Spurs 1 Arsenal 2 in THAT semi final replay 1987

One of the greatest nights in Arsenals history,right up there with Anfield 89 & the best atmosphere I have ever witnessed.
La,la,la,la,la,la......

[@thorpowerfly]

You could say what you want about the terraces being unsafe, but there is no doubt the crowd is having infinitely more fun than any crowd does nowadays.

[@Muhammad914]

Greatest footballing night of my life, we was forty handed and went berserk, nothing like winning at spurs, when it was standing, those atmospheres will never be the same

[@antonyclement8871]

Was there too mate, best atmosphere I’ve ever experienced I was 13 at the time with 3 mates yeah that was a natural high and I feel privileged to of been there:)

[@frankgunner8967]

Rocky rocastle RIP bro !

[@PXR05]

I was at this game. I`ve never experienced such raw emotion around a football field...before or since.

[@warrenbrowne9648]

I remember this as the best ever game I watched on the terrace - spurs away was just the most tense atmosphere-bring back standing at football - if you want to sit stay on the couch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@davidsharpe7202]

me too great night

[@tommytaylor4139]

Yes!,great statement!!

[@fredrick1137]

Was there too pal! What a buzz yeah that was pretty glorious. Gooner Arsenal im proud to say that name!! I was right in the middle of the melee. The only thing that could have topped that atmosphere would have being at Anfield 89 but the buzz at the townhall the next day folk on top of bustops in trees everything. I've been trying to find some footage of it but no joy so far. My friend lived in the estate opposite the townhal Surrey estate or something Glorious for a 14 year old junior gooner!!

[@johnkingsley2689]

Loved seeing this again... amazing memories, i watched all 3 of those games as a 17 year old longing for some glory.... winning like that at the Lane meant everything to us

[@mackfin8869]

Great night

[@mackfin8869]

How we suffered in the 80s until this semi final .what a day .COYG

[@Vortigan07]

Still remember listening to this on the radio.Electrifying atmosphere even without the pictures! RIP Rocky...always a legend!

[@UBZUKki]

fantastic memory...

[@patrickleslie2783]

Vortigan07 true Rip David Rocky Rocastle I can't believe it will be 17 year's tomorrow since u left us.

[@robertstorey7476]

Yes me too in my student bedsit. It was enthralling.

[@LKGOONER]

Arguably the second greatest Arsenal game that I can remember. Did not see it live but listened to it on old BBC Radio Two in the days of Peter Jones. What a memory. Went ballistic, my mother just could not understand how great a comeback this was - and the fact it was against you know who. Greatest moment though was Michael Thomas in 1989. Loing live Fever Pitch - best film ever for footy fans

[@antonyclement8871]

I was there as a 13 year old with my friends and it doesn’t get better than this!

[@antonyclement8871]

Yeah I mean Anfield obviously but for pure atmosphere and location it was perfect ✌️😊

[@mackfin8869]

Your right 89 can’t be beaten 🎉

[@denisebrown2994]

Watching these videos and feel the emotion of the fans makes me missed my uncles even more! Not being able to sit down with them and listen to them telling me stories of those days is hard sometimes, I will always cherish those precious moments. Missed you Uncle Denton(The Bear 🐻) & Uncle Derek Connell! Still have all my Tshits scarf🧣 and Arsenal Jacket!

[@lcoconstruction2660]

I knew Denton, some man! Strangely enough my Dad also nicknamed "The Bear" Arsenal crazy too, and he died the same week as Denton, weird!

[@jamesieco-de2000]

Great men ❤️

[@ascent7]

amazing atmosphere...pure london

[@jamess6787]

Yep, that's what it's like when you don't price out fans in place of salmon bagel munching corporates and Asian day trippers

[@UBZUKki]

Spot on

[@redflag8970]

this wasnt the norm this was cup replay derby a bit special.

