That FA Cup Final Against Arsenal

[TigerTom87]

May 2014. Hull City 2 Arsenal 0 after eight minutes. I genuinely thought we were going to win the FA Cup.
Curtis Davies headed in from a corner and the place went nuts. Then about three minutes later Fryatt or someone bundled another one in and I remember looking at my mate and saying we're actually going to do this. Arsenal looked shell shocked. Wenger was just standing there on the touchline like he'd seen a ghost.
The problem is you can't give a team like Arsenal forty minutes to sort themselves out. Cazorla pulled one back with that free kick that went through the wall and suddenly the momentum completely shifted. You could feel it in the stadium. From that point on it felt inevitable.
Ramsey's goal in extra time to make it 3 2 was devastating. I remember just standing there completely empty. We'd been so close. Eight minutes in we were winning the FA Cup and then it was gone.
People say it was still a great day and a great achievement to get there. And yeah it was. But honestly at the time it didn't feel like that. It felt like we'd had something incredible ripped away from us. The bus parade through Hull a few days later was emotional though. Thousands of people lining the streets for a team that lost. That tells you everything about what this club means to this city.
Does that final still haunt anyone else or have you made peace wit
h it?

 

[AmberNBlack]

Still hurts. Genuinely still hurts. I was there and when we went 2 0 up I was already planning what I was going to say to my Arsenal supporting mates at work on Monday. Then it all fell apart and I had to spend the train home in silence while they sent me about forty texts. The worst part is we'll probably never get that close again. That was our moment and it slipped away. Incredible day though even with the ending.

 

[springbank_lad]

I watched it in the pub and even there the emotion was mad. When we scored the second goal people were literally on the floor. Then as Arsenal came back the whole place just went quiet bit by bit. By extra time nobody was even talking. Just staring at the screen. Gutting. But you know what, ten years on I'm proud we were there. How many clubs our size get to play in an FA Cup final? We showed the whole country what Hull City is about that day even if we didn't get the trophy.