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

Wembley. Heavy nostalgia at this point but still the best match I've ever seen (in the end).
 
I was at Wembley. Got my tickets at Gillingham’s ground so we were in the Gillingham end until they relocated stray Blues into a neutral area.

Everyone sang The Great Escape theme tune on the way out.
 
Wembley. Stayed 'til the death.
Celebrated like fuck.
Drove back like the wind in my Nova Gte.
Got back to the Railway in Hale where we'd been in that shot of dismayed then ecstatic fans through the game to a hero's welcome...
 
Wembley but in the Gillingham end. Was hard been surrounded by their fans but was great watching our fans going bananas when we scored although hard not to join in. Was about to jump up but my uncle was next to me and grabbed me before I could.

Was a bit dicey for a few weeks after as being a dick head 18 year old I decided to wear a city shirt about. Got chased through the high street and threatened in their main pub. Ha ha great days.
 
Sat behind the goal at the end where all our goals and pens went in.

I don't hark back to that season with any fondness. It was a grind, the football was shit until after Xmas and the teams we played were largely alehouse too.

Thankfully the club is a million miles from what it was then, so continuous comparisons or the old "remember where we were in 1999" whenever anyone dares criticise any defeat doesn't wash for me.
 
Lake Haversue Arizona……found a telephone box by London Bridge to phone home for the result
 
Bentley's pub in Torquay. I was 14 having just won a semi final for my first men's team and all the lads took the piss as they walked out of the pub on about 80 minutes
 
HMYOI Thorn Cross listening on radio with about 10 other Manchester lads and about 4 screws who came in to listen to the final moments.
 
Great day.
Remember getting back to our grotty old digs in Hammersmith soaking wet after being in the Trafalgar Square fountain.
Sneaked a guy in who was probably in his 60's at the time and he kipped on the floor.
He was an ex Manc who then lived in either Holland or Belgium who come over for the game.
Never forgot his name Jonny Waters as I thought it a great name.
Never seen him since but read his name on here in the past, seems he was a bit of a City character in days gone by.
Great to be a Blue!
 
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At Wembley. Openshaw SC coach back to the Stanley Street Working Men's Club just before last orders. I well remember the Club MC (who was a rag) announcing that he couldn't believe how much we all celebrated and said "What would they be like if they ever won the CL". Everyone laughed. Well, they're not fecking laughing now :-)
 
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