The great queue of '99

[dukyblue]

Got my ticket right here...£28 quid. Block 218, Row 21, Seat 48. Carried it in my wallet since the day. Stinks a bit now!
Remember the grafitti and i'm sure it was cup final day and the rags beat Newcastle. Only City could organise something like that, what other club would have you queueing through he stands and through some bloody broom cupboards etc that we didnt know even existed!!

Was all worth it though, everyone was in good spirits and didnt see any trouble at all.

 

[rodders]

4:30am for me, with 100 or so already queing when I arrived. Arranged to meet a mate but he hadn't woke up and by the time he rang me at around 8am I was in the north stand. He ended up passing his ST's and a wad of cash under the turnstile. Some lively banter with fellow queuer's along the way. Eventually got away around 11ish, then straight to ASDA for breakfast ( at mates expense ).
I make sure my mates remember my sacrifice of 99 whenever I need a favour.

I got something like 17 tickets that day. All on the same row too. I seem to remember a quota setup whereby regular ST holders could get 2 tickets per book. ?

 

[berger10]

Queued for 5 hours one day and 6 the next. I was only 13 at the time but ill never forget some of the scrawling made on the walls of the north stand ''Has the queens mother died yet'' ''City til I died'' etc

 

[johnnoblue]

I picked our kid up about 8.00, thinking that if we got there for 8.30ish I'd be back home for lunch. The end of the Q was at the Platt Lane end & like a previous poster, I thought, Not long then, not realising it went passed the tkt office, all the way round the North Stand into the back of the Kippax & then underneath the North stand!!!!!!

Jesus we got our tckts about 10.30!!! I kept ringing home & assuring my ex wife I hadn't left her but qing for wembley tkts!!!

Some of the graffitti underneath the North Stand was class! Is the war in Bosnia over yet etc.

I remember the was an old chap in front of us & by the time we'd got to the corner of the Kippax he gave up. I remember turning round & he'd gone! Wish I'd offered to Q for him!

As an aside, when we were down at Wembley our kids wife nearly sold her tkt. He nearly killed her!!!!!

hello ou kid.... I remember it very well..

The wrighting on the wall under the North stand was the bright point of the day untill we picked our tickets up.

The wife was offered £200 for her ticket outside Wembly, n yes i was ready for slitting her throat after queing up for 11 hours... Still........

Was all worth it...


PS... wot a great topic this is...... Fantastic.

 

[warpig]

i sent my old man down for my ticket. he still moans to this day how long it took him to get it. i would love to see film from the gillingham end looking at the city fans when dickov scored the equaliser. i ended up by the coca cola sign over the players tunnel behind the goals when it went in. dont know how the fuck i ended up there, my seat was about ten rows back.

 

[es1]

oh i remember going down with my dad for the tickets...went about 7...huge queue round the back of the main stand by then already...dont remember much after that...still got my ticket tho!

 

[Duphrates]

My mate worked around the corner from Maine Road, so I sent him down. Don't ever remember him saying it was a nightmare getting the tickets. Must ask him.

Looking back at the clip of the Dickov goal, I've never noticed it before but in the build up who heads the ball down from the long punt up. Is he injured, is he trying to kick the ball in....WTF is he doing with his leg. I think it may be Taylor, God it seems such a long time ago, was Taylor even on before extra time?

 

[kbb]

Played golf - sent my mate - he queued up for about 5 hrs

 

[Danny Hoekman]

We decided to draw lots for who was going to queue up through the night whilst in Corbieres during the week before they went on sale (anybody with any regular experience of when the 'big away game' tickets went on sale knew what it would be like). We were all prepared to do it. I was lucky and didn't have to do it. The three who did were one of the first in the queue and it still took them a good hour or so to eventually get sorted.
I'd been out on a session, had the usual massive hangover, but still had my ticket delivered at my door by mid morning!!! (I have queued throughout the early hours many, many times in the past - honestly!)

 

[Elanos_Right_Boot]

Close FBG. Got there for 3.45am and got tickets at 11.00am on the Sunday and that was after getting to MR on the Saturday afternoon and being turned away. Good old City we sold about 6,000 for the whole day and Gilliamham sold 38,000 in one day. At least that'll never happen again?