Ticket showing ‘Newcastle United’ and ‘League Cup Semi-Final’ is a first...for me at least

Ticket showing ‘Newcastle United’ and ‘League Cup Semi-Final’ is a first…for me at leastA pair of tickets for the League Cup Semi-Final second leg, to see a ticket stub showing the words ‘Newcastle United’ and ‘League Cup Semi-Final’ is a first, for me at least.In fact, that’s the only time we’ve managed to progress as far.As a seven-year-old whose interest in the game was just beginning to develop, I can vaguely remember it, but not the League Cup Semi-Final 47 years ago.

For me, when growing up, although the FA Cup was right at the centre of the footballing calendar, the League Cup was somewhat more mystical. The Final was just another game and when we lost to Man City, it was played on Saturday afternoon amongst the rest of the fixtures that weekend. The first League Cup tie I attended, under the lights at St James, was the 1-1 draw in the second round first leg against third division Oxford United. It was September 1983 and whilst we weren’t in the top flight, King Kev was beginning his second term with us and Arthur Cox had assembled a squad good enough to get back to the top flight at the end of the campaign.

In the 1985-86 campaign, we needed the away goals rule to see off Barnsley before the eventual winners bundled us out at you guessed it, the Manor Ground, once again. Believe me, a trek to Oxford and back on a Wednesday isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and my mate received six points on his license on the way back. Oxford went on the lift the trophy that season, so losing there was maybe not as bad as it had been a couple of years earlier.

I can also recall drunken antics at the Pleasure Beach and on the way to the ground, scrapping with our own supporters, a case of mistaken identity where some idiots thought we were from Blackpool and seemed disappointed when it turned out we weren’t. After the match, two of us didn’t make the van and despite the protestations of those of us who did, it left without them. Thank goodness for Armstrong Galley.

I have a copy of that programme. I wasn’t at the match though!

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