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I remember very little of the game, funnily enough.

* The bus to and from the game - no idea how it made it to the game...
* My uncle and his mate, battered from unfeasable amounts of beer
* Smuggling beers into the ground for aforementioned uncle - I was 12...
* The view of the ground as you entered, it was huge! Certainly wasn't the Boulevard.

* Oddly, don't remember thinking we'd have to wait another 28 years to get a chance to make amends.

Bring it on - can't wait! You don't have Brett Kenny this time!!!!!

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Lots of memories but it being my 1st ever final, 1st time in London and aged 10 gives it a special resonance for me.

The face that the game was an absolute classic was the cherry on the cake for me!

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I was at the top of the stand behind the sticks for that one. I remember being carried by the crowd surge up and down around 5 tiers of terracing every time we scored, huge rolls of red and white plastic tape that someone had swiped from some roadworks draped on everyone's shoulders - and there was a guy with a knitted doll of Henderson Gill in full kit that he passed around for people to kiss after Gilly scored that try.

Awesome day out, especially for those of us who saw Lydon and Gregory rip us to bits for Widnes the year before.

The 'John Ferguson is carrying a leg' quote in the BBC coverage came from Alex Murphy.

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A very strange day of mixed emotions for me.

I was working up in Scotland at the time, had booked tickets and a minibus to take us all down to the game.
On the Monday morning prior to the game I had flown up to Scotland and arrived on site at around 9:30 a.m. At around 10 a.m I got a phone call from my wife to tell me that my uncle had died. He had stayed up on the Sunday night to watch the great snooker final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davies, then gone to bed, and had a suspected heart attack.

Then on Tuesday afternoon my wife phoned to say that the funeral was on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. so I had to cancel the mini bus. Wigan were great and took the tickets back, giving me a full refund.

So Saturday came and we went to the funeral, had a couple of beers and then we went back to our house to watch the game.

I went up to Pemberton at night to meet up with with friends who had been to the game and finished up having a long night.

It's certainly a day/week I will never forget.

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Still can see clearly Kenny slicing through to run in his try from the halfway. I would say the VHS was the most watched ever of any old match in our house, closely followed by the semi final v Hull KR at Elland Road. Hence why the commentary from both is burned into my memory!

Classic bit of Ray French missing what was going on right infront of him even back then from the SF: 'Graeme Wests got the whole of the field infront but he's got nobody with him....oh! What a run! OHHHHH, the try has taken everyone by surprise!' No just you Ray!

Too many from the final, but even now when Leuluai cuts through straight from the kick off a couple of minutes before the end to bring Hull within a bugs dick of snatching it it's hairs on the back of the neck material 'What more could we want? We wondered if Hull could do it and here they are showing us! Oh the game now is alive!' Nearly shat my little 12 yr old troosers!

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And an honourable mention for Ray introducing 'Ken Fuchs' as part of the pre match presentation.

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5 years before I was born so no memories from me but this sounds like an absolute corker. Looking on ebay for the DVD now (Wigan club shop handily shut at 16:30 and want £12 for the DVD plus £6 postage d040.gif )

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Due to traffic problems on the day near the bottom of the M1, our coach driver decided to come off and went through St Albans.

Now St Albans is an ancient town and not built for large vehicles like coaches.

Thought we would never get to Wembley.....................

but we did.icon_biggrin.gifANCE:

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Quote: beetwaste "

Bring it on - can't wait! You don't have Brett Kenny this time!!!!!'"


And thankfully you don't have Peter Sterling !

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1. Having breakfast in our London hotel wearing replica shirts and the staff asking who we supported and when the game was.

2. The pre-match parade of old players and the massive roar (from both ends of the stadium) when the great William John Boston was introduced to the crowd.

3. The crush, never been as tightly packed into a stadium before or since.

4. Thinking the game was won and then Hull's fight back, I genuinely thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest.

5. Seeing Westy lift the cup................a 20 year wait was over.




p.s. after the game was over our group were stood on the car park as the coaches were leaving, as the buses carrying the Hull fans drove past we stood and applauded them, and, in return they applauded back, they must have been gutted but were sporting enough to realise that we, and they, had witnessed a classic final, Hull fans have had some bad press over the years but that day they were brilliant and helped create a fabulous atmosphere and day.

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For me it was Fergies sidestep.

That and Bretts "gliding" run.

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I remember our coach breaking down soon after coming off the car park at wembley. Everybody piled in a chippie were there was lots of Hull fans. They were fantastic in defeat offering us all a chip. Fantastic final.

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1. Henderson going the length of the pitch, and Garry Kemble chinning his heel, that must have hurt.

2. Gizmo dropping Lee crooks in full flight on his own try line, best tackle I have seen.

3. Ronnie Campbell, we think refs are bad now!

4. Brett's tash

5. The shoulder pads!

Classic final, even the BBC realised it, so much so they showed it again at christmas

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Having my picture with a Wigan fan in the Wembley car park. We both had the same banner word for word and the same picture except mine was a picture of Sterling with "Sterlo the Wizard of Oz" and Sterling dressed in a wizards costume with a wand and the Wigan lad had the same but Brett Kenny as his "wizard". I am gonna try and dig the pic out before the final and post it so be warned if it was any of you!

I also remember being scared stiff of heights and was in D upper. I think people thought it a bit strange to see a 9 year old fighting back tears at abide with me but I was really just terrified of being that high up icon_lol.gif

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Quick history please?
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