Happy 25th Anniversary of Paul Dickov Day

Didsbury Dave said:
My Mum had to cover her ears during the Gillingham penalties. As it says in the wonderful "Blue Moon - Down Amongst The DEad Men with Manchester City" book, suddely City were able to field their most consistent performer of the season - their fanatical support (as an aside, that's how everyone viewed us back then).

Which leads me to the next point: some of those MCIVTA quotes are in that book too and make for emotional reading, partocularly given what's happened.
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Got that book at home and will still read parts of it occasionally. I've also go another one from around that time but can't for the life of me remember the title. It's an A5 sized landscape book with various pictures from the day in it and a double-page spread which simply says 94:10 in socreboard style digital font just before pictures of Dickov's goal.
Will have to see if I can find out what it's called when I get home.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
My Mum had to cover her ears during the Gillingham penalties. As it says in the wonderful "Blue Moon - Down Amongst The DEad Men with Manchester City" book, suddely City were able to field their most consistent performer of the season - their fanatical support (as an aside, that's how everyone viewed us back then).

Which leads me to the next point: some of those MCIVTA quotes are in that book too and make for emotional reading, partocularly given what's happened.
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The loudness and passion behind those boos will live with me forever. Easily the loudest I’ve ever heard. Deafening.
 
bluefrom78 said:
Got that book at home and will still read parts of it occasionally. I've also go another one from around that time but can't for the life of me remember the title. It's an A5 sized landscape book with various pictures from the day in it and a double-page spread which simply says 94:10 in socreboard style digital font just before pictures of Dickov's goal.
Will have to see if I can find out what it's called when I get home.
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Was it called 'We're not really here'

I remember something with that name coming out just after that season ended.

EDIT: Or it might have been called 'City Til I Die' (think WNRH was the end of Maine Rd season).
 
ballbag said:
Was it called 'We're not really here'

I remember something with that name coming out just after that season ended.

EDIT: Or it might have been called 'City Til I Die' (think WNRH was the end of Maine Rd season).
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That's the one, it's 'City til I die'. Just had a look on Amazon. Cheers
 
Excellent 30 mins documentary on ITVX about the game called “… 5 mins to go”.

Nothing earth shattering on it but it does capture the day really well.

What may make it more interesting is that it gives Gillinghams (as well as Citys) view on the game.

Worth a look I think.
 
Just got David Bernstein's book about that whole era, We Were Really There, tells of his time as chairman and the stories behind them. Hopefully will be a good read...
 
bluefrom78 said:
That's the one, it's 'City til I die'. Just had a look on Amazon. Cheers
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Got that book.
Some of the quotes in there literally are tearjerkers.
What a day.Drank an LNER train completely dry that night.
 
ysmsa said:
Saw that, still not having it.

If not us then who would have taken on COMS?

We were getting 30k in Division 2.

I hardly think Paul Dickov secured the Commonwealth Games for Manchester!
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They would have built a temporary stadium for the games if we hadn’t moved there
 
Remember it so well for a number of reasons my Dad had just been diagnosed with terminal cancer and my head was all over the place.
He used to take me to Maine Rd and when he stopped going I carried on.
He used to say I don't know why you bother son they'll never win anything.
If only I could half an hour with him to tell him about our recent success.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
It’s hard to explain how sickening being 2-0 down was at Wembley. This game was not the turning point. The turning point was 5 months earlier, beating stoke on Boxing Day. We’d spent the spring in real hope but had watched Man United win their treble in the background. We were massive favourites to win that play off final.

To sit there at 2-0, after all the hope, all the excitement and all the tension of that game, thinking “they’ve let me down again”. I swear it was the lowest of all the lows for me. Worse than the relegations that preceded it.

And the joy when hope was reborn, when it had been lost. The magic of the way we did it. Wow it was something to experience. But if you weren’t a part of it, if you hadn’t invested yourself in the 4 or 5 years before this game, as Man United rose and we fell…you’d never understand what that game, distilled in that moment of magic, meant.
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Superb post. Echoes my thoughts but small correction it was Wrexham away on Boxing Day and the Wiekens goal to win it and then that famous second half comeback home to Stoke a couple of days later. Something happened within us fans that second half that I won’t forget - it was like “this and no more”
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
I've never celebrated like I did with that goal, even the Aguerrrooooo goal. I went absolutely fucking mental! I was with about 50 lads and I remember they were trying to usher me out of the ground at 0-2.. I wasn't having any of it, I was too busy punching fuck out of my seat tbh. Then we scored and that sent me even more mad, screaming why the fuck score now you useless cunts etc etc..I genuinely thought the Horlock goal was going to be the last kick of the game.. I was still getting calls off the lads to do one with em, but I was in Mr fucking angry/martyr/fuck off world mode and I wasn't going anywhere. Then the whole world stood still for a split second, I watched in disbelief as Dickovs shot flew into the top corner, I genuinely can not put into words what I was feeling at that moment. I've never seen celebrations like it,I ended about 6 or 7 rows and even got a cheeky snog of some half decent blonde sort, it was absolute fucking bedlam. I knew at that point we'd go up, and just knew Gillingham were done. What a fucking day that was, a quarter of a century ago. CTIFD.
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Great post. “Blonde sort” male or female!
 
Stiff Little Wingers said:
Superb post. Echoes my thoughts but small correction it was Wrexham away on Boxing Day and the Wiekens goal to win it and then that famous second half comeback home to Stoke a couple of days later. Something happened within us fans that second half that I won’t forget - it was like “this and no more”
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Yep definitely Wrexham. I was in the home end on a corporate, which tbf was a cooked breakfast and a seat in the main stand. Was under strict instruction not to show any emotion of city score. Needless to say when wiekens scored i was up off my seat going mental. I must have been 17 or 18 at the time.
 
ysmsa said:
Never got this attitude and never will.

For me we would have gone up following season.

A lot of Teams spend a couple of years in a Division they are unaccustomed to, us included.

Great day and drama but it's overplayed, we won a lower league play off which is not our level!

Do Rags or Dippers celebrate their seasons in Division 2, (there have been plenty) do they fuck, airbrushed from history.

Celebrating this makes us look small time, we nearly won the league title in '77 and the Cup in '81. Missed out on Europe twice thanks to the Dippers, these are times that could have defined the Club.

Don't forget, any English team entering the European Cup in the 70's and 80's had a bloody good chance of winning it, it was literally easier to win at that time than the League Cup.

I was there at Wembley and loved it but it is not a high point in our history
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Wow!
 
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