MANCHESTER UNITED V COVENTRY CITY FA CUP 31/01/1987

[@oystermouth1971]

I was in the Stretty Paddock for this one. First game at OT! Gutted at the result but Coventry went on to winning a cracking cup final that season to be fair. RIP John Sillett!

[@dokkenratt]

I was there that day in the Stretford end with some mates. I was gutted at the result but even then you kind of got the feeling that it was going to be Coventry's year. Well played.

[@rjjcms1]

Their league form had been solid since George Curtis and John Sillett took charge the previous summer and did a brilliant reconstruction job,in mindset,approach and confidence among the existing players more than in terms of recruitment,but this was where Coventry's great FA Cup run really took off,and yes from then onwards they felt it could be their year. There was a real new-found optimism about the Sky Blues in contrast to the succession of dramatic relegation escapes of the preceding years.

[@knacka8796]

im 48 and my hero is still Keith Houchen. Bloody awesome times. Skyblue Army !!!!

[@DangerManQ]

We'll take revenge

[@DangerManQ]

If we lose to you then i lost all hope for my club 😂😂@@knacka8796

[@johnhawkins6506]

A fantastic result on their way to winning the Cup, well done Sky Blues and it would nice to see the less well of teams gate crashing in Premier lge & Cup now as it's now so boring with same teams winning all the time!!

[@Kralhonj]

This goal was scrappy but Houchen's diving header against Spurs in the final is one of the best goals ever scored at Wembley.

[@daddykornflakes]

Yes, he went on to score 5 goals on Coventry's cup run and saved the best one for last.

[@rjjcms1]

Indeed,one a messy old goal but such an important one,and the other a classic!

[@UXB-p5u]

He scored the last minute penalty for my team York City against Arsenal in the 4th round the FA Cup at home.

[@rjjcms1]

@@UXB-p5u I remember listening to that on the radio and then seeing it on Match of the Day or The Big Match later,and that Byrne,Houchen and Walwyn scored lots of goals for York at that time.

[@darrencarr3379]

John sillett is my dads cousin I was there and after the game John took me round the dressing rooms I remember being splashed with after shave by Greg downes I was 12 amazing

[@jeffholmes8092]

Trevor Peake was great in the heart of our defence, special year for Keith Houchen. PUSB.

[@dayglofreak81]

Brian Clough getting arrested at 6:14 for some reason...

[@jonathongates3747]

dayglofreak81 great spot!

[@IanBlack66]

😄

[@markllsinkus729]

Lol

[@scherben8870]

😁 👍

[@andymacfaul2852]

Superb comment!

[@darwinsfish]

In the days when the FA cup meant something. Ruined now.

[@officialwillieg2001]

Sky blues

[@deleteend666]

me and my brother were there that day as well,,,such a disappointment

[@mrkipling2201]

I went to this it was fucking freezing that day if i remember rightly. I really thought we would win that day but we didn't turn up for some reason

[@scherben8870]

Extremely cold. Some used that as an excuse (i.e. the frozen pitch stymied our play), but a similar situation ten years earlier v QPR didn't stop us. We just weren't good enough. Like you, I'd been optimistic about the Cup that season.

[@mrkipling2201]

Yeah we had robbo out and blackmore was wearing number 7 shirt so that probably gave Coventry a lift before the game. Robbo was that good for us then it was like a 1 man team at times.

[@scherben8870]

Seeing Sunbed and Terry Gibson in any team would give the bloody opposition a lift. Big Ron made some poor decisions in his final 12 months or so.

[@mrkipling2201]

It seems we were buying those sort of players in the 80s who were good elsewhere but United and OT were too big for them. Gibson, Davenport, Higgins, Brazil etc.

[@scherben8870]

If only we'd bought Lineker and kept Beardsley... Actually, if his back had been o.k., Brazil might well have been a good signing. Lineker still would have been the better bet though, even then. The others were rubbish. There's a case to be made that the names Gibson and Anderson, should forever be 'verboten' at OT.

[@John-pl8fe]

Goals were scrappy those days!!