City v blackburn 4 -1 ewood park 2000

[Jogon 127]

Tickets like rocking horse shit.....

Managed to get a couple off a mate who lives in Darwen paid £20 a pop when they were changing hands for £75 upwards (me and the Mrs went) in their end behind the goal.

Matt Jansen scored a simple goal and we were utter shite in the first half....Mrs started crying at half time whilst queuing for a burger thinking we’d blown it!

4 bloody times we hit the bar.....mental.

Even the ref was shaking his head in disbelief at times.

We crept back into it second half.

Bit by bit....then ever reliable GOAT turned up to the party....ball in from Super Kev (loved him....very very underrated)....

After a quiet first half from the fans in that section it was utter pandemonium when we equalised......fucking thousands of undercover blues went bezerk.....

Kicking off royal.....remember a coppers hat being knocked off at one stage. The Blackburn fans were very pissed off and I remember a few leaving.

Souness had said ‘we don’t want City having another party’ a couple of weeks after Charlton won promotion at Ewood too.

After the GOATS goal we ended up a few rows down....it continued to be a bit sinister so me and the Mrs watched the last 15 minutes from the corner flag after jumping out of their end!

Even a steward told us to move on from the corner flag but we replied ‘the copper told us to stay here mate’

No way that would happen nowadays.

We just ran riot after that and Blackburn were on the beach in their heads.

Joined in the conga at the side of the pitch! Fucking brilliant....

Pitch invasion....estimates between 12,000 and 25,000 blues that day depending on who you believe.

Spencer Prior joked ‘I got a free one during the pitch invasion’ I gave a copper a dig! lol

Walking up the hill after we were entertained by a lone blue singing a 10 verse flattering song about United/Giggs.....

Bumped into my mucker in Darwen on the way home....hugs and dancing all round...

arrived home eventually..... and ran up the ginnel to my pissed up blue blue neighbour hugging and jumping on each other when all we’d ever done was chat about City and doff our caps......haha

Eventually joined in the drinking late into the night.....

As some said rollercoaster under Joe....’we played like pigs in labour in the first half’ whatever that means!

Happy times....

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

managed to get a couple of tickets of my mate who ran the catering at City , Stadia catering , he rang me to say he had two spares on the morning of the match , i was buzzing. Brilliant atmosphere and when they hit the woodwork for the fourth time i turned to my brother and said this is our day , even though we were playing utter shite , he said i was talking bollocks.
The last fifteen minutes was a party , at a guess i would say 30,000 blues there at least at the final whistle ,and it didnt kick off in the ground because there wasnt enough Rovers fans in the ground to start anything ,they must have been outnumbered by 2 to 1 , that game is up there in the top ten games of my lifetime

 

[ArdwickAlbert]

I was at a wedding the night before with no ticket. My mate is a physio and knew Blackburn's physio. Came up to me at the reception and just handed me two tickets for the next day. Drove over and dumped the car somewhere near the ground.
The tickets were for the home side, opposite the dug outs. Plenty of undercover blues and it was a bit moody. Before kick off some Blackburn fan turned up to find a blue sat in his seat. He went to a steward to get him removed. The steward just shrugged and said "what do you want me to do? They're everywhere." So he went home!
Was on the pitch at full time and still have a peg from the goals somewhere at home. Cracking day!

 

[lazza]

My late father-in-law was involved with Blackburn Rovers (had done some coaching and scouting), so was able to get two tickets in the home stand. I was under strict instructions to keep quiet and not show my allegiance, otherwise he'd be in trouble. Once we scored, and half the home stand erupted, he was laughing and saying maybe it would be OK to cheer! By the fourth goal even he was on his feet joining in!

 

[MillisleBlue]

Always remember the drama of the BBC video-printer that afternoon. "FT Blackburn 1" came up and I though ack bollocks we've got beat or drawn the game but then "Man City 4 - Man City promoted" came up and I started bouncing round the house like a lunatic. What a day to be a Blue.

 

[mayo31]

Unforgettable day and still have the scar on my shin as i went tumbling down several rows of seats that day as the 4th goal went in.

Scenes in Heywood that night where also unforgettable as rags in pubs didn't like us celebrating one little bit!

Same in Middleton, we sorted them out that night. Middleton knew it was blue

 

[Eds]

Had a ticket for the game via season ticket and was thoroughly looking forward to it. Daughter born by c-section the Wednesday before and I had sorted out child care for my three year old thinking wife and daughter would still be in hospital until the Monday. Doctors told me on the Friday that they would be coming home on the Sunday morning! Had to give ticket away although I was 'allowed' to watch in packed George and Dragon in Cheadle on the proviso I was home when the game finished. Despite not going to the game it was a great ending to the week.

 

[Bosley BLUE]

Yep was there with my brother. Behind the goal, but always remember seeing blues gathering outside the ground on the hill at other end of ground. Massive conga in stand to our right at the end of the game if I remember correctly?

 

[CJH]

I badly twisted my ankle after the third goal, and had a steward asking me if I wanted to go to the first aid. No chance I said, but then had to walk / hobble back to the station afterwards and got a smack from a Rovers fan on the way into town. Great day !!

 

[Cellarite]

Bought one in the Riverside Stand (to the right of the City end) for £90 outside beforehand.

Money well spent.