davieG Posted 6 January 2012 Posted 6 January 2012 Video - http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2717854698820 After being drawn away at Brighton in the third round (the latter’s manager Peter Taylor claimed: “We have an excellent chance to do well this season after we’ve swatted away those minnows”) the Daily Mail began to take an interest in the predictions of “Leatherhead’s answer to Stan Bowles and Rodney Marsh”. With the tabloids building up the heavyweight rivalry between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, the Mail compared Tanners striker Chris Kelly – an upholsterer by trade – with Louisville’s finest. The “Leatherhead Lip” told the Mail: “Watch us go. I’m about to put Leatherhead on the map.” There was also talk of Kelly’s “Ali shuffle”, a step-over manoeuvre that foxed opposing defenders. As 2,000 travelling Tanners fans saw their team soak up constant pressure at the Goldstone Ground, Kelly broke forward late in the game and rifled in the winner from 20 yards. The clearly inebriated Kelly, a dead ringer for Robin Askwith star of the Confessions Of... films, was hauled out from the pub where he’d been celebrating with Leatherhead fans and chauffeured up to the BBC studios, having already learned that his team’s fourth-round opponents would be First Division Leicester City. He informed Match of the Day presenter Jimmy Hill: “Leicester are rubbish. We’ll stuff them in the next round.” Tanners officials opted to switch the home tie to Filbert Street, with Kelly predicting: “The bigger the stage, the more we like it. It’s about time a non-League side reached the final.” “The Lip” was by now a bona fide celeb and was featured on Nationwide and, bizarrely, Tomorrow’s World in the week leading up to the big match. He also achieved lasting television fame when his name appeared on the back of Fletch’s copy of the Sun in Porridge later that year. Match of the Day turned up at Filbert Street and it was difficult to judge whether or not John Motson was more excited about the goals by Peter McGillicuddy and Kelly that put Leatherhead 2-0 up after 30 minutes, or the fact that Tanners’ outfield players were the first team to wear green on MOTD. Minutes before half-time, Kelly went around the Leicester keeper and seemed set to put Leatherhead into a 3-0 lead (“Can he score? He will if he does his shuffle!” roared Motson), but Steve Earle miraculously cleared the effort off the line. “If Kelly had scored, we’d have been finished,” admitted Leicester striker Jon Sammels after the game, “but that miss gave us a ray of hope at half-time.” As Leatherhead’s legs tired after the interval, Leicester’s fitness told and the Tanners were nudged out by the odd goal. Arsenal would have been their opponents in the next round. The Sunday tabloids were crammed with tales of the non-Leaguers’ heroics and Kelly boasted: “We’ll be back next year.” But when Leatherhead defeated Ron Atkinson’s Cambridge United in the following season’s FA Cup, Kelly had already left for a brief stay at Millwall.
mikey54 Posted 6 January 2012 Posted 6 January 2012 Brings back memories, I always wondered whether Kelly made it professionally.
THEFATBASTARD Posted 6 January 2012 Posted 6 January 2012 Its the only game I ever attempted to walkout of ,I was almost in tears at the prospect of being humiliated on MOTD.. some blokes at the back wouldn't let me.. minutes later the comeback started...Learned a big lesson from that.... the kelly bloke was a character ,the type we are lacking today..
fosseman Posted 6 January 2012 Posted 6 January 2012 I was in the Double Decker. I could hardly believe my eyes when they stormed ahead. Still, it ended ok on that occasion.
