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Post by stennyman on Dec 6, 2010 18:13:38 GMT
Not such a good season to follow Stoke City.So many memories to try and forget,although we did beat Man Utd and Arsenal.I really wanted Coventry City to come down with us,by this time i had developed a real dislike for them.Mainly because they always seemed to avoid relegation,somehow.We had the chance to relegate them in our last game of the season.They needed a win to have any chance of staying up.Needless to say we lost 1-0,Stuart Pearce penalty winner for them.But if only Ian Painter had put away his late penalty they would have been spending 1985/86 in Cannon League Division 2 with us.
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Post by blurtonboy66 on Dec 6, 2010 18:36:41 GMT
Beating the shit and arse can be the only highlights of this season,christ we had some beatings this season,0-5 the shit away,0-4 everton away,etc etc.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2010 18:52:40 GMT
All i ever remember about that season is 3-8-31 and it sticks in my mind as much as 4-3-72.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2010 16:54:13 GMT
It was a shocking season,awful football, low attendances etc but that season drew me closer to Stoke City than ever. I even went and bought a replica shirt which I hadnt had since I was a kid and wore it wherever I could. The worse we got the stronger my allegiance. Weird.
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Post by vancouverstokie on Dec 25, 2010 6:59:04 GMT
I remember Hudson coming back at Easter , and the 2-0 win over Arsenal , Robby James coming back with QPR fitter and thinner than he was with us , and if we were 1-0 down at H/f time thinking we could get a point out of this and that was at home . How we'v moved on and still some people arn't happy ?
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Post by JoeinOz on Dec 27, 2010 3:52:04 GMT
Vancouver, Hudson's return was the season before.
84/85 was dire. My mate said in the April that in years to come we mustn't look back with rose tinted glasses. He was right and I don't. 25 years on it was still shit.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2010 11:51:56 GMT
Athe end of that season I was convinced we were going all the way to Div 4. Our top scorer (technically) was Dyson with 6 goals but three of them were own goals. Yet it all seemed so different when we beat Sheff Wed 2-1 and drew away at Forest 1-1 on 6th october after leading until Forest got a penalty in th 86th minute. That was our last point until 15th December when we drew 1-1 at Stamford Bridge. God we were shocking
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2010 16:32:18 GMT
Not such a good season to follow Stoke City.So many memories to try and forget,although we did beat Man Utd and Arsenal.I really wanted Coventry City to come down with us,by this time i had developed a real dislike for them.Mainly because they always seemed to avoid relegation,somehow.We had the chance to relegate them in our last game of the season.They needed a win to have any chance of staying up.Needless to say we lost 1-0,Stuart Pearce penalty winner for them.But if only Ian Painter had put away his late penalty they would have been spending 1985/86 in Cannon League Division 2 with us. Spot on that, Stennyman. No-one comes near Cov for number of times they finished one place above the relegation zone, often on goal difference. And to think they enjoyed another 17 seasons in the top flight after 84-85 and won the FA Cup - making a total of 35 consecutive seasons after being promoted in 1967, wtf! I live near Cov these days and my football mates are all Cov fans. I try to look favourably on them, but I can't help but enjoy it when they lose! No club deserves that much good fortune over such a long period of time.
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Post by oohauntiemary on Jan 12, 2011 22:59:37 GMT
Think it was "the season" first Home game v Villa and Painterman scoring I can remember thinking we wre going to beat them and have a decent season,we lost 3-1 and the rest is a horrific nightmare.
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Post by mozzer68 on Jan 18, 2011 14:24:28 GMT
So many painful memories from that season. It was a couple of seasons before when i really started to go to matches on a regular basis, This particular season i thnk i only missed Everton away cos i was ill at the time. Didn't we use about 4 different keepers that year?
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Post by ihaveadream on Jan 20, 2011 14:07:52 GMT
Athe end of that season I was convinced we were going all the way to Div 4. Our top scorer (technically) was Dyson with 6 goals but three of them were own goals. Yet it all seemed so different when we beat Sheff Wed 2-1 and drew away at Forest 1-1 on 6th october after leading until Forest got a penalty in th 86th minute. That was our last point until 15th December when we drew 1-1 at Stamford Bridge. God we were shocking That's what Wolves did. They went down to Div 2 when we beat them 4-0 in 83/84, then to div 3 when we went to div 2 in 84/85 then to div 4 at the end of 85/86. Whooossssh
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Post by stokiecat on Jan 20, 2011 20:54:40 GMT
I had my first season ticket 83-84, I was only 10 and I was just so excited to be allowed to go I don't remeber it sucking that badly but I can't have enjoyed it that much because I only attended a couple of games a season after that. I didn't have another season ticket until 89-90 at which point I thought I might be cursed (only gone one season since without so phew!!)
