The alternative memorable matches of the 90s thread

Scaring Europe to Death said:
I think it was around November 1990 when we all still loved Gazza. We had lost 3-1 at WHL on the opening day of the season.
Have to disagree about Dibble. We were totally in control until his mistakes that night.
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That is the game. It would have been 1990. Got a feeling Heath or Clarke scored a rare winner that day. As a kid, going watching City train Andy Dibble was always the most friendly, probably why I am a bit sympathetic.
 
Reading away the last game at Elm Park, met up with a guy before the game who was a friend of a friend, he was a barrister and had to go to the game straight from court and went with his gown in hand and in full black and white attire. We then lost 3-0 in one of the worst games we ever played and a group of lads standing near me spent most of the second half with their back to the game watching the sky. Add to that chatting to Billy Boswell and some eastenders actress who were big blues on the train back to Paddington and it was a surreal day.

About 6 months later Wycombe away was a mad day, freezing, strange almost b and q type ground, city dropping like a stone, barely a shot on goal and a 1-0 loss with a comedy name scoring.

There were doZens more the same though not as memorable
 
There are some really good shouts on this thread and, upon reflection, has there ever been a more depressing decade to follow City, other than the 1910's?

It was a time, which spanned my twenties, when theoretically at least, I should have enjoyed my football the most, especially after the 5-1 at the end of the previous decade - and all that it seemed to promise - but life doesn't always deliver in the way you want it to. Most salient in that decade, in terms of our place in the footballing food chain at the time, was our appalling cup record.

Personally, the ten most noteworthy 90's games (other than Gillingham) - and not always for positive reasons - were, in chronological order (off the top of my head):
City 2 Derby 1
City 2 united 3
City 2 Spurs 4
City 4 Leeds 0
City 5 Spurs 2
Blackburn 2 City 3
City 2 Liverpool 2
Stoke 2 City 5
City 3 Blackpool 0
City 2 Stoke 1
 
Heres a random one, Oxford away in 1997. I just remember Kinky putting in a virtuoso performance as we battered them and it being an amazing day on the piss. Even though we were shit they were great times.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
City 3 Blackpool 0 - Aug 98

The realisation that we had the most loyal fans in England and we were going to piss Division 2 with 46 wins.

Fulham 3 City 0 -Aug 98

3000 travelling blues for a Friday night sky game confirming point one above and the realisation that maybe we weren't going to piss Div 2 after all.......
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That Fulham game the debuts of our new kinkladze up front and the king of the air at the back - how did it go wrong.

Another favourite was the Keegan season watching us brilliantly dick Watford and show we were clearly going up 20 clear only to get spanked 4-0 by the baggies a week later
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Coventry away 92/93 season.
2 down at half time, won 3-2 with a Curle pen the winner.
Also same season we beat QPR and Chelsea away in the FA Cup - 2 brilliant wins in front of a large away following.
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There was a very memorable cov game the week king Francis took over - lost 4-0 with Michael vonk and Carl shutt up front if my memory serves me right
 
EalingBlue2 said:
There was a very memorable cov game the week king Francis took over - lost 4-0 with Michael vonk and Carl shutt up front if my memory serves me right
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I remember travelling up to Newcastle on new years day literally only hours after finishing the New Years eve celebrations. Stood on a freezing open terrace, as it was then, with our main strike threat being Carl Shutt. Newcastle had a few injuries and so an ageing Brian Kilcline played at centre half for them. It made no difference as he repeatedly outpaced our loan signing.

Andy cole got a couple who was marked by one of the youth players making his debut???? City fans did the conga round the stand. Just awful
 
April 1991 - City 2-1 Derby County, the Niall Quinn penalty save.

October 1991 - City 0-0 QPR in the League Cup, memorable as being the worst game of football I've ever seen. I may remember it wrong but Danny Hoekman may have got man of the match and didn't even come off the bench

April 1994 City 2-1 Newcastle (Walsh, David Brightwell), the sun was out and we were all starting to love Brian Horton after the Stefan Karl game the week before at Southampton. That was one of the last great Kippax days.
 
2-1 away at Leeds 1983. Derek Parlane (ex Leeds and booed throughout) scored the winner after being one down. Always hated Leeds as I was moved (from Partington)to Yorkshire as an 8 year old and it felt like I was the only City fan in the county. Always got grief off them so this was very sweet. Sadly I still get pleasure from seeing them loose.
 
24th August 1993 - City 0-2 Blackburn

My son's first ever game and couldn't have picked a worse one. The Swales era was coming to an end and so was Peter Reid's managerial tenure.

We were completely clueless against a Blackburn side that would soon win the PL. Reid's long ball game had been sussed out and Blackburn just swatted us aside. That was Reid's last game as he was sacked a couple of days later.

