| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone 09:35 - May 6 with 2380 views | exeterblue10 |
What are your memories of that day? Were you at Wembley or watching the game and all the build up on the box? |  | | |  |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 09:51 - May 6 with 1865 views | norfsufblue |
So glad we won it when it was the football event of the year!... it wasnt just a day, Talk of the Town for a week nationally, great days... so sad what the FA and Premier League have done to to this competition!
Osborne 1-0! |  | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 09:53 - May 6 with 1864 views | BasingstokeBlue |
You could at least have let @MaySixth do the announcement! |  |
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| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 10:28 - May 6 with 1806 views | Guthrum |
Watched it on the TV as a boy. Wasn't really a football household (more rugby and cricket), but with it being Ipswich - my father was born and grew up there - it was on. That was the spark for my following of Town, even tho it didn't really become active until about 20 years later. |  |
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| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 10:33 - May 6 with 1791 views | leitrimblue |
Was there as a 7 year old. Barely remember it as more then the odd flashback. Was sunny and everyone was very happy/drunk |  | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 10:48 - May 6 with 1765 views | waveneyblue |
Sadly I was only 5, so very little memory of it. Subconsciously, I think it might have set me on the road to becoming a town fan in the later years.
This is why I bang on about these being the best days to be a town fan, as they are for me. |  | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 10:53 - May 6 with 1752 views | soupytwist |
I was 9 years old and watched it in the lounge of my family's house in Pitsea, Essex. We moved to Benfleet in the summer holidays that year and when I told classmates at my new school that I supported Ipswich I was accused of only doing so because they were successful. I had to tell them that they had been my only team and I was following in my mum's footsteps. |  | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 11:07 - May 6 with 1661 views | Radlett_blue |
Yes got to the game thanks to our college football captain whose dad was on the board of Plymouth Argyle so he wangled me a couple of tickets. In the Town end, fortunately. |  |
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| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 11:09 - May 6 with 1654 views | Meadowlark |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 09:51 - May 6 by norfsufblue |
So glad we won it when it was the football event of the year!... it wasnt just a day, Talk of the Town for a week nationally, great days... so sad what the FA and Premier League have done to to this competition!
Osborne 1-0! |
Not only was I there in '78 but last Saturday after the QPR match I had the privilege of meeting Roger Osborne in the pub! |  | | |
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| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 11:11 - May 6 with 1654 views | LeBlue |
I was 7 and vaguely remember being somewhere (maybe Thorpe Park?) watching the Peter Stuyvesant waterski tournament - remember it being announced that Ipswich had won the FA Cup. |  | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 11:17 - May 6 with 1627 views | JimmyJazz |
It's strange to read back and hear how Arsenal were such favourites. We had been one of best teams in England for 5/6 years and although we had suffered a poor season I had no doubt we would win. Sure Supermac was a bit of a concern beforehand, while they also had Brady and Jennings. But no way were they huge favourites |  |
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| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 11:26 - May 6 with 1569 views | Overtheborderblue |
I was 21 on that day had queued from 4am to get our tickets with the required vouchers from random games throughout the season.
On Friday night on TV we had watched the traditional ‘Who win the cup’ programme.
It was a cold misty morning when the works coach picked us the family from St Augustine’s roundabout about 8.00am .
Even in 1978 our coach had a tv on it , so watched ‘Cup final multi coloured swap shop ‘ and Cup final ‘It’s a knockout ‘.
On all the bridges over the A12 were people , flags decked out blue and white all the way to Romford.
Coach parked in Wembley coach park under the twin towers walked up the massive steep steps to our ticket gate by now it was hot and sunny ,once inside behind the goal (the pitch was a long way away bit like the London stadium is now) the noise,singing was like a brick wall .
We had pre-match entertainment model aircraft with a blue tail streamer or red in a battle to take the other , Ipswich won! Marching bands and of course community singing with traditional ‘Abide with me’
Inside it was getting hotter and hotter , the match itself passed in a blur to me until that moment!
then the clock went so so slowly.
I hardly saw the cup presentation due to the tears but from then on it was party time not only that evening or the next day parade on Cornhill but for weeks after meeting the players and cup at events around the country, Ipswich ,workplaces , clubs families rode the fun for weeks after. | | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 11:32 - May 6 with 1524 views | onceablue |
Was there with my dad, god bless him, and my younger sister.
We had been season tickets holders since 1974
Got the coach from Portman Rd and when we got back dad had left the car lights on and the battery was flat.
Some kind man had jump leads so we got back home ok
Fantastic day, Osborne 1-0!!!!!
