I remember “ wagging” off school to queue for tickets for this game. Just in front of us in the queue were a number of our teachers This was when the FA Cup was magic and every club played their strongest team.. There were 46000 on for this game.The Geordies were there in huge amounts and the atmosphere was the best I’ve ever known. The replay at St James Park finished 0-0 in front of a full house of over 50000 and the second replay ar Elland Road had over 42000 on. We lost 2-1 in that game but those three games will stick in my memory until the day I die. The crowds were fantastic and in the days of mindless hooliganism there wasn’t a hint of trouble. The Geordies showed what magnificent supporters they are and I will never forget that. The FA Cup means nothing now and it’s a real shame when you look back on games like that.
Glossy memory that, at the second replay on boarding the train in Leeds back North the Police walked down the train telling everyone to get on the floor as the windows will be coming in after we leave the station, Leeds hooligans.
oh my days im looking at the clips and grinning.those pitches back in the day and the chalenges..can you imaging the snowflakes of this era..they would last one bit specially that cry baby bruno fernandwz..they days when proper footy and men were played 😁.i see big sam scoring a goal and that supermac goal im sure alan shearer scored a similar near the end of hid career like that for newcastle as well, what a screeeeamer
How great to watch a fantastic match with thousands of supporters enjoying it with loads of goals and no interventions from VAR ruining goals and goal celebrations. The way football should be....I wish I was old enough to see Supernac play in the flesh....my dad's hero
So gutted I never saw this magnificent footballer live! Heard all the stories from my dad! Imagine him playing today with modern boots, pitches, etc. Would be the goat
Tommy Cassidy could thread the ball through the eye of a needle. He was a class act like Terry Hibbitt. Supermac had some good players around him in his time at Newcastle and the club really should have won something in the mid 70's
We can get those days back again. It starts with joining the only British Party who gives a shit about our Country, traditions and culture...... the British National Front! C'mon, what is £11 nowadays?
As a Wanderers fan I had the joy to be there on the day along with the other 46000 plus at Burnden Park including thousands of Newcastle Fans. The best game I ever attended in my life. The replay at St James Park had a huge crowd also and I was at the second replay at Elland Road, which has over 40k in attendance too. What an amazing tie which Newcastle just won eventually by one goal just beating the team from a lower division.
I am a Bolton fan. I was 7 when this game took place and was at the game with my parents. In fact I joke that it is my Mum you hear just after McDonald kicks the ball before it flies into the net for his 2nd goal, our seats were just below the tv gantry on the stand roof and just behind the lower camera and the gantry had a sound effects microphone hung down from it. My Dad went to both replays. I remember going to bed that night but being woken up later on so I could watch the highlights on Match of the Day that night.
Oz from Auf weidersehen pet brought me here 😂😅🤣 the time Newcastle played Burnley in the semi's and super mac scored twice, we stopped off and smashed up a little chef he tells neville in the bar 🤣😅
The best goal he scored, and Supermac agrees, was against Leicester at St James'. Unfortunately no cameras were present. I was privileged to witness this 35 yard screamer. Happy days!!
I was there too, sat up in thee new stand, aged ten. I've been telling people for years about Macdonald's goal. Never seen a better one. I remember there was a momentary stunned silence before the place absolutely erupted. I remember Frank 'Wanky' Worthington got a lot of stick from the crowd too, due to him making a comment in the newspaper that he was better than Macdonald.
Leicester at home, without doubt. My memory is Irving Nattress from the right cross field ball Supermac didn't break stride and just unleashed a screamer from way out of the area, at the Leazes End and yes no cameras! Great photo in a subsequent programme, with the net bulging and the keeper still taking off.
Used to get picked up bthe Supporters club coach on the A1, but they didn’t stop, me and my mate hitched to Bolton for this game. Finally beat Bolton at Elland road, then got nearly crushed to death at the Baseball ground in the quarter final
I was there for that goal, the best I've ever seen. Such a pity it wasn't televised. You had to be there. You're right, it was a cross from the right by Nattress and the goalie got his hands to it but couldn't stop it. What a memory.
Not even a Newcastle fan but Supermac was QUALITY, nasty as well he would have eaten the likes of Terry , Cahill , Smalling etc for breakfast. OOh Sam Alladyces finest moment in football!!!!!
