You're right.
I was there too and had no idea what was going on that night. I was urging our team forwards to go and try and win the game. I was right under the scoreboard so couldn't see the scoreboard, so the whole thing baffled me at the time.
Of course it was wrong. No-one has ever denied that I don't think, but like you say, it is 40 years. Absolutely ridiculous to hold such a grudge for such a ridiculous length of time.
I would be thoroughly ashamed and embarrassed to hold such a bitterly jaundiced view after all these years.
It reminds me of a bloke I used to know who worked at Sainsbury's many years ago. He was a manager there and he hated all Americans and I mean REALLY hated ALL Americans just because his wife had an affair with one American.
lol really? Good on him.Grendel is signed up there as Fugazi - might as well make himself useful for once.
Oh yes, of course the players knew. The scoreboard thing is a just a red herring. Word gets from the touchline to the players for sure, course it does.Otis, you really think the players didn't know the Sunderland score before it was on the scoreboard? We were masters at having to escape relegation on the last day of the season, and I bet knowing, and passing on to the players what we needed to do to stay up in the closing minutes was a regular occurrence.
Calling having the score on the scoreboard "cheating" as their fans do is moronic.
It makes me laugh they go on about a 15 minute delay, then about CCFC keeping the ball in our own half, and yet one of their fans posts a link to a Bristol City report as "proof" that says 5 minutes delay, and that BCFC kept the ball for the remaining minutes... They really ought to try and keep to the same "facts" for their hatred.
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It makes me laugh they go on about a 15 minute delay, then about CCFC keeping the ball in our own half, and yet one of their fans posts a link to a Bristol City report as "proof" that says 5 minutes delay, and that BCFC kept the ball for the remaining minutes... They really ought to try and keep to the same "facts" for their hatred.
The poor form wasn't the delay or the flashing up of the score on the scoreboard. It was the collusion to not participate in a competitive match.Let's be honest it was pretty poor form by hill. Not so much the end result but going into the Bristol changing room afterwards and sharing a bottle of champagne with their manager.
I can understand not forgiving Hill - not that it really seemed to bother him - but the club is irrelevant.
I'd have more of a grudge if I was a Norwich fan against the club.
The poor form wasn't the delay or the flashing up of the score on the scoreboard. It was the collusion to not participate in a competitive match.
I have to say I was angry myself at the time. I wanted us to try and win the match.
The problem here is the 40 year timescale. I just couldn't bring myself to be bitter about such an incident 4 decades down the line.
It's a beautiful town though!Visiting Sunderland is like going back in time so it makes perfect sense that they are still living in the 70s.
If it happened today we'd have been docked points and relegated.
Bristol City were just as complicit as CCFC but the mackems have this purile hatred for us.The poor form wasn't the delay or the flashing up of the score on the scoreboard. It was the collusion to not participate in a competitive match.
I have to say I was angry myself at the time. I wanted us to try and win the match.
The problem here is the 40 year timescale. I just couldn't bring myself to be bitter about such an incident 4 decades down the line.
The people who actively supported the nazis were just as bad as the nazis. It's exactly the same thing
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