Favourite STFC memories

[Tuffley Rebel]

With all the negativity being posted after last nigths game I thought I would start a thread that might cheer up everybody.

Everyone has one, it could be a game that you spent ages looking forward to, or it could be a game that was crucial to the history of STFC or it could be a game where something happened that you will never forget.

Several games jump to mind but I will start with these three.

1.FA Cup 1990? Reading home and away. Being 3-1 down with only minutes left. I remember thinking this is it we're out, and to rub salt in the wounds Mark McGhee was taunting the home end. Then out of no where we scored two goals in the dying minutes to earn a replay at Elm Park. Can anyone remember the scorers?

2.Lloyd Owusu's full home debut v's Telford. Local boy, 4 goals, enough said.

3. Chesham at home, with Bruce Grobelaar in goal.(one of my child heroes).The game was not long after the bribery scandal and I remember everyone turning up at Wexham Park waving Monopoly money at him. He then gifted us a goal by trying dribble the ball out of his own box and giving the ball away to our striker.

What does everyone else think?

[Barry Scott]

beating kidderminster in our last game in the conference. obvious really

[BFR]

Winning at Stevenage in the trophy soon after they had held Newcastle in the FA Cup and were so full of themselves was good, though making the trip to Birmingham in the FA Cup and seeing Slough play in a stadium like St Andrew's was great, even though we lost and Ian Bennett was not sent off.

[Barry Scott]

beating Woking at home 3-0, and losing that FA Cup game to cardiff

[Guest]

That Woking game was great. I also remember beating Hayes one nill on new years day. I was still buzzing my tits off after seeing the Chemical Brothers the night before at Ally Pally. I left a party full of people smoking in North London somewhere and drove (I know I shouldn't have) to Hayes. I think we scored in the last minute by which time I was seeing all kinds of weird [***!!***]!

[Robbie Johnson's Boots]

Ah, happy days....

 

Can't remember the first scorer against Reading but am sure Colin Fielder got our second and Paul McKinnon the equaliser. I am sure I still have it on video from MOTD.

 

Thinking back to happier times, us beating Stroud 10-0 away in the FA trophy in about 1990 when Robbie Johnson ( the left-back for those not as old as me ) got a hat-trick.

 

Also a 4-3 win away at Stafford Rangers first season in the conference - Stafford went 3-0 up in about 20 minutes ( and I am pretty sure Collymore scored for them ) and we turned it around in the second half.

 

And of course, winning the league in 89/90 and getting into the conference for the first time. Neal Stanley got the winner in the last game v Bromley ( am sure it WAS Bromley but at Dulwich's ground ).

 

 

[Guest]

Seeing Steve Thompson lose it and karate kick a Farnboro player in the Trophy in about 1991! The whole career of Tony Dell was a highlight as well. Oh and I almost forgot - Barry Fry offering me out from the touchline after I'd called him an 'old poof'.

[Robbie Johnson's Boots]

Tony Dell!!!!!!! Only one player worse than him and that was his brother, although for the life of me I can't remember his name???? Was it Bobby???

[Guest]

Beating yoevil away in a mid week game 3-1 down at half time and jimmy brown comes on to turn match around come out 4-3 winners great trip home on the coach.

Beating sutton away first time ever to win league title with eggie james coming on with 10 min to go to score at the death.

Dave Russell scoring a speacial goal in defeating Minehead in the second replay at bath city's ground in cup game

Many great encounters against wycombe

[Guest]

All time favourite = Garry Attrell's late winner against Millwall in the FA Cup in 1982.

Others-

Signing Peter Lowen from Maidenhead in 1964 and winning promotion to Athenian League Premier with my all-time favourite STFC XI;

Fantastic atmosphere against Skelmersdale in FA Amateur Cup at Dolphin in 1967 (And Mullen must score);

Beating Wycombe in the FA Cup, the FA Trophy, two Berks and Bucks finals and the odd Isthmian League match(1970-1976);

Winning Athenian League Cup at Dagenham 1972;

Wilko's penalty save at Stevenage 1998;

 

[Guest]

Off the pitch , weekends getting getting P***ed up in Morecambe then trying to recall how much of the game you remember ! On the Pitch , Bromley 1990 !

[Nathan]

Last season's reserve cup final! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Guest]

Beating Wycombe 4-1 at adams park 1981 on the way to winning the league.

