Quarter Finals - Tie 4

[SUFCStu]

Winner Of Tie 5 V Winner Of Tie 7

davewebbsbrain - Ian Benjamin goal that put Southend into the second tier for the first time. V


OlvisIII - Swansea away in the 2005-2006 season - freddy Eastwood double got us promoted thanks to results going our way

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

Swansea it is for me, easy.

The Benji thing just winds me up, didn't go cause couldn't afford it.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

I know some of the younger supporters may not remember the Bury game and Benji's goal that gained us promotion to the second tier for the first time in our history, but take a look at this video. Even with Pat Scully sent off for a criminal challenge, we still went on to win the game. A great great day in the history of SUFC

[video=youtube;s94LR_50iGU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=s94LR_50iGU[/video]

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

A shimmy and a shot

<< weeps >>

what a day :party:

 

[davewebbsbrain]

A shimmy and a shot

<< weeps >>

what a day :party:

Us more mature fans will appreciate the Benji thing

 

[OldBlueLady]

Us more mature fans will appreciate the Benji thing

Us more mature fans should have shown due appreciation for containing the Champions of Europe at Roots Hall in 1979, however, some didn't. It's a travesty to me that the Liverpool game isn't in the final.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Us more mature fans should have shown due appreciation for containing the Champions of Europe at Roots Hall in 1979, however, some didn't. It's a travesty to me that the Liverpool game isn't in the final.

That's quite true. I guess maybe there are more fans on SZ that are of the younger generation that haven't appreciated some of the earlier feats of the team

 

[OldBlueLady]

That's quite true. I guess maybe there are more fans on SZ that are of the younger generation that haven't appreciated some of the earlier feats of the team

It's very true, and there are many on here that won't vote in favour of something because they weren't there when, if things were looked at in context, they might have been voted for very differently. Champions of Europe FFS - none of this playing fringe players lark, this was as decent a team as you'd find gracing any pitch!

 

[davewebbsbrain]

It's very true, and there are many on here that won't vote in favour of something because they weren't there when, if things were looked at in context, they might have been voted for very differently. Champions of Europe FFS - none of this playing fringe players lark, this was as decent a team as you'd find gracing any pitch!

You just have to go with it Kay, you can't always vote for something you didn't see. Some things that are in your heart you have to vote for over something that was better but you didn't experience.

 

[OlvisIII]

I was old enough to remember the Benjamin goal - but surely this wasn't as exciting as the Tilson revolution of the 2005-2006 season. Our paper thin squad, in a league where clubs had significant money, surprising everybody to win promotion. Twice we were behind, twice we dug in and witnessed glorious strikes from the magnificent Freddy Eastwood. Yes Benjy scored an important goal - but was it with the same swagger and pomp as our favourite son? This is without question the pinnacle of a Southend fans support of the club.

Just remember Grimsby - that fateful Saturday afternoon in the wind and rain. Mistaken information saw thousands of blues fans celebrating a false promotion...still leaves me feeling sick. A tonic was needed, and those people fortunate enough to make that journey across the M4, found their antedote! The feeling when the goal went in at Brentford has not been beaten by any sporting moment. The elation, the joy, the happiness - unbeatable! If you were in Swansea, savouring this promotion party, then you too will vote for Southend v Swansea in this titanic battle of two great blues moments!

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Tough, both are goals that took us up to the 2nd tier so huge moments. But Benji's did it for the first ever time.

 

[BP Blue]

Simple this one, Swansea. End of. Still to this day, I think one of the best atmospheres I have ever experienced as a Southend fan, even sports fan for that. The only thing that runs it close is the Juppy goal in Cardiff, but it comes a close second to that day. The second goal summed up everything Freddy Eastwood was about and that is why he is a hero to all that watched him play.

I heard a rumour he might be coming on loan?:winking:

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

The difference between Bury and Liverpool is a simple goal Kay .. drawing with Liverpool was tremendous, as was drawing with Chelsea and (in this instance) Swansea ... but Man Utd and (in this instance) Bury were beaten

I'd take a win over a draw pretty much every time

 

[* ORM *]

Nothing tops the Benji goal for me - and I was one of the 27,500 fans crammed into Gigg Lane to see it