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Top Moments in the Footballing Wilderness (2 Viewers)

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SBAndy

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  • Friday at 7:57 PM
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Inspired by the reminder of Darius Henderson falling over vs Peterborough all those years ago, it’d be good to note some of our top moments from our time as barely participants in the football league. Interpret how you’d like, whether they be actual moments of quality (Maddison’s free kick away at Chesterfield) or just hilarious looking back (the pitch invader vs Forest Green who just hopped back in the stand after).
 
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Super Graham Withey

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  • Friday at 8:15 PM
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Losing at Forest Green on a park pitch at the top of a hill wasn’t great.
 
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stupot07

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  • Friday at 8:27 PM
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Coming back from 2-1 down to score 2 in added time to beat Preston 3-2 in the EFL trophy Semi Final was amazing.
 
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ceetee

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  • Friday at 8:27 PM
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Mentioned it on another thread recently.

Conor Thomas effort on goal was about to roll over the line until he fell over and stopped it
 

Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Friday at 8:40 PM
  • #5
Steve Evans Bizzare rant on Mark Robins
 
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robbiethemole

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  • Friday at 8:42 PM
  • #6
Adam Armstrong goal at Crewe, gave the defender about 4 yards start and swept past him to score!!!
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Friday at 8:42 PM
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Super Graham Withey said:
Losing at Forest Green on a park pitch at the top of a hill wasn’t great.
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Losing at home to Forest Green who brought about 30 fans… the away stand wasn’t open, pretty sure they were in block 4

them singing “premier league to Forest Green” was probably one of the lowest moments I’ve felt as a Coventry city fan
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Friday at 8:45 PM
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Yakubu coming on as sub at legends day and looking like the oldest professional footballer in the stadium
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Friday at 8:46 PM
  • #9
The transfer deadline day chinese twitter post
 
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Grendel

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  • Friday at 8:48 PM
  • #10
The championship now is a lot better than when we ended up in it.

Playing Stockport and then losing to Grimsby set the tone.

Once we got relegated again it was all non league shite to me. Highlights were lowlights versus being in the top flight for the first 28 years I supported the club.
 

andrew.roberts

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  • Friday at 8:56 PM
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Nicky Platnauer scoring with his face in the 4v0 victory against Liverpool back in the early eighties. Terry Gibson scored the other three.
Ayari scoring his only goal for City with his Johnson.
 
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SBAndy

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  • Friday at 8:59 PM
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Reda Johnson’s yellow piss. And then threatening to shit in Simon Gilbert’s face.
 
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Blind-Faith

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  • Friday at 9:34 PM
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Hoping someone can help, my memory is telling me we played Crewe at home, we absolutely battered them for the whole game, they had one attack all game, scored from it and won the game?? But I can’t find it anywhere?? Someone tell me I’m not going mad??
 
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Great_Expectations

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  • Friday at 9:39 PM
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The 4-1 win at home to Gillingham in the Mowbray years. With that team and the way we were playing it seemed we were destined to be on the way up. I remember seeing a fellow long suffering ST holder who sat next to us for years crying with the emotion of it all.

Only to be followed by a massive collapse and signing Andre Wright the following summer.
 
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Great_Expectations

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  • Friday at 9:39 PM
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SBAndy said:
Inspired by the reminder of Darius Henderson falling over vs Peterborough all those years ago, it’d be good to note some of our top moments from our time as barely participants in the football league. Interpret how you’d like, whether they be actual moments of quality (Maddison’s free kick away at Chesterfield) or just hilarious looking back (the pitch invader vs Forest Green who just hopped back in the stand after).
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Also, Steven Alzante.
 
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Cally Fedora

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  • Friday at 9:46 PM
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Stood on the Spion Kop for a Simod Cup Game in January. We lost 1-0. McGrath broke his leg. It felt like about -10. There were literally a handful of others scattered about.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Friday at 9:52 PM
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That FA Cup game against Stoke was a bit surreal. The idea of being hopeless underdogs against Stoke was pretty sobering, then hearing that Mark Hughes had been sacked after losing because it was that unacceptable a result.

