The Darkest Day - 20 years today

Shaelumstash said:
I was there, it was pretty hanging getting out. But I remember the atmosphere in the ground being not too bad. There were thousands of blues in the Stoke end who kept running from their stand and jumping in to ours which got huge cheers every time!

We actually played really well and battered them. I think a lot were resigned to us going down by that game. I don’t remember the mood being anywhere near as toxic as when we lost to Middlesbrough for example, that’s when I got angry and knew we were going down.

Although technically it was, that Stoke game didn’t feel like the darkest day for me. The Makin phonecall to GMR seemed darker. Phil Neal in temporary charge seemed darker. As did getting relegated from the PL by Liverpool. As did that Middlesbrough loss when Gazza took the piss out of us. As did the loss to Stockport. As did going 2-0 down to Gillingham at Wembley...

Edit: From memory, I think the whole Alan Ball / Frank Clarke / Phil Neal era felt like the darkest days because we were dropping like a stone and it felt like we were never going to recover. But when Royle came in, there was a lot more optimism about the place. So although we went down after that Stoke game, it still felt like we had more cause for optimism than we did the previous winter when we seemed to be losing every game and had a wet fish for a manager. That was certainly my recollection.
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2-0 down to Gillingham was the darkest moment but not Day as that ultimately became a great one.
 
ManCityX said:
2-0 down to Gillingham was the darkest moment but not Day as that ultimately became a great one.
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Of course, that’s why I put the “...” ;-)

But following on from my post, did that Stoke game feel like the darkest day to you at the time? As I say, I remember feeling a lot more optimistic about the future that day than I did after the Middlesbrough loss and that Winter under Clarke / Neal.
 
that was a bad day, but losing home and away to wycombe, losing to york, losing to lincoln, were far worse, in that season including the final 8 times we scored n the last 5 mins to snatch draws and wins, that shows just how much of a struggle and unenjoyable that season was.

i never want to go anywhere near that again
 
Although the relegation was very dark, I always thought we had hope still, just because of our fantastic support at that time. It was better than it is now, we got behind the team more and there was a connection amongst the fans.

Some of my better days following City were then
 
I was their and it kicked off big time after the game

Remember being bused to train station and not a window in the bus intact, tree stakes were ripped out of the ground and thrown by both sets of fans

We all knew we were down and it was a opportunity to send Kinky on his way with our massive love for him
 
I was in the middle of the Stoke End on that awful, sickening day. There were Blues everywhere in the stadium but lots left after the wave of fighting around the stadium just after kickoff. The mood amongst the City fans was totally different to the mood amongst the Stoke fans, who booed their team off. The City fans moved into "We'll Support You Ever More" territory but make no mistake, everyone was in utter desperation. There was no anger, just disbelief.

On the way back to Manchester, in the car, we were all totally silent for the entire journey. I actually felt sick. As someone said above, to me the lowest of the low points was when Gillingham went 2-0 up. But the end of this game was close to it.
 
I was there. Train down and bus to and back from the ground. Only saw any trouble from a distance so must have been lucky

Remember the train driver on the way back announcing “next stop Macclesfield” which was met in typically black city humour by roars of laughter
 
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