If you lose it’s not just rough on the keeper, but the whole team and fans There were tears in the dressing room. With penalties you can say everything is down to you, but on the other hand you can be the hero. I’d felt aware of what the outcome might be when we missed the first few penalties We were going to struggle unless I saved them. Portsmouth were the victims of one of the FA Cup’s earliest penalty shoot- outs.I knew it was probably my one and only chance of getting to an FA Cup final After the penalties it was a strange feeling.

Football was a long way down in our priorities.Alan Knight1992 Liverpool 0 Portsmouth 0 (Liverpool won 3-1 on penalties)A one-club goalkeeper, now in his 17th season at Fratton Park. We were subdued before the game and subdued after it even though we thought the result was the best thing that could have happened. We didn’t play welI, but I can’t really remember the match; I can’t even remember the scorers. At Nottingham Forest, we obviously wanted to win the semi-final, but in a way it seemed only right that they should and then win the Cup at Wembley for all those families.

We were also naturally very affected by what had happened at Hillsborough; so much was happening at the time that the game was of secondary importance and the build-up was very quiet; there was no hype or excitement about the match. Liverpool were very much playing for the victims of Hillsborough, a fact which many of their players stated before the game. Afterwards I worked as a sausage salesman but I didn’t take to that. I ended up on the buses as a driver for 20 years.Lee Chapman1989 Liverpool 3 Nottm Forest 1Ninety-six people had died in the Hillsborough disaster. The match was replayed at Old Trafford 22 days later.I actually thought the competition should have been stopped after that game out of respect for the victims, but when it came to it, we were in a no-win situation. He didn’t cause us a lot of trouble and I scored an early goal. I think the reason we didn’t win the championship that season was because we didn’t have floodlights so we were playing afternoon matches which was difficult because we were part-time I was working in the mines.

I was real chuffed to play against him because he was my favourite They used to say “how do you stop Matthews?” Well, once he got the ball you couldn’t stop him The idea was to stop him getting the ball. They had won the Cup in Matthews year, 1953, and that was more or less the team we played. The papers were on strike and only Arthur Bottom was interviewed. He got about £50.Our toughest Cup games were against Scarborough and Notts County, more so than when we beat Tottenham in the fifth round (Arthur Rowe resigned as their manager soon afterwards) and Blackpool in the third round. We were disappointed, but I will say this, none of us really realised we’d got to the semi-finals We just kept winning and we didn’t think about it. When we got into the dressing room after we’d lost, we thought how near we were to Wembley We weren’t that down, we’d done well and were quite happy We didn’t get much out of it though. A few minutes from the end we were still losing 1-0 so we had to go up and attack They got a breakaway and scored a second.