On This Day 3rd May 1998: Stoke City (A) Relegation Heartbreak.

[Sid C]

Ha. Mad bad day.
Got bricked to fuck coming out of the ground. Some wasteland full of rubble right outside the stadium was a great idea.
Went out in Castlefield as soon as we got back, drank til I was sick
CITY

The Stoke fans were absolute twats that day, they were behind a fence with the bricks so could’nt be stopped. If it wasn’t for peripheral vision and quickly ducking a half brick would have caved my head in.
Kinky’s last game for us as well.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Happy birthday mate, hope you have a good un, I’m on a Charity Golf Day at Ashton in aid of Prostate Cancer, about 12k raised in last 2 years.

I’m nearer 70 than 60 today, scary thought but got to enjoy everyday as much as possible.

That day 26 years ago was the nadir of my City supporting life (and that took some doing), at Stoke, both of us relegated, utterly depressing, met Uve and Paul Dikov at the Black Bull in Bucklow Hill on the way home, back to Ashton, singing “Up the Junction” in our local. Woke up the next morning completely dejected, what a journey we’ve been on.

All the best Mark, currently using a hacksaw to remove a rusty shitty bog seat at the Preston place amongst other rubbish jobs..... birthdays eh?

 

[hammocity]

All the best Mark, currently using a hacksaw to remove a rusty shitty bog seat at the Preston place amongst other rubbish jobs..... birthdays eh?

I’m sure you’ll fit a couple of sherbets in at some point today pal, there had to be a reward for “hard work”, enjoy.

 

[manimanc]

Happy Days

Exactly this mate.

 

[mancityvstoke]

A shit time but we showed them all eh? Took over everywhere we went as well.

Crazy time to be a blue but I loved it, apart from the football obviously :))

 

[johnnytapia]

Saddest day of my life. Could not believe it.

Bad, bad day. But a long way behind Luton and Spurs.

 

[Tbilisi]

Remember going in a pub when I got home and was so down. In the pub were 2 reds I vaguely knew (never went to OT obvs) who were singing a song about City never winning a trophy and our derby being with Macclesfield next season, talk about kicking a man when hes down.

About a year ago I was in a pub in town and these same two twats were in and started a bit of small talk about football. I spent the next half an hour telling them how shit they were now, how lickle City were tearing them new arseholes on a weekly basis and reminded them about that day when Stoke sent us down.

Fuck me I enjoyed doing that, built up over a number of years and then released!

 

[Tbilisi]

Bad, bad day. But a long way behind Luton and Spurs.

Spurs, I still cant watch the goals or anything to do with that night.

 

[Gray]

We did it the City way with panache, whilst all the other relegation threatened teams ended up playing against sides who just bent over for them.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same

 

[edinburgh123]

I was in the Stoke end, blagged tickets off their then Assistant Manager Chic Bates. Proper nasty atmosphere and Kinky’s last game.

I was in the Stoke end as well - could have got tickets in the City end but had loads of Stoke mates. When we scored the first goal there were loads of City fans around me and then it kicked off, most of my “mates” were involved but said to me “you are alright as you are a mate”, weird. But weirder was NIck Hancock (for those that remember him) was chief instigator until he got punched back and then he was straight to the stewards complaining. oh, for a phone to video it - his career would have been over much sooner than it was