12/05/1979 Arsenal v Manchester United

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[@Rureal42]

I'm a United fan, 53yrs old, and this was the first cup final I can remember Utd playing in. Mc'lroy's goal has always been my favourite Utd goal. You can hear the noise of the crowd rising 3 times, once when he gets the ball, "Mcllroy is through", then again"Mcllroy is through" and then finally" and Mcllroy has done it"!!! Pandemonium! The sheer joy and then 60seconds later pure anguish. Arsenal had a hell of a side back then and Brady, what a player he was.

[@Christopher-mc6gt]

Yes Lfc fan here . Arsenal did have a hell of a side then . United were great as well . This was a great cup final for a neutral . The likes of arsenal Ipswich and United couldn't win the league because Liverpool were relentless . Liam Brady was as good if not better than Messi . What would Liam Brady be worth now ?

[@paulmundy8312]

Same age as me Colin & I'm a United fan too...Alan Sunderland broke my heart after United came back with those 2 goals in a minute. Loved Sammy 'Mac' but just proves how vulnerable teams are after they've scored

[@KebabMusicLtd]

@@paulmundy8312 Legend has it that Brian Greenhoff is still waiting to come on...

[@InPerformanceImages]

I'm the same age, and I'm an Arsenal fan. I was up in the early hours of Sunday 13th May here in Australia watching on the ABC. That passage of play and commentary you describe still gives me goosebumps. But, even as an 11 year old, nothing really compares to the sheer joy that came a minute later.

[@redflag8970]

Sam’s goal is still one of my all time favourites. Very emotional and still gets to me every time I see or think about it.

[@chrish2359]

Back when the FA Cup Final was practically a national holiday

[@smashdalde9713]

Yes.It was as good as winning the league.!

[@deathdragonslayer1]

Back in those days, the european cup wasn't as global as the champions league is now and was viewed practically in the similiar way as present day the league cup, just a distraction. Winning the FA Cup back then was equivalent to winning the champions league or league title now.

[@redflag8970]

@@deathdragonslayer1 you right as in the champs league wasnt as global but wrong if you think it was a diztraction an on a par with league an f.a. european cup was huge.

[@stephensykes8055]

I remember the roads went quiet before the cup final. It was so different to today

[@ldanzamariastile3536]

The old wembley was so special and kick off at 3 o clock the FA cup was the highlight of the season

[@ChrisTCAP]

I agree. I was lucky to attend two fac Cup finals there plus a live u2 concert. Fa Cup final day was the best to include the hours of build up prior. Now lost its appeal.

[@scsutton1]

Shame it genuinely had to get out of the way of Eurovision last year.

[@funfamilyoutdooradventurei4059]

I was 7 that day. Sat in front of the telly in my Admiral United kit. Cried my eyes out when Sunderland got the winner. The sound of the crowd is incredible!

[@Mojo740]

I’m an Arsenal fan forever! Brady is pure genius. Hi I’m from Malaysia 🇲🇾

[@joeandrews7329]

Alan Sunderland jabbed the ball past the goalie to win the final for arsenal. From Joe. X

[@pataleno]

I’m a Liverpool fan and watched this game as a 10 year old kid. Utd had beaten LFC in the semi final replay. So was Great win for Arsenal and great match.

[@edmundpower1250]

Yes United had beaten Liverpool that night and Liverpool skipper Emlyn Hughes was caught out of position for the goal and got punished by Bob Paisley by never being picked to play for the Reds again. It was a sad end for our great skipper

[@videosrus8631]

Ah! The days of replays. Remembering back in 1980 when we (Arsenal) finally overcame Liverpool in the FAC semi-final after 3 (THREE) replays. Sadly we lost in the final to a unique Trevor Brooking header. Outrageous! We were in three finals in three years and lost two of them.

[@shersingh9724]

What a match! I remember i watched this match at Cranford School London with school mates. I love the match even We lost!

[@sheriff5119]

Liam Brady! What a player he was.

[@64roo]

Being a MU fan I was gutted as a kid...but the way we over celebrated like we were going to extra time...and then Boom - Brady turns it up a bit and yes - Bailey missed it big time!!