[@andremeehan8796]

Brilliant. Still give me goosebumps

[@tommylucy4738]

I’ve been following the Arsenal for 40 years this night was amazing on/off pitch Electric atmosphere

[@MrDeisearsenalfcIRL]

Love it Loving the tricolors in The Arsenal end,proper Holloway boys The yids announced their pricing for the final tickets at Half Time haha.Poor bastards. There was 25,000 gooners in White Hart Lane that night. Remember this was a time when we were 8 years trophyless as well,our first trip to wembley in 7 years WEMBLEY WEMBLEY WE'RE THE FAMOUS ARSENAL AND WE'RE GOING TO WEMBLEY WEMBLEY WEMBLEY R.I.P Rocky Rocastle

[@redflag8970]

ClockEnd87 25 000 ?

[@frankfernandez8478]

there were thousands of gooners there that night mate took over that night, and there were a couple of thousand outside to who couldnt get in i was one of them.

[@grahamcareford4303]

ClockEnd87 Best night ever. Remember the Arsenal taking the Paxton end.

[@corgiplumber]

I had a ticket on the shelf and was moved youre damn right !!! ARSENAL EVERYWHERE THAT NIGHT

[@tommytaylor4139]

Love your post, ARSENAL FOR LIFE.

[@pogodancer6875]

My Best away game ever.Arsenal support was amazing.

[@TRAPONYT]

You have to miss terraces. You have to miss that kind of crowd never to be seen jumping up and down like lunatics again.

[@gregaimer4532]

I went to this game as a 15 year old. Spurs were strong in the 80's but this was the turning point. I think they only finished above us once or twice over the following 30 years. It meant sooo much to us Gooners in the away end as you can see! The League Cup in those days was a big trophy to win. It was a significant shift in North London!! What a night! I will never forget!!

[@SpiritmanProductions]

My first Arsenal match. What a way to start!

[@kenbridger9872]

The best team lost that night.

[@shahen4]

@@kenbridger9872 Whatever helps you sleep at night.

[@DJCUk]

@@kenbridger9872 you been going to the Jose Mourinho school of being a deluded 🔔 end?

[@pump1606]

got squashed to half inch of my life when rocky put that goal in........2nd best memory in football after Thomas at anfield of course

[@CapiTen10]

r.i.p. terraces and the soul in english football

[@philgraham5341]

Chelsea fan here but back in the day that was the amazing craic. Terrace noise, thunderous challenges, getting the ball forward quickly, replays and a connection with your club

[@kevinwalsh9662]

And the atmosphere

[@Hatemoth]

Just English culture. Finished.

[@aeonicarc4632]

@@philgraham5341 Its so sad-the soul has gone out of the game-Those London derbies with Spurs, Chelsea, West Ham, QPR..those were always great matches. Even if the match was crap the action with the crowd and the coppers and everything made it exciting. I remember we would go onto the North Bank when we were kids at 1.30 and there would already be people in there singing. I remember things like reading the reserve team stats in the programme and you'd be going `who is this Paul Merson, he scored again last week`, then one day you would see him in the side and you would think, yeah, he`s our player, this is our club..now its all this `how much money have we got to spend` crap. Ive totally lost interest in it now.

[@tonelemoan]

Next step: Wembley and "1-0 down, 2-1 up, we f*ck Rush's record up...!" Remember listening to this as a 16 year old on the radio while having a kickabout. Didn't care I couldn't watch it - the emotion and the commentary were enough. Back when commentators would stick to telling you what was happening on the pitch as opposed to lengthy discourse on what the manager's sister has posted on Twitter lately. RIP Brian Moore.

[@essexnto]

I was 14 and there so being 16 is no excuse for not being there

[@schmarold99]

My dad was there love hearing his story about this one :) COYG

[@motormouthalmighty5526]

Chris Hughes YOUNG MAN! EVERYTHING FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY! I REMEMBER 1969/1970 ISH AND IT ALL FEELS LIKE JUST A MOMENT AGO. ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MEMORIES IS 1975 AND THAT IS FORTY YEARS OLD THIS YEAR! UNBELIEVABLE!

[@TheGooners13]

What a legend Rocky was. RIP

[@jonrend]

Also remember the half time announcement regarding final tickets for the yids, hahahaha. Anyway, after the game the Arsenal took the high road. Great memories!

[@kenbridger9872]

Arsenal didn't take anything there fans are as soft as a babies bottom don't you remember the years when the yids took the north bank.

