bigjohn Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 The shin of god! Was25 and a bit merry at the time! Miss the annual trip to wembley! But walshes goal v sheep was better.
kristenallen74 Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYuCw3nZDA closest match that will come close to this in my eyes was this 3-3 against arsenal at filbert street i was left speechless in boith games.
OriginalRobboFOX Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 What a great day that was. After the Blackburn and Swindon games it felt like I'd never see City win at Wembley. Massive relief.
cornish fox Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 Watched it on the TV around my girlfriend's house - 2 of her parents' ornaments got smashed accidentally when we scored that goal What a game, what a day
Collymore Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 Was there. I'll take that day to my grave, words cant describe the emotions when it went in
markbsac Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 just watched it and when claridge scored i was still going crazy sat here watching it........but no delayed reaction this time...i knew it was coming...
danlcfc4ever Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 I was 9! What a day!! I can't believe my tight fisted dad forked out to take me to Wembley but I'm pleased he did!!
Fosse Boy Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 Wonder what they did with that statue of Nigel Martyn when they demolished Old Wembley. Such a great day, was absolutely taken in by that place as a six year old. Such a shame to see the soulless coroporate shell its replacement has become.
Matt Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 I must have been in Cyprus 15 years ago then because it was my last holiday with my dad and I always remember him saying if it wasn't for coming on holiday he'd have took me. Brilliant stuff, gutted I wasn't actually there.
Walkers Wench Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 I went to this game 8 months pregnant,,absolutely no way was i staying at home!
CKB Posted 27 May 2011 Posted 27 May 2011 I was 15 or 16 at the time and it will be a day i'll never forget.. When Stevie shinned it in i went bonkers, i wouldn't be surprised if my house shook that day with me going mental.. The range of emotions i had in them last moments were truely unbelievable And as a typical 15/16 year old, what did i do after the match?? that's right i got pissed on the park!
gavboc Posted 28 May 2011 Posted 28 May 2011 I was twelve at the time and my Dad got his tickets from Frank Rolling but i missed the goal as I was so nervous about Kalac coming on I rushed to the toilets expecting penalties god only knows what would of happened if they had broke away from that free kick, we bossed the game from start to finish and when Muzzy was hacked down for that pen we all cheered as though we had scored as we knew Garry Parker would convert, My favourite player of all time for City and can remember his range of passing was second to non and he played a huge part in this play-off victory, what a volley with his left in the semi Vs Stoke.
Zingari Posted 28 May 2011 Posted 28 May 2011 claridge " i dunno i just shinned it, i don't know what hit it , i can't feel me legs " brilliant
themotivator Posted 28 May 2011 Posted 28 May 2011 i was 7 or 8 years old when i went to see this at Wembley. had to stand on my chair to see every time anything happened and i missed both the goals if i remember correctly. my dad is a villa fan so went with my cousin and his step dad and all these mental blokes in a minibus/van. we were doing handbrake turns on the way back. what a day. claridge's interview post match is legendary.
Solihullfox Posted 28 May 2011 Posted 28 May 2011 I was so nervous after the previous play off final defeats against Blackburn and Swindon that I could hardly drink a pint in the London Hilton before the game. I found myself two or three rows below where I was sitting after the goal celebrations, what a great feeling and so happy to not go home having lost again !
Heart-Shaped Fox Posted 28 May 2011 Posted 28 May 2011 I was so nervous after the previous play off final defeats against Blackburn and Swindon that I could hardly drink a pint in the London Hilton before the game. I found myself two or three rows below where I was sitting after the goal celebrations, what a great feeling and so happy to not go home having lost again ! You didn't go to the Derby game then, inbetween? We won that one.
tomtom Posted 28 May 2011 Posted 28 May 2011 I was so nervous after the previous play off final defeats against Blackburn and Swindon that I could hardly drink a pint in the London Hilton before the game. I found myself two or three rows below where I was sitting after the goal celebrations, what a great feeling and so happy to not go home having lost again ! Derby not ring a bell?
Solihullfox Posted 28 May 2011 Posted 28 May 2011 You didn't go to the Derby game then, inbetween? We won that one. Yes mate but still remembered how bad it felt to lose and do remember the nerves were just as bad before the Derby game !
Guest Col city fan Posted 28 May 2011 Posted 28 May 2011 Fooking hell i admit never seen any highlights or read any match reports from this match but so wish i was there 120 minute mark would of been going off I have literally never seen or heard city fans going so mad! Then they played 'we are the champions' over the speakers and a whole sea of blue and White sang as one... My best ever footballing moment
Guest Col city fan Posted 28 May 2011 Posted 28 May 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYuCw3nZDA closest match that will come close to this in my eyes was this 3-3 against arsenal at filbert street i was left speechless in boith games. Thanks for the memory of that... It was a truly sensational game and I don't think I can still recall a better individual performance at filbert st than Bergkamps that day. Just watch walshy after the equaliser went in... Now THATS pashun!!!!
the_foxes_till_i_die Posted 30 May 2011 Posted 30 May 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYuCw3nZDA closest match that will come close to this in my eyes was this 3-3 against arsenal at filbert street i was left speechless in boith games. LMAO Ian Wright was gonna get his fookin head knocked off by Walshie There should be a Thread with just great vids like this
Vlad the Fox Posted 30 May 2011 Posted 30 May 2011 I was 9 and at Wembley, can remember it like it was yesterday. I always remember everybody looking at each other in disbelief as Kalac came on, contemplating penalties. I saw the ball out of the corner of my eye from the free-kick but lost track of it briefly behind a Wembley pillar. Claridge, half-heartedly, swung a leg at it and it looped over a motionless Nigel Martyn. After that it seemed like minutes of silence, everyone presumed the whistle had gone, but then it hit home. What a feeling. I don't think anything will ever match that. I can remember the bloke next to me muttering "oh no, please god no" I turned to him and told him not to worry spider won't be needed. When claridge scored the place went completely mental. This bloke had got hold of me and was shouting deliriously in my face ' you were right'. It felt so good though because coming out of wembley everyone knew how good this team was and that it was going to do well in the premier league.
Guy Posted 31 May 2011 Posted 31 May 2011 I was still living in Northampton at the time of this match and so hopped on the N'pton Foxes supporters club coach for the short hop down the M1 for what turned out to be a magnificent day! Even when I was having a pee at half time in the relatively delapidated toilets of Wembley back in 1996 I was saying to myself and others that we can win this, I still felt strangely optimistic that we could turn it round when trailing 1-0 to Palace at the time and was not too depressed.....after all, we did win our previous seven league games to qualify and went through the semis on aggregate against Stoke. As it happened Claridge's magical injury time winning strike, whether fully intentional or not, was one of the iconic footballing moments in my life - as was the strangely surreal substitution of Kalac for "Kevin-Kevin Poole" that had preceeded it! - with O'Neill's thoughts turning to a penalty shoot out. I'm sure many will echo my sentiments on here re those two bizarre back to back and magical occurrences! Going to a pub at Toddington village en route back, close to the M1 services there, for a few celebratory pints was the icing on the cake - then came five more brilliant and totally unexpected years in the top flight under O'Neill when we were the bookies favourites to go down after Wembley 1996 (a la Wembley 1994!). Clearly it was the greatest spell in City's proud history and I was grateful to be just the right sort of age over those five golden years (in my late 20s-early 30s) to fully appreciate it all! Will it ever get to be that good again?
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