Blackburn away

[Jimbee]

Still ranks as number 1 in my all time favourites as I know it does above Peterborough for many Bees fans. I think it was the fact that we never seriously thought we could win up there and we actually outplayed them for most of the game. Then Bliss scored 2 goals so close together that I was hyperventilating. The celebrations at the end were unbelievable and I think it must have been a good half hour after the final whistle that Steve Perryman was by the pitch being interviewed by Match of the Day and we were all still going beserk. Then we were on the train that broke down and didn't get back to Ealing till about 11.30pm - it didn't make any difference at all, I could have stayed on that train all night

[Wise old Bee]

I remember being told by Tony Parks during the warm-up that Alan Cockram wasn't playing and that Simon Ratcliffe was in in his place.
In the first few minutes Ratcliffe drove one just over and I thought perhaps we might get something here. This was my greatest ever Brentford day and it was a shame we got Liverpool in the next round because we could have played a poor West Ham side at home or gone to Wimbledon where we would have outnumbered them five to one.

['Ayes B]

I remebr it well.....

But did the train brake down....

As I remember it, the points wern't set correctly at Willesden and we ended up in the sidings. I still beleive it was a diliberate ploy to stop 5k bees fans celabrating in Ealing Broadway. http://gpgrapevine.co.uk/ubb/mad.gif

And what acustics the end at Blackburn had. I had been there before for two mid week league cup agmes and the roof just magnifies the noise. That was the loudest Bees support ever and probably would have matched anything that the kop could a chieve on a noise barometer.

[Hungerford Bee]

Certainly my best away trip with the Bees - I have lots of photos - it was at the height of the craze for inflateables which makes the photos a bit embarrasing!

[seasonedbee]

I'm glad someone else knows that the train broke down as I had it in the neck for years from my missus who wouldn't believe me and insisted that I was out celebrating.
Oh if only that were true and I wasn't sitting on a broken down old train, especially after the way the police treated us on the way back to the station from the ground.

[The H]

the inflatables were great. still got my nana somewhere.. http://gpgrapevine.co.uk/ubb/smile.gif