[@jonrend]

@@kenbridger9872 we did.

[@DJCUk]

@@kenbridger9872 you remember the 2 times we were crowned champions at your shit hole of a ground?

[@DJCUk]

Fuck Tottenham. Trophy dodging pack of c**ts

[@kenbridger9872]

@@DJCUk your a Dick our stadium is the best in Europe you can get us on winning fuck all in recent years but you will find our ground is a million times better then your one at least spurs fans sing.

[@garethjenkins6273]

One of my greatest nights as an Arsenal supporter. The atmosphere in the Park Lane was electric. Walking though the Spuds fans afterwards, me and my mate laughing our bollocks off. Only downer, by the time we got back to Islington, all the pubs were shut.

[@goonerboz6023]

Rip rocky twenty years you have been gone

[@choicey2748]

What a night EIE bring back legsys tour's for a saga trip lol... Love it Binsy

[@tobybaker5187]

Hello Bins. Mr B

[@dimitrisatleoforos]

never forgotten.. I was there, as in all those epic games.

[@clivenewman4810]

One of my happiest memories as an arsenal supporter.

[@ZeldaFitz]

I was in the arsenal end that night. How the hell people were not killed is down to luck. If you went down in that crowd you were not coming up again. Two years later at Hillsborough it all unraveled. This was quite common at big games in them days. It's only when it all goes wrong people realise how insane the whole situation was. However, I don't like all seater stadium.

[@alexandrupintilie29]

" A couple of rows in front of me, a line of middle-aged men and women, blankets over their legs, soup flasks twinkling, started singing the Irish song that the older fans in the seats - I have never heard a North Bank rendition - often used to sing on big nights, and everyone who knew the words (“And then he got up and he sang it again/Over and over and over again”) joined in. So I thought, with, what, six or seven minutes left, that at least I would remember the occasion with some fondness, even though it was to have a bitter and dismal conclusion; and then Allinson, jinking unconvincingly down the left, put in a feeble shot on the turn that totally deceived Clemence and snuck in guiltily at the near post, and there was this enormous explosion of relief and unhinged joy. And Tottenham fell apart, just as they had on Sunday: over the next two minutes Hayes intercepted a bad back-pass and shot into the side netting, Thomas grooved his way through to the edge of the area, with the sort of insouciance we later came to love and hate, and shot just past the post. On my video, you can see, as Anderson goes to take a throw-in, the Arsenal fans literally bouncing with excitement. And there was more to come. As Tottenham’s digital clock stopped on ninety minutes, Rocky picked up a loose cross, chested it down, and hit it through Clemence and into the net; and almost immediately the referee blew the final whistle, and the rows of people disappeared and were replaced by one shuddering heap of ecstatic humanity. It was the second of three or four lifetime football moments where my delirium was such that I had no idea what I was doing, where everything went blank for a few moments. I know that an old man behind me grabbed me around the neck and wouldn’t let go, and that when I returned to a state approaching normal consciousness the rest of the stadium was empty save for a few Tottenham fans who stood watching us, too stunned and sick to move (in my mind I see white faces, but we were too far away to be able to detect shock-induced pallor), and the Arsenal players were cavorting beneath us, as overjoyed and probably as baffled by their win as we were." Nick Hornby - "Fever pitch"

[@billstep9777]

Without question the best atmosphere at a match I've ever been to. Simply unbelievable. Stood right behind the goal and still seems like yesterday. Happy days indeed.

[@grahamcareford4303]

Bill Step Unbelievable night, stay with me for ever

[@grahamcareford4303]

Was there also, unbelievable atmosphere. Arsenal fans were magnificent that night, if only we had that passion on the terraces now.

[@vassabatielos4740]

I remember my feet were off the ground for about a minute when we scored

[@antonyclement8871]

I make you 100% right my friend! Wow just wow as a 14 year old in the away end hugging strangers and dancing, yeah it doesn’t really get much better. I’m about to watch it again for about the 20th time😊✌️

[@Marlboroman69100]

Me too. 17 years old and the party back to seven sisters I have never witnessed again. THANK YOU to everyone who had the honour of being there and sharing a never to be forgotten night ❤❤❤❤

[@jezbox8535]

I was there that night, behind the away goal, totally amazing atmosphere. Still probably most enjoyable ever of my Arsenal supporting experiences.

