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Mansfield Town (h), 1998, attendance 3007, were you there?
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feedthegoat2009
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was at this game that was the season my dad bought m my first ever season ticket, i remember auto windscreen cup only kippax stand was open, and i wanna know y is it always york and not lincoln or luton
feedthegoat2009 said:was at this game that was the season my dad bought m my first ever season ticket, i remember auto windscreen cup only kippax stand was open, and i wanna know y is it always york and not lincoln or luton
Because the loss at York took us to our lowest ever league position - we went on a long unbeaten run after that. Can't remember what the next game was but the next away was Wrexham.
kbb said:feedthegoat2009 said:was at this game that was the season my dad bought m my first ever season ticket, i remember auto windscreen cup only kippax stand was open, and i wanna know y is it always york and not lincoln or luton
Because the loss at York took us to our lowest ever league position - we went on a long unbeaten run after that. Can't remember what the next game was but the next away was Wrexham.
Think we played Stoke at home we won 2-1 after being 1-0 down then Wrexham we won 0-1
Danny Hoekman
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Was in The Boardroom Suite for this.
waspish said:kbb said:feedthegoat2009 said:was at this game that was the season my dad bought m my first ever season ticket, i remember auto windscreen cup only kippax stand was open, and i wanna know y is it always york and not lincoln or luton
Because the loss at York took us to our lowest ever league position - we went on a long unbeaten run after that. Can't remember what the next game was but the next away was Wrexham.
Think we played Stoke at home we won 2-1 after being 1-0 down then Wrexham we won 0-1
No, the next after York was Wrexham away on Boxing Day and then we beat Stoke at home on 28 December, which was also a Bank Holiday: http://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=1718&comp_id=1&teamTabs=results.
Gerard Wiekens scored the only goal at Wrexham in the second half from a corner, I think. It was cold, windy and pouring down, and we rode our luck a bit but got the win. Admittedly, Gareth Taylor could have made it 2-0 but missed one of the easiest chances I've ever seen a pro player miss - 'keeper stranded out of goal, ball played to him on his own three yards out and he managed to hit the bar.
Stoke came to Maine Road 48 hours later as the leaders of the division. We started pretty well but had a goal by Taylor harshly ruled out early on. But Stoke came into it and scored at the Platt Lane end midway through the first half. Royle brought on Goater for Bishop at HT, went three up front and more direct and we got back into it straight after the break. The keeper tried to intercept a through ball, fumbled it under Goater's challenge and Dickov swept in the loose ball. We battered them after that but couldn't score. It was a great atmosphere because the team was playing really well, and the crowd responded. Finally Taylor scored a header with about five minutes left. It was a great day and really lifted the team.
We lost only two of the last 24 league games that season (2 out of 27 if you include the three play off games), and arguably it was the lift the Stoke result gave us that started the momentum. Stoke meanwhile went on a downward slide and didn't even make the play offs. Winning that one was a big boost to our confidence. Incidentally, both defeats that we did have were at home - Oldham in March and Wycombe in April. After York, we didn't lose away again until the following September (when we lost at Southampton in the League Cup, then Ipswich and Norwich in the league in the space of about a week).
kbb said:Because the loss at York took us to our lowest ever league position - we went on a long unbeaten run after that. Can't remember what the next game was but the next away was Wrexham.
In terms of league position, we were 12th after York. However, we'd actually been lower earlier in the season: we got a 1-1 draw at Notts County on the August Bank Holiday Monday (and nearly lost- ours was an injury time goal from Goater, to level their hotly disputed penalty). It left us in 14th position with a win, two draws and a defeat from the first four games - http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/division-two/1998-1999/table/1998-08-29.
However, it was pretty early in the season so people weren't really panicking and we won the next couple of games to move up the table again. The thing about York was that it left us in mid-table at Christmas and looking for all the world as though we'd stay in that league. It was a profoundly depressing thought, and that's why, with hindsight, it became looked on as such a key game - though in truth there were many truly awful games in the 8 or 10 weeks running up to that one.
Fried Onions
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Yep, was at the Mansfield game but left at half time, totally pissed and disillusioned - seem to remember Mansfield bringing a good following.
How times have changed
How times have changed
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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RyantheBlue said:I was.
I'm a MEGA FAN.
Nah out of interest, who was there, it was my first game. My Dad really knew how to pick the special occasions.
Anyone on Maine Road in the 60's when Mansfield put five past us?