I was 21 and remember it vividly. I must have been p****d, everyone else on the coach was !
I wasnāt there at that particular time. Bit of a lacuna. I had fallen in love and missed a few games. Not many. We got married. My son is a proper Saddler and my 6 year old grandson attends his very first game on Saturday v Accrington S.
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Canāt beat 3 generations of Saddlers together at games!
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I was there, but Iām surprised now at how little I can remember of it. And I was too young to have been drinking. All I can really remember is our goal, and Colin Harrison getting clean through when it was still 0-0, but being stopped by Jennings.
Iāve had contact from Fellows1926 who confirms he knows you from old.
There was some trouble as i remember , there was a load of Spurs fanās waiting at the train station for us , and as we didnāt leg it when they charged at us they ended up coming in the clock end with the Walsall giving the Arsenal some ---- !
Also remember a load of Arsenal wading into us just before kick off in that end and a line of copperās trying to separate us as the Walsall started having a go back .
At the end of the game we weāre taking our scarfās off but my mate had a sew on patch on the back of his jacket , the v for victory hand with Walsall F.C on ( do you remember them , every body and team had them those dayās ) and some Arsenal twāt kicked him down the stepās 
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We worked together some 40 odd years ago now and still bump in to him now and again and have a chat about nothing and everything.
I got knocked over in the melee when that happened before kick off . Remember the Spurs fans in our end as well.
Happy days watching Walsall in the 70ās.
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As one or two others have posted, Stapleton (2) MacDonald and Sunderland were on target for Arsenal whilst hereā¦the moment Alan Buckley shot past Pat Jennings to give us a bit of hopeā¦
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No gloves 
Seems that the Buck and I share the same wonky memory!
Have you got the match report F26?
Sadlad comes up with the goods again! I was eleven and when that goal went in everyone around me stood up so I had to wait to see the goal on match of the day. This was probably the first time I had seen trouble at a football game, I remember watching fists fly in the clock end where the fans didnāt appear to be segregated and trouble as we walked back to the car(our coach didnāt turn up to pick us up from caldmore). I also remember the seemingly never ending line of coaches, over 100 of them in total.
@Sandysaddler yes I remember the never ending bank of coaches we took that day had a job to find ours after the game! I kept my ticket stubā¦
Spent my afternoon in the cage and the the rest of the weekend in the Royal Northern Hospital Islington with concussion.Following Walsall in the seventies was always interesting.
Still got that old light blue/black/white scarf knocking about somewhere.
BTW - Couple of interesting stats coming out of Brentfords game with Arsenal tonight (courtesy of the Beeb)ā¦
ā Brentford are one of only five English teams Arsenal have faced at least 10 times and lost more games against than theyāve won (P12 W3 D4 L5), along with Liverpool, Manchester United, Notts County and Walsallā
ā¦ so get googling ā¦
āBees boss Dean Smith has faced Premier League opposition five times in his managerial career - heās lost all five matches, conceding at least three goals in every gameā
All Saddlers games ? Can you name 'em ?
Thinking back I had a brand new sky blue/black and white scarf just for that match with a rosette too, canāt remember if it was a cup game but we went to port Vale away that season, I think it was Jeff Kingās debut! Amazing what I can remember from forty years ago yet I canāt remember what
the missus asked me to do two minutes ago!
Crystal P too (FLC) ? (or were they championship?)
