crystal palace v man united 1990 fa cup final

[Mr000LOL000]

So much for "old football was better", this is the worst football I've seen

[JavelBleach]

Some of these guys' shorts were so short I imagine they must have had their ballast well attached!

And Utd went into today's game with their ballast left in the dressing room! 2-1 to Palace! Lol!

[dubmywub]

hahahah man united 1 palace 2

[RedJoe10]

I miss the old Wembley.

[GetOnTheFloor82]

Poor Jim Leighton......he just never had it : (

[thegambitking]

<3 Ian Wright <3 what a Mac Daddy! What a Match!

[nightmaresonwax1]

what a team we had then :) (PALACE)

[pme96]

Who is the Palace player who hoofs the ball into touch right from the kick off? Did someone have a few quid on a very early throw-in, I wonder?

[Carpo1982]

Cannot belive this is 21 years ago. Was an eight year old boy sat in the palace end, right behind that Ian Wright 2-2 goal. Seems like yesterday!

[zzzaaa0990]

Poor final.

[CMob09]

@zzzaaa0990

Erm, are you jesting ?

[odsall]

Remember going down to wembley as a kid for this, and the midweek replay. Thought we blew it when Wrighty got his second(man he was on fire when he came on!!!). Great memories, and as they say the rest is history.

[Eaglesfanmd]

ian wright was a fantastic footballer

[Coverly]

Any side containing Bryan Robson, Paul Ince, Neil Webb, Danny Wallace, Mark Hughes, Gary Pallister & Steve Bruce could hardly be called AVERAGE jydaflyest.

;-)

That was Fergies first good side, Cup winner's cup in 91 and then we all know what happened after that....

[jydaflyest]

Mark Hughes will forever have a place in my heart. After Palace went up 3-2, the station broadcasting this game lost the signal and we missed the rest of the game. I was rather down thinking that Palace had won (and deservedly so), only for the late night sports to say that Hughes equalised late and there will be a replay 2 days later; I almost went through the roof.

[jydaflyest]

Looking at Jim Leighton's body language after the third goal, I knew that it was his last ever game for United. When I saw Leighton in goal for Scotland against Brazil in the 1998 World Cup opener, I knew there and then that Scotland would be out in the first round.

[jydaflyest]

I remember watching this game as a young gun. Fergie's first trophy with United, followed by the Cup Winners Cup in 1991, then the League Cup in 1992. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that 21 years later, Man United would be on the brink of a record setting 19th league title.

[redmustang03]

@jydaflyest, true so true. 20 years we were just plain average. Get a get an FA CUP here and there, but never over the hump in for the Division 1 later Premier League title. All it took was one player to get the ball rolling and obviously that was Eric Cantona. A great club finds ways to reload after old players retire or transfer. United is one of those teams.



[cpjfc]

palace should ave won this game fergy would ave got sacked the rest is history; & the replay wot about the pen.would ave been a palace win.

[wassjo]

I was there!

[weatherallc05]

ian wright was born to score! he showed motty big time

[drmadcap]

Martyn should have saved 2:27

[alawson123]

Wish football would go back to the way it was, you just wouldnt see a game like that nowadays. Players getting tackled in the box and not diving, beautiful Wembley surface, this is the way Cup Finals should be played, now we get 0-0 bore fests, with 4-5-1 and players that couldnt really care less about winning the FA Cup.

[THthefirst]

the irony is that virtually all of these players were English, and that summer we got to the world cup semi finals, our best finish for years.

The premier league started in 1992-93, and since then we've done fuck all in world cups.

[nenuabz]

who was man utds keeper ?

[ianruth1]

@nenuabz Jim Leighton. Absolute Shite he was

[weatherallc05]

@ianruth1 so was steve bruce, cant he fucking stay on his feet..

[Cashback13]

Nigel Martyn's Tasche! LOL He Always looked in his 30s even back then!

[i8clowntown]

palace had the best nets in the early 90s, plenty of netting poor old goalies got caught out trying to get the ball back out! i wish bristol shitty had them goals ,sears goal would have been seen!!!!!!

[MrMarcelduchamp]

ian wright, different class

[napalmenema1]

When it came to scoring important goals when you really needed one, nobody can touch Mark Hughes

[gammacurve]

i went to the loo 15 times during the game.

[DaveBond21]

I remember this final well. Classic. 3-3. The replay was never going to live up to that match. There have only been a handful of good Cup Finals since 1990.

[CMob09]

I missed a lot of the final because I was crying after the Hughes goal went in, then my mum called me in said Wright had scored !

[Thechalfonts]

Poor old Jim Leighton - terribly at fault for the 1st and 3rd goals. He looks totally lost at sea

[CMob09]

That's when players used to play their hearts out, they were on a more understandable wage also !

[weatherallc05]

wright!! goal!! and the first one was goal of the season

[rko123jja]

whitch wright goal was goal of the season?

[harrysboy]

Watch Nigel Martyn at 3:45

[sexteta]

@harrysboy Yeah i noticed that, fantastic bit of kipping up there, clearly he's watched too many kung fu films!

[weatherallc05]

thts the wright way to do it!! a great player in the making!

[Puckpassion]

Now the FA Cup finals are always chess matches. Leave it all out there like the olden days!

[OneStopView]

I was there for the final and queued up at Wembley to tickets for the reply! Such a great final...

[RealBesty]

Let's hear it for Gary O'Reilly!

[ClayDavisSE19]

EAGLES!!! Those were the days.....

[pigman2222]

First FA cup final I ever saw and still my favourite.

[DaveBond21]

Love those old Wembley nets!

[SiThompson1]

@DaveBond21

Yeah me too. The old Wembley nets had a lot of depth in the back. They were nothing like Southampton's nets at the Dell throughout the 90's though, you'd hit the ball in the back and it would bounce back out! Ha :D

[DaveBond21]

@SiThompson1

So true! The Dell nets were ridiculous. I remember Luton's nets, back when they had a plastic pitch. They were loose but they only just hung over the goal-line!

I miss those days when nets were different. Liverpool's were always red, Everton's blue. Now all the stadiums and goals look the same, it's harder to immediately tell where a game is being played.

[Zorg2006]

@DaveBond21 I still miss them! Ridiculous they ever got rid of them.

[Knighthawk1985]

Ian Wright what a player!!!! that was goal of the season

[petemcnulty]

I was there! Great atmosphere at the old Wembley Stadium. 3-3 draw & had to watch the rematch in FL. at a pub. Man Utd. would go on to lift the FA Cup winning 1 nil the following Thursday.

[paj7777]

Two great semi finals and a great final.

[daniel24791]

who did it in the end ???

[DaveBond21]

Manchester United won the replay 1-0 but this game was one of the best Cup finals ever. I remember watching it on TV.

[wokingfc2]

classic

[ryangiggs69]

Best ever FA CUP Final, I have never seen a better one yet since.