Didn’t we have Notts County away in the cup in the same day as 9-11?
Very poignant. And 9/11 feels like yesterday sometimes. And yet so much has changed since then. XThey were happy times. I just associate that season with feelings of contentment about life in general. I remember the 3-0 at home to Birmingham the weekend following 9/11. The silence was impeccable and I can remember the stars and stripes bring draped from the top tier of the Kippax. It was a very moving occasion. I also loved the kit, the material was sublime.
“I’d rather be in Barnsley than Barbados” was the chant that day. 6000 City if I remember right.My favourite game that season was Barnsley away on Halloween, it was 3-0 but could have been 8.
And thinking the last time I’d been to Barnsley away was a depressing defeat a couple of years earlier with Franny Lee doing interviews from a lounger in Barbados whilst we stood in that open away end in the sleet.
We didnt tend to win at Wolves in those days so it was a massive result for us.That season was like a foreshadowing of the Pep era. It was the first time I’d ever seen a City side cruise through a season as the best team by far - even though it was the second division.
I remember going to Wolves and winning and saying “Nobody will stop us”.
Benarbia sent off early v Millwall at home and Tiatto v Norwich at home, taking it out on the Lucozade bottles IIRC.I remember every single one of those games vividly. I also remember that we won a couple of games with ten men. I think it happened twice. One might have been Watford. Did Tiatto get a red? I might be mixing memories here. We also went away to Ipswich in the cup who were in the premier league and hammered them on live TV.
My favourite was wolves away where we won 2-0. They were challenging us too and we murdered them. Also that era I went to nearly all the away matches too and I think we got some big allocation. Was it Swindon and we got both ends?
I don’t think that was the same season. I think that was 2 years earlier.Nicky Weavers performance home v Ipswich.
A wonder save
It wasn't. That was 99/00. Weaver made four outstanding saves.I don’t think that was the same season. I think that was 2 years earlier.
We are talking about 2 seasons later here.It wasn't. That was 99/00. Weaver made four outstanding saves.
Yes. I am agreeing with you :). When I said "it wasn't", I was confirming your first statement. Apologies on my part, I was a bit unclear.We are talking about 2 seasons later here.
That daft as it sounds the Newcastle game was my favourite memory of that season remember watching it in a packed working mens club in Stalybridge loads of rags in with us as it was Saturday night and even they said it was the best game they’d seen all season so far.Still one of my favourite ever seasons. Loved that squad, adored Benarbia so much. Would go as far as to say in his prime he would be a regular in this current side. Was the first time in my lifetime I ever saw us absolutely dominate a division (and at the time definitely thought it would be the last time). Remember us absolutely battering Newcastle in the cup only to lose to I think a Solano goal?