'Orns Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 24 years since the best moment of my time supporting City Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 The winner against the gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 24 years?! jeez that makes me feel very old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citysimmo Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Bitter sweet for me as I stayed too long in the pub and was one of many who couldn't get in that night. As well as missing our first win over them in years, it ended my run of 152 games on the trot, home and away. Whoops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS3_RED Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 What made it sweeter was the Hollowhead penalty miss before Donowa winner. Wasnt this the first time we had beaten them in a while? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 What made it sweeter was the Hollowhead penalty miss before Donowa winner. Wasnt this the first time we had beaten them in a while? Yep, about 5 years. Hadn't won any of the previous 10 games. Jammy bastards they were back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bob Taylor is GOD Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I lost my voice that night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sargent Pepper Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Probably my favourite game I've attended. Great atmosphere and we battered them just couldn't score then big Devon took a swan dive & I thought the lucky bastards had done us again. Then Leaning went the right way & the place went nuts. Never heard a noise like it before but it was bettered minutes later when Louie scored.... Just! A fantastic night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Bloody hell that long. My very best moment supporting city Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WessexPest Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Superb. First time we'd beaten them since 85/86 IIRR. They really had the Indian Sign over us in those days. Donowa's goal was deliverance. My favourite match against them when we were both in the second tier (will that ever happen again, I wonder?) came a couple of seasons later though. We won 2-1 at AG and effectively condemned them to relegation. That was a fantastic night. Video of that one used to be on YouTube too (Mark Lawrenson co-commentating, but even he couldn't ruin it) but seems to have disappeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 The open end was mental that night. All good fun exchanging coins with the blue few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnclosureSurge Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I caught the train back from somewhere or other to be at that game. Don't know why - I think I'd been to all the previous 10 games in 5 years without beating them. The previous time had been Easter 86 when Llewy did one on G Francis' thigh, studs-up proper. Mental night. Don't remember much about the penalty. But the goal! the shot, the way it was half-saved, the way it dribbled toward the goal and the way Louie D dived to make sure it went over the line... And then Bob running round the back of the goal to flick the V to the Blue Few. Beautiful. Quite a few of us used to then sing, to the tune of All Things Bright And Beautiful: "All things bright and beautiful/all creatures great and small/Leano saved the penalty/and Louie scored the gawl!" I had somewhere to be the next morning, but I ditched the return train, headed back to the pub till the wee small hours and went straight on to the first morning train without a wink of sleep. I had one of the white/red writing badges for a few years, too. It simply said 1-0 in the middle and had 5th March 1991 round the outside. Sadly, it has been lost from this household. Anyone still got one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 It's never 24 years is it? Really? I suppose it must be. I can still see his goal clearly in my head, yet I sometimes cannot recall things much more recent. Ah those City memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 It was mint. As Tone says I particularly enjoyed Super Bob's celebration in front of the blue few and Biff going absolutely mental in their penalty area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS15_RED Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I remember that, I was only 9, yet to go to my first game, my Dad and his mates went to the game, I was in bed and my mum came up and told me that City had won 1-0! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thephat1 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Was in the open end that night lost my voice my wallet and celebrated long and hard! Had suffered many years of crap from the blue few before that so when hollowhead fluffed his lines it really was at last our turn to party, still cant believe it was so long ago though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Orns Posted March 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 One of the Gas on here said the noise when the goal went in was unbelievable. Doesn't get much better as a football fan, does it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartolona Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 In the dolman b block that night, crazy scenes. Still got that badge EnclosureSurge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newarkred Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 That was my very first city v rovers game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RED4LIFE Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I was in the east end throwing coins at Devon White for diving that game. Was that the same game they were singing during Les Kews minutes silence? That was the nastiest I have known AG to be towards any other fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I was in the east end throwing coins at Devon White for diving that game. Was that the same game they were singing during Les Kews minutes silence? That was the nastiest I have known AG to be towards any other fans. Lew Kew's minute silence? Pretty sure he's not dead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I was in the east end throwing coins at Devon White for diving that game. Was that the same game they were singing during Les Kews minutes silence? That was the nastiest I have known AG to be towards any other fans. Des Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RED4LIFE Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Lew Kew's minute silence? Pretty sure he's not dead! Des Williams, not Les Kew! My brain struggles to function after doing a 15hr work day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Loudest I have heard it in AG. Only time I ever lost my voice watching city. People go on about hartlepool and Crystal palace. But I swear it was much much louder and definitely 100 times more caustic atmosphere in this game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REBS14 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 24 years really ! The noise that night when Donawa scored was incredible, i can remember all the hairs on my neck standing on end and thinking wow. I know people bang on about the old days but really you had to be there ! nothing since has come close, only when we play the sags have i ever witnessed anything similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aa_bcfc Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I caught the train back from somewhere or other to be at that game. Don't know why - I think I'd been to all the previous 10 games in 5 years without beating them. The previous time had been Easter 86 when Llewy did one on G Francis' thigh, studs-up proper. Mental night. Don't remember much about the penalty. But the goal! the shot, the way it was half-saved, the way it dribbled toward the goal and the way Louie D dived to make sure it went over the line... And then Bob running round the back of the goal to flick the V to the Blue Few. Beautiful. Quite a few of us used to then sing, to the tune of All Things Bright And Beautiful: "All things bright and beautiful/all creatures great and small/Leano saved the penalty/and Louie scored the gawl!" I had somewhere to be the next morning, but I ditched the return train, headed back to the pub till the wee small hours and went straight on to the first morning train without a wink of sleep. I had one of the white/red writing badges for a few years, too. It simply said 1-0 in the middle and had 5th March 1991 round the outside. Sadly, it has been lost from this household. Anyone still got one? Yes I've still got mine. That win meant so much and put years of hurt to rest. Now we need to win the league as for me, in a sort of way, it will put 1990 to bed as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Des Williams, not Les Kew! My brain struggles to function after doing a 15hr work day. Fair enough. I did about a fifteen minute day today so I was on the ball!! Not my fault that I can't stop watching The Affair whilst 'working from home' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswood Robin Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 In the dolman b block that night, crazy scenes. Still got that badge EnclosureSurge Dolman block B, you weren't the complete stranger I was jumping up and down with by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROSEBUD RED Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 I was also there that night (in the open end) - my favourite City moment. Atmosphere went up several notches due to the disrespectful Rovers fans during the minute silence. Will always remember grown men hugging strangers and crying when that Donowa goal went in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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