TomThumb84 Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 I don’t think this has been done yet but if it has apologies and feel free to merge! Best & Worst Opening Days you have witnessed since supporting City. I’ll start….. Best: 1990/91 - City 4-2 Blackburn Fresh off that wonderful season City dispatched a decent Blackburn that had made the Div.2 play-offs the season before with a swashbuckling display and a couple from God Taylor. Sunny and magical day on the East End. Great times. Worst: 2010/11 - City 0-3 Millwall Imagine going into a season with Steve Coppell in charge and England’s current No.1 in goal. Add to that the exciting summer signings of Nicky Hunt and Damion Stewart, and managing to ship out incompetent footballers like Paul Hartley and Bradley Orr, what could possibly go wrong?…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifty Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 5-0 win v Notts County with the Lee Amigos scoring was a good one. Millwall game was the first one I thought of too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie andrews Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 one of the best...83/84 v mansfield 4 nil thumping one of the worst....09? v ipswich nil 3 thumping... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 5 minutes ago, archie andrews said: one of the best...83/84 v mansfield 4 nil thumping one of the worst....09? v ipswich nil 3 thumping... Didn't Alan Crawford score a worldly that day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Best game to watch for me was the 4/3 win against Sunderland 1970. Ken Whimshurst with the winner i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elruliri Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 12 minutes ago, TomThumb84 said: I don’t think this has been done yet but if it has apologies and feel free to merge! Best & Worst Opening Days you have witnessed since supporting City. I’ll start….. Best: 1990/91 - City 4-2 Blackburn Fresh off that wonderful season City dispatched a decent Blackburn that had made the Div.2 play-offs the season before with a swashbuckling display and a couple from God Taylor. Sunny and magical day on the East End. Great times. Worst: 2010/11 - City 0-3 Millwall Imagine going into a season with Steve Coppell in charge and England’s current No.1 in goal. Add to that the exciting summer signings of Nicky Hunt and Damion Stewart, and managing to ship out incompetent footballers like Paul Hartley and Bradley Orr, what could possibly go wrong?…. I remember that blackburn game, we went behind a couple of times they had frank Stapleton playing for them and we had Mark aizlewood and Andy may making their debut for us. Everyone was was positive we'd go up again. Then big Joe left for Hearts. I think we would of gone up that season if he stayed. If I remember he turned down Villa how times have changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basshead Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 11 minutes ago, archie andrews said: one of the best...83/84 v mansfield 4 nil thumping one of the worst....09? v ipswich nil 3 thumping... Pretty sure that was 2011 ipswichgame mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elruliri Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 5 minutes ago, glynriley said: Didn't Alan Crawford score a worldly that day? Great little winger another TC free transfer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Another cracker was the 3/3 with Pompy,Jacki and Cole up front. Wouldn't be a bad strike force for Saturday!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtrojan Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Arsenal 0-1 City Memories of this game have been done to death ,but if you’d been there it was a very special day.The wurzel no hopers from the West Country coming up to be canon fodder for London royalty. Too many disappointing starts .Millwall was definitely up there.But for me it was the uninspiring 2-2 drawer hone to Oxford I think98/99. We’d spent millions on two strikers and Sean Dyche at centre half.Expectations we’re so high.We defended so badly,you knew the game was up and another season of mediocrity beckoned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elruliri Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 1 minute ago, Redtrojan said: Arsenal 0-1 City Memories of this game have been done to death ,but if you’d been there it was a very special day.The wurzel no hopers from the West Country coming up to be canon fodder for London royalty. Too many disappointing starts .Millwall was definitely up there.But for me it was the uninspiring 2-2 drawer hone to Oxford I think98/99. We’d spent millions on two strikers and Sean Dyche at centre half.Expectations we’re so high.We defended so badly,you knew the game was up and another season of mediocrity beckoned. I think that fat bloke from up north who's son plays for Wednesday scored aswell, I can't remember his name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickybee Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Both been quoted already : Best - Arsenal 0-1 City Worst - City 0-3 Millwall Think I’m right in saying that Millwall were newly promoted as well (like we were vs The Gunners) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidercity1987 Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Sheff Utd 1-2 City live on Sky set up that promotion season nicely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2015 Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Best (i'll go for 2): City 5-0 Notts County. Beautiful hot day, and the Lee Amigos ran riot. Sheffield Utd 1-2 City. The start of the title winning campaign, something just felt good after that game. Significant. Worst: City 0-3 Millwall 2010. Coppell's only League game, huge hype against a newly promoted side and we got stuffed, and looked totally out of sorts. One of the only games I've left early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Got to be the Millwall 0-3 for me…. The Steve Coppell era, the David James era…. It all looked perfect… What a comedown that game was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodbarmyarmy Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Best....Tony Thorpe treble on opening day at Northampton. Worst....Leeds wasn't exactly fun... