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yellow wrote: Nostalgia is a wonderful thing, but it does involve looking back at something with different eyes and in a land that time has forgotten.

In those days there is no doubt it was a huge event but to put it into context;

There was no Sky
The only live football was the FA Cup final and internationals watched in black and white on a low definition small rounded screen TV.
The European cup was contested by the champions of a country.
Going to Wembley was an impossible dream (there were no play-offs or Paint Pot trophies).

The aforementioned would mean that if the draw was repeated now that it would still be a big event, but not huge. The currency has been devalued my friend.

Trojan 67 wrote:And Southampton Gull calls me Walter.

Read back through the thread and see that Walter has more in common with other posters.

Dumb asses.

I know precisely what Camb was inferring . . . one off cup ties get disproportionate exposure.

Those 4 promotion/relegation/Wembley appearances have all happened on my watch, and incidentally, with ref. to the original post, although I didn't see the game, I've still got my late father's 1965 Spurs ticket.