It was an afternoon I think. That was the best season I've had following City. Not so much loyalty but just having a top time. The Pearce era was worse. Shite football coupled with expensive tickets. At least it was only 7 quid to get in at York.BoyBlue_1985 said:We should have a roll call of the brave 500,000 people that turned up at york that night
SWP's back said:He was stuck in traffic.lancs blue said:BoyBlue_1985 said:We should have a roll call of the brave 500,000 people that turned up at york that night
It was an afternoon. ;-)
Ah fuck it.M18CTID said:SWP's back said:He was stuck in traffic.lancs blue said:It was an afternoon. ;-)
How would you know? You were on your way back from 'Boro following the Rags' 3-2 defeat. Only problem is, your story falls down because that match was played at Old Toilet ;)
lancs blue said:I must be one of those manic depressives that Pearce was on about, our form was so bad I could only see a long struggle ahead after the York match. Thankfully Ged Wiekens dug us out of that hole at Wrexham the following week.M18CTID said:lancs blue said:Being at York wasn't about loyalty as much as being there at the club's lowest point in their history, I've never felt as depressed about City as I did walking back to the car after that match.
I went on the piss in York that night and had a great time! To be honest, the magnitude of where we were at that point didn't really hit me until months or even years later. Probably because I was brainwashed by Joe Royle's comments after seemingly every defeat or bore-draw at the time about how we were "nicely tucked in behind the leaders" and to be honest I distinctly remember looking at teletext in the hotel room that night as I was getting ready to go out and thinking that despite us being 12th in the league, we were only a few points away from a play-off spot.
jay_mcfc said:I didn't go to York but I have to say the game for me was Bristol Rovers at home. It was about 10 days before Christmas, the crowd was about 23k and it was the most boring game of football I'd ever seen. We drew 0-0 without even mustering an attack and had officially fell to our worst ever position of about 12th in the third tier. It was utterly soul destroying but then a couple of weeks later we played that game against Stoke and ever since it's been a bed of roses really!
xgorton said:Talking about low times i was at maine rd v swindon in the old 2nd division 8,015 was there in a 63,000 stadium we lost 2-1,remember sat down on steps in the kippax watching game plenty of room,also northampton went up that season into the top flight they only stayed for 1 season.