Happy York (A) day

[Prestwich_Blue]

December 19th 1998 saw a fairly obscure game take place at Bootham Crescent. I feel that very few people know about this game and it's not really got the recognition it deserves.

 

[cleavers]

I was one of the few washing my hair.

 

[Metal Biker]

I don't recall it being a very 'happy' day, in truth.... :D

At least i'm honest about it. I must be one of the three Blues who didn't go; just a young lad listening to Century FM with Gary Owen commentating, on my Morphy Richards radio....good times.

 

[spacecadet]

Honestly, I wasn't there. Did other away games that season, but not the one that makes you the greatest Blue, or biggest whopper ever (as in many cases) :-)

 

[Gingers Dad]

Remember going in the pub for the next home game. A lad I know was moaning about the trip to York and how he was going to sack off the away games. I was thinking his dedication was brilliant until I found out over the years there were hundreds of thousands there

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Still there.
It's flooded again, York not doing so well nowadays...

 

[manimanc]

Bit of education for our shiny new fans of the last few years.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Shit game but I imagine the piss up in York was pretty decent

 

[TinFoilHat]

All 275,000 lucky soles who were there I salute you.

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

I wasn't there, but listened to the live commentary on the radio.

Having said that over the years you'd have been led to believe that this game had a million people at it:-)

 

[hoppy]

Is saying you weren't there the new saying that you were there?

I wasn't there.

 

[the blue panther]

The day York had 2 Shambles

 

[Blue Since 76]

If only we'd had Viagogo then, maybe I'd have made it. I was 436,781st in the phone queue but they sold out 2 people ahead of me as there was a family over from Spain who bought the last tickets

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Didn't go to the game but, on the back of the loss I booked us family holiday to Tunisia thinking we we're fucked .....missed Gillingham by being on this holiday!!!!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I called Jimmy Wagg up on GMR on the way back suggesting Joe Royle be relieved of his job.
I did call up a couple of months later and eat a little slice of humble pie!

 

[Mifred]

I don't recall it being a very 'happy' day, in truth.... :D

At least i'm honest about it. I must be one of the three Blues who didn't go; just a young lad listening to Century FM with Gary Owen commentating, on my Morphy Richards radio....good times.

I’m one of the other 2

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Is saying you weren't there the new saying that you were there?

I wasn't there.

I wasn’t there

And neither was my wife

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

My dad went to that game. I was working unfortunately.

A few years later he got me to make him a sticker for the back window of his car that had the club crest on it and
"Where were you when we were shit? - York (A) 19th December 1998".

 

[normskih]

December 19th 1998 saw a fairly obscure game take place at Bootham Crescent. I feel that very few people know about this game and it's not really got the recognition it deserves.

I was there at that match, like thousands of others, I wasn’t really:) but I really was at Colin Bell’s comeback match in December 1977 and at the Ipswich Dave Watson ‘77 header match and at the Charlton ‘85 match, the ones every man and his dog seem to have gone to:)

 

[jazzy]

Due to the ticket office fiasco I was 298,999 in the Q and didn't get a ticket as all the tourists had piled on :)