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MONDAY, 31st MAY 1993

Leicester City (0) 3........................SWINDON TOWN (1) 4
(Joachim, Walsh, Thompson).........(Hoddle, Maskell, Taylor, Bodin (pen))

ATTENDANCE:  73,802

Leicester City:       Poole, Mills, Whitlow, Smith, Walsh, Hill, Oldfield,
Thompson, Joachim, Agnew, Philpott.

SWINDON TOWN:   Digby, Summerbee, Bodin, Hoddle, Calderwood,
Taylor, Moncur (Hazard), MacLaren, Mitchell, Ling, Maskell (White).

Oh how times change............................

I wishe we had that team again, that was an ace team.

God knows how many times my dad has told me about the story of that game :D
One of his best memorys.

I'm yet to experience anything like that :(

Best day of my life (i think). I can't remember being happier at any other time.

Only other time I was as happy was on the Saturday for Oasis at MK, I was so close to the stage it's untrue, I was also a little pissed and had a little bit of the old you know what so the whole thing was farkin awesome.

The game just about tops it though, especially as my cousins are Leicester fans and were sat with us!!!! :mrgreen:

Ooooh, yeah. Seeing Bruce Springsteen for the first time was pretty special. Couldn't quite believe i was in the same room as him.

I'm going to better it by performing at Glastonbury one of these days though - you mark my words!

It was a 2pm kick off wasn't it?

I think it was 3pm, I remember getting up at 5am going to liden shops and waiting till 7am to get my paper, happiest day of my life!

I'm sure it wasn't a 3pm kick off.

I thought it was earlier than 3 too actually.

I was only 12 and couldnt tell the time!

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/images/Pics/Programmes/Prog19930403.jpg

2:30pm

Cheers Sonic!!  I knew it wasn't three, can remember looking a the clock at Wembley and it not being the normal 4.45 finishing time.

the best dive ever!!  :D

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/images/Media/Video19930403_07.mpg

Fabulous day. 1990 was excellent cause it was the first time I had ever seen Swindon at Wembley; but this topped it for excitment.

Mind you; when Leicester got back to 3-3 I thought that was it for us.
My Dad turned his back on the penalty as it was too much for him to watch!

And the two rows in front of us were full of people from the post office; including a bloke who kept running around hitting everyone over the head with an inflatable hammer.

Coming in down the A1 I walked up Wembley way with about 10,000 Leicester fans; got a few comments as I had my shirt on! They were all good humoured though.

Driving home back up the A1 with the scarves out the window etc; got not such a good reaction from the thousands of Leicester fans we passed. Almost made up for not being in Swindon and seeing the celebrations.

That was one hell of a night when we got back to Old Town - carnage up by the Wheatsheath and the Steam Railway - the football special train the travel club put on wasn't too shabby either!

One thing I will always regret in my life is that I'm not from Swindon so didn't get to go to the celebrstions in Town.  We got home after the final and it were as if no-one had a clue what had happened that day.

We even got stopped by a copper outside of Brackley 'cause we had ticker tape etc. hanging out the car - he had no idea about the game.

That was sad. :cry:

I couldn't go as I was at School! My mum wouldn't let me have the day/week off :evil:

My dad went.

It was on a Bank Holiday!!!!!!!!! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I know!! That's Scotland for you! :oops:

Definitely my best memory from the 90s. The atmosphere was incredible, I saw England play at Wembley a lot and the atmosphere was shite in comparison.

Injured my leg celebrating when the penalty went in but I didn't give a fuck.

It was a bit strange. Me and Dad went up my local pub when we got back to celebrate; me still wearing my shirt etc.

No-one else was bothered; and some didn't know Swindon had won etc. So yeh; like you I wish I'd been in Swindon that night but it was still one hell of a day.

I was at the 1993 Play-Off Final... I remember the contrast of blue and red made the fans look awesome. It was an awesome game too!

I was so happy that day but I was far too young to fully appreciate it.

It was awesome that day in Swindon.

I remember a fan on a bridge above the motorway at Reading.

The closer we got to Swindon, the bridge's got fuller of fans with banners etc., took us ages to get off the motorway.

Then at the Sun Inn at coate water was jam packed with fans on the road, all wanting to shake everyones hands, took us ages to get through.

Then all along Queens drive people with flags all the way till the Magic rounabout, awsome sight, people everywhere in the road, in the trees on the rounabouts, we just made it in time on County Road to see the team bus coming through.

Feel sorry for you young uns, but your time will come.

My dad used to go about the 1969 final, and thought I would never see us at Wembley, but I did twice in 1990 and the Leicester game.

Who wants to see us at the Millennium stadium anyways :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  Wembley when built would be great

I was young but remember all of it.  Whole family went to that, atmosphere was incredible.

Remember hanging scarfs out the windows on the way home and standing with my head out the sunroof!

Took so long to get home but was amazing. Didn't realise how high the attendance actually was.  Just goes to show how many Swindon fans can crawl out of the woodwork!

I crawl out of the woodwork on here but............................

I still been goin to the games :D

Thats all that matters.....

In 1993 I was living in North London (Muswell Hill).  It would have been very easy for me and Mrs Taylor (we're not actually married but as good as :shock: ) to have just driven round the North Circular to Wembley and straight back again. It's a round trip I imagine, of about 10 miles maximum.

Is that we did?

No chance.

We drove down the day before the game, had a few beers in Marlborough (stayed over with my mum) travelled back up to Wembley the next day just to be part of the army of Town fans going up there, drove all the way back to Swindon after the game which was totally amazing (we wouldn't have done that if we had lost!) then drove back to North London that same evening.

So rather than make one round trip of ten miles, we made two round trips totalling almost 350 miles.

Was it worth it???

Oh yes!

I think I've still got every national newspaper printed the day after the 1990 and 1993 play off finals.

Who says the play offs aren't fair?

Can't wait to see Swindon in a big game, the best for me so far has been the play-offs I suppose. We have such a huge half-fan base that when we get to the big games we pull in the huge crowds. Hopefully it won't be too long before we are celebrating again!

Fucking ace memories ! What a day that was .the whole experience from queueing for tickets at the country ground to the game itself. I turned my back when Zippy stepped up to take the pen .I can still hear the ping of the post when Maskell spanked his shot in .I have still got the original TV coverage on Video, im scared to watch it in case it gets damaged, time to get it transferred onto cd .  Im proud and lucky to say that i was there

The Maskell goal was mint

When OOH! Shaun Taylor put us 3-0 up I was actually screaming "That's it, we're there, we're in the Premiership, we can't blow this!!!!" Or words to that effect :shock:

Then again, I also said at half time that our solitary goal would probably be enough :roll:

It was my first EVER Swindon match...and probably the best one ive been to as well! Its sad to think since reaching that height, we have dropped right to the bottom in 13 years.