[@TheMarkyMarx]

Yep. Genius, it was his final. Makes Ozil, today, look like a chump

[@ldanzamariastile3536]

I agree what would his value be in today's market united fan

[@strawdog9964]

he was something else,left foot like a magic wand. In my time watching football he's the best I've ever seen play for Ireland.

[@thedictationofallah]

@@ldanzamariastile3536 100 million for sure

[@niknoks7638]

I cried my eyes out on that day....I was 14yrs old 🤣 FA cup finals was ‘the game’ of the year in those days!

[@smashdalde9713]

Yep.As good as a league title, special beyond belief.

[@redflag8970]

You had to wait your turn in those days now it’s the same semi finalists more or less every yr

[@iamspartacus6713]

bit old to cry?

[@jatinchauhan6009]

@@iamspartacus6713 don't you cry . .OLD Fella? Are you that hard 🤣 Everybody cry of joy. .I think you haven't. .

[@iamspartacus6713]

@@jatinchauhan6009 haha you're a funny guy

[@NuisanceMan]

I am an American, but I lived in England for one year when I was 11, and I actually remember seeing this game!

[@sheriff5119]

Wow.. what a game! who needs a Messi when you have a Liam Brady. What a player!

[@TheMarkyMarx]

Lionel Messi AKA the Argentine Brady.

[@shanet5604]

@@TheMarkyMarx Well put !!

[@emirbojicic]

@@TheMarkyMarx Brady aka english messi

[@josephjames4326]

Outplayed by Wark in 78 final.

[@pauljames2050]

Agreed 100%

[@Amber90125]

I remember so vividly that me dad an expat living in America pulled my siblings and myself from school and along with my mum flew to London with dads family in North London to go to 1979 FA Final at Wembley. With my uncles & aunts with my grad parents on me dad side there must have been 40 of us at this Final. So memorable in moment celebrating an impending Cup win then United ties late in the.game we were tense then Alan Sunderland saves the day and an Arsenal Cup win. We thought me grand dad was having a heart attack when Sundered scored Great memories with me dad and we flew back to America the day after the final buzzing

[@edmundpower1250]

Wow thats an amazing memory

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Great story ,

[@RobCLynch]

Fa Cup final day. There was nothing quite like it. Getting up mid-morning and watching the build-up on Grandstand. Flicking over to World of Sport - depending on who was being interviewed. Watching the fans walking up Wembley way. The announcement of 'lady's and gentlemen, the Fa Cup Final', and a big roar would go up. Then the Royal Marines would parade the Wembley turf playing their marching music. And if your team was in the final, it was even better!

[@John-ed2wj]

Robert C Lynch agreed. Then along came the billions of pounds.

[@RobCLynch]

@@John-ed2wj Yes because I was talking about a time in the seventies and eighties when it cost £5 for a cup final ticket and the final wasn't sponsored by anybody. A time when the game was a 'working man's game'

[@ivanppillay914]

You've brought a lump to my throat.

[@scsutton1]

Now it's just another game like any other.

[@colinjennings3661]

I remember watching this to this day ...Liam Brady was a top quality player.

[@hugodrax71]

The old Wembley, sunshine, a brilliant atmosphere without the need for loud music or pyrotechnics and sides going all-out to win the trophy...when the competition was glorious and the FA Cup final was the biggest day in the domestic season.

[@64roo]

The odd brass band was always good value

[@Canas94]

@@thespywholovedme1977 Ones that dive and cheat. Moses 2nd yellow for diving as an example. Oh how these videos make me wish I was born a little earlier. I'm 25 and only really grew up with this over inflated transfer market .

[@smashdalde9713]

They've fucking ruined it.Not interested anymore.

[@smashdalde9713]

@@Canas94 I wish you could of witnessed the pre-Hillsborough era..it was majestic and accessible.

[@Canas94]

@@smashdalde9713 I have one heck of a football knowledge but the sad thing is, anything up to a certain date ends up going blank for me, beyond basic stats. Almost like a forgotten time period of football. Since it's only mostly modern games you can just search up and watch in full or with highlights. In England, talking about anything pre Premier League is unthinkable thesedays too. A shame really.

