York away

Think it was 97 yeh?? It was a cold midweek game and we were shocking. Makes you appreciate today's success more...character building!
 
Cellarite said:
YES MY FRIEND! I've been saying this for years. Defeat at York left us in our worst ever league position - we weren't at our worst when tickets were bought and people set off to watch it.

The week after, we were in our lowest league position ever and people STILL decided to go to Wrexham.
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I will die on this particular hill
 
Tevez32mcfc said:
Was that the season before?

I didn't go to York but went to the midweek game at Wycombe a few games before. Lost 1-0. Think that was the start of a 5 game run without a win ending in that York defeat.

Loved Bristol Rovers away towards the end of the season. 2-2 I think?
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Yes Saturday 6pm kick off - conceded in the final minute!
Had we not done so, the 2 extra points would have taken us to automatic promotion on goal difference - meaning no Wigan in the play offs……. No Gillingham in the final!
 
hallsteve62 said:
Not sure that's right mate. Weren't we lower than that when they published the table after the first 4 games?

Edit. Just checked on 11v11.com and we were 14th after the completion of matchday 4 on 29 August 1998.
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From Wiki
City's first-ever season in the third tier got off to a bright start, with the team losing only one of their first six matches and topping the table after a victory over fellow third tier newcomers Macclesfield Town. After that, however, City would only win three more league matches before Christmas, as the heavily overhauled squad struggled to come together, with injuries only compounding the situation. The club would hit its lowest ebb after an embarrassing 2–1 loss to York City in their final pre-Christmas fixture, a result which left them 12th in the table and led to fans calling for Royle's sacking
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
From Wiki
City's first-ever season in the third tier got off to a bright start, with the team losing only one of their first six matches and topping the table after a victory over fellow third tier newcomers Macclesfield Town. After that, however, City would only win three more league matches before Christmas, as the heavily overhauled squad struggled to come together, with injuries only compounding the situation. The club would hit its lowest ebb after an embarrassing 2–1 loss to York City in their final pre-Christmas fixture, a result which left them 12th in the table and led to fans calling for Royle's sacking
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Calling Gary James to the thread!
 
Cellarite said:
YES MY FRIEND! I've been saying this for years. Defeat at York left us in our worst ever league position - we weren't at our worst when tickets were bought and people set off to watch it.

The week after, we were in our lowest league position ever and people STILL decided to go to Wrexham.
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It was horrible. 12 noon kick off on boxing day. Couldn't even have a full day/night session on xmas day for fear of being over the limit on the drive to the game, easy pickings for N Wales police who were having a xmas blitz at the time. Pissed it down, with rain driving into our standing section. I remember GarethTaylor somehow managing to hit the cross bar from one yard out. We were shit but it was the start of the turn around.
 
The 5 points from 4 games with Zero goal difference did leave City in 14th after the 1-1 Notts County away.

Started well home Blackpool with 3-0 and a bumper crowd, then the Fulham 0-3 with Peter Beardsley running the show and the early serious knee injury for Tskhadadze who looked like our best defender for a short while, then the tremendously frustrating 0-0 v Wrexham, with Goater missing the sitter then staring into the North Stand unable to believe he missed the target with the keeper leaving the goal wide open diving early. He made up getting the equaliser at the end of the Notts game though.

It isn't up for debate 14th is lower than 12th. Also 1.25 ppg after NC compared to 1.36 ppg +4 GD after YC.

Tables were normally not published in the 1980s or before usually that early in season, but that had long stopped by 1998. I remember seeing City top of the table after beating Liverpool in 1991, and it was the 2nd game in.

York away is about as good as it gets for a day out as a football fan, and City played well despite losing frequent affordable trains to most of the north of England, and hundreds of reasonably priced pubs with a good variety of beers. Then around 6 years later some fan on the internet decides it was a low point, a real hardship and a badge of honour. Lincoln City away getting beat 4-1 after leading, then getting beat 0-1 in the 2nd leg was the low point. Half Time in the second leg the PA announcer going on about extra time being played if needed at 1-5 on aggregate and looking nothing like scoring.
 
