On This Day 3rd May 1998 Manchester City were relegated to the Third Tier of English football:
Britannia Stadium on the final day of the 1997/98 campaign City needed to win and other results go our way in order to avoid relegation.
It was unthinkable that a club of City’s size could possibly find ourselves in the Third Tier of English football and for a time, it seemed we might pull off a dramatic last-day escape.
Defeat for Stoke meant demotion but although Joe Royle’s men romped to a 5-2 victory, it quickly became clear that the two teams City had needed to drop points, Portsmouth and Port Vale, had both won.
As a consequence, relegation to the Third Tier of English football for the first time in the Club’s history was duly confirmed.
Arrests, pitch invasions & 300 fans thrown out - Man City's 1998 relegation
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www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Pitch invasions and an angry atmosphere on this day in 1998
www.stokesentinel.co.uk
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