15 Years ago today

[jimharri]

I too was sat in the Stoke end for this, it was kicking off everywhere.

I remember reading in the paper on the day of the game that loads of blues had gone down to the Britannia earlier that week to buy tickets, although it did say that one City fan's cover was blown when he asked for four tickets for "The Stoke game".

Fifteen years is a shockingly long time and worth noting for one particular reason. Many of the hoards of away fans that come to the Etihad and sing "where were you when you were shit?" were in short trousers when the supporters of this football club gave it collective CPR in the late-nineties. As time passes the reputation we earned as supporters at that time will inevitably diminish, but as long as we don't forget, that's all that really matters. I don't think days like that should be used as a yardstick for failings under the current circumstances anymore, but we should never forget that without our unflinching support we wouldn't be where we are today. We carried the club to the shop window that lead to the miracle of the takeover.

It truly is an astonishing journey we've been on, and one which supporters of any other club should, in truth, be entirely jealous. No-one else can know what it feels like to climb back from that hot, sunny day fifteen years ago, to where we find ourselves today, the force we now are in European football and with all that lies before us.

Anyone who says this club has no history really is a fool.

As I was reading that it felt like it should have a piece of stirring classical music building underneath it!Great post.

Here you go;
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmq1cpcglQ[/youtube]

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Horrible day. I went to bed the night before and I dreamed that we won 5-2 and stayed up. I woke up and saw the 5-2 and thought I was a wizard or something, then I saw we went down. Crushed and pissed off at myself for making me think we had done it.

i really liked this story.

i didn,t enjoy dodging house bricks at stoke that day. saw loads of blues get hit by bricks /rocks , full on the head blows.....nasty.

 

[There is a Light]

Me and my mate left at half time. I was sure we had been rumbled as Blues and we were going to get done in when we went back to our seats. It sounds paranoid, but there was pockets of trouble all over the ground and a few Blues made the dash across the pitch into our end behind the goal.

Bad bad day.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Me and my mate left at half time. I was sure we had been rumbled as Blues and we were going to get done in when we went back to our seats. It sounds paranoid, but there was pockets of trouble all over the ground and a few Blues made the dash across the pitch into our end behind the goal.

Bad bad day.

And that folks, is why laser blue should never darken our door again.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

What fantastic support from our fans, especially the blond woman who was fantastic.

Remember what the Rags used to say 'City' stood for? Conference In Two Years!

There's no doubt it all galvanised our support.

Proud to be blue!

fuck the rags.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

15 years, what I'd give to be back there even though we were rubbish !

Chugged down in a shitty old Sierra with my then girlfriend. Parked fuckin miles away and legged it up a dual carriageway with all these strange looking people shouting abuse at us and the filth slowing down to blatantly eye her up. Got in a bit late and just remember it being boiling hot and a vicious atmosphere. Weird game and weird day. Was too unbelievable to see City relegated to the 3rd division to feel upset.

love your use of the words vicious and weird. that,s just how it was .
getting bricked on the way out was really bad, but don,t think it was worse than the pain that was in my heart at the time. painful memories...coming out of the away end to the coach park.pissed,pissed off, and relegated to the third division..right, what does that mean then? we are really really shit?...then just brick after brick flying thru the air taking blues out all around..seemed funny in a pissed up haze.....thank god i was pissed.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

I remember standing behind the goal...About 4 rows back just praying that Huddersfield beat Pompey or was it the other way around....???

Shite day all round which makes me appreciate what we have today

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Thanks for reminding me of my 35th birthday when I cried.

50 today and my last 2 cries were for trophies, hoping for a third on the 11th.

Happy Birthday!
Presumably you're referring to the Fa Cup and St Sergio's Day... which means...


You didn't cry after Gillingham? My God, you must have a heart of stone, man.

The Gillingham game was a long story, had text updates via a bird at the hotel that me and Mrs Moon were staying at in Tunesia, no sky sports 2 over there, she took a strop on and cleared off at 2-2.

Everyone who would know the score in the UK would be at the game and it was after midnight before I found out the result, rather than a cry had a special moonlight on the beach celebration with Mrs Moon ;)

 

[mad4city]

Thanks for reminding me of my 35th birthday when I cried.

50 today and my last 2 cries were for trophies, hoping for a third on the 11th.

Happy Birthday!
Presumably you're referring to the Fa Cup and St Sergio's Day... which means...


You didn't cry after Gillingham? My God, you must have a heart of stone, man.

The Gillingham game was a long story, had text updates via a bird at the hotel that me and Mrs Moon were staying at in Tunesia, no sky sports 2 over there, she took a strop on and cleared off at 2-2.

Everyone who would know the score in the UK would be at the game and it was after midnight before I found out the result, rather than a cry had a special moonlight on the beach celebration with Mrs Moon ;)

Now, now! You know the rule: Pics or it didn't happen!

The day after Gillingham, I was back at work and drove a van up to a checkpoint. The cop motioned for me to wind the window down and I did so.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"Never been happier," I replied.
"But you're crying?" he told me.
I looked in the mirror and f**k me but I was too!
And to think, I was sure I'd never know that feeling again.

 

[SaddleworthBlueRhino]

And that folks, is why laser blue should never darken our door again.[/quote]
Was wearing that shirt at Stoke 15 years ago and also wore it to the Gillingham final. Sadly it no longer fits and my brother who was there with me now wears it as a reminder of where we have been. So its a bit easy to dismiss laser blue so easily. And I know we played in the yellow and black at Wembley but at the time I thought it was Ghastly! Now I would love an original with the number 9 on the big white prisoner square.<br /><br />-- Sat May 04, 2013 3:49 pm --<br /><br />

15 years, what I'd give to be back there even though we were rubbish !

Chugged down in a shitty old Sierra with my then girlfriend. Parked fuckin miles away and legged it up a dual carriageway with all these strange looking people shouting abuse at us and the filth slowing down to blatantly eye her up. Got in a bit late and just remember it being boiling hot and a vicious atmosphere. Weird game and weird day. Was too unbelievable to see City relegated to the 3rd division to feel upset.

love your use of the words vicious and weird. that,s just how it was .
getting bricked on the way out was really bad, but don,t think it was worse than the pain that was in my heart at the time. painful memories...coming out of the away end to the coach park.pissed,pissed off, and relegated to the third division..right, what does that mean then? we are really really shit?...then just brick after brick flying thru the air taking blues out all around..seemed funny in a pissed up haze.....thank god i was pissed.

WE NEVER WIN AT HOME AND WE NEVER WIN AWAY................... So true for so many of us!!!