30 years ago today. Spurs in the FA cup

Got onto the Kippax around 2 hours before kick off, with a few mates, to blow up a couple of hundred balloons.

Just as we were about to release them the big blue flag got rolled out on the Kippax and the balloons got stuck underneath it, and most got popped.

Strange 30 years I can still remember Mike Sheron’s goal and the celebrations afterwards. A wonderful moment but like so many others at that time, it ended in heartbreak.
 
JGL07 said:
I would still blame Ball. Replacing Brian Horton with Alan Ball was a disaster. I think that his first match managing City a pre-season friendly against Hearts. I was intending to go to this match but changed my mind and and went to watch Hibs instead.

It transpired that I made the right decision as City were pasted 5-1 by Hearts. That set the tone for the season which ended with Ball telling City players to take the ball into the corner to waste time at 2-2 when City needed to win to stay up. Meanwhile Niall Quinn was doing his nut trying to get the City players to attack.
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Not necessarily disagreeing, but I recall travelling to Luton in 91-92 (possibly the week after the 0-0 v Utd at Maine Road) and feeling that United's progress was starting to look ominous whereas City were still relying on Megson, McMahon and Reid, and beginning to stagnate.
That was before Swales had even appointed Horton who ultimately didn't do a particularly bad job, against a backdrop of total disharmony, when compared to the optimism of the Kendall and early Reid era
 
The Colonel said:
We had a good side, did this follow the win away at QPR? Best away day for me.
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Yep. The QPR away was brilliant, my first away trip to "that Lundun". Proper patched up team from us too, I seem to remember Ranson playing (?) Awful pitch where the ball kept on stopping dead in our area and Les Ferdinand being thwarted by Coton x lots.

The least said about the Spurs match the better. Remember being totally gutted by it :(
 
My 1st ever live city game a fan tore his season ticket /book up on the pitch
Big pitch invasion massive police horses I was hooked
 
manimanc said:
No way 30 years ago?

I watched it at my mates house, a few beers and some, we all went mental when Terry Phelan scored.

Wow, i was only 19 at the time, it seemed like another life time.

Always remember the commentator having a go at sam ellis for laughing when it went off.
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Lol, Barry Davies was disgusted by the scenes. " Sam Ellis finds it all rather funny, well I can say I don't find it funny at all" or something like that, lol
 
My mate knows a Spurs fan who was at that game, and he said it was the most scared he'd ever felt after a game, especially the escort back to the station, City attacking it non stop
 
M18CTID said:
The year many of us thought our name was on the FA Cup, especially after Alan Hansen predicted we'd win it. I seem to recall that we didn't think drawing Spurs at home was too bad. A young Nick Barmby was smashing it for them that season but IIRC he had to go and play in some international youth tournament - Spurs conspiracy theorists felt that Swales had a lot to do with that as he held a prominent position at the FA - on the other side of the world and was missing for this match which many of us saw as a result. I think Nayim was his replacement and after Sheron put us ahead sparking some of the most manic scenes I've ever witnessed on the Kippax, he promptly went and scored a hat-trick ffs!

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