On this day in 2001 (5 Viewers)
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Skyblue Bangkok
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Remember landing in Sydney to find out we had lost.
clint van damme
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Battered them but couldn't score.
Still think we'd have gone back up if we'd kept him
skybluepm2
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Can still picture Hedman inexplicably losing the ball and Phil Jevons scoring from long range into an empty net, much to the delight of the 3 travelling supporters.
Toxic it most certainly was. No way back for Strachan after that. I recall Micky Adam’s last game in charge (I think it was against Bristol City in the cup?) which was a very similar atmosphere.
Toxic it most certainly was. No way back for Strachan after that. I recall Micky Adam’s last game in charge (I think it was against Bristol City in the cup?) which was a very similar atmosphere.
clint van damme
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Our support is probably much more level headed and less reactionary these days!
skybluepm2
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I was gutted when he eventually got the chop but I think there was a lot of ill feeling towards him at that point. Would’ve been very difficult for him to turn it around.
Nilsson came in and had an unbelievable run. Faltered so badly towards the end of the season, as we seemed to do each year after that until we were eventually relegated. I still think the introduction of Jim Smith and the signings he brought with him (Carbonari, Trollope) contributed to that significantly.
clint van damme
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Yeah, bringing Smith in was a calamity.
Everything that season was knee jerk, was a cluster fuck
skybluepm2
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apart from on here
but yes, I think after all we’ve been through both on and off the pitch over the past couple of decades, it’s brought a realisation for most that we are lucky to still be in existence, and also grateful for how far we’ve come in a relatively short space of time.
Skyblue Bangkok
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Jim Smith was an awful appointment.
Skybluekyle
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Loved how the ball boy was so quick at one point to get the ball to the throw-in taker. Now, I swear our ball boys seem to be all of a Planck length in height and seriously slow to get the ball to players when we're losing or have the impetus in the game
torchomatic
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Strachan was a shit manager.
Sky Blue Wozza
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God, that was an awful afternoon.
Next game after that was one of the strangest I’ve ever experienced - Peterborough away on 9/11. Very surreal evening. The impeccably observed minutes silence (remember those?!) was followed by guy behind me stating that he was “going to do Richardson’s car in after the game”
Think we won on pens too!
Next game after that was one of the strangest I’ve ever experienced - Peterborough away on 9/11. Very surreal evening. The impeccably observed minutes silence (remember those?!) was followed by guy behind me stating that he was “going to do Richardson’s car in after the game”
Think we won on pens too!
Sky Blue Wozza
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From late 97 until Dion left he was very good. And also parts of the 99/00 season.
Bang average aside from that, as the rest of his career proves.
His replacing of Alex Miller with Garry Pendrey was a terrible decison.
skybluelee
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Colin Healy's injury didn't help either, he was excellent for a while.
ccfctommy
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No we lost on pens didnt we? Magnus Hedman took one
lord_garrincha
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I think we did win on pens. Weren't we knocked out by Chelsea on the telly?
Strange. I've not seen that since the game itself, and the goal's pretty much exactly as I remember, but I could have sworn it happened in front of the West End, where I sat.
Strachan was an odd one; there's no doubt he gave us some of the most entertaining teams many of us would have seen, but there was always that feeling of under performance. 97-98, probably the best team we had in that era, held back by too many draws. 99-00 with Keane and McAllister at his best, couldn't muster a win away all season.
Compared to Fat Ron, Phil Neal, etc., he was a breath of fresh air, though. Also probably the best player I've seen in Sky Blue.
Kilclines curly mullet
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My Grandads last game before he passed away
Still got the programme in a draw upstairs
Still got the programme in a draw upstairs
Irish Sky Blue
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That’s something that my son and myself frequently comment on. They seem to be afraid to move
ThievingScally
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Strachan had lost it well before that game. Everyone could see it apart from him.
We potentially lost our best opportunity to go back up because he held on too long.
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We potentially lost our best opportunity to go back up because he held on too long.
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ccfctommy
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That's the one. Couldn't find the picture online.
GIMOC
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GIMOC
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he drank in my local the royal hotel. characters like them made it a funny pub. loved the city he did
LastGarrison
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Always used to pull into the Rose and Crown car park and open his van doors and have boxes full of trainers and (funnily enough) socks and always got plenty of custom.
Obviously, used to do alright out of it coz he then started rocking up in a new silver van with a personalised number plate.
As you say a character who was city through and through.