[@jeremysmith4073]

The League Cup was huge then and it shows with the incredible atmosphere. Arsenal went on to win this cup for the first time in their history, beating favoured Liverpool, especially when Rush scored first.

[@billyyoung442]

Definitely my favourite live game . What a night

[@MarvusMedia]

My first ever game. What an introduction!

[@AFCGuildford]

50 years old & the intelligence of a 3 year old. The offer still stands

[@highburyscott7344]

Atmospher was electric, today stands nothing like this, when people let their hair down and got on with fun. Shit football compared to back then:(

[@theyeking7023]

Bore off

[@Gabriel46934]

@@theyeking7023 "Bore off", You quote? Is that a quasi refernce to the days of Don Howe's era and a tad before and a tickle there after? Highbury Scott's comments are very valid and clearly valid. The days of those remarks are how it was! So what is it you find so offending to remark with such distain? How about a subtle apology and understand and appreciate elder supporters entitled fond memories? Not a dig KV! "We will always support them, whether they rise or fall OR FALL" Recommend: Course 1; Comradely made us! win or lose. Just be there .

[@charlesbull6188]

Rocky what a player you were RIP 🙏

[@MrMmnngghh]

Ian Allinson now doing very well as manager of Boreham Wood in the Conference South. If you've got a spare tenner and a spare few hours on a Saturday afternoon, Meadow Park is as good a place as any to support an Arsenal hero.

[@terrystokley2968]

I was there , it was the best night of my life.

[@jasonpfinch]

I was there at the Lane with the Spurs. Miserable but unforgettable night. Agree with the comments about a potential Hillsborough. Lifted my feet off the tarmac in the street outside and got carried along by the crowd.

[@yobolion]

1988 Arsenal vs Liverpool 0-0 replay we broke through the wall into people’s gardens on the Avnell Road end and prayed that nobody scored as we would have been dead! Far too many people. Amazing atmosphere though! Football was so exciting in those days! Nothing has filled that void since!

[@fredrick1137]

@@yobolion that was a night game if i remember correctly and yeah 54,000 packed into Highbury. Me and my mates from school went we were only 14. The Northbank was rocking but yeah got squashed against a crush barrier a couple of times and very nearly passed out but what an amazing night. Not sure if that was our highest attendance. I know it was from that season though. And what a season aye 😊

[@TokyoJoe703]

I remember david pleat getting done for kerb crawling in the lead up to this game.

[@smashdalde9713]

Refused to pay as well, didn't he?

[@Gabriel46934]

Inflatible sex toys, ie blow up 'Sallys' and about anything you could imagine! "Nonse; sex crime; hang hang hang him!" Arsenal nailed it! Tottenham had no choice after a better performance than, 'The Rocky(LOL) Horror Picture Show. Fleet Street reveled on Arsenal's '1 (90min) ever only improvised performance'!!!!!!!!!!! CLASS EIE

[@gooner4life518]

RIP Rocky you will never be forgotten, the magic of the FA Cup.....

[@jaxcoss5790]

It' was a league cup game.

[@starchild6347]

I was there….in that mass of bodies! 18 years old, having the time of my life! ❤️⚽️

[@airwicker7]

RIP ROCKY WE LOVE YOU

[@FCBarcelonalondon]

1986/87 season. Arsenal unbeaten league record that season came to an end at Old Trafford when they lost 2-0 to us..Our Norman Whiteside did in Rocastle and got him sent of.Fair play to Rocastle he was a good player,scored a great goal against us at Old Trafford 1991/92 season when he chipped Peter Schmeichel from 25 yards in a 1-1 draw with Arsenal.

[@tonykichenside8443]

I was at that game,in the shelf end,full of gooners great nigth

[@reados4]

O' Rocky Rocky.......Rocky Rocky Rocky Rocky Rocastle!

[@robertsmyth1313]

Best of all we beat the almost unbeatable 'when Rush scores ' Liverpool in the final ...Charlie getting both goals....then to top it all the ....this is the proper cup Arsenal ...spuds lost the FA Cup final to ...Coventry....forever in our shadows We are THE ARSENAL!

