Favourite ever sky blue experience? (1 Viewer)

[ollyservetta]

Mentioned many of my favourites there. Jim Blyth even saved a pen against Liverpool. We did actually have 11 players on the pitch but Ray Graydon was injured and just limped up and down the touchline! We had already used our sub (only 1 sub in those days!) Was also at Hillsborough when Oggy scored. My wife (girlfriend at the time) missed it! She was too busy looking round the ground at the crowd then said 'What happened?!!!' Many other great memories of better days. Not many games will stick in the memory this season.

jim blyth ,what a keeper ,was he really being sold to utd for 500.000 ,and I remember him going down in the warm up,cant remember who against ,then was it sealey they got out the mainstand to fill in ,.?sorry for going of thread but cant help it with all these meemorys flooding back .also the donky kick goal we all remember ,I was told that it was practised the night before ,in the royal oak ,Kenilworth ,with a brown ale bottle ,.I can see them doing that aswell ,they were genuine characters in them days .

 

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[NortonSkyBlue]

jim blyth ,what a keeper ,was he really being sold to utd for 500.000 ,and I remember him going down in the warm up,cant remember who against ,then was it sealey they got out the mainstand to fill in ,.?sorry for going of thread but cant help it with all these meemorys flooding back .also the donky kick goal we all remember ,I was told that it was practised the night before ,in the royal oak ,Kenilworth ,with a brown ale bottle ,.I can see them doing that aswell ,they were genuine characters in them days .

Steve Murcott v NORWICH 79

 

[dongonzalos]

Ndlove putting the ball over Colin Hendry's head
Keane's impact
Gascogne hurting his arm smashing Lloyd's face

 

[ollyservetta]

Ndlove putting the ball over Colin Hendry's head
Keane's impact
Gascogne hurting his arm smashing Lloyd's face

that reminds me ,everton away ,first season of the passback to keeper rule ,ndlove running 1/2 the length of the pitch or more to round southall ,bobby gould coming out mid halftime to applaud us and the team coming out applauding us after halftime ,another great day away ,one nil win away at everton ,job done

 

[ollyservetta]

Steve Murcott v NORWICH 79

,cheers mate ,thought I was still at school

 

[Colin1883]

Has to be the 3-2 win over west ham (milk cup) ... What a mental night....

 

[DazzleTommyDazzle]

Spurs was the 3rd wasn't it? Or was it Sheff Wednesday? We won 2-1 at Wimbledon in the 2nd

I'm pretty sure that Spurs away was a midweek game and was followed by (what I have now been reminded was) Wimbledon on the Saturday.

As I recall John "the flying postman" Williams scored (possibly both?) at Spurs.

We then played Spurs quite soon afterwards in what I think was our first televised home Monday night game. We won 1-0 with Williams again scoring - according to my memory, it was a header at the West End.

It was the time when Sky were doing pre-match and half time entertainment and I remember the "pop star" Sonia doing her bit at half time to a rousing and very ungentlemanly chorus of "get your t*ts out for the lads"

 

[thaiskyblue]

Away at Liverpool november 5th 88 i think,won 1-0 Regis scored,memorable for Greg Downs with about 5 minutes to go he sat on the ball right in front of the sba in the Annie road end, calling Ian Rush to come and get it, all the mickey mousers in the main stand to our right were screaming "kill the baldy bastard", Rush ran full steam at Greggy, who stood up and just before the impact side stepped Rush and found row z, Greg then turned around and bowed to us, how we cheered, even the mickey mousers applauded, " got no hair we don't care", sky blue legend.. Then we had a great knees up in " the Arkles", top day when being a sky blue mean't something, now i just feel sad, sisu out, pusb !

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

that reminds me ,everton away ,first season of the passback to keeper rule ,ndlove running 1/2 the length of the pitch or more to round southall ,bobby gould coming out mid halftime to applaud us and the team coming out applauding us affter halftime ,another great day away ,one nil win away at everton ,job done

Remember that game for chanting all the way through half time. Great memory

 

[Sterling Archer]

I quite like the less obvious ones.

I remember Quinn skying the penalty out of the ground against Newcastle with a late winner from Harford, good times.

I also remember when we had Hartson and were playing Chelsea at home. The ball had gone out for a Chelsea throw in and Desailly was time wasting towards the end of the first half kneeling over the ball by the advertising hoardings right in front of the City fans. Hartson sprinted from one side of the pitch to the other to ram Desailly into the advertising boards and retrieve the ball (would probably get sent off in todays game). Desailly tried to get up, realised he was too winded and just fellover. He didn't come out for the second half. It was the quickest I'd ever seen Hartson run in his whole career.

I remember seeing Tim Flowers getting sent off as a sub as well. Cov fan as well, when he returned on loan to play for us, he was almost in tears clapping towards the West Terrace. Where is he these days?

Nothing will beat the excitement of Ndlovu picking up the ball and running at players in the early 90's. I feel genuinely sorry for fans too young to have seen that, you just never knew what was going to happen.

 

[Nick]

I remember how chuffed Flowers was when he came towards the WT.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

I quite like the less obvious ones.

I remember Quinn skying the penalty out of the ground against Newcastle with a late winner from Harford, good times.

I also remember when we had Hartson and were playing Chelsea at home. The ball had gone out for a Chelsea throw in and Desailly was time wasting towards the end of the first half kneeling over the ball by the advertising hoardings right in front of the City fans. Hartson sprinted from one side of the pitch to the other to ram Desailly into the advertising boards and retrieve the ball (would probably get sent off in todays game). Desailly tried to get up, realised he was too winded and just fellover. He didn't come out for the second half. It was the quickest I'd ever seen Hartson run in his whole career.

I remember seeing Tim Flowers getting sent off as a sub as well. Cov fan as well, when he returned on loan to play for us, he was almost in tears clapping towards the West Terrace. Where is he these days?

Nothing will beat the excitement of Ndlovu picking up the ball and running at players in the early 90's. I feel genuinely sorry for fans too young to have seen that, you just never knew what was going to happen.

Great post

 

[letsallsingtogether]

Huckerby still Huckerby oh my he scores

3-2 against Man United

 

[oscillatewildly]

Early ones include the 3-1 win over Wolves, end of 1975/76 season. Alan Green hat-trick I think, which basically relegated Wolves. Balmy April/May afternoon, big local fixture atmosphere if not that big a crowd. Witnessing the post match ruckus on GG (It's not big or clever kids, just what used to go on then.) That first leg LC semi against West Ham 1981. Dreadful start, amazing turn around.
Latterly, the "Huckerby" match against manure at HR and the final game 1996/97 at W H L when even victory alone may not have been enough to save us. We're bullet proof I thought. We could do this for ever.