[@JAMIECURTIS1965]

Macilroy's amazing goal- he's a full-back, that makes it even more amazing... probably one of the best 'one man' goals ever. I had goosepimples when that went in, in part due to the EXCELLENT COMMENTARY. R.I.P. 'old' Wembley stadium. No place ever like it, or ever will be. My respect to Arsenal, a great team, even as a Man Utd supporter

[@strawdog9964]

J Sammy McIlroy played in midfield.

[@Bazooka183]

@@strawdog9964 Man Utds two full backs that day were Jimmy Nicholl and Arthur Albiston, with a midfield of Coppell, McIlroy, Macari and Thomas. Arsenals midfield consisted of Talbot, Price, Brady and Rix. It was the mecurial Liam Brady who was the star man in the 79 final, and the difference between the two sides 👍

[@thefullenergychannel2879]

HE'S MIDFIELD

[@KebabMusicLtd]

I think the Ricky Villa goal against City two years later would top Maca's goal...

[@videosrus8631]

As a Gooner, I'll never forget watching the 5-minute final with my ManU mate & neighbour (RIP). When ManU equalised, he went tearing round the garden, came back in, plonked himself on the settee and then wondered why extra time wasn't being played. Priceless! A lovely chap who was taken far too early.

[@kevinkeegan3587]

Brady was a great player. He'd have been just as dominant in the EPL. I'm not an Arsenal fan, but I believe he was up there with the greatest players of the Seventies. Look up the goal he scored in a 5-0 win at Tottenham. Fantastic!

[@roncatton7101]

As an Arsenal fan al my life, I can remember 'everything' about this day. It was absolutely amazing and so was the weather on cup final days in those years!

[@MrTuftynut]

And I was there...Having spent over a month's salary (yes £130) on a ticket, and just 18 years old. We'd been in the pubs in Wembley since lunchtime, then standing in that hot July 1979 sunshine at the lovely old Wembley Stadium with about 25,000 mad Arsenal fans behind the goal at the Arsenal end , so I was behind Gary Bailey's goal when Alan Sunderland scored that amazing last gasp goal on 89 minutes to win it for us Gunners. I can barely describe the emotions and pandemonium that ensued as the ball nestled in the back of the net. Long before all seater stadiums, in the lovely old Wembley (far more atmosphere and history than the new one has). When Man Utd had equalised on 88 minutes to make it 2-2 we felt the cup slipping from our grasp...but wait...Sunderland scores just 1 minute later, on 89 minutes to make FA Cup history. I was immediately caught in a massive crowd surge as the goal hit the back of the net, carried forward about 20 feet and buried under about 6 people on the old concrete terrace steps. Grown men cried, I cried too with joy and relief. I also lost the right heel of my two-tone 'Jam' shoes, ripped completely off in the crush and my voice was gone for almost two days. What a memory and that's why I love Arsenal with all my heart and now my son and daughter do too.

[@Grendel2912]

Martin Davies was there two stood behind that goal, a brilliant day.

[@saifhasan4481]

Martin I remember when we went the whole season unbeaten. What a fabulous memory that was. I was 20. What a squad we had. Arsenal fan for life

[@AH-be6bu]

Nick Hornby was behind the United goal as well, according to ‘Fever Pitch’.

[@smashdalde9713]

The old Highbury was magnificent too..

[@edwardhudson9851]

I was there as well Brother.Im 58 yrs old and living in rural Canada now.EVEN after all this time I just watched this again and I literally shouted out loud gon on son as Sunderland buried that last one,fxxk knows where I ended up but I just managed to stay on my feet and yes there were grown men crying tears of joy in the days when players played for the shirt and the club and that was enough

[@meisterlymanu5214]

my favourite childhood footy memory. My 9th birthday was 9 May, and 3 days later after this match, me and 10 mates from my street put up the goal i was bought, with orange net and pegs, and played footy till dusk. Glorious.

[@kevinwilde]

absolute timeless classic it's a pitty united don't show that determination today.

[@peterbothwell9005]

I was there. 19 years old, Only Cup Final I’ve ever been to and I still have the ticket (with stub attached) today.

[@richardignatowicz9031]

Best FA cup final EVER!!

[@perryleary4976]

wonderful

[@garethroberts694]

As I was a Liverpool fan back then and as Manchester United beat us two years earlier then I wanted Arsenal to win but never expected such a great ending - Well Done Arsenal !

