when we got relegated vs stoke

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I remember both BBC and ITV held an inquest (think ItV's was the same day as the game.)
Tueart and Dave Wallace were on it I think.

 

[LongsightM13]

Three of us in the Stoke end that day and somehow never got sussed.
Blues were everywhere, about five minutes in, what I can only describe as a Mexican wave of brawling swept around the entire stadium and continued throughout the game as more and more City fans had to fight their corner.
Fucked off with a couple. of minutes left, knowing we were down, and had my forehead split open from hairline to eyebrow by a lump of concrete as blues and Stokies fought on the bridge. Five hours at the North Staffs Royal being stitched and scanned for head injuries, my face a mask of blood, and all I could think was 'how fucking low are City going to go?'

I too was in the Stoke end that day. Reckon I got sussed by the guy next to me but he must have taken pity.

I remember a funny story in one of the broadsheets a couple of days before that game about City fans going to the Britannia Stadium ticket office and asking for "tickets for the Stoke game"!

Ha ha, yeah Dunc, I remember getting the National Express to Bradford a week before the '86 game and trying to convince the old bag at the ticket window I was a local.
I memorised a couple of place names from the bus on the way to the stadium, only for the Bet Lynch lookalike to tell me "Thas not from thwewyur. Thas not a P**i."
Luckily, a bribe of a fiver on top of the price got me in.