On the same day, First Division leaders Liverpool took on a resurgent Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough. More recently in the 2012/13 FA Cup Final, a struggling Wigan Athletic defeated reigning Premier League champions Manchester City in a match reminiscent of Wimbledon’s 1988 FA Cup win. Result aside, it was a magical occasion. I didn’t care. Defeat felt raw for years but in all the games I have gone to with my dad since, nothing has matched the magic of this occasion, Sat 2 May 2020 12.00 BST 32 years ago today, 'The Crazy Gang' won The FA Cup! Seemingly everyone wanted a place below the twin towers on May 14th 1988. They would be one of three clubs other than Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool to win the trophy in the following 20 years (the others being Everton and Tottenha… © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. No matter, there was still time. 1988 Wimbledon FC wins the FA Cup, defeating the highly fancied Liverpool FC with a Lawrie Sanchez goal. Wimbledon: Beasant, Scales, Young, Thorn, Phelan, Cork, Jones, Sanchez, Wise, Fashanu, Gibson (Cunningham). The fourth round of games were played over the weekend 30 January – 1 February 1988, with replays being played on 3 February. The second round of games were played over 5–6 December 1987, with replays being played at various dates afterwards (no replay was played on the same night as another). The memories came flooding back. Everything about the day was special. We got to our seats (the “obstructed view” turned out to be a slim pillar to my left) and watched as the teams walked on to the pitch to be greeted by Princess Diana. Three months ago, my parents moved house and among boxes of Subbuteo teams were two tickets to the 1988 Liverpool v Wimbledon FA Cup final. All other replays were played on 28 November. Three games went to second replays and one of these to a third replay. This result was nailed on! The Crazy Gang: Wimbledon legend Dennis Wise remembers the 1988 FA Cup final... and a wasted trip to buy Princess Diana flowers. The FA has become embroiled in a row with AFC Wimbledon over who actually won the 1988 FA Cup final. And so, when it transpired that we would face Wimbledon in the 1988 FA Cup Final, little Wimbledon, ale-house Wimbledon, a team that housed players called Eric and Clive and could probably fit all its fans in the back of a Vauxhall Nova, thoughts instinctively turned to rewriting the record books. Available for everyone, funded by readers. FA Cup Rewind: Relive Wimbledon's shock 1988 win. From nowhere, people leapt up in front of me. No games from Rounds 1 or 2 were shown. "It's been an unbelievable rollercoaster, it is a humongous achievement," Gould, who managed Wimbledon to FA Cup success in 1988, told the PA news agency. The stations would alternate between showing a live game and a highlights programme. Wimbledon were in front. Related Video and Audio. 's Crazy Gang who defeated league champions Liverpool through a headed goal by Lawrie Sanchez, thus denying Liverpool the double. A Dennis Wise free-kick was met by Lawrie Sanchez, who headed beyond Bruce Grobbelaar. Never? On this day in 1988 Wimbledon completed one of the greatest FA Cup shocks when they beat Liverpool 1-0 at Wembley. Vinnie Jones was part of the 'Crazy Gang' Wimbledon side that won the FA Cup in 1988 Credit: PA:Empics Sport “I have no idea why Tony Adams wears … Liverpool’s John Aldridge scored twice in the Reds’ FA Cup … Heller: "The Saturday night in Wimbledon was insane, absolutely insane. At this point, there were no Wimbledon fans in sight. More important, I remember a brilliant day out with my dad. Wimbledon's "Crazy Gang"—so-called because of the boisterous, eccentric behaviour of the players—won the FA Cup in 1988, beating that season's League champions Liverpool, and thereby became one of only three clubs to have won both the FA Cup and its amateur counterpart. They demolished teams for fun and won many an FA Cup and League Title during the decade. But one evening, my dad returned from work with two tickets for the final thanks to a bloke called Charlie, a member of Hertfordshire FA. They also had famous players themselves: John Fashanu, Wise, Sanchez, Vinnie Jones, Eric Young, Beasant and Laurie Cunningham. Liverpool were going for their second Double in three years. They had a number of good player such as Beasant, Fashanu and Jones. The tickets cost £25 each and my dad said they had an “obstructed view”. A new documentary on Wimbledon's Crazy Gang to … Wimbledon started well, with Dave Beasant’s drop-kicks threatening to take out the BBC’s helicopter camera. The first round of games were played over the weekend 14–15 November 1987, with the exception of the Welling United – Carshalton Athletic game. Last modified on Sat 2 May 2020 15.27 BST. He would later tell how he had studied Aldridge’s technique. Top scorer John Aldridge found the net twice in a 2-1 win. The 1988 FA Cup was the only major trophy Vinnie Jones won in a 15-year senior career. The Cup runs. And I do wish Aldridge had taken a better penalty. [1][2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1987–88_FA_Cup&oldid=974770686, 1987–88 domestic association football cups, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 24 August 2020, at 22:37. On 5 May 2003, to mark the final Combined Counties League Premier Division fixture of the 2002/03 campaign, we welcomed two of our FA Cup winners from 1988 with Dave Beasant and Lawrie Sanchez presented on the pitch to supporters. Weeks? 5 January 2015 5 January 2015. I had witnessed history. Such was the lure of the FA Cup back then that supporters were to spend the weeks leading up to the final fending off calls from long lost friends begging for tickets. cup final. They also had an excellent team spirit and had got to this final on merit. It was certainly an extra special end of season celebration on this day 17 years ago as AFC Wimbledon hosted Dons stars from the past. - Average age of the Wimbledon starting lineup: 25.54 - This was the first time that a penalty had been missed in a Wembley F.A. The 1987–88 FA Cup was the 107th season of the world's oldest knockout football competition, The Football Association Challenge Cup, or FA Cup for short. Sleeve badges issued to teams taking part … Clive Goodyear was wrongly deemed to have fouled Aldridge in the penalty area. Here, the PA news agency looks at the Crazy Gang’s finest moment. 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