[@jonhigh7619]

Best last 5 minutes of a cup final. Rest of the game wasn't that great.

[@alphaelectricx6753]

1987 would like a word with you sir.

[@tonybroderick4808]

It was tedious until the last few minutes.

[@cjadlam2426]

As a man utd fan i can say its my fav final to re watch even though we lost

[@ChrisTCAP]

Wierd mind you have. PS as a fellow United fan, I agree.

[@thefullenergychannel2879]

I remember running out on the street screaming my head off on the Sammy McIlroy equalizer but it was so short-lived, my best mate who was an arsenal fan who died 10 yrs ago felt so sorry for me he sparred me the banter god bless his soul that was a rear Gary Bailly error that cost us that alan sunderland goal he made up for it against Brighton through 1983 with that last-minute save. miss the old Wembley and what the FA CUP used to stand for

[@seamusAndemi]

What a cup final I was 21 then I am 67 now always in my mind I live in Australia now but was from North off Ireland mybe they needed george best back❤

[@martyndavid2094]

Now a days , there would be 12 mins of injury time, the great days when the fa cup mattered. And the fans were full of noise/ passion who loved standing up. And getting in was cheap.

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

All gone now mate😂Sadlu

[@philipbrewer7924]

I was at this FA Cup. Brilliant is all I can say.

[@rajalingamkandasamy1044]

one of the the most amazing FA Cup finals. I have ever seen. Liam Brady was the difference. What an amazing comeback by Utd tru Mcillroy simply amazing. And what a finish by Alan Sunderland. both teams really entertained the crowd. Wow

[@rajalingamkandasamy1044]

Wow Liam Brady so good

[@rajalingamkandasamy1044]

I'm a MUtd fan. Just to let you know guys know. But quidos to you Arsenal fans. what an amazing Cup final.

[@charliebridges3584]

This was the match that caused me to become an Arsenal supporter at 10 years of age. 45 years on, still shouting for the Gunners.

[@terryandrews9841]

Brady..Pure Genius

[@rmmclassof7662]

Memorable f.a cup finale...worth watching it over and over again...

[@edmundgwenn8399]

Sweet stuff. The 'mighty' United thought they could beat us. Ha. The best climax to the FA Cup Final ever. I saw this on TV back in the day. When the third Arsenal goal goes in it still brings me to tears of joy.

[@FCBarcelonalondon]

1983 fa cup semi final Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal Norman Whiteside 1999 fa cup semi final Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal Ryan Giggs 2004 fa cup semi final Manchester United 1-0 Arsenal Paul Scholes. If your a Gunners fan ouch that hurt.I bet you 8-2 be a Arsenal fan on those days.

[@udo7_85]

FCBarcelonalondon all semi finals hahaaa

[@TheMarkyMarx]

@@FCBarcelonalondon 2005 Paddy wins it for Arsenal on penalties!!! A RECORD 13 CUP FINAL WINS! Arsenal !!!!!!!

[@FCBarcelonalondon]

@@udo7_85 Yeah all semi finals and all Arsenal losses to Manchester United in them.😊

[@udo7_85]

FCBarcelonalondon great

[@Canas94]

Honestly wish we could treat the FA Cup like it used to be. Less corporate tickets being handed out, to those who won't turn up! That would be a brilliant start. Fans getting knocked out the cup and saying "Oh it's only the FA Cup" That has to change. Teams playing terrible line ups? And in the current climate of fixtures. I'd suggest scrap replays entirely. Might sound stupid but set aside a champions league spot for the F.A Cup rather than Europa League? And if the team already has it, it goes to the next league position? One other change I'd make. The 5th round gets played on a weekday now if I recall how this season went. What's that about? Can''t get the same excitement as a weekend cup game.

[@shanet5604]

Chances were back then they didn’t have champions league to think about around the same time,chances are nowadays the teams in the final are in the latter stages of that so they are more preoccupied with that than the FA Cup !!

[@edmundpower1250]

Get over it mate... The FA Cup has had its day. I used to love it too because it was the only 'live'domestic club game on every season... Now everything's live and the cup means very little anymore

[@shanet5604]

@John Who Damn you spellcheck ! Ignore first two words then start with a capital ! Ah ffs you get my point Jesus !! Lol !!

