I have been grandchild sitting, so I missed a day's blog! He has a natural left foot and runs like mad; we are hoping he will make a fortune playing the game! giving his grandparents a comfortable final few years.
You would think that the "Royals" (not Reading FC) would have arranged for the Wedding to be on another day....a week later maybe. It would have given the bride's father a chance to recover from his heart op!
On this day in 1991 I was at Wembley with my son and saw Paul Gascoigne sacrifice himself in a horrendous tackle against Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup Final. I knew as soon as he took out Gary Parker, then Gary Charles, that "that was that"; Gazza's career was immediately thrown into turmoil after these terrible tackles; he had a torn cruciate knee ligament.
The Spurs won 2-1 aet, and became the first club to win 8 FA Cup Finals; this record has of course been surpassed since. This victory also continued Spurs' record of winning the Cup in a year when the year ended in a "1"! 80,000 saw the game and the Spurs were triumphant. By the way David Howells, a friend of Hepworth United FC was in the Spurs'side. I hear it is his wedding today!!
En route they beat Blackpool 1-0 away, Oxford Utd 4-2 home, Portsmouth 2-1 away, Notts County 2-1 home and Arsenal in the semi-final 3-1 with a Gasgoinge goal the inspiration at Wembley. An easy path and capped by the humiliation of the Gunners.
In the Final Gary Lineker was brought down by goalkeeper Mark Crossley, who then saved Lineker's penalty.
Only two keepers have achieved this; the other in 1988 on May 14th, when Dave Beasant of Wimbledon FC saved from Liverpool's John Aldridge.
Beasant as the first goalkeeper to captain a winning FA Cup side. I was there also to see the victory by the "crazy gang".
This game was the last to be televised by both BBC and ITV which had happened since 1958.
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