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I said: `There's 100 quid, get down the Bunch of Grapes and have a lager. Don't have a pint, just half-pints'.
"As I was sending them all down, Dennis Wise, Brian Gayle and Vinnie Jones were coming sheepishly up the back garden. They'd been down the Bunch of Grapes so I said: 'I've got bad news for you -- I've just sent the other lads down there with 100 quid and you've spent your own money'. They scarpered back as quickly as they possibly could."
Yet Gould maintains the side were "ultra-professional" and cites the hour Wise and Cork spent hitting Aldridge-style spot kicks at Beasant on the eve of the final.
"They would put the ball on the spot, go up, take the two steps, check, sidefoot, go to Beasant's left. They rehearsed it time after time after time. And what happens in the second half? The tackle by Clive Goodyear on John Barnes and penalty given -- it wasn't a penalty, I still say that to this day -- but Aldridge went up, check, sidefoot, Dave goes left, penalty saved, job done."
It was the first penalty save in a Wembley Cup final.
Image: Dave Beasant of Wimbledon dives to his left to save a penalty from Liverpool's John Aldridge
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