great pre season under big Ron.... beautiful hot sunny afternoon at a packed HR.....high expectation v Forest... lost 0-3 to a Kevin Campbell hatrick
foookin shat!!
I think Forest went on to get relegated that season.
I remember the first day of the season opener of our first season in the championship. Stockport away, loads of City fans there and a 2-0 win. We thought we were going to romp the league. Oh dear !!
Losing 3-0 to Boro... Allan Boksic ripped us to pieces... Colin Hendry was disgusting
3-1 it was but yeah, Hendry was embarrassing. His signing post Charlton cup game is when Strachan should have been sacked Imo.
Has to be beating a decent Everton side 4-1 at Goodison, we all thought could this be the start of good things, it wasn't.
Beating chelsea 3-2 Dublin hatrick, highfield road bathed in sunshine 97/98 season
First time I had a season ticket with me best mate we were sat in the McDonald's family stand block q row t seats 25 and 26
Dublin Hucks, Whelan, nillson.
Brilliant times for a while
Manchester United was not Ron Atkinson's first game, his first game for us was West Ham at home which we won 2-0 I think Mike Marsh got both the goals. Also Big Ron didn't replace Sexton that was Bobby Gould, his first stint.Mmm, opening day memories:
Quinn hatrick at Highbury, Chelsea 3-2 and then 2-1 the following season, 2-1 Man Utd (Ron Atkinson's first game after replacing Dave Sexton - it was his first game in charge of us), 3-2 at Watford (Gould's first game?)
then, 1-3 Boro, 0-3 Forest, 0-1 Man City
It was David Cross, Alan Green got the other, and yes Cross did score a hat-trick on the final day too, wonder if that has ever been done before or since. Can't remember the year but Cross was a Gordon Milne signing so it wasn't the year we qualified for Europe, Noel Cantwell was manager then.
Manchester United was not Ron Atkinson's first game, his first game for us was West Ham at home which we won 2-0 I think Mike Marsh got both the goals. Also Big Ron didn't replace Sexton that was Bobby Gould, his first stint.
I remember that one for all the wrong reasons :facepalm: I was arrested by a rookie, very over zealous copper soon after Chelsea took the lead. I was in Sky Blue stand that day and offered some advice to a small group of Chelsea fans close by as to where they should really be sitting. Cue the 'hedgehog' - A very flappable steward some may recall, who informed said young rozzer. They remained and I was arrested!Beating chelsea 3-2 Dublin hatrick, highfield road bathed in sunshine 97/98 season
First time I had a season ticket with me best mate we were sat in the McDonald's family stand block q row t seats 25 and 26
Dublin Hucks, Whelan, nillson.
Brilliant times for a while
I know people in high places at Reuters, pal."After local and nationwide media coverage of this heinous miscarriage of justice, I was released without charge, just in time to meet the Chelsea escort making it's way up Far Gosford Street"
There was nationwide media coverage between you getting arrested and the end of the game??
Another hat trick. This time from David Cross. I think he also got a hat trick on the last day of that season away at Burnley.Has to be beating a decent Everton side 4-1 at Goodison, we all thought could this be the start of good things, it wasn't.
Another hat trick. This time from David Cross. I think he also got a hat trick on the last day of that season away at Burnley.
I know people in high places at Reuters, pal.
How many opening day hat-tricks have we had ?David Cross, Mickey Quinn, anymore ? Think Terry Bly might have got one but it was our first home match of the season not the opening one.
Didnt we beat them again the season after 2-1 (i think!)Beating chelsea 3-2 Dublin hatrick, highfield road bathed in sunshine 97/98 season
First time I had a season ticket with me best mate we were sat in the McDonald's family stand block q row t seats 25 and 26
Dublin Hucks, Whelan, nillson.
Brilliant times for a while
Must have been something about that day, as that was probably the most pissed I've ever been in my life!!!Barnsley away in 2007. Won 4-1 and I got stuck in Barnsley because I couldn't find the coach I was that drunk.
Our last season in the Prem, losing 3-1 at home to Middlesborough with David Thompson being sent off. Writing was on the wall right from the off.
How many opening day hat-tricks have we had ?David Cross, Mickey Quinn, anymore ? Think Terry Bly might have got one but it was our first home match of the season not the opening one.
This is the 1 for me, was my 21st birthday that day so couldnt have been much better!! shoot magazine interviewed me before the game and despite me standing there in my city shirt all they wanted to know was if i thought chelsea would win the league as they had just signed graeme Le saux!!Beating chelsea 3-2 Dublin hatrick, highfield road bathed in sunshine 97/98 season
First time I had a season ticket with me best mate we were sat in the McDonald's family stand block q row t seats 25 and 26
Dublin Hucks, Whelan, nillson.
Brilliant times for a while
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