Brighton away '83. In their paddock, keeping relatively quiet. Kevin Reeves scored 10 mins from the end and the whole side of the pitch erupted. More City than Brighton.
Oh and another one. York away, I was at the side, very close to where Craig Russell scored. I have no idea how come I ended up sat in there, I just can't recall to this day, where I got my ticket from.
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I was in the Shed end when Jim Tolmie curled in the winner at Stamford Bridge. We were in the ground early and nearly gave ourselves away at the shock of Concorde flying over the Stadium. It probably left Heathrow at the same time every week and as all games kicked off at 3pm in those days, the home fans will a have seen it many times and didn't give it a second look.
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East Level 2 said:
The swamp when Law scored to send them down, the swamp when we lost 2-1 in the early/mid 90s.
The Kop at Klanfield when we won 3-1 on Boxing Day, the Kemlyn Road at Klanfield when we lost 5-2 the following season.
Saw us win a couple of times from the top tier of the big bugger stand at Goodison.
And one or two others.
I always preferred to stand up where possible, but for some reason we made a late decision to go in the Kemlyn Road seats for that 5-2 game. It wasn't unusual to have a cash turnstile in those days. I believe it turned out to be a very wise decision, as reports afterwards indicated that there was a load of bother outside at the end. We walked back to the car, which was behind the Kop and saw nothing. No mither.<br /><br />-- Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:42 am --<br /><br />I've done it quite a few times, including leaping out of my seat when Ched Evans/own goal went in, in the last minute at Midtjylland, but the weirdest one was at Maine Road. It was the last game of the season in '96 against Liverpool and I'd only decided in the morning whether I could face it.
Tickets were scarce outside and I picked up a ticket from a tout, about 10 minutes before kick off. It was 40 quid which was probably about three or four times the face value in those days. When he offered it to me, he said it was for the North Stand and I never considered it would be in the away section until I started looking for the block number. I sat there quiet for most of the game and only found out about 10 minutes from the end, that the lad sat next to me was also a blue. The scousers were quite humorous that day and were only concerned with what the rags were doing at Middlesbro. They all seemed to want City to stay up. I remember Rosler missing a header from point blank range and one of them said 'A man with no head would have scored that!' I had to agree and started laughing. I was thinking Christ, we're going down and I'm sat here laughing! We were pathetic that day! As the whistle blew, I thought Jesus, we are down and if the City fans start kicking off, I could get a battering outside as well. I had no colours on and was relieved to get away from the turnstiles and onto the Kippax car park and amongst other blues. What surprised me the most was that I 'd hardly said a word for the previous two hours and had no colours on yet when I left the ground, a scouser said to me 'I hope you come straight back up'. To this day, I'm still not sure how he knew I was a City fan. I'm sure some of you out there will have some answers!
