25 years ago today we dropped into division 3

Eds said:
Arrived back home in South Manchester and reports coming through that the fighting was still going on this was about 90 minutes after the game had ended. Managed to dodge the missiles after the game thankfully.
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Vale had survived relegation that day and their fans and Stoke City battled long into the night. For a small club Vale have some tasty boys.
This match was a low point between ourselves and Stoke after Wembley in 2011 there seems to be some mutual respect.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
We've now got a whole new generation of supporters who weren't even born in 1998 and have only ever known European football and City competing for the major trophies on a regular basis.

Good job the Ticket Office is still shite or they'd have absolutely nothing to relate to
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Talking of ticket office and the youngster generation not being able to relate to stuff, funnily enough the ticket office at Maine Road was the only place I ever had a cheque(remember them) refused.
When trying to write out a cheque for a ticket onthe day of the game ,(now, there's a thing!) the guy in the ticket office reckoned my signature didn't match the one on my bank card. From memory I think I was going to buy a ticket for the Main stand by cheque to save my actual cash for beer (as I'm sure contactless wasn't a thing then)
In the end I spent some of that beer money paying cash on the turnstiles of The Kippax.
It all ended well though, as we got twatted 4:1 by Oldham....oh that was a day our club really made me feel good...just like that day against Stoke!!
 
What a fucking ride it's been. Talk about character building and shaping my life. Supporting City gave me a resilience that has helped me far later into life. Subjected to misery most weeks from being 10 to 23. Wouldn't have it any other way.
 
A week after we were relegated I was at a black tie event in Southport with the now ex wife

The wife kept nagging at me all week to be on my best behaviour and not to show her up as it was connected to her work.

At the bar one bloke said to me your quiet tonight unlike at Stoke.

It turned out to be the director of the company who was also a blue who was at the game and he bought me drinks all night getting pissed.

My lasting memory is of the ex with that fucking look on her face when me and the director was signing Are you watching Macclesfield
 
I can’t remember the specifics of exactly what had to happen but I was 100% resigned to relegation before that game.

It was one of those days that seemed great fun reminiscing years later but at the time was all a bit of a hassle and you just wanted to get it done and get back home.
 
Jack74 said:
Shows how leathered I was I thought he came on with about 15 to go , he definitely didn’t start
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Don’t get me wrong, my memory isn’t what it used to be, but I definitely saved his shot, then thought he was subbed?

Edit: you were right, he replaced Shaun Goater on 73 mins, I still saved it though!
 
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Big Joe Corrigan said:
Don’t get me wrong, my memory isn’t what it used to be, but I definitely saved his shot, then thought he was subbed?
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Fair fucks mate don’t think he was subbed though he came on with about 15 to go , in fact am pretty certain he wasn’t but I have been wrong b4 , up the blues
 
Zapcity said:
Talking of ticket office and the youngster generation not being able to relate to stuff, funnily enough the ticket office at Maine Road was the only place I ever had a cheque(remember them) refused.
When trying to write out a cheque for a ticket onthe day of the game ,(now, there's a thing!) the guy in the ticket office reckoned my signature didn't match the one on my bank card. From memory I think I was going to buy a ticket for the Main stand by cheque to save my actual cash for beer (as I'm sure contactless wasn't a thing then)
In the end I spent some of that beer money paying cash on the turnstiles of The Kippax.
It all ended well though, as we got twatted 4:1 by Oldham....oh that was a day our club really made me feel good...just like that day against Stoke!!
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I still hold fond memories of the mid 80s when I used to be a half-decent cricketer and nearly always missed the first and last games of the football season, unless it was critically important.

One season (I'm thinking 87-88) I queued patiently outside the Ticket Office, prior to a September home game v Blackburn
"Could I buy a Season Ticket please"
"Fucking Hell!...You've had all bleeding Summer to do this"
 
My dad and his dad were lifelong passionate City fans. I took my dad to his last game where we drew with Stockport just a few months before he died. telling him not to expect too much.

It would have broken his heart to see City relegated that year but how happy would he be now?
 
Painful day that was plus waving goodbye to Kinky.
Best thing I can remember about the day was that all the ale in the City end was served in City branded plastic glasses.
 
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