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All I can say is....




fecking Bernie Slaven.

So a good season but crikey Aston Villa away, Ipswich home and Boro away were so hard to take in such a short period of time

Makes the current issues seem nothing. That period hurt

 

Got me started now , we went to Stoke city and set a new world record for the most people ever in a hired Luton transit van , we won 2 - 1 .After the game we got chased by a group of their fans . I ran into a pub car park and jumped over a low wall at the bottom of the area ---- 10ft drop into the river , to be fair to them they stopped dropping stones on me when i faked drowning.

 

Absolutely cracking thread, some fantastic memories come flooding back from half a lifetime ago.
A massive character building period that younger fans will not relate to.
You really have to experience proper disappoitment like that to fully enjoy the good times.

 

I wouldn’t change it . Whilst we’re on a bit of a downer at the minute look what’s happened since that day, we’ve had some unforgettable days . We’re certainly one of the more entertaining clubs about and one only others can only dream about

 

I think that is right.

I'd started a Saturday job at Asda Shipley by then, so listened to most of the game on a radio in the warehouse . Boss was Leeds fan, took the piss royally and I was so gutted.

We just ran out of steam at the end of the season.

Even though we lost, the Villa away game was brilliant. The atmosphere in the crowd was just phenomenonal. To be playing, as virtual equals, a team that had won the European Cup only a few years before was amazing.

 

I was right in line with the penalty area and it was never a booking never mind a straight red card

 

He missed the Ipswich game at home but played in the Villa game. He should have scored too, I've found this short clip on youtube.

 

After the Villa game we got diverted south down M6 , i knew the area so directed him on to the A38 through Burton , Derby onto M1
Instructed mini bus driver to head for Chesterfield for a few quiet pints . What i didn't realise was our good friends from Leeds did the same . We had a wonderful " debate " for the rest of the evening till the Police arrived , oh to be younger again .

 

I remember that season well. I think we were the best side in that league by a country mile.

Didn't we play 'Boro 4 times and only lost the once....the first leg at VP was all us and they caught us with a sucker punch. Hates that club since :-/

 

I think that was the same season that Keith Curle and Andy Townsend were set to sign and take us over the finishing line.

 

Yes, David Platt got the winner.

 

One of the best atmosphere's I've been in.

 

I think that season cemented my life as a Bradford fan.

I'd been going fairly regularly since the 1985/86 season, but did loads of away games that season as well with my Dad: Blackburn, Sheffield United, Villa, Man City and West Brom all spring to mind. Great atmospheres and just good fun.

 

I was behind the goal and Lee Sinnott did a back pass to Paul Tomlinson that went totally wrong and shaved the bar! it was a nervy match but we did dominate Middlesboro, and away we lost in extra time

Ormondroyd just missing in the 6 yard box at the end

i have also disliked middlesboro ever since, and hope they lose today...

thing is we didnt have john hendrie in the last match vs Ipswich as he was suspended, and the play offs we were down to the bare bones as had so many injuries, i was properly devastated after that play off defeat as it was the first season i started watching city at Valley Parade..

 

Remember seeing youngster dragged off their dad' shoulders by police for giving the middle finger salute then running battles back to the minibus yeah what a day

 

Nah ............ It's what we wanted, but Tordoff would not sanction, or finance it !

 

And that is the game we screwed up !
I travelled over night from Hampshire - just to watch City throw it away, as Villa, took the spoils.
How different things could have been .............

 

Yes I believe as you say 3 points against Ipswich would have seen us promoted, the sad thing was be beat Middlesbrough twice that season and hadly gave them a kick in the first leg at Valley Parade then Trevor Senior got that all important goal that gave Middlesbrough a sniff, I honestly thought we would score at Ayresome Park as we were a free scoring side for much of that season, but to no avail on the night.
Even then Middlesbrough had to beat Chelsea as that was the format back in those days, but did and got promotion.

 

We hired a car from the garage at Bankfoot , we did for all away games at that time . The asian owners face was a picture when we returned the car minus every piece of glass ( even the wing mirrors got smashed ).Yep was indeed a night to remember .

 

They did it to stop Hendrie and it worked.