What if Dickov didn’t equalise against Gillingham

We'd still be at Maine Road, probably mid-table in the Championship, hoping for a decent cup run, dreaming of reaching a Wembley semi final, and our European trips would be limited to pre-season games in Scandinavia.

We'd be putting up statues of past legends such as Jon Macken and the Goat.

The beer would still be shit.
 
Blue Til Death said:
What if Kevin Horlock hadnt started the ball rolling and missed his pen after extra time ….
Super Kev gets airbrushed from that fateful day sometimes but without him, there was no Dickov glory and no City comeback ..
Both are City legends ..
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Same as dzeko and zabba's goal get forgotten against QPR
 
I’m not saying it’s untrue but I do wonder if it might have made no difference in the long run. The City Group have rarely, if ever, bought an established elite team and it’s not beyond them to think around the stadium issue.

If the stories are true about Mike Ashley making a pig’s ear of dealing with ADUG then that may have been a turning point.
 
chaddblue said:
Administration before the 99/00 season started
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Would that have happened then? It was 2007 and 2008 where we were in serious financial difficulty, wasn’t it?

If Thaksin hadn’t bought us we’d have probably gone into administration and with his assets being frozen and if we’d struggled to get a buyer in 2008 we’d have faced administration. But I don’t think we were in that situation in 1999.

Bernstein and Royle has sorted out our wage bill, hadn’t they?
 
It’s something I will always be grateful for and for me the single most important moment in our current history. Otherwise we’d most likely have been a Leeds, Forest, Boro or Sheff Weds.
 
Every time I watch it back I still can't work out how Dickov's goal didn't sail over the bar. He was the very definition of leaning back yet somehow his shot flew into the roof of the net rather than over it.
 
Ballosteve said:
Would of been in big shit.....financially I think we where getting alot of wages paid by John Wardle if I remember rightly....so if we didn't come up it could of had dire consequences....
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Wasn't it reported not long after that we'd have had to have done a fire sale to keep going or done a Bury... Joe Royle said that there were here were in excess of 50 professionals on the books and on transfer deadline day we were just trying to get players out to shrink the wage bill as there was constant talk about the club going into liquidation.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Would that have happened then? It was 2007 and 2008 where we were in serious financial difficulty, wasn’t it?

If Thaksin hadn’t bought us we’d have probably gone into administration and with his assets being frozen and if we’d struggled to get a buyer in 2008 we’d have faced administration. But I don’t think we were in that situation in 1999.

Bernstein and Royle has sorted out our wage bill, hadn’t they?
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I was at a sportsman’s dinner 3 or 4 years ago where Joe was the speaker. I asked him that very question chatting to him later on

his answer was something like ‘not sure it would have got to administration but things will have been pretty grim”
 
I fucking love our club. Wouldn’t change our history for the world. A rag friend of mine said to me the other when we were evaluating our respective seasons, he said “at least when you were shit it was entertaining. Up and down. We are just consistently bang average”.
And he’s right. Id rather take our high and lows than the mundane seasons a lot of football fans have.
 
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