I remember stopping in a hotel near Knighsbridge on the Friday night,Went and had some nice sarnies across the night,Brian Aston was in our hotel and the usual score predictions were going round,People happy to keep it respectable,Brian insisting we would win,We all thought he was
How wrong were we,Travelled to Wembley on the train and he was still banging on about how we were going to win
Remember drinking Holsten Pil for the 1st and last time,Cant really remember much in the build up to the match,Went to the bookies all the Wigan 17 were infront of the Eagles players for 1st tryscorer,I had a £10 on Nick Pinkey and he duly obliged,Brian had a bet on Mark Aston for the Lance Todd and my Dad had £50 on the Eagles to win,The man who took his money sniggered as he handed over the slip,Went to collect the winnings at the end and the shop was shut
Paul Carr later said if you would have had a £1.00 accumilator on all three happening youd have won thousands (cant remember exact figure)I remember counting down the minutes,the clock never moved its seemed forever to get to the 80 mins,still believeing we might chock it
up even with two minutes to go,then the hooter went (getting shivers just thinking about it)Went to a pub after,being congratulated by other fans and giving the wigan coaches a friendly wave
as they left Wembley with no trophy and a bit of embaresment,After that a went to the after match party were the trophy and the speeches went on all night as well as some celebratory ales,What a day,will never be forgotten.