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Post by Soi Cowboy on Apr 17, 2008 21:08:02 GMT
Who was there? Our last ever game in the top flight if I'm not mistaken
No a great many of us if I remember rightly. Lost 1-0 to Coventry in front of about 5000 fans on a Friday night- depressing night all round. Remember standing in the Boothen Paddock with a few others scattered around.
Nearly 23 years ago ???
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Post by Beebster on Apr 17, 2008 21:11:34 GMT
Wish i was - i was only 1.
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Apr 17, 2008 21:16:08 GMT
No excuse fella-
Your folks should have taken you , certainly would have helped you sleep.
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Post by alan12661 on Apr 17, 2008 21:16:34 GMT
I was there mate, Butler Street Paddock. I would have been 20 at the time so wouldn't have remembered much of the game due to pre game alcoholic bar games. Did Mickey Ginn score their goal?
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Post by FrostySCFC on Apr 17, 2008 21:16:48 GMT
I started going one year and three months later. 4-0 against Hull if I remember correctly ;D
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Apr 17, 2008 21:17:45 GMT
Remember that- think Cliff Carr scored a cracker that day
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Post by Beebster on Apr 17, 2008 21:18:20 GMT
No excuse fella- Your folks should have taken you , certainly would have helped you sleep. Been goin Stoke since i was 8 or 9 - ive loved it ever since. |
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Post by alan12661 on Apr 17, 2008 21:19:02 GMT
But what about the Coventry game???
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Apr 17, 2008 21:20:54 GMT
Not sure who scored, Micky Gynn scored the FA Cup goal a couple of years later but don't remember this one.
Think Ian Painter missed a penalty didn't he? Was still at school- actually took a girl to the game, what a way I had of impressing the chix back then ;D
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Post by trentstokie on Apr 17, 2008 21:54:16 GMT
I was there, I was11 at the time. I stood inthe Boothen Paddock tothe left of the players tunnels.Painter did miss a penalty in front of the Boothen End. Think Stuart Pearce scorded their goal from a penalty. Seemed to recall Coventry be/at Everton few days later to avoid relegation. Remenber the Hull game being on a Sunday & Carr scoring, bit was in the 88/89 season ?
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Apr 17, 2008 21:57:16 GMT
Think Everton had already won the league hadn't they?
Not sure why but was a full fixture list on the Friday night.
Was in the same paddock as you Trent. Was there for a few seasons
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Post by stokey-pokey pudding and pie on Apr 17, 2008 21:59:28 GMT
haha im sorry to say that was my first game....aged 5 months.
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Apr 17, 2008 22:08:33 GMT
I remember going to Old Trafford that season and we lost 5-0, even Ray Wilkins scored, his first goal for Utd if I remember. Pretty sure the same week we then lost 4-0 at home to Luton. ???
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Post by Cyprusdelilah on Apr 17, 2008 22:12:25 GMT
Yes I was there, my last game while living in castle. Bin over
since but not for a while. Standing in the Boothen.
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Post by Davef on Apr 17, 2008 22:14:30 GMT
That game was the Friday night before the FA Cup Final. I remember it vividly, and still remain gutted about Painter missing that penalty. Coventry were, are and always will be shit and we had a golden opportunity to haul them down with us.
Instead, they survived and the spawny bastards went on to play another sixteen seasons in the top flight. Their last game was against Everton at Highfield Road, on a Sunday I think, a couple of weeks after the league season was supposed to have ended. I'm not entirely sure why the season continued for so long (maybe a bad winter, I can't remember), but Everton basically didn't give a shit. They'd already won the league and the European Cup Winners Cup and their players were already on the beach. Coventry won 4-1.
With any luck, last week's win will put them on their way to relegation to an even lower division we should have ditched them in in 1985. Better late than never.
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Apr 17, 2008 22:21:47 GMT
Everton lost to Man U the next day that's right-
Was it due to the Bradford fire that games were delayed ? Was there a week of no games?
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Post by Ursemboy on Apr 17, 2008 22:24:00 GMT
Went everyone that season. Any on here go 14th May 1985 v West Ham 5 -1 defeat.
I remember the Hammers fans singing loyal supporters to us as we left the ground.
