I remember when we were that abysmal..

[kevin horlocks wand]

My own personal low lights were sitting in the old North stand watching us lose at home to Bury,.. 0-1 if memory serves , and also, again in the bloody North stand, watching Jamie Pollock score the most horrendous own goal,… I think agains QPR.. Abject misery on a weekly basis it was in those days supporting City,… and then going into work to be mocked and abused by rags that didn’t even go to old toilet..Terrible times indeed..

enjoy it again..

 

[i went to rotherham]

..I used to put city shirts over all the united shirts in the sports shops.

Small victories mattered in those days.

Im afraid i still do that too ! Wife calls me childish and walks away !

 

[spacecadet]

I cannot start to put into words our abysmal years. BUT it turned.

 

[threespires]

That I fucking loved it.

It was a strangely dire and brilliant at the same time, the worse we got the more defiant we became and the more creative at amusing ourselves.

It was a bit like having an ailing pet where the worse it gets the more love and attention you devote to it despite the fact all it's really doing in return is making noxious smells and craping all over the carpet. Fortunately our old knacker eventually got the full Supervet treatment!

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

Never mind I’ll settle for a good cup run.. Mid week game Man City V Blackpool in the league cup. It’s gone to penalties. Come on Lee Bradbury your turn. I have faith in you. You will surprise everybody and you will be the star forward at Maine road the best since franny lee . Oh and he shoots his penalty right over the bar. Brian Clark Picadilly radio commentator describes the moment. And that shot has gone over high wide and handsome. That’s city out of the cup again. The Kippax faithful going down the steps. That’s it now i’m going to rip my fucking season-ticket up they can all fuck off I ain’t supporting that shit ever again. Suffice to say … We Forgive them again and we are back the week after standing on the Kippax with renewed hope.

 

[horlock_was_super]

We had some bad results that season. Amazing we went up really.

Fulham A - 0-3
Wrexham H - 0-0
Notts County away -1-1
Chesterfield H - 1-1
Northampton A - 2-2
Preston H - 0-1
Lincoln A - 1-2
Reading H - 0-1
Wycombe A - 0-1
Gillingham H- 0-0
Luton A - 1-1
Darlington A (FAC) - 1-1
Mansfield (AWS) - 1-2
Bristol Rovers H - 0-0
Walsall A - 1-1
Chesterfield A - 1-1
York A - 1-2
Oldham H - 1-2
Wycombe H - 1-2
Bristol Rovers A - 2-2

Quite funny looking at that and only 25 years later we have won 5 Prem leagues and 7 cups.

I don’t recall the defeat at York at all. Strange how you forget things.

 

[horlock_was_super]

I had actually convinced myself that by making at least the last 8 of either cup competition meant that were a ’top eight’ side. I would be a fucking rag these days! :(

 

[fanatic1]

Yeah it was Vuoso (Argentinian). He was signed on the drip at 1st (750K up front). He was originally slated to be on the bench against Wigan in a league cup tie but his contract stated that if he came on for any minutes another 750K was due). We had Anelka, Huckerbee, Goater, Fowler, Macken etc so he was deemed surplus to requirements and he couldn't speak English at all! Funny enough he went back to Argentina, won a few caps, and had a decent career and played in the South American champs league with Diego Forlan as his strike partner.

 

[spacecadet]

Just fallen upon this. Was there ever a bigger **** than Swales running our club since Gorton St Mark's?

 

[Blue Boy 63]

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I was there that night . May bank holiday 2001 Hated those f**kers ever since .