[@mackfin8869]

Great night it seemed like forever waiting for a trophy in the 80s .COYG

[@craiganderson4811]

Greatest night of my life

[@automotivel3501]

Rocky RIP.

[@grahamcareford4303]

Probably the best away game I have ever attended. The Arsenal fans were brilliant that night and sang their hearts out. And for good measure they took the Paxton end as well. Gooners!!!

[@meatyebast]

one of the best

[@G00n3r4Life]

ohh rocky rocky, rocky rocky rocastle oh rocky rocky

[@pump1606]

you cant see it in these pictures the quality is crap but seriously people were fighting for there lifes at the front up against there fences, I was 21 in my prime and was fighting to get a breath.....but winning took it all away... could here arsenal singing going to Wembley all the way up to seven sisters tube.. tout charged me £20 was well worth it...lol

[@ZeldaFitz]

I'm glad you have highlighted how dangerous that night was. Truly horrific. As the second half went on it got worse and worse,at times I thought I was going to die the pressure was so bad in there. I could remember thinking please dont let it go to extra time just somebody score (even Spurs) I just have to get out of here. That night could easily have ended up as a Hillsborough. Two years later it did happen.

[@lennylaa1686]

could well have been vast nos. of forged tickets; scum make a fast buck...and innocent people get crushed to death. Really this was so obviously such a dangerous crush that the game should have been called off to prevent loss of life.

[@essexnto]

I'm actually in that shot at 3:48 and yeah it was a bit squashed but I definitely don't remember it how you're describing. Maybe because I was so young I didn't clock any danger but I remember being in far more scary crushes than that back on those times.

[@FCBarcelonalondon]

1984/85 season. Ian Allinson also scored against us to at Old Trafford.Arsenal 2-1 up half time but blitzed by us in the second half as we won 4-2.

[@essexnto]

"Against 'us' at Old Trafford" and your username is Catalan dregs London, yep that makes complete sense 😏

[@squirestew4u]

AFCGuildford. You sir have a new subscriber.

[@TheMarkyMarx]

I went to all three games. Fantastic. What a night.

[@chiefandthief]

Rocky's goal in this game gives me goosebumps every time I watch it. What a player, what a game...I wish I was there at the time to witness it. PS- amazing mullet on the guy at 6:28 : )

[@ucelts]

Dody tashes and mullets ....Time machine anyone?

[@GodOfVictory501]

My favourite chapter in Fever Pitch.

[@frankiehere2010]

This game broke my heart

[@TheMarkyMarx]

LOL best night ever.

[@glengooner74]

25 years ago today !!!!! What a fuckin night !!! Rocky RIP XXXXXXX

[@Hannibal953able]

Thank god they disposed of the rule were your keeper could pick up a pass back to him from his players off the ground.

[@davidboyle1193]

It was the best game I've ever been to

[@redflag8970]

huge game n had it all

[@hasanerisen7097]

And i was there :)))))))))

[@goonervillegonad3662]

Erm...well done! We went on to beat the mighty Liverpool in the final and break their grip on English football in the process, followed by Anfield 89, while Spurs went on to provide more hilarity by losing to...Coventry in the FA cup final. I know what I'd rather have done.

[@forgive7449]

ian allinson boreham wood legend...now manager of st albans.

[@TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

I remember the old North Bank days of the 80s. The atmosphere was fucking MASSIVE. How times have changed with this all-seating bullshit in a corporate stadium like the Emirates.

[@ravenatonepiece]

the funny thing is the Spurs fan where already lining up buying tickets for the final with 15mins to go thats the worse kind of feeling of wining and losing all in the space on minutes remind me of 2008 F1 championship it really isn't over till you hear the whistle. Oh the fat lady sings lol epic match

[@Dialsquare-eh4ho]

I'm very proud to say I was there

[@2005peasah]

My hero, Rocky Rocastle took us to Wembley, thirty years ago when he scored the winner against our rivals, Spurs.

[@BlueAndWhiteZebra]

I was there. My God. Wow.

[@mark0034]

im in The Arsenal end !

