Clive Tydesley on his most important match after worst night of his life: 'I'll never forget it'

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I knew them, I knew their families, I knew what this match meant to them."Today marks 40 years since this historic final and Clive is hosting an event for the Red Weekender at the M&S Bank Arena tonight with some of the Liverpool players at the heart of the side's 3 - 1 win at Wembley. I didn't go to Stringfellows.

I never actually saw the cup in Stringfellows, but I'm pretty certain I'd have known it if it hadn't got there."It was probably an invitation that was too good to turn down for those guys. I mean, the polarisation between the politics of the city and of the country couldn't have been sharper."I really do recall, almost with a lump in my throat, those moments towards the end of the 1984 League Cup Final [between Liverpool and Everton] when the whole Wembley Stadium echoed to 'Merseyside.'"There was a defiance about it.

But a fairly close second might just have been Liverpool in the '80s where I wasn't a teenager, but I was still a young man. But nothing will ever be as close to his heart as the 1986 FA Cup final, when Merseyside was at the top of the footballing world.He said: "I can't remember a word I said that day.