City’s best performances between 1990 and 2008 (pre takeover)?

[franksinatra]

Sure its been mentioned but the Liverpool home match in 1991. Great atmosphere, two David White goals, and a bit of ‘shot over the line controversy’. Funny, as a 15 year old I was quite obsessed with attendances and so was delighted with the crowd of 37 thousand plus, funny we get criticised for that now.

Also first two home matches of Brian Horton season 93/94? We beat West Ham and Everton 3-0 and 4-0. Beagrie was full of tricks with Walsh tormenting the centre halfs with his movement.

 

[youngbob]

This comes to mind

This game proved that Keegan turned us into a mid-table Premier League team before we'd even been promoted from the Championship.

 

[franksinatra]

They had a weird chip on their shoulder about us from the season before that, when we pipped them to automatic promotion. On Blue View, which was then City's leading online message board, we had loads of Ipswich visitors banging on about how they played better football than us and so deserved promotion at our expense.

I think that quite a few Blues who were around at the time haven't forgotten the pleasure they took in our demise a year later. The 4-1 Cup win down there under Keegan was certainly poetic justice, as was the fact that we traded places with them a few months later and have never seen them again. Go fuck yourselves, you sad, six-fingered, sister-shagging yokel cunts!

I remember they played us off the park the 99/00 season. Think they went one up also at Maine Rd (night match) and we turned it round with a late winner. They had a really good striker for that level, Johnson possibly?

 

[youngbob]

Always have fond memories of this derby in 2006. Obviously the 4-1 was the better result, and I have very fond memories of that game because it was my first derby, but we were battered for long periods of that game and had a lot of luck. United hit the post twice while basically gifting us soft goals at the other end. This one, though, under Pearce, was a genuinely belting performance and we deserved to win - we were dominant from the off, held them out for long periods, and then reduced Ronaldo to hacking around at our midfielders until he got sent off. Obviously we were shite under Pearce in the end, but this was a big high point.

 

[Corky]

I remember they played us off the park the 98/99 season. Think they went one up also at Maine Rd (night match) and we turned it round with a late winner. They had a really good striker for that level, Johnson possibly?

It was 1999/2000 1-0 Horlock header and Weaver cartwheel game. The game was moved back a few weeks by Bernstein to avoid a clash with Yom Kippur, which was a first.

 

[HelloCity]

I remember they played us off the park the 99/00 season. Think they went one up also at Maine Rd (night match) and we turned it round with a late winner. They had a really good striker for that level, Johnson possibly?

Beat them 1-0 at home and lost 2-1 away.

We were hanging on for ages and Weaver had his best ever game.

 

[franksinatra]

It was 1999/2000 1-0 Horlock header and Weaver cartwheel game. The game was moved back a few weeks by Bernstein to avoid a clash with Yom Kippur, which was a first.

Yes, I edited to 99/00, how could I forget Gillingham was 99. I never knew that was the reason. I remember going to Notts County away on a Sunday as it was moved for the Goose Fair???

 

[franksinatra]

Beat them 1-0 at home and lost 2-1 away.

We were hanging on for ages and Weaver had his best ever game.

Weaver could literally do no wrong that season and Mark Kennedy won a few matches for us with worldies (1-0) where we similarly got battered. He was unplayable til about Christmas time

 

[petrusha]

I remember they played us off the park the 99/00 season. Think they went one up also at Maine Rd (night match) and we turned it round with a late winner. They had a really good striker for that level, Johnson possibly?

Yes, David Johnson was their main striker the year they challenged us for second place and then went up in the play-offs. He struggled in the Prem (as your comment about his quality in the second tier indicates) but they'd also bought Marcus Stewart just before they went up, and he scored a lot of goals for them in the top flight.

 

[franksinatra]

Yes, David Johnson was their main striker the year they challenged us for second place and then went up in the play-offs. He struggled in the Prem (as your comment about his quality in the second tier indicates) but they'd also bought Marcus Stewart just before they went up, and he scored a lot of goals for them in the top flight.

Great memory mate. Yes Marcus Stewart was another cracking player and really enjoyable to watch. Technically a very decent footballer.