I was there bloody Alan Clarke told the team in the dressing froom he was leaving for a better club.

Could never stand black and red strip kits ever since guess what kit my son had it at his club!!!!1

Alan bloody Clarke..thank-you Graham Cross for giving
Clarke a Glasgow Kiss or was it a knuckle sandwich.....(allegedly )

Never heard that story, Cityfox. Anyone else heard about this incident? We had some good players and I had forgotten how well they played but comparing with the modern game you realise how much better the football is. Those plaayers would be even better in the modern game.

Same old story all those years ago,poor finishing!!
Lockhead missed a sitter,also Woolett didnt tackle their winger in the lead up to the goal.
Whilst i was a sad young schoolboy there was a great feeling of pride in getting to Wembley, far more than there is today.
Swindon at Wembley was a far worse experience

I was there, I went on the Housdens from Loughborough. Didn't see the match too well as I was a long way back from the pitch. But a fantastic day out for a schoolboy, plus I got a huge black and white free Leicester team poster on the way out at Wembley Way, which is still on my wall. As you say Thorney, I wasn't too upset that we lost, rather had great pride that we got there at all. The good old days when the FA Cup was held in high esteem.
He's here, he's there, he's every finkling where, Rodney Fern, Rodney Fern...

Great article Downsouf - bringing all the memories flooding back, good & bad alike.

What sticks in my mind was the promise made by the Daily Express Football correspondent Desmond Hackett that, if David Nish ended up lifting the trophy at the end of the game, then he'd eat his trilby hat!

I was gutted that we lost the game but even more so that Hackett managed to get away with it!!

Housdens my bus from rawlins merged with Caldwells then called Tricentrol here ends the anorak news.

Gally, Nev, Filbs, Longtime & Thorney. Do any of you chaps recall the story of the black cat that wandered into Filbert Street a few weeks before the Final?

I've probably got my wires crossed but I somehow remember David Nish being photographed holding the cat. The picture appeared in one or more of the daily rags. I heard the cat was run over a few days before the match itself hence our spell of 'bad luck' to come was confirmed.

Put me straight gents.

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...or perhaps you might remember this cityfox.

No I don't remember the black cat episode. If true the cat was probably introduced by a junior hack seeking a pre-cup final story! I think I'm correct that at the time, Nish was the youngest ever cup final captain at ?21 years of age.

I was at Old Trafford for the final match of that season that saw us relegated. If we had won Coventry would have gone down instead. Their manager at the time was Noel Cantwell who was seated a couple of rows behind me. We lost 3-2 and the smile on Cantwell's face at the end of the game brought me the closest to physical violence ever!!!

I remember our old song from the terraces- Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, that is the name of that Bar-steward Cantwell !

Funnily enough I was just thinking of that cup final. I was reading an article debating whether Man U was a hire and fire club following the departure of David Moyes and there was a reference to Frank O'Farrell who was sacked as MU manager having left Leicester. This got me thinking about Frank's reign as manager which I remember with fondness (interesting to see the stats in another thread showing success stats for our managers). My abiding memory of the game was Andy Lockhead's miss.

Frank O'Farrell is thankfully still alive and this week must have been a bitter-sweet one for him with Leicester crowned champions but Torquay (which has a special place in his heart) having a less than happy time.

I rememer earlier this season or last season, the Birch brought Frank out onto the pitch at half time. It was wonderful to hear him speak, I thought he was long dead, it seems a lifetime ago that he was our manager.