[@leeoffill1605]

Simply love it

[@vincentbrowne8639]

The Arse finally got their mojo back after some mediocre seasons-God bless Rocky (& Ian,Ian ,Ian,Ian Allison!)

[@DavidWoods-q5c]

Was there my shoe came off and the next I saw was it hitting the spurs net 😂had to walk back after the game in me socks fantastic night will live with me forever 😎👍EIE Gooners

[@Ozgooner1886]

RIP

[@KirksCORNER-1983]

Thank you for the upload!!

[@jokarogames3504]

Ian Allinson turned up for the Arsenal that day.

[@mumstheword527]

We were all around the ground tht night but then again we never yurn up

[@rjay1340]

Well I've read all the comments now and goes without saying there were more arsenal inside shite hart lane that night than Yids , coyg 😎👍👍

[@rjlplondon]

So jealous!! AFC x

[@iainclark5964]

An attractive Spurs side but with all the strength of a meringue!!. Coventry would do something similar in the Cup Final!

[@leehalloran]

E.i.E....

[@Dlj71]

What an anticlimax this season proved to be, Tottenham played some good football in 1986/87 but it counts for very little if you dont actually win anything.

[@BrassToff]

THAT's what you call a game. Not the sad excuse of a trip to the library that you get now.

[@gantonbloods]

WAAAAAAAAAAAw why arent the arsenal suporters like this now ! :( Com'on Gunners !

[@jonrend]

Albo Escobar most local support has moved away and mostly a middle class area now, not like the old days. Tottenham is still a big working class area.

[@glenwilson4168]

They are now!!!! COYG

[@carlobruno3799]

Brilliant! I was in the Spuds end unfortunately... think they knew I was a Gooner when the 2nd goal went in!! hahaha

[@DJCUk]

Hope you let all those muggy spuds around you know all about it. Fuck Spurs

[@TheMarkyMarx]

Me too. I kept it pretty quiet though, but I had a huge smile on my face. I valued my life.

[@rajnirvan3336]

3:10 iconic moment

[@motormouthalmighty5526]

I REMEMBER WATCHING THE SAGA OF GAMES BETWEEN TOTTENHAM AND ARSENAL. OH MAN IT WAS GRIPPING. BOTH SIDES WERE MAGNIFICENT AND IT DID NOT LOOK LIKE ANYBODY COULD STOP THIS TOTTENHAM SIDE BUT IN THE END THEY MISSED OUT ON WINNING THE LEAGUE TITLE, LOST A SUPERB FA CUP FINAL AGAINST UNDERDOGS COVENTRY AND WERE STILL EXPECTED TO BEAT MIGHTY ARSENAL BUT LOST TO THEM. IT SEEMED TO GO ON FOREVER. IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE MAGNIFICENT TOTTENHAM ENDED UP WINNING NOTHING THAT SEASON INSTEAD OF THE TREBLE! WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT EH ?

[@grahammason8407]

Please don't tell me that you never knew Charlie Nicholas played for Arsenal?...i remember the moron who didn't know David O'Leary is our record appearances holder of 722 matches

[@mcrudeboi123456789]

@kentishsteve and what song did spurs only sing ' oh when the spurs' thats all I heard I did watch it again and all I can hear is Arsenal fans outsing the Yids AGAIN!!

[@dannywlm63]

That was big bad Paul 😆 cuddling Rocastle

[@dinkaDPB]

is tony adams in this match? hes the only one i recognise

[@mackfin8869]

We was mobbed up

[@jamess6787]

Woah, hang on rewind, what was that at the end about Charlie Nicholas!?!?!?

[@markleech7446]

It's OK he made the final against Liverpool 4 weeks later.

[@kanuuu1]

51 years

[@tommyhemlock7915]

“Up there with Anfield ‘89”. Never mind that had it not been for Hillsborough that night wouldn’t have happened as it wouldn’t have been the last game of the season and Liverpool wouldn’t have been knackered after playing 3 games in a week including the cup final that went to extra time on the hottest day that year.

[@essexnto]

Even blowing the league by defending a one-nought home defeat ain't your fault, bitter victim syndrome at its finest.