The Darkest Hour? - 1998 Stoke relegation video

Re: The Darkest Hour - 1998 Stoke relegation video

tolmie's hairdoo said:
I honestly really wasn't bothered, indifferent, in fact.

We were already pretty much down. It was never going to happen.

I think some City fans convince themselves this sort of thing just leapt up on us.

We had been conditioned for the best part of two years prior, the slide was on under Ball and Clark.

The club and team was rotten to the core. The only thing about that day was the City support, but hardly a surprise.

If anything, I consider days like that for the cameras, a sort of 'look what great fans we are'.

Relegation was the best thing that ever happened to us. It took us to the precipice, exactly where we needed to be if there was ever to be a new dawn.

There would be no ADUG without that so-called bad day.
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The following season up until Christmas...now that was the precipice!!! We were fucking awful and going nowhere.

Step forward Messrs Morrison and Cooke. Our real saviours that season.
 
Re: The Darkest Hour - 1998 Stoke relegation video

tolmie's hairdoo said:
I honestly really wasn't bothered, indifferent, in fact.

We were already pretty much down. It was never going to happen.

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I can't agree with that at all. The week before v QPR was nearly as grim, and that's when things looked really black, but I had real hope for the Stoke game. It was entirely feasible that one of the other two results could go our way and of course we won the game.

It wasn't a total shock to go down, of course, unlike say the Luton relegation. It was more like the Liverpool 96 game, where relegation was looming but there was a chance of saving ourselves.

Not bothered? Fucking hell Tolm, I was absolutely devastated that day.
 
Re: The Darkest Hour - 1998 Stoke relegation video

tolmie's hairdoo said:
I honestly really wasn't bothered, indifferent, in fact.

We were already pretty much down. It was never going to happen.

I think some City fans convince themselves this sort of thing just leapt up on us.

We had been conditioned for the best part of two years prior, the slide was on under Ball and Clark.

The club and team was rotten to the core. The only thing about that day was the City support, but hardly a surprise.

If anything, I consider days like that for the cameras, a sort of 'look what great fans we are'.

Relegation was the best thing that ever happened to us. It took us to the precipice, exactly where we needed to be if there was ever to be a new dawn.

There would be no ADUG without that so-called bad day.
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You speak a lot of sense...
 
Re: The Darkest Hour - 1998 Stoke relegation video

Didsbury Dave said:
tolmie's hairdoo said:
I honestly really wasn't bothered, indifferent, in fact.

We were already pretty much down. It was never going to happen.

.
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I can't agree with that at all. The week before v QPR was nearly as grim, and that's when things looked really black, but I had real hope for the Stoke game. It was entirely feasible that one of the other two results could go our way and of course we won the game.

It wasn't a total shock to go down, of course, unlike say the Luton relegation. It was more like the Liverpool 96 game, where relegation was looming but there was a chance of saving ourselves.

Not bothered? Fucking hell Tolm, I was absolutely devastated that day.
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The QPR game was the one for me. When Pollock scored THAT goal I just knew our number was up.

It didn't stop me being gutted at Stoke though, the enormity of it all didn't sink in until I saw Gio in tears.
 
Re: The Darkest Hour - 1998 Stoke relegation video

m27 said:
Didsbury Dave said:
I can't agree with that at all. The week before v QPR was nearly as grim, and that's when things looked really black, but I had real hope for the Stoke game. It was entirely feasible that one of the other two results could go our way and of course we won the game.

It wasn't a total shock to go down, of course, unlike say the Luton relegation. It was more like the Liverpool 96 game, where relegation was looming but there was a chance of saving ourselves.

Not bothered? Fucking hell Tolm, I was absolutely devastated that day.
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The QPR game was the one for me. When Pollock scored THAT goal I just knew our number was up.

It didn't stop me being gutted at Stoke though, the enormity of it all didn't sink in until I saw Gio in tears.
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I used to sit in the Main Stand block H.

A few minutes before the end of game I would go and stand at the back of the stand and watch over those blue wooden fences. That game, at full time, I booted fuck out of the fence and injured my toe.

I think I'm a bit ashamed to say it's not the only time I did that . But I remember feeling black, really angry with the club.
 
Re: The Darkest Hour - 1998 Stoke relegation video

it was like a scene from braveheart after the game, them on one side city on the other,if it hadn,t had been for that fence it would have been the ruck of all rucks?
 
Re: The Darkest Hour - 1998 Stoke relegation video

sorry to facebook it up but: we were here when we were shit

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Re: The Darkest Hour - 1998 Stoke relegation video

this was a truly shit day - sitting with the stoke fans trying not to get battered as each goal went in. Outside on the way to the car was bedlam with idiots from all over turning out to "batter city"... thankfully mental superiority and some bullshit about how we were at the match on freebie tickets managed to bamboozle the addled brains of a gang of quite a few idiots who surrounded us shouting "cummon, you're city aren't you" - the wankers ended up shaking our hands and wishing us good luck before disappearing to batter someone else.... cars with the windows out, doors smashed in and fighting all over the place, scummy little weasels.

york away, however was the real edge of the precipice, the bottom of the barrel, the lowest of the low......and that doesn't include standing next to a pissed curly watts for much of the second half!
 
Re: The Darkest Hour - 1998 Stoke relegation video

Well I never realised, or forgot, that Neville "Dustman" Southall played for Stoke
 
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