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WHU77 8:13 Mon Oct 27
Gale meets Hackett for the first time

Sorry if already posted, If I ever meet that prick god help him.Love the fact Tony would not shake his hand !!!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2809595/Keith-Hackett-recalls-infamous-decision-send-Tony-Gale-1991-FA-Cup-semi.html

LYALL OUT 3:28 Wed Oct 29
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Hackett is a Yorkshireman and they don't need much of an excuse to make a complete cunt of themselves. We were superb that day and showed the whole country what its all about.

I made a few quid selling Tony Gale was Innocent t-shirts in the pubs afterwards. So every cloud...

When you look back, say we had won. I can remember huddling around a little telly in our mini-bus watching the Spurs Arsenal semi-final that was played earlier. When Gascoigne's free kick went in, we all looked at each other and said 'fucking hell'. He could have slaughtered us at Wembley, and maybe not shagged his knee? Still think he'd have ended up where he is now though, but it makes you think. A West Ham v Spurs FA Cup final at a proper Wembley stadium. I was at the right age for that back then, was going to games in a large group, what a day out that would have been.

Lovejoy 11:39 Wed Oct 29
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From what Hackett says it was a new rule in the game which he was just enforcing.

The question is was this new rule communicated to all clubs clearly and then did the clubs cascade within?

orwells tragedy 8:40 Wed Oct 29
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You never see em in the same place though do ya, eh, eh........

Alwaysaniron 8:22 Wed Oct 29
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Crassus 8:42 Mon Oct 27

FMOB. Tony Blair and Adolf Hitler in the same breath. Do me a fucking favour you clown!

Crassus 10:45 Tue Oct 28
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That game will be forever raw for us

Our mate, who had a ticket, was lost in a fatal car crash in the mid week preceding, his new wife insisted that we went, as he would have wanted us to, which was true

So we did

Then that cunt Hackett pulled his stroke and our lot have fucking hated that bloke with an unnatural passion since

A plague of pox and vermin upon him and his spawn - ad infinitum - THE CUNT

Leatherhead Hammer 10:36 Tue Oct 28
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2 things I'll never forget from that semi final

Hackett is a cunt.

And how proud our fans performance made me, to be a West Ham supporter.

RH 4:58 Tue Oct 28
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Worst decision i have ever seen , he was running away from goal and we had cover coming back . never forgive the cunt for that decision absolute disgrace

Mad Dog 4:57 Tue Oct 28
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In 23 years I've not heard that it was hacket that have Oldham that penalty.

Please tell me this isn't true

Dan M 4:55 Tue Oct 28
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I'm pretty sure that Slater's shot was handballed onto the post by a Forest defender.

My main memory of that day was their fourth goal going in. You couldn't hear the Forest fans celebrate it as we were drowning them out.

Having said that, they went home happier than us.

In that interview you can see Hackett genuinely regrets it, albeit in an "I was only following orders" sort of way. Objectively you can see how the FA hung him out to dry.

Interesting that Gale says that he thinks it also stopped us winning the Second Division, but doesn't mention the last minute of the season penalty Hackett gave Oldham (perhaps he doesn't know that fact).

Singing dopey songs at another man (knowing look to camera and all) doesn't make Gale look great here. Fair enough with the handshake. There's people from my past I wouldn't shake hands with, but Reggie never could resist being the class clown.

hammer1969 2:52 Tue Oct 28
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Went to Frank Mc and Tony Gale audience at Harold Wood Cricket club the other week.....fair to say Gale hates Hackett with a passion :-)

hammer1969 2:49 Tue Oct 28
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Same here Gentile , was a unbelievable day...... from trying to blag tickets out of Bobby Moore to breaking through the turnstyles to get onto the terrace , by far the best day i have ever had following West Ham

Mad Dog 1:27 Tue Oct 28
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I was 14 years old. Wish I'd been there at villa park. As a kid i was pretty upset when we went 3 down. .. Then the singing started and i couldn't have been more proud. Joined in at home and sang it for weeks.

Re hacket. Utter cunt

Gentile 12:10 Tue Oct 28
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Best day of my life on those terraces that day.

bruuuno 11:59 Mon Oct 27
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I was right in the middle of the holte end, I was 9 and had never stood at football before (always went in west side). Was one of the best days of my life

B6NY B 11:54 Mon Oct 27
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Don't think anyone will ever move on with Ince? Part of the fun though.

whu 11:40 Mon Oct 27
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Takashi Miike 9:59 Mon Oct 27
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1941's mask slipping again?

fucking hope not

john merrick digs the ugly cunt out

Crassus 11:19 Mon Oct 27
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Sort of I.Want

It was the Gobbling what Doenitz

All right, I'll get my coat

Alex Bunbury 10:50 Mon Oct 27
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Parris and Slater hit the post.

Mr. Burns 10:37 Mon Oct 27
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I'm sure we hit the post twice.

WHOicidal Maniac 10:26 Mon Oct 27
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I was bitterly disappointed on the day but fuck me, it was a semi 23 years ago. Hackett , in his own words, felt he had little choice.

Its like the Paul Ince thing....Move along.

Takashi Miike 9:59 Mon Oct 27
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1941's mask slipping again?

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