I'm feeling a little nostalgic about this year's contest since, as a boy, I inherited a sports holdal from my cousin which had "Stoke City League Cup Winners 1974" emblazoned all across it.
Not that I was much cop at football mind you. Our school pitch was right next to the railway line so I often shirked my defensive duties for want of getting the number of of a class 52 "Western" that may have been thundering past as a particularly well directed corner was whipped into our 6 yard box.
This did not always make me particularly popular with the other boys.
Be that as may, not only am I going to watch tomorrow's FA Cup Final but I'm going to make a special point of watching all the build too.
I'll be switching on the TV as soon as Grandstand starts.
I'm particularly looking forward to Meet the Teams and the FA Cup It's a Knockout Special (I wonder if Arthur Ellis still does the Marathon Round?). Then we'll see the teams arrive in their coaches and walk out to inspect the pitch at which point we'll get to see for the first time what suits the teams are wearing.
Then, as the action is about to begin we'll see the Princess Royal being introduced to the teams and enjoy a spine tingling rendition of Abide with Me accompanied by the band of the Coldstream Guards.
I can't wait! Tomorrow our house will most definitely be reverberating to hearty cries of "come on you Porters"
Not that I was much cop at football mind you. Our school pitch was right next to the railway line so I often shirked my defensive duties for want of getting the number of of a class 52 "Western" that may have been thundering past as a particularly well directed corner was whipped into our 6 yard box.
This did not always make me particularly popular with the other boys.
Be that as may, not only am I going to watch tomorrow's FA Cup Final but I'm going to make a special point of watching all the build too.
I'll be switching on the TV as soon as Grandstand starts.
I'm particularly looking forward to Meet the Teams and the FA Cup It's a Knockout Special (I wonder if Arthur Ellis still does the Marathon Round?). Then we'll see the teams arrive in their coaches and walk out to inspect the pitch at which point we'll get to see for the first time what suits the teams are wearing.
Then, as the action is about to begin we'll see the Princess Royal being introduced to the teams and enjoy a spine tingling rendition of Abide with Me accompanied by the band of the Coldstream Guards.
I can't wait! Tomorrow our house will most definitely be reverberating to hearty cries of "come on you Porters"
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