[@shanet5604]

@John Who Agree,they don’t !! Footballs gone to shit ! Not bothered anymore ! I’m Irish,and it’s even creeping into the Gaelic,players are starting to fall over on the slightest tackle and they’re not even paid for it ffs !!!

[@jasenwright1178]

I was there exactly in line with Stapleton's winner! Loved it! COYG!

[@ythomitnellum]

Worth watching with the BBC Radio 2 commentary team of Denis Law, Alan Parry, and the unsurpassed Peter Jones, who’s coverage of the denouement is simply brilliant.

[@thankfullbreath]

I damn love this club!!! Aaarsenal, Arsenal Not even born at this time, but still am so pleased watching this video

[@chemplee7137]

this was the first full game i watched through live TV in HK, i started in loved with MU since this game till now, although they loose the games at the last mins finally.

[@cyarsenal]

my ❤ for Arsenal start here

[@darrenbrackley2301]

Went straight out to play cricket at the end of this game with one of my friends. He was a Gooner!!

[@PaulSmith-mh2yq]

I'm 64 and followed United all my life - even when they were relegated. This final hurt but the '76 one was more painful.

[@redflag8970]

Agree 76 was such a blow this one was more the way it unfolded at the end which was devastating

[@baljitdhillon5523]

This was known as the four minute Cup Final, one of the most memorable!

[@TheUTubeTeamSucks]

Came here after the news about Gordon McQueen. First football i ever watched was 1978 cup final, but 1979 was my first final as a Man U supporter, such a memory, watched it with my dad, thought it was all over before we managed to get one back thru Gordon, before McIlory's miracle goal levelled it up, me and my dad were punching the air, then 60 secs later couldn't believe it as Sunderland scored. Great memory tho. RIP big man.

[@karlmarx71]

I was 8 yrs old, the acute disappointment is still with me 44 yrs later.

[@senianns9522]

I was there sat opposite where Brady crossed to Sunderland for the winner! Never forget!

[@stevesalkas9128]

As 8 year old first game I seen as arsenal fan and still love them

[@thomas-fq1wi]

These were the days used to watch the scottish cup final at hampden on one side sometimes both then they would go to wembley and you' d get immediate highlighs of the fa cup final, what a day that was

[@smashdalde9713]

Yeah!You'd wake up early on Saturday,nip down the newsagents (most of the time it would be gloriously sunny) and get your 'cup final souvenir pull out' and a chocolate milk.Then the build up would start at lunchtime and if your team were in it the butterflies and tension would become almost unbearable.. Then finally the ROAR as the teams came out of that tunnel..long gone now,along with everything else that was fun..

[@naeemabuhasan9736]

Unforgettable match Look at the style of the players wonderfull Remind me of the nice days

[@michaelboardman8810]

Emotion and tears

[@mcfcguvnors]

Bob wilson at the end ,forever a people person goes to help someone with cramp,what a guy

[@eddiepower3876]

Someone!! Thats Sunderland who scored the winner

[@amberpuga7322]

The Five Minute Final - Goes to The ARSENAL!!!

[@aussieboy77]

3 goals in 3 minutes. Amazing game.

[@tommylucy4738]

I was there summers day yellow sun & shirts ! What a day great memories ! Up the Gunners

[@Xgeneration28]

swear down this is on btsport 3 right now. arsenal are a brilliant club we have always won in the most epic ways. nothing to do with luck just pure class or nothing.

[@ajanthony1356]

that's why we'll always be considered a big club. didn't get all those trophies because of mega spending, paying the referees or parking the bus. always exciting football and winning the hard way

[@tonymay6235]

The noise from the Man United fans in the build up and the finish of Sammy McIlroy,s equalizer is fantastic 😄

[@chrisevans5259]

My first experience of watching an FA Cup final ,...and as a man United fan I felt every emotion as a fan that day........ Deflated.....to .....Elated.........and ultimately a mind blowing defeat that was cruelly Fated,....when I look back now , it just shows how much more the cup final meant to players in those times,.....I remember seeing United's Mickey Thomas in tears after the game....how times have sadly changed

[@gary1961]

Goalies with no gloves on! Now, they wear boxing gloves!