Saw Roger Osborne before the game on Saturday explaining to my lad how he marked Johan Cruyff out of the game when we beat Barcelona 3-0 at home in 1977 | | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 12:05 - May 6 with 1425 views | Ftnfwest |
I was 11, nearly 12, and had to watch on tv after going to both the quarter final (my first away game in this country) and semi with my uncle. He couldn't go to final and i lived in Cambridge so no hope of getting a ticket. Was an amazing spectacle, the build up, the crowd, and like others have said, losing didn't seem to enter my thoughts at all. Heavy pitch, Brady not 100%, Hudson, McDonald and Stapleton ineffective. Woods was brilliant, they all were, just seemed it would never go in. Still my best day in football (even without being there.) |  | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 12:19 - May 6 with 1355 views | Bluespeed225 |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 11:09 - May 6 by Meadowlark |
Not only was I there in '78 but last Saturday after the QPR match I had the privilege of meeting Roger Osborne in the pub! |
Yes, in The Wolsey! | | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 12:23 - May 6 with 1329 views | vilanovablue |
I was 7 and had been in Suffolk seeing my grandparents and we visited Ipswich the week before the cup final and the entire town was blue and white stuff in all the shop windows. The FA cup was the first game of football I watched on TV and the die was cast. Oddly I had listened to the 77 FA cup final on the radio but neither Liverpool or Man Utd were of much interest to me! |  | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 12:25 - May 6 with 1312 views | Bluespeed225 |
Up until last year I owned Talbots match shirt. Before I had it framed I thought I slip it on. Once over my head it was clear it was going no further without damage, so off it came. Even back then , 08’ I was pretty slim, but Brian must have been whippet thin! ‘Non stop Talbot’ as Bobby called him on the Cornhill, what an engine! | | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 12:33 - May 6 with 1262 views | GlasgowBlue |
I was there as a teenager with my dad, grandad and two uncles. I remember passing the Osborne family bus on the way down and all the cars with flags and scarves out of the windows. A magical day. |  |
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| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 12:39 - May 6 with 1241 views | Overtheborderblue |
Another memory from the match itself, in the first 5 min big Malcom Macdonald the Arsenal and England star No 9 centre forward ran towards the Ipswich goal , Big Al Alan Hunter ‘ let him know he was here and maybe not do that again’ a red card these days then not even a ticking off from the ref , didn’t really see much of Big Mac for the rest of the game , think he thought better of it! | | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 12:47 - May 6 with 1218 views | DarkBrandon |
My first footballing memory is watching the 1979 Cup Final … an excellent 3-2 between Arsenal and ManU.
Born one year too late … |  | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 12:57 - May 6 with 1177 views | Radlett_blue |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 11:17 - May 6 by JimmyJazz |
It's strange to read back and hear how Arsenal were such favourites. We had been one of best teams in England for 5/6 years and although we had suffered a poor season I had no doubt we would win. Sure Supermac was a bit of a concern beforehand, while they also had Brady and Jennings. But no way were they huge favourites |
WBA had also been strong favourites to beat us in the semi final, largely on the basis that they were a decent side who finished 6th in the League (Arsenal finished 5th). But in both games I was fairly confident we could win, as long as we could get our injured players fit enough to play, notably Hunter & Beattie. Apparently Arsenal had some players who were touch & go as well, notably Liam Brady, who was subbed off after 65 ineffective minutes.
Funnily enough, I bumped into Brady at my golf club a few years ago (he was a visitor) & he was quite happy to smile when I had to bring up (briefly) the 1978 FA Cup final. | |
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| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 13:28 - May 6 with 1106 views | cressi |
Went to all the fa cup games that yr apart from Cardiff away. | | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 13:36 - May 6 with 1083 views | gainsboroughblue |
I remember the parade but not the game itself, albeit a loud cheer from my dad while I was playing with my Fisher Price garage or something.
I recall being in a deserted town centre with my mum in the morning. |  |
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| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 14:32 - May 6 with 993 views | drs |
I remember the tube station after the match it was littered discarded of AFC tickets. They where so valuable just 2 hours before!!!! Still have my ITFC ticket and a AFC one too. Went with my dad and a box the stand on!!!! | | | |
| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 15:28 - May 6 with 953 views | ronnyd |
What a day, the old Wembley was really bouncing,... literately.
To add, Classy Malcolm McDonald applauding us fans as he went off. [Post edited 6 May 15:47]
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| Happy 48 years ago to the day everyone on 15:39 - May 6 with 926 views | Godzilla |
Did the Stranraer ferry and then overnight coach journey to get to the game (this is pretty much how we all used to travel back then). Family friend had somehow got me a ticket. Only in my mid-teens and everyone I met, including two half-cut, Scottish and Welsh trawler men heading to Lowestoft, wanted Town to win. Match abit of a blur, but do remember Arsenal fans in front of us being quite gracious in defeat. |  | | |
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