Post by Enzo on Apr 14, 2023 15:20:58 GMT
Thanks. I had never seen this programme. What an awful two games to end the season.
I didn’t attend the final as I was overseas, but the way I felt after the City capitulation in the Play Offs I’m not sure I’d have gone if I lived in Wembley. It was too soon for me. The City match is up there with Scunthorpe (final home league game of the season in 1988), Swansea Play Off final and Colchester x 2 (Play off in 1988 and relegation in 2005) as particularly low moments in 40 years of more general disappointment.
Wasn’t the final Kevin Hill’s last game? Was he breaking a record or something and Buckle gave him a few seconds at the end? Might be mis-recollecting it, but thought I’d have given Hilly more of a send off. I’m not normally sentimental, but given how the season had panned out and Hilly was about on par with most of the rest of the squad, I’d have played him.
Apologies to Buckle if I have confused things.
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Post by Jon on Apr 15, 2023 11:28:46 GMT
You have remembered it right Enzo.
There was some confusion over Dennis Lewis’s record due to errors in the Centenary History. John Lovis and I sorted it out adding one to Lewis’s tally.
Hill equaled the record in the Exeter second leg and beat it at Wembley. Buckle was very late in bringing him on. I was thinking his buzz and energy were exactly what we needed earlier to force an equaliser.
The Ebbsfleet game was totally surreal. All the day-tripping bandwagon-jumping Torquay fans were loving living the dream at Wembley. Meanwhile, the hardcore were staggering round in a glazed, detached stupor - still coming to terms with what had happened.
I have had many highs and many lows following United, but this was unique in going from so very high to so very low in so short a time.
When Hilly scored at Plainmoor, it was the perfect script. Mr TUFC had scored the goal that clinched the tie. We had rubbed City’s noses in it at Plainmoor. We were going to Wembley twice. Hilly was going to set the record. We were going to get promoted at Wembley to clinch an immediate return back where we belonged.
Four goals in twenty minutes and it was us having our faces rubbed in it. It was a numbing experience - too horrible to believe. Not much appetite left for the Trophy after that.
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