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Post by senojbor on May 2, 2024 23:07:50 GMT
I worked nights in them days and couldn't go. In fact I didn't know we had won and got through until I got home in the morning!
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Post by mtrstudent on May 3, 2024 3:57:36 GMT
Even the month I moved back home I got called to work on the day I should've been going to the 6-1 v Liverpool match. I was in LA and slept through the first half. 😢 The Cardiff game was something else. The emotional rollercoaster is seared into my brain. Beginning with Iwelumo's miss!
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masne
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Post by masne on May 3, 2024 18:35:13 GMT
Thanks for posting that. It's right up there as one of the most unforgettable experiences watching Stoke. A few days before I had been at the annual PFA Awards dinner, where I met Clive Clark. He had been fed up that Gudjon made him wait until the end of the season for an op on his knee. I remember asking him who was the PFA rep at Stoke. "Neil Cutler" was the answer. What's he like as a PFA rep I asked. Quick as a flash came the reply - "same as he is as a 'keeper. When you need him sometimes he's there, sometimes he isn't" As CC went down the left on that attack with minutes to go, I remember bellowing "go on Clarky, one final run on that gammy knee" which he did of course, put a good cross in, and it's put back in to J O'C and the rest is history. When the winner went in, I don't think there's ever been a 'mental' like it ! I agree Malcolm, there's been some top mentals over the years but for sheer relief, the timing of the goal & the opposition, I can honestly say that this is quite possibly the best of them all! & that was watching it back at the Britannia on the big screen as couldn't get a ticket for the second leg at Ninian. One can only imagine what actually being there must have been like! I still remember to this day my head was hurting after that goal went in, it felt like it was exploding with joy and celebration & relief all in one! Think those of us that remembered the disappointment of defeat away to Walsall at the Bescot and the Gillingham shenanigans in earlier play off battles, this was finally our time and boy did it feel good! Especially as we had come back from almost certain defeat in a play off battle, & the fact it was against Cardiff and everything that meant at that time, was a very sweet moment indeed & one that will forever be a very happy Stoke memory! Imagine how gutted bayernoatcake would have been that night.
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Rastaman
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Post by Rastaman on May 3, 2024 19:20:12 GMT
I agree Malcolm, there's been some top mentals over the years but for sheer relief, the timing of the goal & the opposition, I can honestly say that this is quite possibly the best of them all! & that was watching it back at the Britannia on the big screen as couldn't get a ticket for the second leg at Ninian. One can only imagine what actually being there must have been like! I still remember to this day my head was hurting after that goal went in, it felt like it was exploding with joy and celebration & relief all in one! Exactly what you say. I was parked up outside Keele Christmas Tree Farm because I couldn’t concentrate on driving and listening to the match on the radio any more. Thrashed the hell out of the steering wheel and dashboard of the lousy insipid Vauxhall Astra with joy at the winner. So, so bloody brilliant. Think those of us that remembered the disappointment of defeat away to Walsall at the Bescot and the Gillingham shenanigans in earlier play off battles, this was finally our time and boy did it feel good! Especially as we had come back from almost certain defeat in a play off battle, & the fact it was against Cardiff and everything that meant at that time, was a very sweet moment indeed & one that will forever be a very happy Stoke memory! Imagine how gutted bayernoatcake would have been that night.
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