Classics: Havant and Waterlooville deny Swans a Liverpool trip

[swansnews]

It’s FA Cup Third Round week and no matter how much the “special” feeling around the FA Cup may have dipped over the years the Third Round always brings back many memories for football fans everywhere. Over the course of the build up this week on Planet Swans we will bring you some special memories...

Read more

 

[JustJack]

Yeah this one hurt a lot at the time

 

[JackSomething]

Yeah this one hurt a lot at the time

Yep. The only positive memory is Matt the Jack's meltdown on Planet Swans after the defeat.

 

[JustJack]

Yep. The only positive memory is Matt the Jack's meltdown on Planet Swans after the defeat.

It's strange, even in hindsight I'm trying to justify it with the usual excuses

'Well it allowed us to concentrate on the league'

'It would have caused us fixture congestion'

It's all bollox because we would have still pissed the league and the game was on a weekend.

Again it's funny, heartbreak over missing out on a trip to Anfield when we would play there regularly just 4/5 years later

 

[A4Jack]

Rocky Baptiste ffs.

I remember him giving the slit throat celebration to the away end at Havant iirc?

 

[Swanjaxs]

Was at the game, Richard Duffy, who was playing for Portsmouth at the time was also in attendance, he foolishly decided to break into laughter when Havant scored the 4th, then decided to leave early when a couple of the Railway Inns finest had a quiet word in his shell like...