tojo
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Post by tojo on Aug 8, 2023 11:56:52 GMT
Got to be Newcastle. A couple of other memorable ones for me: the 1-0 over Pish in 1978 in front of our biggest league gate (and my previous favourite game before Newcastle), the 1-0 at Molineux to go 4-1 up on aggregate in the League Cup in 1980. What a night that was at molineux, big Floyd with the goal. Interesting stroll back to the train station.
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Wingco's Boy
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Post by Wingco's Boy on Aug 8, 2023 12:26:59 GMT
Easiest goal Floyd ever scored. And chants of “4-1”. It is fair to say that the locals vented their displeasure afterwards.
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danielcufc
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Post by danielcufc on Aug 8, 2023 12:28:28 GMT
Will be interested to see how many of the matches/moments make the book. All those being mentioned have a place in our history. I suppose depending on your age your views of which are more important is different. I have voted for the Gateshead game from the list provided as it finally meant the non league days were over and we were back.
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Post by Russ Greaves on Aug 8, 2023 16:45:47 GMT
“I think the Stevenage option is likely to be one where people say, 'How can that be on the list? It was in the fifth division, we lost in the final and were rubbish for most of the next four or five years'... but in that moment when the ball hit the net, it was as about as good as football gets. “If you zoom out far enough there's not a single moment that you couldn't diminish to the point of being meaningless. There's a lovely thought for a Monday.” I can’t add much more to that earlier comment. I’ve also explained some of the factors that influenced the list. Thankfully, the book is not just 10 moments and many of the other suggestions made here will be in it. Crucially, no book or list ever has to change how any one person perceives the significance of each moment. If you don’t think a 119th-minute goal taking us to Wembley has even the slightest merit being in the top 10, there’s no need for you to reconsider! For me, as a standalone moment, with no consideration to what happened next, it’s right up there. It was pure joy, unconfined. It’s also a moment that was put forward by the majority of the panel. The problem with the Stevenage one is not that it was a good moment, but the fact that there are well in excess of 10 better “greatest moment” for the club. As I said before,Delano trumps Rendell by himself, and we went on to win that final too. I am assuming that the “panel” are all under 30 then. None of them are under 30, no.
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Post by c130uk on Aug 8, 2023 17:00:19 GMT
Voted for election into the football league everything else for me is embellishment
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Post by gedgep339 on Aug 8, 2023 17:50:55 GMT
I know in the general scheme of things, this game was not important. I would like to suggest ‘U’s v West Ham, April 1980. Absolutely atrocious night under the lights, puddles everywhere! Would never have been play by today’s rules. West Ham had just won the FA Cup and there were many stars in their side! I remember Spriggs & Finney doing well, but I don’t know if they scored? I think that is worth of an inclusion?
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ugirl
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Post by ugirl on Aug 8, 2023 18:00:47 GMT
Finney got both. Amazing season that 79-80. Finished 8th in Div 2/Championship with clubs like West Ham, Sunderland, Leicester and newcastle and Chelsea where we drew 1-1. Same sort of crowds and budget to today (comparatively) but amazing to go toe to toe with the big boys. 8th. Incredible. Little old us. Main Stand got extended too that year.
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Post by davidrv on Aug 8, 2023 18:06:22 GMT
If we are just picking the moment without what happened afterwards, can I have the Forest cup game. If we can just ignore that penalty shootout, then the atmosphere, the comeback, the sheer entertainment, and finally Shaggy complete with head bandage stepping up to equalise from the penalty spot.
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vanni
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Post by vanni on Aug 8, 2023 19:11:55 GMT
11th March 2017 for me. Carlisle 0 U's 3 (Elito x 3)
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TallPaddy
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Post by TallPaddy on Aug 9, 2023 7:43:56 GMT
Of course coming from 2-0 down at Sunderland in 92 in the final game of the season to draw 2-2 thanks to super stevie claridge and get into the play-offs for the premier league was another of the all time great times. Yes it was amazing. Especially coming out of the ground and being literally dragged into the pub and bought pints by Sunderland fans. One of my highlights.
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Andrewlang
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Post by Andrewlang on Aug 9, 2023 10:26:51 GMT
All those greatest moments probably all deserve a book of their own tbh.