[@PrZemek44]

gary1961 And the ball was... a real thing, not the balloon they use today. But that's why I have a lot of respect for today's goalies. Even Gordon Banks said that he'd never play as a goalkeeper these days, too damn hard...

[@SurfingTheMentawais]

In that era the world came to a standstill on Cup Final day. For a football manager, leading a team out onto the pitch in the FA Cup final was like going to heaven. It almost could not get any better than that.

[@basilcruncher]

thanks for posting. classic. and chippy brady was magic.

[@kevinkelly4374]

class act chippy

[@paraconti]

Ahh the good old days when the FA Cup final was the only LIVE match to be aired in Asia...

[@kevinprior3549]

What a final this was

[@TheMarkyMarx]

The FA Cup what a game what a competition. We say it's the Famous Arsenal Cup. 14 Times. 7 by Mr Arsenal Wenger

[@bravemelwas1618]

best 5 minutes in any fa cup final

[@graemekinslow9789]

Gordon McQueen man of the match 😮

[@troywindle466]

I remember trying to stay awake to watch this at my God mother's place In Muswellbrook In Australia with member of the club I played football for, The Muswellbrook Golden Eagles

[@KebabMusicLtd]

Legend has it that Brian Greenwood is still waiting to come on...

[@thefullenergychannel2879]

Brian Greenhoff My friend You know he died don't you?

[@johnhilland7684]

my favourite final,end to end.

[@rc2869]

First game in full that I still I remember. Liked Coppell but Brady what a player.

[@kailashpatel1706]

don't you think that pass by Coppell for the second man utd goal was class?

[@giles.50]

Even tho I was born in early 2000's, I can feel how special this is

[@Ernest_Thesiger]

5:43 Sammy McIlroy's goal wasn't too dissimilar to the goal Ricky Villa scored at Wembley a couple of years later, yet whilst nobody would say there was anything special about Mcllroy's goal, plenty of people say Villa's goal was the best FA Cup Final goal ever! Of course Ricky Villa didn't even score the best goal of the 1981 FA Cup Final replay. Watch Steve MacKenzie's goal and tell me I'm wrong!

[@shanet5604]

They didn’t win,that’s why !!

[@DutchVanHelsing]

LIAM BRADY.....The man !

[@DutchVanHelsing]

Liam Brady ! God. And I stand in the Shed.

[@bravemelwas1618]

liam brady what a player pure genius

[@jetlifari]

Brilliant stuff!

[@michaelosito8083]

My country, in 2023, cant have such a stadium which exsted in other countries way back 1979😢😢 my Country Kenya , wake up.

[@dimitrisatleoforos]

seems like yesterday..Go Gunners!

[@blastfromthepast7005]

Both goalies were bare-handed.

[@alexandrupintilie29]

"I was high up on the terraces with the other Arsenal fans, right behind the goal that Manchester United were defending; I sat down, too dizzy with pain and anger and frustration and self-pity to remain on my feet any longer. There were others who did the same, and behind me a pair of teenage girls were weeping silently, not in the hammy fashion of teenage girls at Bay City Rollers concerts, but in a way that suggested a deep and personal grief. I was looking after a young American lad for the afternoon, a friend of the family, and his mild sympathy but obvious bafflement threw my distress into embarrassing relief: I knew that it was only a game, that worse things happened at sea, that people were starving in Africa, that there might be a nuclear holocaust within the next few months; I knew that the score was still 2-2, for heaven’s sake, and that there was a chance that Arsenal could somehow find a way out of the mire (although I also knew that the tide had turned, and that the players were too demoralised to be able to win the game in extra time). But none of this knowledge could help me. I had been but five minutes away from fulfilling the only fully formed ambition I had ever consciously held since the age of eleven; and if people are allowed to grieve when they are passed over for promotion, or when they fail to win an Oscar, or when their novel is rejected by every publisher in London - and our culture allows them to do so, even though these people may only have dreamed these dreams for a couple of years, rather than the decade, the half- lifetime, that I had been dreaming mine - then I was bloody well entitled to sit down on a lump of concrete for two minutes and try to blink back tears. And it really was for only two minutes. When the game restarted, Liam Brady took the ball deep into the United half (afterwards he said that he was knackered, and was only trying to prevent the loss of a third goal) and pushed it out wide to Rix. I was watching this, but not seeing it; even when Rix’s cross came over and United’s goalkeeper Gary Bailey missed it I wasn’t paying much attention. But then Alan Sunderland got his foot to the ball, poked it in, right into the goal in front of us, and I was shouting not “Yes” or “Goal” or any of the other noises that customarily come to my throat at these times but just a noise,“AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH”, a noise born of utter joy and stunned disbelief, and suddenly there were people on the concrete terraces again, but they were rolling around on top of each other, bug-eyed and berserk. Brian, the American kid, looked at me, smiled politely and tried to find his hands amidst the mayhem below him so that he could raise them and clap with an enthusiasm I suspected he did not feel."

