30 years ago today. Spurs in the FA cup

[Scaring Europe to Death]

We lost to them in the League Cup too earlier in the same season 1-0 at Maine Road

I missed the LC defeat, thanks to my girlfriend from Newton Hyde needing urgent medical treatment, and the subsequent delay in the Doctors Waiting Room.

Strange, but true. Harold Shipman saved me a wasted journey.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

For some reason I was in the Main Stand for this one.

Ringside seat for the invasion etc. That was when invasions were proper invasions.

I was also in the Main Stand as my normal seat for 92-93 had been allocated to Tottenham in the North Stand.

Looking back, it's probably too simplistic to blame Alan Ball or Frank Clarke for the mid 90s implosion. I would trace it back to this game, and possibly a little earlier

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I was also in the Main Stand as my normal seat for 92-93 had been allocated to Tottenham in the North Stand.

Looking back, it's probably too simplistic to blame Alan Ball or Frank Clarke for the mid 90s implosion. I would trace it back to this game, and possibly a little earlier

That's likely why I was in there too then.

We scored first too, typical.

 

[JGL07]

I was also in the Main Stand as my normal seat for 92-93 had been allocated to Tottenham in the North Stand.

Looking back, it's probably too simplistic to blame Alan Ball or Frank Clarke for the mid 90s implosion. I would trace it back to this game, and possibly a little earlier

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.

 

[Norbert D]

Because Spuds got the North Stand we had the full Kippax so we were stood where the away fans would usually be next to the newly opened Platt Lane. Great start with Mike Sheron scoring early but everything soon went to shit. Left when the pitch invasion started as I couldn’t be arsed.

 

[The Colonel]

We could see Hansen, Lynam an Jimmy Hill from the Kippax in their studio in the newly opened (and disappointin small) Platt Lane. Hansen got a good reception as he had backed us to win the cup, as did Lynam just because he was Des. Hill got the usual wanker chant. You could see the other 2 laughing. Apart from the amazing start from Sherin that was the highlight. So gutted.
watched it back later on video. Jimmy Hill saying that the invasion was more evidence that stadiums should be all seaters. The invasion came from the seats, they had the big fences up on the Kippax then.

We had a good side, did this follow the win away at QPR? Best away day for me.

 

[chaddblue]

Gutted that day. Thought we’d never get to Wembley again. A mate of a mate ended up on the pitch. Somebody must have grassed him up and reporters were pestering him at his place of work on the Monday morning

 

[Protein Junkie]

That's likely why I was in there too then.

We scored first too, typical.

That’s what made it worse for me. I was giddy as fuck when we went 1-0 - should have known better.
Phelans goal was a beaut though.

 

[City Raider]

That and the 3-2 vs the rags probably my worst two memories of Maine Rd and that includes Liverpool relegation match. Wasn’t at Luton match.

 

[Blue tube]

We were in the Platt Lane. Me and my eldest. Still got the video of MOTD somewhere and it shows him stood watching during the pitch invasion. Barry Davies commented on him.
He's 40 now.
Bloody long time ago.

I was looking for that bit Dad haha

Just so everyone knows I’m the other better looking son

 

[BlueFurn]

I was looking for that bit Dad haha

Ha!! Get another beer!!

 

[franksinatra]

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.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

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.

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

 

[Worksop Blue]

Was on the Kippax that day and i’ve never felt more embarrassed to be a City fan. Some of the puddings on the pitch actually thought they’d get the game cancelled and replayed… bewildering.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

We had a good side, did this follow the win away at QPR? Best away day for me.

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 :(

 

[langy]

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 [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Fordyboy46]

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.

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

 

[Fordyboy46]

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

 

[He’stheleftbackremember]

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!

 

[He’stheleftbackremember]

Mike Sheron was a great finisher, just a bit slow