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Post by JoeinOz on May 2, 2017 9:29:27 GMT
Am I right in thinking that this was an early kick off - Saturday lunch time? yes
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Post by OldStokie on May 2, 2017 12:09:12 GMT
I've been watching Stoke for nigh on 70 years and I can honestly say that I've never experienced anything so primeval. I've known individual moments that were more intense, but nothing like that. It began spontaneously in the 80'th minute and continued until the final whistle. You had to be there to understand because you could never fathom what it was like unless you had. I was almost 70 at the time and this stupid old fart had tears running down his face and my old legs were shaking while it was going on. I had a sore throat for a week after. Silly old fool. OS.
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Post by duckling on May 2, 2017 12:21:52 GMT
The 'roar' is the only time I've seen players on the pitch actually stop and look to the stands to see what was going on. I'm sure they all thought there was something serious happening and when they realized what it was our players grew taller and theirs disappeared. Once in a lifetime moment and as someone else posted just like something out of a movie. Incredible. One of my favourite moment as a stoke fan, up their with the FA cup, cardiff extra time and the premier league promotion. Really made the hairs on the back of your neck not just stand up, but fucking run around. What does Cardiff extra time refer to?
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 2, 2017 12:39:30 GMT
Incredible. One of my favourite moment as a stoke fan, up their with the FA cup, cardiff extra time and the premier league promotion. Really made the hairs on the back of your neck not just stand up, but fucking run around. What does Cardiff extra time refer to? Division 2 (Now League 1, either way Third Tier) Playoff Semi Final 2002. 2-1 Down on aggregate going to their ground, Ninian Park which was hostile at the best of times. 89+ mins went by, no goals another playoff defeat for Stoke looming, the Cardiff announcer asked fans to stay off the pitch when they won...and the rest is history.
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Post by thegift on May 2, 2017 12:49:39 GMT
Incredible. One of my favourite moment as a stoke fan, up their with the FA cup, cardiff extra time and the premier league promotion. Really made the hairs on the back of your neck not just stand up, but fucking run around. What does Cardiff extra time refer to? 2002.. the jinx of the dressing room? Were you old enough to remember?
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Post by duckling on May 2, 2017 12:55:32 GMT
What does Cardiff extra time refer to? 2002.. the jinx of the dressing room? Were you old enough to remember? I only started following Stoke (as a neutral) recently and have been trying to learn about its history particularly somewhat recent history. How does the 80th minute roar compare in emotion to the first home win against Villa?
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 2, 2017 13:03:32 GMT
2002.. the jinx of the dressing room? Were you old enough to remember? I only started following Stoke (as a neutral) recently and have been trying to learn about its history particularly somewhat recent history. How does the 80th minute roar compare in emotion to the first home win against Villa? Villa was a day where is just had to be, Stoke would win that game no matter what. It was on a par with the final whistle of the Man City game in terms of unrefined joy, but I honestly can't remember an game that matches the roar for a pure outpouring of passion and loyalty to the club. Paul Richardson's goal at Notts County to secure promotion in the late 70s may match it in terms of relief, but that's before my time so I can't comment.
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Post by roylandstoke on May 2, 2017 14:02:16 GMT
2002.. the jinx of the dressing room? Were you old enough to remember? I only started following Stoke (as a neutral) recently and have been trying to learn about its history particularly somewhat recent history. How does the 80th minute roar compare in emotion to the first home win against Villa? The win against Villa was relief, vindication of our right to be back at the top table and above all joy. Joy. The roar was more emotional, more desperate. Defiance. A need to do everything we possibly could stay together and to beat the bastards that would do us down. It really was unique; in my opinion not just unique for Stoke but for any club. At times I can forget how special it was, but then something like this thread will bring it back like it was yesterday.
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Post by imho on May 2, 2017 14:20:51 GMT
Villa win and the 80th min roar is like comparing apples with pears.
Winning in the last seconds gave us a 'mental' that hadn't really seen the likes since standing at the back of the boothen at the Vic. But ultimately it was a single moment born out of joy.
The roar was something else and for it to continue for as long as it did and to not really have a single point of origin makes it very very special. The only thing similar I can think of is in boxing when 'your man' has caught the other chap but hasn't knocked him out yet, and as he goes in to finish it off the crowd roar him on - well in this case the crowd roared their team off the ropes and onto a unlikely win.
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Post by Fenparkpotter on May 2, 2017 14:39:53 GMT
I remember after Delap getting sent off, the whole ground was incensed and the Boothen/Seddon Stand were just stood booing for 10 minutes straight.
When people talk about good atmospheres at English football grounds (examples like Palace and the like), I still think Stoke, and perhaps a few of the other West Midlands teams, have a different passion about supporting their team. From anger and despair to the way that we celebrate goals like absolute lunatics.
Winds me up no end when they show Leicester fans standing and clapping after scoring a winning goal against Sevilla or a goal to all but win the Premier League. There would be a stampede if it was us!
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Post by Stretfordpotterer on May 2, 2017 14:49:07 GMT
It was just one of those "GOOOOOARRRNNNN"/"COMMMEEEEONNNN" roars you get from the crowd when the team are under pressure, but every single Stoke fan in the ground seemed to do it at exactly the same time and and absolutely full volume.
Easy to forget now how big that game was in the context of the season as a whole, we were on a terrible run, we needed something, anything to turn for us. I think everyone sensed the next ten minutes were season defining. If we could just hang on the belief would be back, but if we conceded, or even worse conceded two, it would be a dagger to the heart.
I'd love a full 90 minute DVD of that game.