[@ivanppillay914]

Well written. I alway appreciate descriptive pieces.

[@davidnesbit45]

@@ivanppillay914 He stole this from Nick Hormby. It's from Hormby's book, "Fever Pitch".

[@ivanppillay914]

@@davidnesbit45 : Yer don't say! Well I'd be a "monkey's uncle."

[@Michael-yd5ry]

I got a ticket for the previous final against Ipswich.😢😢😢😢😢

[@ivanppillay914]

What memories!

[@lukethomas6763]

Back when football was football

[@saifhasan4481]

There's still love in the game but it's changed a lot

[@oilbeefhooked351]

I was 10 years old watching this live. This is when I became a gooner

[@jj9749]

same here (I was 9)

[@davidcastle8791]

Estoy aquí por Maldini

[@Amber90125]

ARSENAL FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOONERS!!!!!!!!!!!

[@saifhasan4481]

Arsenal fan for life

[@albionite7982]

from a WBA fan, classic game

[@Rureal42]

Mc'lroy's goal always been my favourite United goal. You can hear the crowd's volume increasing 3 times and Motson's commentary. Shame about Sunderland goal, extra time would have been very interesting. 53 yrs old.

[@thefullenergychannel2879]

Gary bailey was at fault for that goal ,

[@shanet5604]

The Full Energy Channel Hesitated ! You never hesitate with a cross ! You’re out of position if you do !

[@thefullenergychannel2879]

@@shanet5604 I remember that final so well we got it to 1 1, then they got that last goal I was well gutted my best mate who passed away 10 yrs ago was well happy

[@redflag8970]

Mate always noticed that when Sam goes thru. Still probably my fave goal . 58yrs old bud

[@paulgraham6316]

People always talk about Ricky Villa's great dribbled goal of 1981, but in my opinion McIlroy's was equally impressive, yet seldom mentioned.

[@redflag8970]

It wasn’t the winner

[@grahamwest2795]

I was there, talk about euphoria one minute, dispair next,..

[@garethjenkins6273]

I was there that day. Still rember the feeling of desolation when United equalised after we had been in total control right up to the moment Mcqueen scored what we all assumed was a consolation goal. As extra time neared I was convinced we were going to lose. Luckily Chippy had other ideas. She wore a yellow ribbon....

[@kingkenzokwansa]

I wasn't born yet but it always feels good beating the scums. I love my Arsenal of war.

[@flalingbashers2957]

Liam Brady what a player MoM.

[@Goalspaytherent]

Love the way McQueen seemed genuinely upset at his disallowed goal after punching it in ! 😂

[@MANCHESTER.IS.BLUE.49]

Sunderland won it in 79 and Villa in 81......and Brooking in 1980.. 😉😉

[@urbanrider403]

Liam Brady was pure class

[@aramledezma4230]

I’m here after reading “Fever Pitch”.

[@christiananze1917]

Aquí los que vienen después del podcas de jordi y Maldini... XD

[@jj9749]

The most memorable game of the last 50 years

[@originalherdsman3524]

What about Arsenal winning the league away to Liverpool on the last day of the season with basically the last kick of the game (IT'S UP FOR GRABS NOW)

[@petersmith892]

The 9 minute final they called it

[@davidreed1995]

Classic manchester united fright back they where very un lucky at the end great team that year

[@Frankster85]

Nick Hornby sent me here :)