On This Day 7th May 2000: Blackburn Rovers (A) Manchester City Secured Back-To-Back Promotions To Reach The Premier League:

[jrb]

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Bought tkts off doorstaff at pub bout 15mins before KO. Managed to knock them down from £100 each to £250 for 3. Was heading for the hill at this point. Wasnt looking great at HT but Horlock fed the Goat, Christian Dailly made up for not signing for us a few years earlier and up we went.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Got something in my eye

 

[Frank the Yank]

What is this promotion thing of which you speak?? Our history began in 2008 I thought…

 

[blubanjo]

Possibly one of the best days ever at a City game. The day was carnage from start to finish and I'll never forget the scenes of the City team coach crawling past the Fernhurst......mayhem !
We were in the Jack Walker lower surrounded by loads of other blues and ended the night dancing on tables in some pub in Bury that I can't remember the name of.
What a day, support was off the clock. Nothing comes even close now for raw emotion, which is a shame.

 

[ShorehamCitizen]

One of my favourite City games of all time. Aside from Aguero, obviously, that Goater equaliser might be my favourite City goal as well.

Set up an account on this website and you can watch the full game again here: https://footballia.net/matches/blackburn-rovers-manchester-city

Brilliant website, been on it loads and thanks for posting that, what a day.

 

[manimanc]

I watched it in Copper Faced Jacks in town ( don't think it is there anymore).
Wasn't really packed so there was loads of room, I remember doing so kind of mad walk/dance around the pub when we scored the third, (in fact I have this vision in my head of the Kevin and Perry episode when they was pretending to be Mancs and Perry doing a Liam walk)

Then it was into Albert Square and I actually bumped into @ancoats during the celebrations but back then my name was Lee and his name was Ste :)

Great day.

 

[ancoats]

I watched it in Copper Faced Jacks in town ( don't think it is there anymore).
Wasn't really packed so there was loads of room, I remember doing so kind of mad walk/dance around the pub when we scored the third, (in fact I have this vision in my head of the Kevin and Perry episode when they was pretending to be Mancs and Perry doing a Liam walk)

Then it was into Albert Square and I actually bumped into @ancoats during the celebrations but back then my name was Lee and his name was Ste :)

Great day.

I was in the fountain dancing and it was in a book about City

Great days and Lee is a very good friend from Whitefield and our little gang of blues from Hillock estate

 

[bernard o'silver]

An epic day and an epic game. For any cunts who think we don't have fans, they should watch that game to see our takeover of Ewood Park.

I was wondering after Ipswich got back-to-back promotions, how often it's happened from third tier to top tier before?

Didn't Leicester City do back to back promotions in 12/13 and 13/14

 

[Corky]

Didn't Leicester City do back to back promotions in 12/13 and 13/14

When City did it Watford had just done it beating Bolton in the final the day after we beat Gills, so it was a case of it they can do it we can. Quite a few former PL clubs have come back 2 on the bounce.