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 4 minutes ago, 2015 said: Best (i'll go for 2): City 5-0 Notts County. Beautiful hot day, and the Lee Amigos ran riot. Sheffield Utd 1-2 City. The start of the title winning campaign, something just felt good after that game. Significant. Worst: City 0-3 Millwall 2010. Coppell's only League game, huge hype against a newly promoted side and we got stuffed, and looked totally out of sorts. One of the only games I've left early. Slightly older than you (I'd guess!) so I'd have to go for Arsenal 1-0 (and I was there!!). But I agree that Sheff U one felt like something special - and if I remember right it followed a pretty horrible sequence of visits to Bramall Lane? Talking of hot days - one away game at Gillingham - not sure if it was first, or maybe first away - when it was so hot they turned the ground watering system onto us all boiling in the open away end - and it was lovely!! Yep, worst...Millwall. Such high hopes....so quickly dashed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 I don’t remember many good first days of the season to be honest? Barnsley at home recently maybe…. 3-0 up after 20 minutes if I remember rightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezo Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 I always remember getting relegated to tier 3 and thinking we were going to stuff everyone and rinse the league, first game of the season against Blackpool - conceded after about 12 seconds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Sinclair Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 38 minutes ago, stephenkibby. said: Another cracker was the 3/3 with Pompy,Jacki and Cole up front. Wouldn't be a bad strike force for Saturday!!!!! I was at that game, a bit 'boisterous' in the Dolman that day I recall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifty Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 To br fair, last season we took the lead v Coventry after about 14 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 49 minutes ago, basshead said: Pretty sure that was 2011 ipswichgame mate It was, the season after the Millwall game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am_red Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Best 5-0 against Notts County or Sheff United 2-1 Worst got to be Millwall 0-3 or for some strange reason Tinmans first game - the 1-1 draw against Torquay - probably because we had a midfield featuring Bradley Orr and Clayton Fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon bristol Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 52 minutes ago, stephenkibby. said: Another cracker was the 3/3 with Pompy,Jacki and Cole up front. Wouldn't be a bad strike force for Saturday!!!!! Yep, that was my first thought of opening game memories too. to be fair, they are in their 50s now, but id still take them over martin and wells Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDOXO Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Arsenal away. That will take some beating. Worst I have about 10 of them. But one stands out 1/3 home loss to Luton in 19xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon bristol Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 17 minutes ago, Ronnie Sinclair said: I was at that game, a bit 'boisterous' in the Dolman that day I recall Yes, i can still see that from the east end, thought i was going to see portsmouth fans fall backwards over the side of dolman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomThumb84 Posted August 4, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, Simon bristol said: Yes, i can still see that from the east end, thought i was going to see portsmouth fans fall backwards over the side of dolman Remember it from the East End too. A flurry of plastic chairs and flailing limbs all merging into one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tin Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Best: Either Thorpe’s hat-trick at Northampton, 5-0 home win over Notts County, or the win at Bramall Lane under Cotts. Worst: Millwall at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon bristol Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, TomThumb84 said: Remember it from the East End too. A flurry of plastic chairs and flailing limbs all merging into one. Yes, scary, in those days there was the plain brick drop down to pitch level, probably at least 30 foot, with people teetering over the drop against the waist height railings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wild Bunch Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 When I think of opening day games the one that always springs to mind is Pompey at home in 93. So excited for that game with the signing of Andy Cole in the summer. Great game and great atmosphere. Gillingham away in 96 is not remembered fondly as I had a banging hangover and I’m sure we got beat 3-2 with Akinbiyi playing a blinder. Really not sure what to expect on Saturday but just happy to be back at the Gate. COYR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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