What's your favourite Swindon F.A. Cup game ever?

[Mother Brown]

Looking through the posts,the mention of "football specials" made me smile.
Used to love going on them. Burnley was a cracker. Can remember when we played Stoke City in the late 70s
Ended up going by coach because there was a train strike?
Best one must have been . . . Wrexham 77.Worst had to be to Pompey 78 ?. . about 150 on it!!
Cant remember the results of said matches,mixture of being pissed at the time and the onslaught of old age.
Happy days.

[Langers]

Definatley today 

[Coca Fola]

Seconded!

[paddieu]

thanks for all the memories.... yeah i'd go for all of these early ones - WHU home and away, Forest home and away
[my seat today was almost exactly where I stood for Bruce Walker's last minute rocket, and the first time I've been near that spot since !],
Sheffield Weds away, then later on WHU away again, Norwich away, Everton away, Spurs away, Fulham away with Best etc.

is there a pattern emerging there ? soapy tit wank

actually there was a pattern - look how often we played 1st Div teams off the park and got caught near the end of the game to lost unjustly... and a pattern of excellent draws too...

am struggling to remember if Blackburn away around 1971 was Cup or League - we won 4-0 I think... awesome display...

the two big ones vs Arsenal and Leeds back in the early 70s have less fond memories for me - we were comfortably contained by the country's 2 biggest teams at that time..but then our expectations were sky high in those days {Roma 4-0 etc}

and then there was today 

[Peter Venkman]

Today will definately be up there, just wish I could have been there instead fo watching it online, still brilliant though!

[slinky]

Has to be Swindon v Wigan 07/01/2012.  A day I will remember for a very long time.  Absolutely fantastic!

[paddieu]

Just went back and looked to see if I'd missed any out...
Winning 3-2 at Millwall with Quinny scoring two was a great day out -
especially after the disappointment of 1970/1 and its effect on the promotion hopes.

Mind you, as I was living in London at the time, had to buy a ticket that sat me in the
midst of Millwall fans - I think you can imagine how tough it was to get through that
incognito and safely given the result :-)

Worse game wud probably be the 6-1 thrashing by Ipswich - even our goal was
an own goal !

And yeah, the Blackburn one *was* the FACup 

[Peter Venkman]

Worse game wud probably be the 6-1 thrashing by Ipswich - even our goal was
an own goal !

And yeah, the Blackburn one *was* the FACup 

Yes but the Ipswich game was in the League Cup we had a great following there that night, a good game but such a thrashing.

[phelpsieboy]

Was Huddersfield, now Wigan without a shadow of a doubt!

[animalwilliams]

January 1967 Upton Park a few months after Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters won the world cup at Wembley. We go there as complete underdogs as we were close to the bottom of the old third division and outclass them. Don Rogers was unplayable making the normally immaculate Moore look like a novice. Finished 3-3,  we fully deserved to beat them there first time around. The replay a few days later was a sell out and we won 3-1 although we didn't play half as well as the first leg.

[jimmy_onions]

Yes but the Ipswich game was in the League Cup we had a great following there that night, a good game but such a thrashing.

The ipswich game was one of my favourite away days ever...as a 14/15 yr old or thereabouts, it was quite an adventure, particulary coming after two fantastic wins over leeds and sheff weds I seem to recall...

I will never forget the long line of coaches, that at one point all pulled over, and several hundred town fans all piled out, ran down the embankment at side of road, had a piss, ran back up again and got back on coaches...hundreds of em..it was like a scene from band of brothers..
how many do you reckon we took there that night...seemed like loads..

[animalwilliams]

Around 3,500 I reckon. This was the 102 point season so was memorable for all of us then as the previous 5 seasons were pretty dire.
By the way it was Sunderland and not Leeds that we beat on the way to the Ipswich tie.

[jimmy_onions]

yes, you are right...but did we not also beat leeds in a cup game either that season, or maybe the one after?


post edit...hmm, just looked, cant find anything in the records about a leeds cup victory...mind playing tricks maybe
(but, I swear I can picture their fans up in the arkells getting all agitated!?)

[animalwilliams]

We played Leeds in the FA cup the following year at the County Ground  and even though playing well lost 2-1. David Bamber put us one up with a bullet header but they sneaked the win. The one thing that I remember from that night is the behaviour of the Leeds fans, even more unpleasant than now.