mrtwiceaseason
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In the modern era having the chance to win the league against utd being 2 nil up and destroying them ,then somehow losing was a very big low for me
That’s the game that promoted Willie Donnachie to do a piece in the MEN about how the whole club was being drowned in negativity from the stands. People forget about that when they reminisce about that season: it started off with the whole club at each other’s throats. It only turned around on Boxing Day.1-0 down against Darlington FA cup second round 1998.
Fans were arguing and fighting.
The City bench was being abused. The atmosphere was awful.
Luckily Dicky scored an equalizer.
10 days later we beat Darlington in the replay. Michael Brown scored only goal in front of fewer than 9000 fans.
The following week we went to York.......
Not in the top 50 for me, that one. It hurt a bit but we went on to win it anyway.In the modern era having the chance to win the league against utd being 2 nil up and destroying them ,then somehow losing was a very big low for me
The way the stats aligned that we could win it and rub their faces in it and show the whole world we were the team and they were finished ,and in typical city fashion we balls it up.Not in the top 50 for me, that one. It hurt a bit but we went on to win it anyway.
I’ve said always said the Gerard Wiekens goal at Wrexham on Boxing Day turned everything around that season without that they’d of been no dickov goal at Wembley.That’s the game that promoted Willie Donnachie to do a piece in the MEN about how the whole club was being drowned in negativity from the stands. People forget about that when they reminisce about that season: it started off with the whole club at each other’s throats. It only turned around on Boxing Day.
I knew we were in trouble on way to game, some brain dead idiot rammed into my car whilst I was sat at traffic lights outside express building at Ancoats, bad day all roundLuton by far the worse for me, the week before loads of us had been singing and dancing at Hove station, having just won a tight game at Brighton 1-0. We only needed a draw at home to Luton, at team that had just been battered 5-1 at home to Everton. We had done the hard bit, or so we thought.
That was up there. Keeping quiet in the Stoke end. A bit of hope for a while. We drove back in total stunned silence for the whole journey. I couldn’t believe what had happened.Stoke away when we dropped into the third tier.
I'll raise you losing at home to Bury the following season.Stoke away when we dropped into the third tier.