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Arsenal, the holders, against little Luton Town (recently humbled 4-1 by Reading in the Simod Cup) in the Littlewoods Cup Final. Despite O'Leary being missing from the heart of the defence, Arsenal are widely expected to walk all over their opponents and retain the cup.
Arsenal are 2-1 up and despite missing a penalty, are playing well enough to see the game out comfortably.
Then up stepped Gus for his 15 minutes (or slightly less) of fame.
He dallies on the ball in our area, treads on it, falls over, Luton equalise, and the rest is history.
My memory of this is that we were 0-1 down and playing dreadfully, but then had a very brief purple patch where we turned the game on it's head and could/should have been 3-1 up. By the end though I think it was a comfortable enough win for Luton!
But easy to forget that Luton actually finished 9th in the league that season - only 3 places behind us (Spurs finished 13th and Chelsea 18th...). And they also reached the FA Cup semi final...
I was there when we lost to Birmingham in the League Cup Final... And have seen us lose at Bradford, Swindon & York in the cup... But Luton was only really a massive upset when looked at retrospectively!
My first Wembley final . Seem to recall that Winterburn missed the pen that would have put us 3-1 up . Suspect that was the first and last pen he ever took for us . Think he played right back that day as well .
rodders999 wrote:The first time the Arsenal made me cry
The very mention of The Littlewoods Cup haunts me to this day
a friend of mine started a rap band after that day - NWP - Nigel Winterburns Penalty
i remember the topside singing "when Gus goes up, to lift the World Cup, We'll be there...We'll be there..."
i've always hated Luton since then .I was glad when they went bust and fell out of the Football League.
they're back next year...
Was my birthday (today ) and my first time seeing Arsenal at Wembley
We had 60,000 odd there Luton had 20,000 what could go wrong ?
As stated, we went behind, turned it around and I think the team got very complacent (why else would Winterburn take the penalty ? ) a very shit day and as above I have had an irrational hatred of Luton ever since
rodders999 wrote:The first time the Arsenal made me cry
The very mention of The Littlewoods Cup haunts me to this day
a friend of mine started a rap band after that day - NWP - Nigel Winterburns Penalty
i remember the topside singing "when Gus goes up, to lift the World Cup, We'll be there...We'll be there..."
i've always hated Luton since then .I was glad when they went bust and fell out of the Football League.
they're back next year...
Was my birthday (today ) and my first time seeing Arsenal at Wembley
We had 60,000 odd there Luton had 20,000 what could go wrong ?
As stated, we went behind, turned it around and I think the team got very complacent (why else would Winterburn take the penalty ? ) a very shit day and as above I have had an irrational hatred of Luton ever since
My dislike of Luton has more to do with them banning away fans, plastic pitches (saw us lose 0-4 there one year because of that!) and because the town is a shit hole! BUT....even I think they were stitched up by the Football League and am pleased for them that they finally got promoted back out of the Conference! There are also a good number of Luton fans living near me, so I have to be nice to them!
) and my first time seeing Arsenal at Wembley
