RIP

"Hughes with the corner, a deep one again, Watson is right in there, so to is Halom and PORTERFIELD! Oh Porterfield has scored......and Sunderland the underdogs are in the lead!"

I bet there is not many who watched the game will ever forget his goal.
Now who was it against again, OH yes THEM.

RIP.

Yeah, I was errrmm........at that game......

Shame on you Mr Glasses! You were about 4 hours late.

In those days the cup final emptied the streets from about 10am onwards as the build up started. My dad being a yakker was a Sunderland supporter so he was glued to it. I was too as I would have been whoever was playing.

I remember it clearly, it was a hugely exciting game and despite being a Pools fan it was impossible not to side with the mackems. I did actually try just to wind my dad up but failed miserably.

I was 6 years old & didnt take much notice of the game,but I do remember it was a big party day at my Grandmas (in Peterlee)

I can remember going to the shops the next day with me dad and the newspapers had a special colour pull out of the cup final,
I was that impressed I bought the Sunderland v Leeds cup final match highlights on record the year after, was great on the old radiogram

The year after Newcastle played Liverpool, I was playing in the street, me dad was watching the match on bbc, he said, son, its 3-0 to Liverpool I said, whats the score on tyne tees

i was four

cant remember
1st one i recall is lpool man u a few year after

altho' fac final is shite now

any of the now silent non-euro champions remember this day?

I tried to explain what the fa cup final used to mean back in the day to my boy(17) but I don't think he got it.
I was 9 and the cup final was the biggest footie day of the year probably the only day of the year you got a live match on the box,although that year I think we got england poland,but the tv coverage used to start at about 9 in the morning with cup final knockout and I promise you I sat through every minute that day,to say Leeds were favourites would be an understatement they only had to turn up.then there was that porterfield goal and those montgomery saves.
great day great memory.

ps then all the players got old and knackered and came to play for pools

Like Bobby Kerr.... ended up in Oscars.

73, Up for the cup
93, bottling up!

you missed out 82 couldnt even get a game for pools reserves!

RIP - even to me I recall that day - I remember some poor bugger for the Sunderland Echo had to take a picture of the Town centre at 2.55pm on the day in question 5th May 1973 I believe - the world stopped & isn't it wonderful to hear Brain Moore describe ' and PORTERFIELD ........... ' the man was a legend who survived a horrific car crash but was never the same player again. When I was a student in Sheffield he managed the blunt 'Blades' and in Keith Edwards dragged them back from oblivion.

True gent & just maybe he gave the North East its finest football hour on 32 mintutes! That Sunderland cup run was the greatets ever - try You Tube for the great games against Man City & Arsenal!