cidered abroad Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 So what exactly was the truth about the 2-2 draw with Coventry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Huge traffic jams and thousands outside in turnstile queues a few minutes before scheduled kick off time. Unless, there was some skulduggery between Jimmy Hill and AD to get a draw which kept both up. But while Sunderland were losing 0-1, an equaliser at Goodison with a draw City v Coventry, would have sent Coventry down. Maybe there were some behind the scenes agreements. Who knows and nearly forty years after who cares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loderingo Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 The game before beating top of the league Liverpool at the gate must have been something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 I was about 14 at the time and at Whitefield School, and this was in the days when Fishponds was pretty rock solid Gas. We had 'double science' on the afternoon of the match, and our science teacher (who used to get loads of stick for being red) was desperate to go to the game. He announced at the start of the lesson that we should stick our hands up if we were going to Coventry and we would be allowed to leave (but to make sure we exited through the field at the back rather than the main entrance) . We all looked at each other for a second and he noticed we were all a bit slow on the uptake, and re iterated 'Boys, if you all put your hands up, we can all leave now.' Every ones hands went up, he went to Highfield Road, and we all went down Vassalls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 I think the "all teams play last game at the same time" thing is a recent change: certainly don't recall it from back as a kid. Looking at our run in that year: games on the 7th, 10th, 14th, 16th and 19th. Christ knows how we got out of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityexile Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Was it not a very hard winter that year - lots of postponements? I believe that, even then, the FL tried to arrange for games affecting promotion or relegation to be played at the same time, not always successfully Of course there were fewer of them, without the pray-offs. Was that the year I watched through the fog against the Leeds earlier in the season, for it to be called off at half time? All merges in to one after so many years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 I was on school camp at Biblins i think ,remember the teacher coming in the dorm to tell us we had stayed up.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Was that the year I watched through the fog against the Leeds earlier in the season, for it to be called off at half time? All merges in to one after so many years! Yep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsofclay Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 I was about 14 at the time and at Whitefield School, and this was in the days when Fishponds was pretty rock solid Gas. We had 'double science' on the afternoon of the match, and our science teacher (who used to get loads of stick for being red) was desperate to go to the game. He announced at the start of the lesson that we should stick our hands up if we were going to Coventry and we would be allowed to leave (but to make sure we exited through the field at the back rather than the main entrance) . We all looked at each other for a second and he noticed we were all a bit slow on the uptake, and re iterated 'Boys, if you all put your hands up, we can all leave now.' Every ones hands went up, he went to Highfield Road, and we all went down Vassalls. I was in Hartcliffe School at the time also aged 14, we were solid City but our Maths teacher was a Gashead and used to get terrible stick for it. We had him last lesson on that Thursday afternoon. As the lesson started he asked who among us would be going toHighfield Road that night, about six of us stuck our hands up. He gave us all a two hour detention to be served immediately as the bell ending school rang. I still recall that sickly grin he spouted as we copied copious lines, like he was clever or something. Sad git. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Was that the year I watched through the fog against the Leeds earlier in the season, for it to be called off at half time? All merges in to one after so many years! I, err, may have been at that game as well (in the Leeds end of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 I, err, may have been at that game as well (in the Leeds end of course) So the fog was created by Gasheads in the Leeds end? I've always suspected it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDOXO Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Anyone know who won the fruit machine jackpot in the Cove supporters club bar! They were seriously pissssed off and forced the guy to carry 100 quid in 10p pieces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 I, err, may have been at that game as well (in the Leeds end of course)I didn't see you. Then again, I didn't see anything that say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 I was in Hartcliffe School at the time also aged 14, we were solid City but our Maths teacher was a Gashead and used to get terrible stick for it. We had him last lesson on that Thursday afternoon. As the lesson started he asked who among us would be going toHighfield Road that night, about six of us stuck our hands up. He gave us all a two hour detention to be served immediately as the bell ending school rang. I still recall that sickly grin he spouted as we copied copious lines, like he was clever or something. Sad git.What a bastard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cwmbran red Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 They were the good old days but dont worry with the squad and the manager we got now we will see alot more success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 The train was fun We traveled Inter City like the men do. The off-licences were certainly emptied of their booze for the train journey home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbran red Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 Fodbarmyarmy so you were at king edmunds school in yate the same time as me then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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