Denis Scores Game.

[lancs blue]

Our game ended before any of the others it was called off because of the crowd invasions, so the other results didn't matter because they were already down.
OR
The ref waited for the other games to end THEN called ours off while he was in his dressing room,i've yet to see any concrete proof of this.

OR because of the abandonment the result didn't officially stand until the FA ruled on it later.

The game result was announced on the Tannoy,the fa didn't rule on it not at the time or weeks later as would have the case now.
Not sure it would have been possible to overturn the result & award it to the rags.........obviously if it was 12 months ago we would have been docked 10 points & prevented from signing players for 2yrs.

I only recall the tannoy saying the game had been abandoned, nothing about the result standing. Still, regardless of the technicalities it was as funny as fuck strolling down Warwick Rd afterwards with the rags faces tripping them up and me trying not to laugh.

 

[droylsdenblue]

I too was at OT that day and it was not a place for blues, saw loads get a hiding.
Mathamatically at the end of the day we didnt relegate them but as the years roll by, urban myth says we did, that will do for me!



Anyone read Rodney Marsh's book..he says Law never got over scoring that goal and he is the mosy miserable bitter b*stard he has ever met.

 

[frannyleesbogroll]

Funniest bit for me when they invaded the pitch a few fancied having a go at Mike Doyle he turne around looked at the nd made half a step about 200 of them walked/ran back and scattered you can see it on the kick off match highlights funny as fuck

 

[lancs blue]

I too was at OT that day and it was not a place for blues, saw loads get a hiding.
Mathamatically at the end of the day we didnt relegate them but as the years roll by, urban myth says we did, that will do for me!



Anyone read Rodney Marsh's book..he says Law never got over scoring that goal and he is the mosy miserable bitter b*stard he has ever met.

Normally I'd have been on the Scoreboard End but I deliberately got a seat ticket for that match because I knew there'd be lots of trouble. I got the impression that there weren't as many City fans there that day as we'd normally take, mind you we'd had a pretty shit season too with 3 different managers and losing in the League Cup final.

 

[bluemanc]

I too was at OT that day and it was not a place for blues, saw loads get a hiding.
Mathamatically at the end of the day we didnt relegate them but as the years roll by, urban myth says we did, that will do for me!



Anyone read Rodney Marsh's book..he says Law never got over scoring that goal and he is the mosy miserable bitter b*stard he has ever met.

The myth is we DIDN'T relegate them,the game was called off with time still to play,the other games were still being played with results unknown, we won and History tells us that score stood.
As i said it has been said that the ref DIDN'T call the game off until he had the news that the other games were over & the results came through.
Why would he wait ?to prevent crowd trouble?,bit late for that,would he have re started a game over 20 minutes after it had ended ?
The only reason that would make sense would be he wanted to save the rags blushes of being relegated by us,but it wasn't graham poll reffing so i doubt that.

 

[droylsdenblue]

I too was at OT that day and it was not a place for blues, saw loads get a hiding.
Mathamatically at the end of the day we didnt relegate them but as the years roll by, urban myth says we did, that will do for me!



Anyone read Rodney Marsh's book..he says Law never got over scoring that goal and he is the mosy miserable bitter b*stard he has ever met.

The myth is we DIDN'T relegate them,the game was called off with time still to play,the other games were still being played with results unknown, we won and History tells us that score stood.
As i said it has been said that the ref DIDN'T call the game off until he had the news that the other games were over & the results came through.
Why would he wait ?to prevent crowd trouble?,bit late for that,would he have re started a game over 20 minutes after it had ended ?
The only reason that would make sense would be he wanted to save the rags blushes of being relegated by us,but it wasn't graham poll reffing so i doubt that.

yes but if you look at the final table, if they had won they would still have gone down so we didnt really send them down.

 

[m20.benny]

fuck me it's like a united forum on here.

we sent them down and that's the end of it.

 

[levets]

At the end of the day the team above United (think it was Southampton) won.
So even had United beaten us,they would still have been relegated.

Yeah... but they didn't know that when law scored....

 

[superwatsonwatson]

City relegated utd that day. Utd still had a game to play after this derby, i think they lost at Stoke. They finished 4 points from safety so if they had beaten City they were not mathmatically relegated. Its the fact that they lost to City that they were down. No City fan should fall for the myth that we did not relegate them.

 

[lancs blue]

City relegated utd that day. Utd still had a game to play after this derby, i think they lost at Stoke. They finished 4 points from safety so if they had beaten City they were not mathmatically relegated. Its the fact that they lost to City that they were down. No City fan should fall for the myth that we did not relegate them.

5 points, that's why the result that day was immaterial. It was I think the first season of 3 up, 3 down and I remember being happy that the rags finished 2nd bottom so they couldn't use the excuse of "we wouldn't have gone down under the old rule".