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Post by crouchpotato1 on May 1, 2024 7:22:17 GMT
without these great memories again 22 years on
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Post by JoeinOz on May 1, 2024 7:24:42 GMT
Early morning mental. What a game
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Post by Linx on May 1, 2024 7:25:48 GMT
I still dream about Oulare’s arse 🥴
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Post by cheadlepotter on May 1, 2024 8:05:51 GMT
I still dream about Oulare’s arse 🥴 We’ve got a Banks statue, a Matthews statue, the Ritchie bust, it’s about time we had a model of Oulare’s arse displayed outside the main entrance. |
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Post by Linx on May 1, 2024 8:28:48 GMT
I still dream about Oulare’s arse 🥴 We’ve got a Banks statue, a Matthews statue, the Ritchie bust, it’s about time we had a model of Oulare’s arse displayed outside the main entrance. Great idea. It could double up as a bike stand. |
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Post by LGH87 on May 1, 2024 8:30:37 GMT
My mum letting me have the day off school and taking me on the coach that day will forever be the thing I'm most grateful to her for.
It's mad to think that a game of that magnitude we only took 500 but it really was not a nice place to go back then.
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Post by Brist_AL on May 1, 2024 8:45:17 GMT
Are some still waiting for the lap of honour.😁😁
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Post by PotteringThrough on May 1, 2024 9:23:54 GMT
The pure magic of O’Connors first going through Kavs legs - lovely stuff.
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Post by thornestein on May 1, 2024 9:35:50 GMT
cardiff fans were right smug bastards before the game
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Post by The Drunken Communist on May 1, 2024 9:43:34 GMT
It's mad to think that a game of that magnitude we only took 500 but it really was not a nice place to go back then. I'm pretty sure that from memory that's all we were allowed to take, limited allocation due to the trouble that always happened whenever we played each other in that era. |
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Post by prestwichpotter on May 1, 2024 9:50:32 GMT
My mum letting me have the day off school and taking me on the coach that day will forever be the thing I'm most grateful to her for. It's mad to think that a game of that magnitude we only took 500 but it really was not a nice place to go back then. I can't remember the exact figure but it was something like 660 we took. Still the best game I've been too in my 40 years watching Stoke, I can still hear the half enders bouncing against the corrugated iron roof after the game and it transports me back. I had absolutely no doubt after that victory we were getting promoted, the final was a procession....... |
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Post by JoeinOz on May 1, 2024 10:06:53 GMT
Jimmy's goal was Nige's finest hour. The emotion and disbelief in his voice. For Oulare's arser mumbling Mick started, well, mumbling.
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Post by onepara on May 1, 2024 10:19:18 GMT
I still smile when I recall the announcer telling their supporters that when they celebrate, to keep off the grass.
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Post by onepara on May 1, 2024 10:23:39 GMT
They were that convinced of winning, they paraded their Welsh finest around the ground before the match, as well. I think even Neill Kinnock was there.
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Post by onepara on May 1, 2024 10:35:28 GMT
A marvellous watch. Wonder where James O'Connor is now? Whether he ever comes back to the club, like some others do.
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Post by dirtygary69 on May 1, 2024 10:43:32 GMT
A marvellous watch. Wonder where James O'Connor is now? Whether he ever comes back to the club, like some others do. Was coming to post exactly the same thing. I don't recall him being a guest at any games or on co-comms on RS or anything. He went to Burnley and never returned, as far as I know? He's a cult hero purely for that game. |
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Post by Robo10 on May 1, 2024 10:47:32 GMT
I watched with a few thousand in the ground on a big screen - quite a few had left before Jimmy scored
Got a random bear hug from a young lady next to me as it went fairly mental, the winner, and the stress of it after (didnt they miss a sitter in normal time? Thorney? somehow bounced into Cutlers arms?)
Some names here - and a certain Mike Dean as ref
Cardiff: Alexander, Weston, Young, Prior, Croft, Boland, Kavanagh, Bonner (Maxwell 112), Fortune-West, Earnshaw (Campbell 88), Thorne (Bowen 105).
Subs Not Used: Bywater, Collins.
Stoke: Cutler, Thomas, Handyside, Shtaniuk, Clarke, Gudjonsson, O'Connor, Dinning (Vandeurzen 104), Gunnlaugsson (Cooke 88), Iwelumo (Oulare 71), Burton.
Subs Not Used: Viander, Brightwell.
Att: 19,367.
Referee: M Dean (The Wirral).
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Post by Robo10 on May 1, 2024 10:49:02 GMT
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Post by hamsta2 on May 1, 2024 10:57:51 GMT
I listened to it online via dial up and punched a hole in the partition wall when we scored.
