Blues in the Stretford End ‘92

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I was in New Zealand.... didn't even know the game had been played.
Was the original game a week or 2 before postponed for waterlogged pitch?
Got a NZ newspaper the day after the game and it had a 1-1 result in it!

 

[IOWBlue]

was there the year before when we lost 1-0. In their main stand not being quiet. couple of rags starting gobbing off, so just offered them the opportunity to come and shut me up. As you can imagine i stayed until the final whistle, still standing and singing City songs etc, completely fine. Numbers is all they've ever had.

 

[chaddblue]

Fucking hell this could be the new version of York away.

I was at York in the corner of the terrace

 

[Alfie Budd]

I was in New Zealand.... didn't even know the game had been played.
Was the original game a week or 2 before postponed for waterlogged pitch?
Got a NZ newspaper the day after the game and it had a 1-1 result in it!

The game should originally have been played four weeks earlier (as part of a scheduled midweek programme) but was moved because the rags had to rearrange a postponed League Cup semi-final first leg at Middlesbrough which in turn led to the second leg at the swamp having to be played on the night when the derby should have happened. League Cup final was played a lot later in the season during the 90s (in mid April), not that we ever got close to needing to worry about that!
Someone else may have pointed this out but this was the last derby played in the old First Division.

 

[goatinho]

i was behind the net get spat on and coined

 

[WestGorton]

I was in that area when Cantona came on for his debut. City everywhere.

 

[yeseye]

“City’s ere
City’s there
City’s every fuckin where
Na na na na
Na na na na na..”

 

[Groke]

I was in there for giggs' debut against us - there was loads of space to mooch around and congregate with other blues - unlike the kippax on derby days where you couldn't move. I guess their 5 billion fans were doing something else that day, or was that before football was invented?

 

[lancs blue]

I was in there for giggs' debut against us - there was loads of space to mooch around and congregate with other blues - unlike the kippax on derby days where you couldn't move. I guess their 5 billion fans were doing something else that day, or was that before football was invented?

I can recall all-ticket derbies there where their TO was still selling tickets for the home terraces not long before KO. Their support is a fucking myth, like the "United way".

 

[Bluesince1979]

Behind the goal as a 17 yr old in a neck brace having written my car off earlier that day.

made the radio as i closed the m5 off right near the m6 at rush hour