I was living in St Petersburg, Russia (and am back in the same place now).
Back then, there was no chance of finding a bar with Sky and hardly anyone had the Internet at home. I went into my office, where we had a single PC with a dial up connection, and I followed the game via Sporting Life's minute by minute coverage and the old Blue View message board. I'd always thought that somehow we'd avoid going down so was absolutely gutted, slowly absorbing the full enormity of just how totally shit we'd become. Sat in on my own in the evening with a few beers indulging my private grief. Even took the phone off the hook as I really didn't want to speak to anyone.
When I look back now, I'm glad we did go down, as I think it prompted behind-the-scenes changes within the club that were necessary. If we'd stayed up, though, too many of the key people may have been tempted to think that things were OK really and that a flirtation with relegation had been a fluke. Actually going down made everyone accept that things couldn't go on as they were.