I'll agree with this. I'm a Sunderland fan and remember this game on MOTD back then - crackig goal from Supermac. I recall Sunderland tussling a lot with Bolton in them days and Paul Jones was a fantastic centre half. He was the class to Allardyce's muscle.
the likes of super mac would have loved playing today im so sure they would double the amount of goals they scored back in the day when they had dodgy pitch and tackles
Supermac was my first childhood hero, my mother was always telling me to straighten my legs ! Because I used to copy him and walk bow legged 😂😂 I have a vague memory of being at the replay in a crowd of over 50,000
Indeed, my friend , when I was a slip of a lad @ 57 years old. Now I'm 66. See you in another 9 years when I'm 75........Supermac.....Supermac.....Supermac :)
What memories! I was 9 years old and it was my first season watching the Wanderers! Went to the replay at Newcastle (we was robbed- still bitter about it) and at Elland Road! I still have the programmes!
Wonderful, error strewn, muddy pitch football - real football with a full house going crazy and everyone on and off the pitch fully committed. Added is the luxury of a wonderful commentary by arguably the best of that era, Barry Davies.
I saw him outside the ground tonight he didnt look well puffing on his inhaler, it was nice to see him tho my mate got a pic with him, he was like God to us when he was at the toon !
Im a Bolton fan and was in the Lever end and thirty odd years down the line still rate this as one of the best games i ever saw the 2 following replays were petty good too after agoaless draw atSt James Park you beat us 2-1 at Elland Rd . As for supermacs 2nd goal at Bolton ....well what can you say ....one of the fiercest strikes ive ever seen .....great game...great players...great chants from the terraces , great battles before and after the games.. even the bovril was great but fu****g HOT
Hell of a player, and sad that injury cut his career short. Both goals were absolute top class, and you can't really blame the Bolton defence for his second!
I love the way the commentator says 'what a typical newcaste goal', because thats still true today, it's real alan shearer play, taking advantage of sloppy defence.
Malcom Macdonald scorer of all the goals in England's 5-0 win over Cyprus at Wembley in an European Championship qualifier in 1975. He could have added more to his England caps had it not for Sir Alf Ramsey and later on Don Revie.Though noted for his scoring prowess for Newcastle Macdonald evidently did not quite fit in with the England national team.And with Ramsey and Revie he won just a few caps but always be remembered for the five goals against Cyprus.
Thats a lovely memory of an outstanding tie. I didnt get to St James Park but watched it on telly.As I remember Bolton could easily have won the game at St James, but Newcastle were the better team on the day at Leeds.
i was at the 0-0 replay at st james' and then at the 2nd replay at elland road. it was my first ever away game (aged 12) still got vivid memories of it. we ended up getting good seats with good views but in the bolton end. mickey burns put the toon 1-0 up before gowling doubled the lead. bolton pulled one back near the end but we held on
I went to all 3 games, had to hitch to Bolton when the supporters club didn't pick me and my mate up, Lovely night in Leeds being told to get on the floor of the train home by the Police as the windows would be coming in as we left the station, nearly got crushed to death at the Baseball ground in the 6th round, those were the days, the football was great but they were violent times.
Even though Im a Bolton fan, got to say what a goal by Super Mac. Irony is the scorer of Newcastles third goal Alan Gowling, played for Bolton a few seasons later alongside Bolton legend Frank Worthington.
What I meant was the only cockneys fans have a problem with are those running the club from London. Jiminez and Wise (Mike Ashleys chums nontheless) were in charge of transfer policy yet do not come to SJP or see the players, therefore cannot possibly see where the team needs strengthening.Players like Milner were sold behind Keegans back and Wise Buys brought in who Keegan knew nothing about.Keegan quit because when he signed the contract to return he was told he would have full control.
I was at the second reply at elland road it was a midweek game and we lost 2-1 Alan gowling scored for the toon if I'm not missing 76 was the year and it was just before my 11th birthday
. the final whistyle blew then they played "i love to love but my bayby justs wants to dance" by tina charles on the PA system. then we had the long hot summer..... then suddenly it's 2012. where the fuck has my life gone?
Ashley clearly stabbbed Keegan in the back when he gave Wise and Jiminez transfer control-jobs for the boys as it were.Ashley clearly didnt trust Keegan and had only made a puppet manager to appease fans, whilst his own men would effectivley run the club.Keegan was obviously not going to stand for that and neither were the fans.Cockney mafia was the term used as we want the club run from SJP, not faceless suits 300 mile away.Supermac is a cockney but he is loved because he did great things here.
Real football...british teams british players..fervent crowds..noise..screaming more noise..the way it STILL should be..now its sterile football...out of the reach of the working man...sickens me...how i loved football then...how i despise it now..😞
