12 years ago today

Great memories
I was in the tl dallas stand that night, not the greatest viewing, but that night I felt like I was in goal along with Matt Duke when the penalties were being taken. In fact I think I saved one of them!

 

I think that was as cold as I've been at a football match.

 

Nah … Telford in a Fred Perry polo

 

And nowt else?
No wonder you were bloody cold!

 

I was in the kop for that match with the riffraff. There were a couple of teenagers in front of us wearing cosy looking onesies. At first I thought they looked daft. Later I envied them. That's one of the coldest games I've been to.

 

what is scary it seems like a months ago ......

 

I remember that night so fondly.
My son and I went to the Sweet Centre for a pre-match curry. We were chatting to Arsenal fans in the queue for a table. They were surprised when I asked them whether their CBs were feeling confident because Hanson was going to boss them in the air. They obviously weren’t used to watching an old fashioned aerial bombardment. Hanson did give them a torrid time although we weren’t actually too Route One on the night.
We were sat in the front row directly behind the Arsenal dugout and were banging on the dugout roof every time we got a corner or a decent attack. Wenger must have been sick of us by the end. Very childish really, but fun at the time.
I don’t think I’ve ever worn more layers to a football match.
Hard to believe we beat that Arsenal first team. A great night and only the start of things to come.

 

Lol!

 

Remember walking from North Parade to the ground. Every step seemed to get colder, wondering if the pitch would be in a playable state by kick off. Alas, it was. What a night. What a game. What an atmosphere, aided by the travelling Arsenal fans.
The scenes at the end of the game will live with me forever.
It's games like this that as a fan make supporting your club worthwhile.

 

What should have been one of my best nights as a city fan was the most painful.
I had Olecranon Bursitis (inflamed elbow) and the pain was almost unbearable.
Probably shouldn’t have gone but it was Arsenal at VP.
Spent the whole night unable to enjoy the game at all due to the pain.

My wife however enjoyed it immensely and also got one of the Arsenal subs woolly hat which was dropped in front of us after the game.
My wife pretended to a steward that it was hers and he passed it to her.

I also occasionally (quite a lot really) watch the highlights on Sky and freeze the frame with Wenger in the middle of the picture and my wife and I in the background.

Very painful and extremely cold night but also a fantastic night.

 

Some great life and family events during that time, and some not so good. Time flies!

 

Who are you calling riff raff, i have stood and sat in the kop for 48 years , and never been so insulted.
It was cold though, but not on a par with the Wallsall game a few years ago , when the rain was blowing straight into the kop horizontally , it was also bloody freezing, i could have sworn my trousers had frozen.
Remember it well , as we won 4-0 .

 

The kop mutants.

 

Mutant, as in all the men l in there look like Adonis and the women Aphrodite.

 

No, mutants as in they look like people who play the Postcode Lottery.

 

the night my oldest daughter fell in love with City!