A shot at revenge to ease 68 years of hurt

TIE SPARKS MEMORIES OF 'MAD' LOSS

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LIFELONG Fulham fan Roy Searle has been waiting almost 70 years for his club to exact revenge on Newcastle.

Searle, below, was at Craven Cottage in 1956 when the two sides fought out one of the greatest games in FA Cup history.

The Cottagers, who included Bobby Robson and Johnny Haynes in their line-up, trailed 3-0 inside half an hour.

But they fought back to 3-3 with a hat-trick from Tosh Chamberlain and remarkably took the lead through Jimmy Hill.

Hopes of an astonishing comeback win were then dashed when Toon forward Vic Keeble scored twice in the last quarter of an hour to seal a 5-4 away win.

The result was mired controversy, with the burly Keeble shoulder-barging Fulham keeper Ian Black into the back of the net for the equaliser in Searle, now 80 and living in Hurst, Berkshire, still recalls the game as if it were yesterday.