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It's That Time Again - Random FA Cup Semi Final Memories

By Eric Harris

Stoke v Arsenal, at Villa Park, 1971

Clive Allen's spawny winner against WBA, 1982

Paul Power's free kick against Ipswich in 1981

Everton's fight-back against Luton Town in 1985

The Merseyside Derby 1971

That dreadful green Arsenal kit, Villa Park 1983

The battle of Scotland Road, 1985

And 1979

The likes of Chesterfield and Wycombe making it to the last four

Chronic over-crowding at Hillsborough, Wolves v Spurs 1981

The Liverpool v Arsenal marathon 1980

Carnage at Villa Park and Elland Road, Everton v West Ham, 1980

Portsmouth's penalties in 1992

Everton looking like Brazil '70 at Elland Road in 1995

David Peach penalty, Stamford Bridge 1976

Clive Thomas

John Wile's cut head 1978

Paper hats (Sharp?) and getting pelted with glass in the Kippax 1979

He's riggled around McIlroy, he's loss Buchan, he's got a chance...WHAT A GOAL

Terry Macs missed peno

Greenoff Fuck Off

Walking through Limey when Everton were going to Elland Road as a very young kid, them long sleeved tennis shirts and adidas Nastase everywhere 1980

Brian Kidd's dismissal in 1980

Two skins getting menched outside Villa Park by about 100 skinny scalls 1980

Brain Talbot ending the marathon at Highfield Road 1980

Paul Gascoigne destroying Arsenal in 1991

Crystal Palace at Villa Park in 1990

Leicester taking Liverpool to a replay in 1974

Adrian Heath, last-minute under the North Bank, 1984

Everton and Southampton forging a lifelong friendship on the Highbury pitch afterwards. Ahem

Wimbledon v Luton at a half-empty White Hart Lane in 1988

John Aldridge v Nottingham Forest in 1988

Pat Nevin scoring the most irrelevant semi-final winner ever, 1989

Aldridge's 'sportsmanship' with Brian Laws, 1989

John Mitchell's injury-time winner for Fulham, 1975

The Sheffield derby, 1993

Losing track, in later life, of losing semi-finalists ('94, say, '97?, '98? '99? etc)