ibbosuk Posted 6 January 2012 Posted 6 January 2012 Video - http://www.facebook....v=2717854698820 After being drawn away at Brighton in the third round (the latter’s manager Peter Taylor claimed: “We have an excellent chance to do well this season after we’ve swatted away those minnows”) the Daily Mail began to take an interest in the predictions of “Leatherhead’s answer to Stan Bowles and Rodney Marsh”. With the tabloids building up the heavyweight rivalry between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, the Mail compared Tanners striker Chris Kelly – an upholsterer by trade – with Louisville’s finest. The “Leatherhead Lip” told the Mail: “Watch us go. I’m about to put Leatherhead on the map.” There was also talk of Kelly’s “Ali shuffle”, a step-over manoeuvre that foxed opposing defenders. As 2,000 travelling Tanners fans saw their team soak up constant pressure at the Goldstone Ground, Kelly broke forward late in the game and rifled in the winner from 20 yards. The clearly inebriated Kelly, a dead ringer for Robin Askwith star of the Confessions Of... films, was hauled out from the pub where he’d been celebrating with Leatherhead fans and chauffeured up to the BBC studios, having already learned that his team’s fourth-round opponents would be First Division Leicester City. He informed Match of the Day presenter Jimmy Hill: “Leicester are rubbish. We’ll stuff them in the next round.” Tanners officials opted to switch the home tie to Filbert Street, with Kelly predicting: “The bigger the stage, the more we like it. It’s about time a non-League side reached the final.” “The Lip” was by now a bona fide celeb and was featured on Nationwide and, bizarrely, Tomorrow’s World in the week leading up to the big match. He also achieved lasting television fame when his name appeared on the back of Fletch’s copy of the Sun in Porridge later that year. Match of the Day turned up at Filbert Street and it was difficult to judge whether or not John Motson was more excited about the goals by Peter McGillicuddy and Kelly that put Leatherhead 2-0 up after 30 minutes, or the fact that Tanners’ outfield players were the first team to wear green on MOTD. Minutes before half-time, Kelly went around the Leicester keeper and seemed set to put Leatherhead into a 3-0 lead (“Can he score? He will if he does his shuffle!” roared Motson), but Steve Earle miraculously cleared the effort off the line. “If Kelly had scored, we’d have been finished,” admitted Leicester striker Jon Sammels after the game, “but that miss gave us a ray of hope at half-time.” As Leatherhead’s legs tired after the interval, Leicester’s fitness told and the Tanners were nudged out by the odd goal. Arsenal would have been their opponents in the next round. The Sunday tabloids were crammed with tales of the non-Leaguers’ heroics and Kelly boasted: “We’ll be back next year.” But when Leatherhead defeated Ron Atkinson’s Cambridge United in the following season’s FA Cup, Kelly had already left for a brief stay at Millwall. OHHH YES!!!... remember that game very very well, I sat in the front row in the Filbert street end as a 15 year old boy, so close to the goal net you could almost reach out and touch it, that was the end with all the excitement in that particular game. Bloody fantastic, "The Leatherhead lip" and McGillicuddy...But we did them in the end (((JUST))).
Kitchandro Posted 6 January 2012 Posted 6 January 2012 “Leicester are rubbish. We’ll stuff them in the next round.” I'd just love one of our players to say this about Forest tomorrow morning The game needs more characters these days
Bangkok Mick Posted 6 January 2012 Posted 6 January 2012 I was actually in the Leatherhead end as a youngster. They played in green and white... so who can remember red and white scarfs in their end???? They were Forest fans as their game had been called off!!!!
Pegosteve Posted 6 January 2012 Posted 6 January 2012 What a game I remember the Forest fans turning up to follow Leatherhead. Pity they cant turn up these days to watch their own team!!
wellyfox Posted 7 January 2012 Posted 7 January 2012 What a game I remember the Forest fans turning up to follow Leatherhead. Pity they cant turn up these days to watch their own team!! Was 9 and my dad could not go so I missed it. Would those be the same tree huggers from like 30 miles up the road ? You know them that don't care about us cos we are nothing to them ? The same ones who's only rivals are the sheep shaggers ? Anyone got a pic so we can drop it on there forum ? lol lol
filbertboy Posted 7 January 2012 Posted 7 January 2012 Was at the match with my Dad and Brother. Great game and a huge fright !! I thought it was Malcolm Munroe who cleared off the line.
Head Honcho Posted 7 January 2012 Posted 7 January 2012 I was in The Kop for this game great comeback.
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