I don't think I could pick a favourite between those tbh. I could watch one back on U'sTube and think 'yeah, it's definitely Dion at Wembley' but then watch Gateshead and immediately change my mind. Only to change it back again when I watch back Newcastle...or those rooftop celebrations. Or Rendell. Or Rimpson...
They all elicit the same emotion in me. I won't pick, you can't make me.
Looking forward to the book. If you could have an audio version read by Harrison Dunk and Mark Bonner that would be great, thanks.
Andrew
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phil1
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Post by phil1 on Aug 9, 2023 12:46:36 GMT
For me it was the Maidstone game - winning to have our first ever trip to Wembley(Old), coming home hanging out of the car windows and sun roof (yes we did have Sun Roofs then), stuck in the Dartford Tunnel and everyone singing - a memory to behold and will not be forgotten. Then going on to win the Play Off final.
Playing at Arsenal in a cup game is right up there - 12,000 Utd fans and 2,000 locked out - what a spectacle that was. Unfortunately we lost, but had our players not stepped in to stop the 2 x gooners players fighting with each other - it might have been a different story.
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Post by ilovechadders on Aug 9, 2023 13:27:47 GMT
For me it was the Maidstone game - winning to have our first ever trip to Wembley(Old), coming home hanging out of the car windows and sun roof (yes we did have Sun Roofs then), stuck in the Dartford Tunnel and everyone singing - a memory to behold and will not be forgotten. Then going on to win the Play Off final. Playing at Arsenal in a cup game is right up there - 12,000 Utd fans and 2,000 locked out - what a spectacle that was. Unfortunately we lost, but had our players not stepped in to stop the 2 x gooners players fighting with each other - it might have been a different story. Exactly this - and how neither this or our amazing FA Cup runs haven't made the top 10 seems quite strange.
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hhabbin
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Post by hhabbin on Aug 10, 2023 5:08:46 GMT
The greatest moment in Cambridge United's history is undoubtedly the election to the football league in 1970, but I'm sure it won't be voted top as most of the supporters voting will claim ' it was before my time'. But if CU had not been voted into the FL, then none of the other events would have even happened! There is no certainty that if we had missed out in 70, we would have got elected in 71 or subsequent years. There was a number of localish clubs who at one time or another were better placed than CU for election, Chelmsford C, Bedford T, Romford, Hillingdon B, Guildford C, Kettering T, spring to mind. they all either crashed and burnt or lost their grounds and then fell back down the non-league pyramid. Indeed until 1967 arguably we were not even the best non-league team in Cambridge let alone England. We all could be following Cambridge City now if things had turned out a little differently at that time. So, I hope the book will acknowledge the names of the people that most will not have even heard of Jack Woolley, Paddy Harris, Geoff Procter and Stan Starr who helped guide Abbey United who were then a minor but ambitious local club all the way to election to the football league as Cambridge United. Local people helping their local club, just like we have now,
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imp566
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Post by imp566 on Aug 10, 2023 7:54:08 GMT
The greatest moment in Cambridge United's history is undoubtedly the election to the football league in 1970, but I'm sure it won't be voted top as most of the supporters voting will claim ' it was before my time'. But if CU had not been voted into the FL, then none of the other events would have even happened! There is no certainty that if we had missed out in 70, we would have got elected in 71 or subsequent years. There was a number of localish clubs who at one time or another were better placed than CU for election, Chelmsford C, Bedford T, Romford, Hillingdon B, Guildford C, Kettering T, spring to mind. they all either crashed and burnt or lost their grounds and then fell back down the non-league pyramid. Indeed until 1967 arguably we were not even the best non-league team in Cambridge let alone England. We all could be following Cambridge City now if things had turned out a little differently at that time. So, I hope the book will acknowledge the names of the people that most will not have even heard of Jack Woolley, Paddy Harris, Geoff Procter and Stan Starr who helped guide Abbey United who were then a minor but ambitious local club all the way to election to the football league as Cambridge United. Local people helping their local club, just like we have now, Totally concur with this. My founding memory of supporting this great club was in 1970, first match against Lincoln. Got me, hook, line and sinker!
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