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REWIND: BBC live text coverage of the classic 2006 final

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Red Astaire

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This was posted today as I guess a reminder that some magic still exists in the cup. What a final! I remember it well - I got back from my honeymoon in Fiji a day before. Anyway for all you nostalgic hombres out there here it is. Enjoy. I did try and post it whole but it was too long and let's be honest I'm no BINNY :)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/44068727
 
We didn't play very well at all, against a team managed by Pardew, and I never feel we really win when we win on pens, or vice versa, still, lovely to see a cup aloft.
 
Love that the lead up the 3rd goal is all talk about Gerrard being stuffed and not able to move.
Then boom!
 
Yeah but we didn't reaaaallllyyy win it, did we? We were frauds. Hehe.

Not what I said or meant, as I'm sure you know. I love finals when we're playing them and winning them. Afterwards I'm able to be dispassionate about them and judge them as performances. It's only very, very insecure people who'd be distressed by that and seek to twist the meaning of it. Would anyone really want to watch our last League Cup final again? It was dire. Probably our worst final of all in terms of performance, closely followed by the League Cup final against Birmingham. And does anyone look back fondly on the FA Cup final performance against Arsenal save for the late fight back? We were outplayed. That doesn't amount to a dismissal of the fact of winning, nor a claim not to have enjoyed the fact of winning. If you can't support your team and celebrate wins but also be honest about how they were won, then I think that's very sad, as is the resentful, intolerant and lazy attempts to react snidely about it. There's way too much living in the past at the club these days, and far too much romanticising about it, too. It's unhealthy and absolutely no help in terms of the here and now. Hehe.
 
Pepe Reina made the greatest save I ever saw in that game.
And no one ever talks about it, it was a thing of great beauty.
 
Ha ha. I can't be arsed to be honest. He's the teflon man.

I made a comment in jest, and as usual an essay was fired back. Oh well.
He's been trained in the dark art of thinking about things dispassionately, you know.
 
Yup. Amazing. I cant find it tho

It was insane I remember the general consensus being that he atoned for their third with that save.

West Ham really should have won that cup. We stole it with one of the greatest strikes ever at the death and that save
 
All our players looked fucked in that game from about half way through the second half. We were knackered.
 
Great memories of that day. A 7 year old Young Peggers and I were in the corner where Gerrard celebrated his goals. His bottom lip was trembling a bit as time wore on but I kept telling him we had a chance if we could just get the ball to Gerrard.
 
Thats the one. Doesnt do it justice at all though. It was truly unbelievable.
My jaw dropped when he did it.
 
Who'd be arsed picking the bones out of old wins? No one really romanticises the performance, it's the feelings and memories that are associated with it, where our lives were at the time, who we watched it with, a great goal, the performances that got us there, the era it's associated with.

Finals are invariably a tense, anti climax where neither side wants to lose and it's often reflected in the performance. A usually defensively sound side might uncharacteristically ship a few goals, a free scoring side might bottle it. I don't think that really means we can call said teams or judge such performances as cowardly, a joke, embarrassing, etc. It's more complex than that and I can recall off the top of my head probably a couple of fans in my 40+ years who would have the gall to take that stance about a trophy winning side, either in the moment or on reflection. It usually reveals some inner bias or particular agenda.

Romanticising and living in the past? A bit rich coming from someone who judges every player and member of staff against the traditions of the club and it's past greats.

Just enjoy it and remember it as the history books do.
 
Romanticising and living in the past? A bit rich coming from someone who judges every player and member of staff against the traditions of the club and it's past greats.

What a ridiculous exaggeration, but not surprising at all, right down to the infant school grammar.
 
Infant school grammar? Listen to yourself. Go and start a thread in GC about how bullied you are, you sour pretentious, stuck up twat.
 
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