2-0 up at Leyton Orient

Beating Hitchin 10-1 at wexham park 1980 (we were bottom of the league , sacked arpino and got churchill in...[***!!***] class

 

and of course

 

Millwall and Reardons dream team ...some of the greatest football I've seen down the Park

 

oh and Frank Parsons getting sent off against Poole in the FA Cup

[Guest]

Got to be Reading in the FA Cup...we'd got an issue of our fanzine 'Rebels without a clue' out especially...and to equalise after about 9 minutes of extra time was just mental....

Winning the Isthmian League (i think) against Sutton (i think)last game of the season and all the slough fans piling into the corridors into the dressing rooms and nearly suffocating (i was only about 12 and two foot tall.) Refused to take my Slough scarve off at school all the next day - as did one of Terry Reardons nepthews.

My first ever away game - against Carshalton in the FA Cup 1st round or something...me and my mate were so excited we were allowed to go without our parents...(although Chris S told me recently that my mum told him to keep an eye on us)

 

Brighton Rebel

[Martin]

First day of the 98/99 season. We came within a whisker of dying and managed to field a side at Sutton. We win one nil thanks to a heavily deflected goal from Mark "Billy" Fiore. Particularly impressive performance and result given that many of the players had never played together before and Sutton went onto the title and only lost a further two games at home in the whole season.

 

The team that day:

 

Wilkerson

Channing Hughes Pierson Line

Torp Asselman Kemp Fiore

Roach and Super Andy Deaner.

[GarySTFC]

Eleven players who probably worked their asses off for the shirt and all gave 110% whilst not caring about the money.

 

Shame we only have one or two that do that now <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

[Martin]

Exactly my good man exactly.

 

Another highlight: FA Trophy 3rd Round Replay at Boreham Wood 97/98. We went behind in the first half. They would not let us change ends at half time so the slough fans stood down at the corner on the touch line and got hear first hand some horrific racial abuse being hurled at the slough players by the wood "fans." We equalised very late in the game and went on to get an extra time winner. Goals that day from the mighty super sub pairing of Mark West and Gary Abbott. That was very sweet I can tell you.

[Radders]

As Martin mentioned, the game at Sutton after the summer of hell was an amazing atmosphere and a day I'll never forget. Add to that the FA Trophy game at Stevenage. Of recent times Maidenhead away this season was pretty special as was Miller's goal against Woking in the Capital League the other week as it 'means everything to us'!!!!!

 

Thinking about the Birmingham game, I remember sweet F A about the match but, as I was telling people on the coach on the way to Corinthians, that was my first ever Slough coach journey, and I remember one fan putting a condom over his head while Nigel taught us all the song 'Slough Town boys, we are here, sh*g your women and drink your beer'. Oh happy days!!!!!

[northern rebel]

Hmmm, several days/nights spring to mind.

Replay v Orient - Chalky's equaliser on the stroke of half time & the last 10 minutes after Derek Harris's Penalty made it 3-2

That win v Woking - they mullered us, but we won 3-0 - I still relive that night when I'm having a pants day at work.

2-1 win at Southport. Match played on a Sunday due to Princess slapper's funeral. 1-0 down early doors & Abbo sent off & I'm hungover after wedding in Bath on Saturday. Super Lloydy scores in 46th & 91st minute for Rebels win & 13 Rebels fans out of crowd of 1300 go mental.

Whole Trophy run - Lloydy going in goal v Welling, Westy's late goals v Boring Wood racists & Halifax & Wlko's penalty save at Stevenage.

4-1 win v Dulwich - closest to old Conference atmosphere I've experienced for a while.

Now I remember why I keep coming South on a Saturday. Come on you Rebels.

 

Roger

[Barry Scott]

going on some of the losses, 6-1 at home vs Stevenage was perhaps the most ball-breakingly cold and bizarrely, one of the funnier games, and perhaps one of three fixtures from division 2 to the conference to survive. that [***!!***] "goal" that southport scored to put us out of the trophy makes me seethe to this day. mentioned above but that 1-0 win away at hayes on a wet and windy new years day, and also losing 6-2 (not too sure) away against a reading team that contained ray houghton and darren caskey who bagged a hat-trick, memorable for me being asked to kindly go outside the ground to smoke over the PA