Where were you on Sunday 30th May 1999 (Gillingham play off game?)

Loch side at Fort William, trying desperately to listen on radio with very poor reception. At final whistle, Mrs CSLP. dancing around like lunatics.
 
Wembley, left in-laws who were very unwell for the day, and left before Dickov scored to drive back the 250 miles to relieve care for them before Dickov scored... so many conflicting emotions, and a lot of things happened
 
Sat in the Olympic Gallery next to Noel G, Goldie and Curly Watts. Suffice to say, we had 3 spare seats next to us for WT and Pens
 
At the only place to be and for me still one of the best games I’ve seen live
(and that includes QPR, Instanbul, Villa etc). Changed the course of history like no other game for me.
 
Majorca on holiday just 5 years old. I remember my dad dancing on the tables of an Irish bar which was full of rag memorabilia
 
Mum and dad lived down South for a few years, so it was an easy tube in to Wembley from Boris Johnson's ex parish. Watched my, fairly bladdered, little sister bawl her eyes out at 2 down ruining her facepaint...then the rest was limbs and history.

Seen the Dickov goal so many times from the opposite angle to where I sat that I struggle to remember what I actually saw with my own eyes now. That happened to anyone else?

Easy tube back to Uxbridge and onto the arse end of nowhere in Oxfordshire for a few pints that night.
 
In the Village Hotel in Cheadle - or, as it was known then, the Village Pub. My mum's been a blue since the mid-70s, my dad's been a red since the late 60s, and they'd always agreed never to push either club on me.

So there I was, four years old and not yet a City fan, watching the Gillingham game. When Dickov scored, a random bloke picked me up off the floor, threw me in the air, caught me on the way down, looked into my eyes as if I was his own son, and handed me back to my mum.

My uncle was at Wembley that day. He knew I hadn't picked a team yet. So he capitalised on the excitement of a Wembley win (never mind it being League One). He brought back a City flag from the game and personally nailed it into my bedroom wall.

It stayed on my bedroom wall until I left for uni 14 years later. Thanks David, not just for the flag but for pushing that clumsy bugger Lukaku in the way of that Inter header in Istanbul. That's the kind of mischief you were known for.

Hope you're still watching us from wherever you are.
 
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On Lesvos Greece, foolishly booked it months before, no WFI no satellite TV had to wait till full time to phone my Brother, using a very expensive phone card only to find it was going to extra time
 
Wembley. I was one of the people that left their seats in disgust then ran back in when we got the first goal. Started in the side stand and ended up behind the goal for the penalties. Awesome day
 
At Wembley watching it all unfold
Had a day or two with Joe a few months after, blimey the stories he told me.
Could you imagine what the matchday thread would have been like that day !!!
 
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