Your favourite promotion season?

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A tough one for me:

The football we played under Keegan in 2001/2 was swashbuckling and, at times, sublime. Ali B in particular.

The 1988/9 season, with a squad full of homegrown youngsters, was a period of palpable optimism at the club - and Bradford on the last day was an incredibly tense, but amazing end to the season.

The 1998/9 season was dour and turgid in the main, but provided the ultimate and utterly memorable denouement. Ditto 1984/5.

But for me, the 1999/2000 season was the most enjoyable, possibly because it was so unexpected. I'd have easily settled for mid-table at the outset. The finale at Ewood Park remains my favourite game to be at after the 6-1 and QPR. It felt amazing to be back at the top, something that seemed impossibly far away some eighteen months earlier.

Which promotion season do you have the fondest memories of?
 
The first one I saw - 1965/66.

In the words of the song:
"We went to Rotherham
We won 1 - 0 and we were back into Division One
Since then........................"

You never forget your first time!
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
A tough one for me:

The football we played under Keegan in 2001/2 was swashbuckling and, at times, sublime. Ali B in particular.

The 1988/9 season, with a squad full of homegrown youngsters, was a period of palpable optimism at the club - and Bradford on the last day was an incredibly tense, but amazing end to the season.

The 1998/9 season was dour and turgid in the main, but provided the ultimate and utterly memorable denouement. Ditto 1984/5.

But for me, the 1999/2000 season was the most enjoyable, possibly because it was so unexpected. I'd have easily settled for mid-table at the outset. The finale at Ewood Park remains my favourite game to be at after the 6-1 and QPR. It felt amazing to be back at the top, something that seemed impossibly far away some eighteen months earlier.

Which promotion season do you have the fondest memories of?
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1999/2000 for me too. The jubilation on the pitch afterwards meeting all the old faces and the journey back with a stream of City cars tooting at all the kerb side well wishers in the towns we passed through. There was a rumour there was to be a celebration at Maine Road with all the players coming back which sadly proved to be just a rumour.

The Wembley play off season was also.....very interesting.
 
84-85 for me,can anyone put the Pompey away video on this thread Simmo with that lob remember it though it was yesterday.
 
Promotion under KK. You knew that it was almost guaranteed that in every match we'd rip the opponents to bits and score 4 or 5 goals
 
The Keegan season for the flowing football and the players who made it, but in 2000 Birmingham at home on the Friday night and then Blackburn away the next weekend provided the most exciting finish.
(Now as for exciting (?) relegation seasons there was one back around 1960 I think that came down to goal average with City and Aston Villa trying to stay up in the last match.)
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
* Sorry @oakiecokie for not including the 1927/8 season.
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You complete bastard.Good job I`ve got thick skin mate. ;)
Will be thinking of you mate this week as I`ll be in the Courthouse,Dudley on Wednesday.My mate from Wolverhampton who I stay with 4 times a year, lost his Mum a couple of weeks ago so I`m of to her funeral and staying over and partaking in some fine CAMRA beers.
 
The Keegan promotion season was one of the best seasons in my 40 odd years following the Blues.
 
oakiecokie said:
You complete bastard.Good job I`ve got thick skin mate. ;)
Will be thinking of you mate this week as I`ll be in the Courthouse,Dudley on Wednesday.My mate from Wolverhampton who I stay with 4 times a year, lost his Mum a couple of weeks ago so I`m of to her funeral and staying over and partaking in some fine CAMRA beers.
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Hope you give her a good send off.
 
88/89 season for me. Only because I was old enough to appreciate what it meant. I was 15 at the time and a group of us used go to near enough every home game plus we got a few away games in at Oldham, Blackburn and Watford. I always remember the Bournemouth match as we cheered their 1st goal, got a bit twitchy at their 2nd and stood in disbelief at their 3rd. Lots of us sat on the Kippax devoed but then the Leicester/palace result came up on the scoreboard and we went mental.
 
Definitely 99/2000 for me, if only for the Blackburn game;

Only time I've ever been drunk at a football match
Only time I've ever been "escorted" from the away end
Only time I've everbeen ejected from a public hostelry (along with a few others) by the police.
 
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