Fc were something like 5/1 on,a quite remarkable feat by fev to be honest biggest shock in my 45yrs watching the sport,as a Hull KR fan watching it was just brilliant
Not really a rugby league fan but used to watch the games on Grandstand on a Saturday afternoon, the one memory that always stuck out was Featherstone winning the challenge cup final.
This was the first challenge cup final that I had watched on tv and I was nine years old at the time. My dad took me to my first rugby league game at naughton park in September 1982. I am a Widnes Vikings fan. Even though we got beat that day, I became hooked on the game of rugby league. A real cracking game to watch.
I was annoyed at the time how Featherstone beat the mighty Hull in the cercs they should ve murdered fev ,still that's all Featherstone s famous for ,a flash in the pan from 83 keeps em going
Well deserved, Hull went in too cocky thinking they would win easy and we got beat. Couple of iffy decisions, particularly the last scrum IIRC but nothing really ridiculous. Was there as a 14 year old, came away and didn't feel terribly dissapointed tbh and was giving thumbs up to the Fev fans on the way back. Hobbs was a top player, with video review that first try would never have being given, Jimmy Leu was not a great defensive centre and neither was Prendeville much cop at all 10.5st lol Keith Bridges was a fucking disgrace, lost most of the scrums and fell off tackles everywhere, Tony Duke would have been better.
@@davet732 True fans of any sport know when their team has lost to a better side. In 1987 I went to the Somerset (RU) cup final: Old Culverhasians, a junior Bath side, beat Weston super Mare - in the 1930s the top team in the country - 16-15. As I left the ground with a load of WSM fans, to a man they said to me 'the better team won'.