Corky said:
The 5 points from 4 games with Zero goal difference did leave City in 14th after the 1-1 Notts County away.

Started well home Blackpool with 3-0 and a bumper crowd, then the Fulham 0-3 with Peter Beardsley running the show and the early serious knee injury for Tskhadadze who looked like our best defender for a short while, then the tremendously frustrating 0-0 v Wrexham, with Goater missing the sitter then staring into the North Stand unable to believe he missed the target with the keeper leaving the goal wide open diving early. He made up getting the equaliser at the end of the Notts game though.

It isn't up for debate 14th is lower than 12th. Also 1.25 ppg after NC compared to 1.36 ppg +4 GD after YC.

Tables were normally not published in the 1980s or before usually that early in season, but that had long stopped by 1998. I remember seeing City top of the table after beating Liverpool in 1991, and it was the 2nd game in.

York away is about as good as it gets for a day out as a football fan, and City played well despite losing frequent affordable trains to most of the north of England, and hundreds of reasonably priced pubs with a good variety of beers. Then around 6 years later some fan on the internet decides it was a low point, a real hardship and a badge of honour. Lincoln City away getting beat 4-1 after leading, then getting beat 0-1 in the 2nd leg was the low point. Half Time in the second leg the PA announcer going on about extra time being played if needed at 1-5 on aggregate and looking nothing like scoring.
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Lincoln home (League Cup) was actually a game I was thinking of as a low point but wasn’t that the season before when we were still in the 2nd tier.

Wycombe away defeat was a horrible. Mid week, down south, freezing cold. It felt we were never getting out of the 3rd
Tier.
 
RiversideBlue said:
It was horrible. 12 noon kick off on boxing day. Couldn't even have a full day/night session on xmas day for fear of being over the limit on the drive to the game, easy pickings for N Wales police who were having a xmas blitz at the time. Pissed it down, with rain driving into our standing section. I remember GarethTaylor somehow managing to hit the cross bar from one yard out. We were shit but it was the start of the turn around.
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Imagine how shit it was stood in the Wrexham end behind the opposite goal?
 
As somebody mentioned earlier I don't remember us playing particularly badly at York, and we certainly didn't deserve to lose.

I was actually far more disheartened just a few weeks earlier after a midweek 2-1 defeat in a sleet-driven gale at Lincoln

I attended both games, but for me, the Friday night FA Cup ties v Halifax (at Maine Road) and v Darlington (at Feethams) were boxed-off simply because one day I might find it funny

They were huge badges of honour.
 
Was working in nearby Market Weighton during the day, so just popped up to Bootham Crescent on the off chance still in my shirt & tie. Managed to get a ticket in the home end no problem, on that shallow terrace behind the dugouts.

Driving home to Lincoln (yes I was at all those games too) afterwards I felt like driving off the Humber Bridge for a split second, I was that depressed.

Didn’t tell anyone I’d gone to this game for years, quite bizarre really how it’s become so ‘iconic’ all these years later.

p.s. I wasn’t at Macclesfield or Wycombe.
 
Only trip to York to watch Fleetwood in the play offs, great evening out. Another great old ground sadly gone. A few weeks after City's York loss went to see them away at Wimbledon in the cup, didn't go to Bpool away the week after despite working a quarter of a mile away.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Yes Saturday 6pm kick off - conceded in the final minute!
Had we not done so, the 2 extra points would have taken us to automatic promotion on goal difference - meaning no Wigan in the play offs……. No Gillingham in the final!
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Not true. We finished 5 points behind 2nd placed Walsall
 
blue cigar said:
I didn't go but I was there.....
I think Reading away at Elm park midweek should be a badge of honour, think it ended in a 4-0 loss, that was a long trip home
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I was there! Was on a business trip from Seoul, Korea where I lived at the time and took the train out to Reading from London. I believe it was 3-0, miserable night in the pissing rain. I loved every minute of it somehow!
 
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