The result and performance didn't help the general mood and the mob gathered for a 'Swales out' demo on Maine Road after the game. My son (who was 6 at the time) thought this was all part of the normal post-match ritual.

Also in the middle of the game he stood up and said in a loud voice "This is boring. Why can't we go and watch Manchester United?" to general amusement.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
It was a great day, fantastic atmosphere, as it was a couple of years later when we played at Loftus Road in the League Cup and won 4-3 (I think).
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10 from me :-

3-3 vs Newcastle - Unbelievable entertainment: Kinky kicked ball to me - swoon!
1-0 v Villa when Kinky scored - the whole ground was bouncing (even seen from the Main Stand)
2-1 v Liverpool - Gaudino leaping the boards
2-4 vs Spurs in Cup - heart-breaking
2-1 at QPR in Cup - what an atmosphere on that narrow terrace behind the goal (Oo-Vonky-Vonky!)
0-3 at Arsenal 94 (beautiful sunny day, new team, all injured players fit, Summerbee debut, looking for a great start, felt very optimistic - complete tonking!)
2-1 v Villa - memorable for personal reasons and the night we really lost Lakey
2-1 v Liverpool - 2 goals from Whitey, all looking good
3-1(?) pre season in the sun at Burnley 1997 - cool new kit, new signings, Kinky staying, Bradbury scoring for fun, Oasis, total optimism
Sheff U 6-0 - suddenly, I thought we might score some goals in Div 1 (which I thought unlikely with Goater, Dickov and Gareth)
 
isab23502 said:
10 from me :-

3-3 vs Newcastle - Unbelievable entertainment: Kinky kicked ball to me - swoon!
1-0 v Villa when Kinky scored - the whole ground was bouncing (even seen from the Main Stand)
2-1 v Liverpool - Gaudino leaping the boards
2-4 vs Spurs in Cup - heart-breaking
2-1 at QPR in Cup - what an atmosphere on that narrow terrace behind the goal (Oo-Vonky-Vonky!)
0-3 at Arsenal 94 (beautiful sunny day, new team, all injured players fit, Summerbee debut, looking for a great start, felt very optimistic - complete tonking!)
2-1 v Villa - memorable for personal reasons and the night we really lost Lakey
2-1 v Liverpool - 2 goals from Whitey, all looking good
3-1(?) pre season in the sun at Burnley 1997 - cool new kit, new signings, Kinky staying, Bradbury scoring for fun, Oasis, total optimism
Sheff U 6-0 - suddenly, I thought we might score some goals in Div 1 (which I thought unlikely with Goater, Dickov and Gareth)
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Some great picks in there mate. The Burnley one was very much a typical City moment, given what followed that dreadful season. We looked great that day.

Good shout about the Sheffield United game too. That was when I realised that we might achieve more than mere consolidation that season.

I too was in the Main Stand for that Villa game - and can confirm, for once, it was bouncing! Ian Brightwell cleared one off the line just after Kinky scored iirc, which set pulses racing too.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Some great picks in there mate. The Burnley one was very much a typical City moment, given what followed that dreadful season. We looked great that day.

Good shout about the Sheffield United game too. That was when I realised that we might achieve more than mere consolidation that season.

I too was in the Main Stand for that Villa game - and can confirm, for once, it was bouncing! Ian Brightwell cleared one off the line just after Kinky scored iirc, which set pulses racing too.
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That Villa game was great wasn't it - real end to end stuff IIRC - I think Rosler (or maybe Curle) missed a penalty and we actually looked pretty good with Edghill and Brightwell at fullbacks and Lomas, Flipper and Summerbee supporting Kinky in midfield. For just a few weeks Ball's team really flattered to deceive. There was something about the Kinky era - that (despite the results) perhaps made it the most enjoyable time for me for watching City. I think its the romantic underdog thing. It's one thing winning with a cheap/home-grown team against the odds and another winning because you have all the cash and buy all the best players. I think us northerners have a natural tendency to back the underdogs and the oppressed and feel a bit uncomfortable swapping roles (unless a northern rag).
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Let's not forget our truly appalling Derby record in that decade.

Drew five, lost eight, won none (according to Wiki)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_derby



No wonder some blues grew to dread playing united.
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The eighties were not that much better either so that generation of blues certainly did the hard yards.

It was not all bad though. Keith Curle did finish fifth in the Rumbelows Soccer Sprint.

The 2-3 when Quinny scored twice was the most heartbreaking. United had been knocked out of the Champs Lge midweek to Gala and for a couple of days we had a bit of bragging rights only to be cruely taken away.

A number of derbies at OT were the same. We seemed to have a bright 10 minutes, creat a few chances, miss them and then capitulate. Heart breaking stuff
 
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