I still recall a photographer being there who had no idea who Marc McNulty was, and had to go 5 or 6 rows back to find someone (me) who could identify him. I was called ‘hardcore’ for recognising a CCFC player
 
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clint van damme

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  • Friday at 9:57 PM
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Blind-Faith said:
Hoping someone can help, my memory is telling me we played Crewe at home, we absolutely battered them for the whole game, they had one attack all game, scored from it and won the game?? But I can’t find it anywhere?? Someone tell me I’m not going mad??
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The JPT semi?
They had 3 attacks and scored from all 3
 
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clint van damme

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  • Friday at 9:58 PM
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Cally Fedora said:
Stood on the Spion Kop for a Simod Cup Game in January. We lost 1-0. McGrath broke his leg. It felt like about -10. There were literally a handful of others scattered about.
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Was in the West end and heard his bone break
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Friday at 10:11 PM
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The football wilderness years I would say are defined as 2001 to 2018
 
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Danceswithhorses

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  • Friday at 10:12 PM
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andrew.roberts said:
Nicky Platnauer scoring with his face in the 4v0 victory against Liverpool back in the early eighties. Terry Gibson scored the other three.
Ayari scoring his only goal for City with his Johnson.
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Wasn't that the one where the ball was rolling along the grass towards the goal, and Nicky decided to head it in rather than kick it lol
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Friday at 10:13 PM
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fernandopartridge said:
The football wilderness years I would say are defined as 2001 to 2018
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@Mucca Mad Boys what does your textbook say?
 
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baldy

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  • Friday at 10:15 PM
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Blind-Faith said:
Hoping someone can help, my memory is telling me we played Crewe at home, we absolutely battered them for the whole game, they had one attack all game, scored from it and won the game?? But I can’t find it anywhere?? Someone tell me I’m not going mad??
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2004 - Dean Ashton pen for them
 
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Blind-Faith

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  • Friday at 10:15 PM
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clint van damme said:
The JPT semi?
They had 3 attacks and scored from all 3
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That might be what I’m thinking of. Thanks
 
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procdoc

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  • Friday at 11:19 PM
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Liam Walsh walking through everyone (can’t remember who against) to score. If Messi did that it would be seen as one of the greatest goals ever
 
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baldy

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  • Friday at 11:25 PM
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procdoc said:
Liam Walsh walking through everyone (can’t remember who against) to score. If Messi did that it would be seen as one of the greatest goals ever
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Was against the mighty Rochdale I think
 
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SkyBlueSoul

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  • Friday at 11:33 PM
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mmttww

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  • Friday at 11:36 PM
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Grendel said:
losing to Grimsby set the tone.
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Yeah, this was wilderness milemarker no. 1 for me. We're 1-0 down, West Terrace goes silent, bloke just screams "we're losing at home to Grimsby!" and everyone laughed. Massively unfunny with hindsight.
 

mmttww

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  • Friday at 11:37 PM
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clint van damme said:
They had 3 attacks and scored from all 3
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and fans near the corner started attacking stewards and each other after the third went in. Grim.
 
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procdoc

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  • Friday at 11:39 PM
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Didn’t we have Joe Cole, James Maddison, Jacob Murphy and Adam Armstrong in the same team? That’s madness
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Friday at 11:54 PM
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procdoc said:
Didn’t we have Joe Cole, James Maddison, Jacob Murphy and Adam Armstrong in the same team? That’s madness
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Cole was well past it by the time he came here though, he wasn't at the level of eg a Strachan where he was still the best player on the pitch.
For some reason I think Armstrong's career has peaked now too and he'll drift.
 
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procdoc

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  • Friday at 11:59 PM
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fernandopartridge said:
Cole was well past it by the time he came here though, he wasn't at the level of eg a Strachan where he was still the best player on the pitch.
For some reason I think Armstrong's career has peaked now too and he'll drift.
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Yeah his legs had gone but was still surreal seeing him play for us
 
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JimmyHillsbeard

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  • Saturday at 1:11 AM
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procdoc said:
Didn’t we have Joe Cole, James Maddison, Jacob Murphy and Adam Armstrong in the same team? That’s madness
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And still didn’t go up!
 
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oscillatewildly

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  • Saturday at 1:29 AM
  • #34
Super Graham Withey said:
Losing at Forest Green on a park pitch at the top of a hill wasn’t great.
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And the rain. Oh, the rain.
 
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SkyBlueSam01

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  • Saturday at 1:30 AM
  • #35
SkyBlueSoul said:
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Top bloke!

Few years back just after Covid he organised a 'London United' tournament to say thanks to NHS staff after the pandemic. Each London Hospital was taken on by a London team, and various former players were brought in to manage their respective team (my hospital was represented by Brentford and had Marcus Gayle as gaffer, who was really great - gave us so much time and took the whole thing really seriously). We actually won the whole tournament which was great and as captain I still have the trophy on my mantlepiece

ANYWAY

Before the tourny Joe Cole was going around the changing room saying hello to everyone and asking who they support etc and his face absolutely lit up when he saw I was wearing a City shirt - was asking loads of questions and expressed how appreciative he was for his time at the club and how he was embraced by the fans. Ended up getting changed next to him and had a good old chat. It may have not worked out football wise but it clearly meant a lot to him and was a massive pick-me-up for us during our barren years.

We may have won the tournament that day
But Joe Cole won my heart
 
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