And thankfully you don't have Peter Sterling !

1. Having breakfast in our London hotel wearing replica shirts and the staff asking who we supported and when the game was.



2. The pre-match parade of old players and the massive roar (from both ends of the stadium) when the great William John Boston was introduced to the crowd.



3. The crush, never been as tightly packed into a stadium before or since.



4. Thinking the game was won and then Hull's fight back, I genuinely thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest.



5. Seeing Westy lift the cup................a 20 year wait was over.









p.s. after the game was over our group were stood on the car park as the coaches were leaving, as the buses carrying the Hull fans drove past we stood and applauded them, and, in return they applauded back, they must have been gutted but were sporting enough to realise that we, and they, had witnessed a classic final, Hull fans have had some bad press over the years but that day they were brilliant and helped create a fabulous atmosphere and day.

For me it was Fergies sidestep.



That and Bretts "gliding" run.

I remember our coach breaking down soon after coming off the car park at wembley. Everybody piled in a chippie were there was lots of Hull fans. They were fantastic in defeat offering us all a chip. Fantastic final.

1. Henderson going the length of the pitch, and Garry Kemble chinning his heel, that must have hurt.



2. Gizmo dropping Lee crooks in full flight on his own try line, best tackle I have seen.



3. Ronnie Campbell, we think refs are bad now!



4. Brett's tash



5. The shoulder pads!



Classic final, even the BBC realised it, so much so they showed it again at christmas

Having my picture with a Wigan fan in the Wembley car park. We both had the same banner word for word and the same picture except mine was a picture of Sterling with "Sterlo the Wizard of Oz" and Sterling dressed in a wizards costume with a wand and the Wigan lad had the same but Brett Kenny as his "wizard". I am gonna try and dig the pic out before the final and post it so be warned if it was any of you!



I also remember being scared stiff of heights and was in D upper. I think people thought it a bit strange to see a 9 year old fighting back tears at abide with me but I was really just terrified of being that high up

Quick history please?

Only born 84

1, Gilly's Smile after scoring.

2, Brett Kenny with his hands in his pockets .

3, Chicka having a fag.

4, Missed Conversions!!.

5, My first Final as a Wigan supporter

You are probably best trying to get hold of the game (Amazon have the full match on DVD for less than a tenner).



It is regarded by many as the greatest Cup final ever as Hull fought back from 22-8 down to almost snatch it. Also some great players from the UK and Down Under were on display such as Sterling, Crooks, Leuluai, Norton, Kenny, Ferguson, West. The other noteworthy thing about the game was the attendance - a shade under 100,000.



It was something of a "changing of the guard" too as Hull's golden era of the early 80s began to fade just as Wigan's dominance of the game began.

Cheers

To be honest when I read people saying "hope it's not hull as all they'll go on about is 85" I thought they'd put one on us

I have only one memory of that final and that is of not going. It was meant to be my first game of rugby league and we had tickets bought for us, they were posted down to us but they never arrived. I had to wait another three years to go to Wembley again.

However there was one good thing that came of it, as a kind of compensation we were given a guided tour of central park by Graeme West and have a photo in the trophy room of me and my brother holding the Challenge cup. The biggest memory as a 9 year old I have is how big Westy was.

This year will be a homage to not going then, hope the tickets arrive this time.

i was 8 years old and sat with my familly on a hull coach stuck in traffic heading to wembley as a wigan coach pulls up next to us dead level.their windows were full of wigan flags hanging down which all lifted as one to fill the view with 30 bare backsides and hairy coconuts ha.