I find it amazing that Sky/Premier league don't have the ability for you to order a DVD of live games from their archive.
Surely they must have them all.
That, the Villa game, could watch them again and again.
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Post by PotterLog on May 2, 2017 14:50:03 GMT
This was incredible and surreal and visceral even just watching in my living room. Can't imagine what it must have been like to be there
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Post by stokieben28 on Jun 4, 2024 19:13:23 GMT
Ladies and Gentlemen, enjoy
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Post by Edward Tattsyrup on Jun 4, 2024 19:52:34 GMT
Ladies and Gentlemen, enjoy Beautiful, we really were the 12th man. Goosebumps.
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Post by streetwise on Jun 4, 2024 19:53:08 GMT
“This, and the scoreboard had been cycling through the team line ups, birthdays etc. After expecting to concede at some time in the match, the screen flicked back to the clock and showed we were over the 80 min mark. Coming just after Bellamy's shot, it was a spontaneous outbreaking of WE CAN DO THIS! / actually seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in the match”
whoami got it right on page two.
It was triggered when the screen switched back to the clock and everyone realised we were in the last ten minutes
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Post by innocentbystander on Jun 4, 2024 20:02:31 GMT
Sonko....there's a name I'd forgotten.
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Post by madeinthepotteries on Jun 4, 2024 20:08:41 GMT
I can still picture my mate looking at me mouthing "f***ing hell" and laughing when the 80 minute roar happened. Absolute quality times
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Post by suck_the_mop. on Jun 4, 2024 20:19:53 GMT
Absolutely superb...
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Post by skiptomylou on Jun 4, 2024 20:21:26 GMT
Brings bloody tears to the eyes this thread! The commentator wasn't half right. We will talk about this game not just for a long time but for decades!
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Jun 4, 2024 20:30:17 GMT
Ladies and Gentlemen, enjoy Bloody brilliant mate. I've looked for that for years đź‘Ź
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Post by jay1610 on Jun 4, 2024 20:46:23 GMT
Ladies and Gentlemen, enjoy Brilliant. Thanks for sharing. My dad is usually pretty circumspect at the match, but he completely lost himself when the scoreboard finally flashed up the clock on the 80th minute. I also remember it being similarly loud a couple of weeks earlier when we almost drew with Man Utd on Boxing Day. The Delilah at kick off was the loudest, and most in unison, I can recall at the Brit. Happy days.
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Jun 4, 2024 20:47:16 GMT
Ladies and Gentlemen, enjoy Bloody brilliant mate. I've looked for that for years 👏 And there it is in a nutshell , 115 charges for fiscal abuse , , legal action against your entire Peer group , champions leagues , premier league , fa cup ,pep , grealish & co but you can’t buy that ., and they aren’t even the vilest institution in Manchester . worth noting still not a full ground either by the away supporters for those who think it was always full .
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Post by likemondays on Jun 4, 2024 20:54:37 GMT
In the first half, after Delap’s red, the booing until half time was so intense, the commentator said “it’s like a bear pit in here”, and that’s where the name came from
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Jun 4, 2024 20:55:06 GMT
Bloody brilliant mate. I've looked for that for years 👏 And there it is in a nutshell , 115 charges for fiscal abuse ,  , legal action against your entire Peer group , champions leagues , premier league , fa cup ,pep , grealish & co but you can’t buy that ., and they aren’t even the vilest institution in Manchester . worth noting still not a full ground either by the away supporters for those who think it was always full . Correct mate. I've said and will always say that for all the shit we go through over the years following our club it is moments like that which make it all worth it and I wouldn't change it for the world. I think the empty seats were due to it being an early kick off on sky. I may be wrong with the early kick off but I'm pretty sure it was Benji.
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Post by likemondays on Jun 4, 2024 20:57:59 GMT
Also loved Beattie shouting to the John Smith stand “that’s what I’m talking about” as he celebrated scoring
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Post by PotterLog on Jun 4, 2024 21:06:18 GMT
“This, and the scoreboard had been cycling through the team line ups, birthdays etc. After expecting to concede at some time in the match, the screen flicked back to the clock and showed we were over the 80 min mark. Coming just after Bellamy's shot, it was a spontaneous outbreaking of WE CAN DO THIS! / actually seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in the match” whoami got it right on page two. It was triggered when the screen switched back to the clock and everyone realised we were in the last ten minutes Course nowadays it would mean there was still about 25 minutes to play
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Post by xchpotter on Jun 4, 2024 21:16:31 GMT
Sonko....there's a name I'd forgotten. ….and Kitson on the sidelines too.
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Post by brutus on Jun 4, 2024 21:21:50 GMT
Got nervous watching that even though i knew the result
Also look at the length of the grass haha
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Post by stokiedan17 on Jun 4, 2024 21:23:54 GMT
Hard to imagine that a game of football could mean so much to so many people. I remember being there that day and what a game that was. Watching that video back I forgot everyone was on their feet for the last 15 minutes.
You do long for those times again.
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Jun 4, 2024 21:40:41 GMT
And there it is in a nutshell , 115 charges for fiscal abuse ,  , legal action against your entire Peer group , champions leagues , premier league , fa cup ,pep , grealish & co but you can’t buy that ., and they aren’t even the vilest institution in Manchester . worth noting still not a full ground either by the away supporters for those who think it was always full . Correct mate. I've said and will always say that for all the shit we go through over the years following our club it is moments like that which make it all worth it and I wouldn't change it for the world. I think the empty seats were due to it being an early kick off on sky. I may be wrong with the early kick off but I'm pretty sure it was Benji. It was indeed
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