For me:

1. Gilly's smile.
2. Fergie's side-step to score our first.
3. Being squashed to hell in the Wigan end (still the largest crowd to this day that I've ever been in, officially 98k but hundreds scaled the walls and bribed officials to get in).
4. Walking up the steps to the upper tier whilst 3 inches of pee flooded down (the stench was awful).
5. The fear of dread as Tommy's dad rounded Edwards in the last few minutes.


Still the best final to this day!!!

1. "Kett Kenny"
2. "John Ferguson's carrying a leg" just as he runs half the length of the field to score.
3. "This is bad play from Wigan" just before Gilly runs the length of the field to score.
4. "That's the best wingman in the world he's just run round" - Dane O'hara?
5. "I bet ull ur thinkin, a wish e ad is ands in is pockets now!" "Kett" Kenny's try.

From being there i just remember squeezing in through the gates into a massive crowd with nowhere to move and the complete insanity every time we scored, and also the tenseness as Hull mounted their comeback, and a young Hull full giving our coach the finger on the way back up north..hope it's half as good as that day..watching it back on TV with the classic commentry was a superb bonus..

Gilly's smile

Brett Kenny's try - Just glided through, pure class

Leuluai scything through to score - again

The crowd noise and

How the game seemed to fly past.

also, may be wrong, but I seem to remember Ray French commenting on the video that Ferguson was injured - just before he ran 60 meters to score.

Was this also the year Murphy made some daft comment about Wigan being on 2 grand each to win but he only did it for the glory?

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!!!!!

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!

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.

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.

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!

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

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 )

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.

And thankfully you don't have Peter Sterling !

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.

For me it was Fergies sidestep.

That and Bretts "gliding" run.