Reply With QuoteOriginally Posted by J R Hartley
No it was not !
It was the Head of Security. Ex-copper, I won't say his name to save him the embarrassment
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Don't blame Ali.
He will have been instructed to announce it.
No it was not !
It was the Head of Security. Ex-copper, I won't say his name to save him the embarrassment
FA cup replay January 1969 losing at Highbury 2-0. Totally gutted that night, maybe because I was a youngster, but it knocked me for six, I really thought we had the side to beat the mighty Arsenal especially after holding them to a 0-0 draw at our place.
Blackpool play off final obviously.
The most deflating feeling ever though was the Brighton match, seeing all those city fans grabbing the red scarves out of the box underneath the canton stand left me fecking speechless.
He was injured before the final yet Dave Moans still picked him
Because he was irreplaceable at the time. The most important player in the team.
Can’t blame Jones for taking the gamble. Can blame him for putting a kelvin ****ing Etuhu on instead of Ross though 🤬🤬🤬
On the pitch - Stoke play off semi. Not sure why but it was worse than Blackpool for me.
Off the pitch - Brighton scarf game. Less said about that the better.
11 December, 1982 - FA Cup: Cardiff City 2 Weymouth 3.
That dismal result was compounded by the halftime score: Cardiff City 2 Weymouth 0.
Maidstone was a League game if it's the 0-5 game. With the great John Williams giving away a penalty and getting sent off. Opening day of the seats in the 'lower' Grandstand too and a big crowd.
For me Blackpool in 2010 and the other Play Off failures, es specially against Reading. The relegations of 1975, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1995, 2000. And the 5-1 mentioned above in 1971, I really thought we were going up that year (and we beat Real Madrid a month before). We never came close again until Dave Jones' days. Selling Toshack, Blake and Earnshaw too. And Gabbidon, Collins any anyone else we could get a fee for when we had no money.
This.
The most galling aspect of this was that Bothroyd was considered a doubt up until the day itself, yet there was no apparent plan on how to deal with the prospect of him not lasting 90 minutes. It fell to Kelvin Etuhu, a player who has since never played as a target man, to fill Bothroyd's shoes, rather than consider alternative tactics/formations to suit a likely replacement.
Despite all of this, we still should have got something out of the second half. I think we rattled the woodwork twice. That side would have stayed in the Premier League had it gone up that season.
I think the disappointment came from failing to beat a team most of us were expecting to beat. I know I didn't consider any other result, I was that confident. Reading, a year later, was entirely expected. Bellamy had dragged results from us in the end of season run in while we were playing poorly, and so when he was crocked, there was absolutely no surprise that we'd be in for another capitulation. I think that Reading 2nd leg was the most angry I've been after a match as a City fan.
Absolutely, as I've just said elsewhere. He used Etuhu as a target man. Like for like. 1 tactic. No alternatives. No thoughts that Bothroyd might get crocked and there'd be a need to plan for that. Shocking.
Bob Wilson letting a soft Uwe Seeler shot through his hands in the last minute of this game. Scoular said he'd never pick him again and he didn't.
Blackpool a close second.
Losing to Blackpool at Wembley and the scarfgate match.
Witnessing Cardiff City playing in Red V Bristol City playing in Blue, I walked out at half time
The change to red and the threats and bad mouthing from so called city fans who seemed to vanish once we were relegated from the greedy league
Stoke. Nothing else comes close.
1: Cardiff City v Notts Forest: Scarfgate. Angry as frig about that
2: The Phil Stant v Rick Wright saga.
3: the penalty misses in the league cup
to any others to mention
Scarfgate was a Brighton match wasn't it?
For me it was the night we were promoted when we drew against Charlton I was standing at the back of the ninian and I just didn't feel a connection to the club, everyone was celebrating running on the pitch and that was the night that i realised really what had happened with the change of colour.
Yeah.
Stoke play-off for me with a special dishonourable mention for Hayes in the FA Cup (they weren't even Hayes and Yeading back then FFS)
I still think about that from time-to-time. And it still makes me angry. Missed his penalty too.
When Kav left
Bad day that.
Remember a Blackpool fan came past our bus laughing. Idiot had a right ****ing kicking for it..wrong time for high jinx and jokes after that loss.
That whole 'Red' episode was horrendous, wont go over old ground, but for me, it was the worst of times in our clubs history, it certainly dispelled my notion of city fans, as a 'band of brothers' suppose I was naïve.
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