Bearsden Bear
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We should have had a penalty a few minutes before Lovenkrands scored the winner
A stonewaller in the 90th minute of normal time and Dallas absolutely shat it!
We should have had a penalty a few minutes before Lovenkrands scored the winner
I was 9 and my old man used to lift me up after every goal. Unfortunately, he’d ruptured his Achilles and was still on one crutch at this game so couldn’t lift me easily. When the winner went in I was begging for him to lift me up and he couldn’t. The guy behind me (mid 20’s probably) whipped me off the ground and onto his shoulders whilst still going absolutely mental. Was the best celebration I’d ever been involved in and fair play to the guy for giving me that experience when he had no idea who I was and vice versa.
Watched the trophy presentation from the concourse at the back and an old guy had fell and smashed his head open after the winner. Paramedics were there and determined to get him on a stretcher and out but his words were ‘I’m not leaving the stadium until I see the Rangers lift that fucking trophy’. Paramedic had to hold him up to watch it before he’d leave.
Great day!
I've watched the game back a few times and that mentally challenged team were a shower of dirty bastards. How they kept 11 man on the park was a miracle. Hartson, Lennon and Sutton in particular were a disgrace.My other vivid memory of that game was Caniggia running riot in the first 20 minutes, and then Sutton did him with a vicious body check, which a decent ref would have punished with a red card.
Claudia'a Cup Final was over, and so was his 2002 World Cup campaign due to start the following month.
So it was real karma when it was Sutton who lost Lovenkrands when he ghosted in for the winner . . . what a day!
I was down near the front and right in line with Barry’s free kick. As soon as it left his foot I was going mad because I knew it was going in. When the winner went in, the place just went mental. Some big lad beside me lifted me about 3 foot in the air, I thought he was gonna drop me
Just watching the vid again, some of the tackles that weren’t even bookings would have the offended bus shouting murder now
Arsenal beat Chelsea in the FA cup final that day so England wouldn't have been playing.Watched it in the sports bar on Broad Street, Birmingham with my girlfriend (later that night my fiancé). Jumping about going crazy with another couple of bears in front of what seemed to be dozens of Tim’s.
Was that the same night England beat Germany 5-1? Not sure if my memory is warped from alcohol!
One playing football and one play for headers.Barry Ferguson put on an absolute masterclass that day.
2 very good teams but we were very worthy winners.