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Post by MooG on Mar 10, 2011 1:08:59 GMT
Funnily enough I remember the game at Old Trafford best. For some unfathomable reason there was a feeling we might do the double over united and people were quite upbeat about it. (I think it came shortly after we beat Arsenal). As it happens we were terrible - 0-5 and Peter Fox had a blinder. The only fun was taunting the home fans as by the time we went it was pretty certain Everton were going to win the league.
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Post by frogs_carer on Jun 30, 2011 18:42:33 GMT
Not such a good season to follow Stoke City.So many memories to try and forget,although we did beat Man Utd and Arsenal.I really wanted Coventry City to come down with us,by this time i had developed a real dislike for them.Mainly because they always seemed to avoid relegation,somehow.We had the chance to relegate them in our last game of the season.They needed a win to have any chance of staying up.Needless to say we lost 1-0,Stuart Pearce penalty winner for them.But if only Ian Painter had put away his late penalty they would have been spending 1985/86 in Cannon League Division 2 with us. After this game i went The Place up Hanley and ended up with this girl who became my wife and were still together to this day. Yes this really was a fucking awful year.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 17, 2011 17:32:18 GMT
I remember an old guy holding onto the ball in the boothen paddock whilst bollocking Mark Chamberlain. 4,000 odd crowd against Norwich. A great display against Liverpool ending in a heart breaking late defeat. Chris Maskery punching Graham Sharp v Everton in front of the sports minister. Tony Spears getting sent off v QPR for staring at the ref! Endless piss taking at clayton high come Monday morning. The failed asda bid too. A complete disaster of a season no doubt.
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Post by johnnypotter on Jan 27, 2012 22:03:40 GMT
After we won the first of our 3 victories that season when we beat Sheff Wed 2-1, we learned that many of the players had been physically sick before the match due to a stomach bug. Well done lads, great effort for the cause.
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Post by wirralexile on Apr 25, 2012 20:58:25 GMT
I went to every game that season and its taken me 25 years to burn them from my memory, now they are all back.
Thanks for nothing.
Still we did have the striker with the shortest neck in football history at the time.
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Post by bigvigs on May 8, 2012 10:38:28 GMT
About 10 of us used to generate our own excitement by having a guess the number of corners competition. Fond memories of "the good old days"
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2012 20:38:52 GMT
Not such a good season to follow Stoke City.So many memories to try and forget,although we did beat Man Utd and Arsenal.I really wanted Coventry City to come down with us,by this time i had developed a real dislike for them.Mainly because they always seemed to avoid relegation,somehow.We had the chance to relegate them in our last game of the season.They needed a win to have any chance of staying up.Needless to say we lost 1-0,Stuart Pearce penalty winner for them.But if only Ian Painter had put away his late penalty they would have been spending 1985/86 in Cannon League Division 2 with us. The entire season was a nightmare not even to be thought about again....
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Post by markthebaggie on Nov 18, 2012 22:59:57 GMT
Great thread this. I went to both Albion games as a 13 year old v Stoke that season. It was around this time of the year when we beat won 2-0 at The Hawthorns - a dire game that wasn't safe until the 90th minute when MacKenzie scored the 2nd. Ian Painter missed an open goal at the Brummie Rd End and there were later rumours that he did it on purpose because he was an Albion fan.
It was in the March when we drew 0-0 at the Victoria Ground. A Wednesday night. Only 6,800 there with maybe 1,000 Albion fans. Martyn Bennett and Keith Bertschin were sent off for a first half punch up and Jimmy Nicholl swore at the lino in the 2nd half meaning we played for half an hour with 9 men. I don't remember either team having any shots at goal.
The season later we did our best to emulate Stoke with 4-12-26. We managed a double over Birmingham.
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Post by bertiebigguns on Mar 20, 2013 21:43:56 GMT
Kept all my season tickets from the 80's, boothen stand with my dad before evolving to the paddock on my tod and then the Stoke End…happy days!
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Post by raven on Feb 17, 2014 13:54:51 GMT
Our other win that season was against Sheff. Wed
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