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Post by onepara on May 1, 2024 11:03:22 GMT
What a wonderful career he's made for himself. It doesn't look like we'll be seeing him in Ricardo's, any time soon then. |
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Post by chuckrocky on May 1, 2024 11:04:29 GMT
I watched with a few thousand in the ground on a big screen - quite a few had left before Jimmy scored Got a random bear hug from a young lady next to me as it went fairly mental, the winner, and the stress of it after (didnt they miss a sitter in normal time? Thorney? somehow bounced into Cutlers arms?) Some names here - and a certain Mike Dean as ref Cardiff: Alexander, Weston, Young, Prior, Croft, Boland, Kavanagh, Bonner (Maxwell 112), Fortune-West, Earnshaw (Campbell 88), Thorne (Bowen 105). Subs Not Used: Bywater, Collins. Stoke: Cutler, Thomas, Handyside, Shtaniuk, Clarke, Gudjonsson, O'Connor, Dinning (Vandeurzen 104), Gunnlaugsson (Cooke 88), Iwelumo (Oulare 71), Burton. Subs Not Used: Viander, Brightwell. Att: 19,367. Referee: M Dean (The Wirral). Thorne missed a decent chance in normal time, it looked like his header was going to drop then Cutler just fell onto the ball at the last second. Fortune-West missed an absolute sitter pretty much straight from kick-off after our second goal. |
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Post by cheadlepotter on May 1, 2024 11:11:43 GMT
My mum letting me have the day off school and taking me on the coach that day will forever be the thing I'm most grateful to her for. It's mad to think that a game of that magnitude we only took 500 but it really was not a nice place to go back then. I can't remember the exact figure but it was something like 660 we took. Still the best game I've been too in my 40 years watching Stoke, I can still hear the half enders bouncing against the corrugated iron roof after the game and it transports me back. I had absolutely no doubt after that victory we were getting promoted, the final was a procession....... I’ve never met a more pessimistic fan than myself, but even I was completely relaxed at the Millenium. Watched the Cardiff away game at the Brit and it was brilliant. I was at high school age, and remember asking the man next to me how long is left (as the big screen didn’t have the time on) over and over and over and him rubbing my head at full time after we’d all gone a bit mental. What an evening. |
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Post by crouchpotato1 on May 1, 2024 11:14:15 GMT
I watched with a few thousand in the ground on a big screen - quite a few had left before Jimmy scored Got a random bear hug from a young lady next to me as it went fairly mental, the winner, and the stress of it after (didnt they miss a sitter in normal time? Thorney? somehow bounced into Cutlers arms?) Some names here - and a certain Mike Dean as ref Cardiff: Alexander, Weston, Young, Prior, Croft, Boland, Kavanagh, Bonner (Maxwell 112), Fortune-West, Earnshaw (Campbell 88), Thorne (Bowen 105). Subs Not Used: Bywater, Collins. Stoke: Cutler, Thomas, Handyside, Shtaniuk, Clarke, Gudjonsson, O'Connor, Dinning (Vandeurzen 104), Gunnlaugsson (Cooke 88), Iwelumo (Oulare 71), Burton. Subs Not Used: Viander, Brightwell. Att: 19,367. Referee: M Dean (The Wirral). Thorne missed a decent chance in normal time, it looked like his header was going to drop then Cutler just fell onto the ball at the last second. Fortune-West missed an absolute sitter pretty much straight from kick-off after our second goal. I still can’t believe that Fortune-West missed that open goal with his head to this day straight after we went 2 up |
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Post by milton58 on May 1, 2024 11:36:15 GMT
Sam haman walking around the pitch giving it the big un earnshaw going off giving it the ayitolah and that ball going through kavs legs...have that ya twats
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Post by ihaveadream on May 1, 2024 11:50:51 GMT
A few months earlier Kavanagh had joined Cardiff and gone on about joining a "better" club
Yeah, right
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on May 1, 2024 12:16:03 GMT
without these great memories again 22 years on 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 ! |
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Post by grovepotter on May 1, 2024 12:32:45 GMT
A few months earlier Kavanagh had joined Cardiff and gone on about joining a "better" club Yeah, right I can still remember the "Thank you very much for Graham Kavanagh" song ... bastards I know most on here like him but I've never warmed to him since he left. Still, we got the last laugh, what a night in South Wales! |
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Post by milky on May 1, 2024 17:41:34 GMT
We have had some real good loan players who made a big impact at the club .
I'm thinking Crossley ,Hendrie, Taggart, Diao...but Deon Burton doesn't get mentioned much but without that late goal to make it 1 - 2 in the home leg ,plus his goal in the final ,who knows what path the club would have taken if we had failed to go up that season ?
It would have been 3 failed play off attempts on the bounce.
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Post by milton58 on May 1, 2024 17:56:49 GMT
We have had some real good loan players who made a big impact at the club . I'm thinking Crossley ,Hendrie, Taggart, Diao...but Deon Burton doesn't get mentioned much but without that late goal to make it 1 - 2 in the home leg ,plus his goal in the final ,who knows what path the club would have taken if we had failed to go up that season ? It would have been 3 failed play off attempts on the bounce. that goal in the first game gave me hope....said to my mate at the time we got a chance now...tbh Cardiff were the better team in the first game |
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Post by crouchpotato1 on May 1, 2024 18:02:20 GMT
We have had some real good loan players who made a big impact at the club . I'm thinking Crossley ,Hendrie, Taggart, Diao...but Deon Burton doesn't get mentioned much but without that late goal to make it 1 - 2 in the home leg ,plus his goal in the final ,who knows what path the club would have taken if we had failed to go up that season ? It would have been 3 failed play off attempts on the bounce. that goal in the first game gave me hope....said to my mate at the time we got a chance now...tbh Cardiff were the better team in the first game Totally agree about Burton’s goal but equally as important was Cutler’s save to stop it going to 3-0 |
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