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Post by Davef on Apr 17, 2008 22:24:59 GMT
No, the Bradford fire was 11th May, which was definitely the last full Saturday of the league season.
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Apr 17, 2008 23:29:08 GMT
That's right it was- heard it on Radio 2 they were playing Lincoln.
Odd one that- speaking of Coventry, they survived one season when an on loan striker scored the goal theat kept them up last game- was late 70s I think. The player ( can't remember his name for the life of me) was on loan from Birmingham- believe it or not it kept them up and Birmingham went down.
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Post by JoeinOz on Apr 18, 2008 3:24:05 GMT
I was there too. Right barrel of laughs it was.
It was the night before the FA Cup Final. In them days it didn't all have to finish on the same day.
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Post by stennymuir on Apr 18, 2008 6:30:53 GMT
I was there,didn't think it would take so long to get back up though.
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Post by lordb on Apr 18, 2008 8:13:47 GMT
I was there
last ever top flight game @ the Victoria Ground
I can see Panners face ,gutted/shocked,mow as his penno crashed against the bar.
he was top scorer with 6 whole goals.
I know the stats say Derby are the worst side but football has changed since then & I think that Stoke side would have struggled to get even close to double figures (points wise).
older fans always (& understandably so) point to the Butler St roof blowing off/non-insured (grr Alex Humphries...) fiasco leading to the sales of most of our star players but the club did recover from that under Durban & then (initially) Barker to a degree.
84-85 has cast a long long shadow over SCFC
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Apr 18, 2008 8:17:48 GMT
Of course Painter joined Coventry after that
Were were dreadful that year but like you Stenhouse never thought it would take so long
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Post by Robo10 on Apr 18, 2008 8:21:23 GMT
I was there (aged 10)
Was a terrible season - my grandad (Ray Flowers RIP) took me every week (he got me a season ticket since I was 4), he alas died from cancer in the October (1984), and the goodwill of family and family friends meant I still got to see the majority of the season.
Saw some awful drubbings, although I always remembered the humour, even from early on in the campaign when the writing was on the wall.
We used to sit in the Butler Street Stand, Block C, row 2 (end two seats) - sat there for years!
After that season it wasn't until I was 13/14 and could get there on the bus on my own that I started to go again - it was £1.50 to get in - you can't imagine that now!
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Post by stennymuir on Apr 18, 2008 8:22:14 GMT
Ardmhacha,
I remember the game at Old Trafford,we were in the pen behind the goal.Must have been the least we have ever taken to Old Trafford.
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Apr 18, 2008 8:32:44 GMT
My Dad was a United fan for years but saw the light  Used to take me to Old Trafford a fair bit under protest I may add My first ever away game was there- saw us lose 3-0 - bought tickets off a tout for 3 quid each, right on the half way line.  |
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Post by jpm64 on Apr 18, 2008 10:33:00 GMT
Yes I was there !! With my now ex then future wife  23 years 3 kids and a Divorce later we're still waiting !!!! By the way who the fuck keeps Smiting me for no apparent Reason ??? |
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Post by apb1 on Apr 18, 2008 10:58:18 GMT
I went to that one We couldn't even score from a penno, which was late enough to take Coventry down. We were singing 'coming down with us' when it was awarded... My whole life with my missus, all my kids' whole lives, we have NEVER been in div one. Like many others I thought we would be back inside 5 - 10 years. It is our history of underachievement since then that makes it difficult to believe we will do it this time. Difficult, but not impossible... |
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Post by smiler_andy on Apr 18, 2008 11:10:53 GMT
I went to all the home games that season. I think we won 3 out of 21 games and lost 15 times at home.
We also lost cup games against Rotherham and Luton.
I thought we were going to do a Wolves and go down to the bottom of the old 4th
The good old days
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Post by jpm64 on Apr 18, 2008 11:13:34 GMT
I went to all the home games that season. I think we won 3 out of 21 games and lost 15 times at home. We also lost cup games against Rotherham and Luton. I thought we were going to do a Wolves and go down to the bottom of the old 4th The good old days Yes but 2 of those 3 were Man Utd and Arsenal |
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Used to take me to Old Trafford a fair bit under protest I may add 
