[video=youtube;Xvxi4FDZYRs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvxi4FDZYRs[/video] I remember hearing about it and feeling sorry for you. How did you feel on that day? Were any of you at the game? What was it like?
Yeah I remember that. Turned out to be a big turning point to where we are now, so I'm actually grateful for that game
I can't remember what I thought after the game before it, I remember saying 'Colchester United, what's the worst that could happen?'
Yes, I was there until half-time, though quite a few fans left before I did. As Drunky says, it was the catalyst for massive changes at the club and totally agree with his statement. PS - I wonder how the two idiots who ran onto the pitch and threw their tickets at Bryan Gunn feel now? I think they got a lifetime ban from CR for their reaction.
Through the joy of seeing several of our squad become internationals, 2 successive promotions, 2 years in the premier league and becoming debt free, I do just about remember that game. Although it becomes a more and more distant memory by the day
It was shocking, the two fans who were vilified for running on the pitch and ripping up their season tickets I thought done us all a massive favour, I always thought the game we lost at Fulham 6-0 back in 2005 would of taken some topping. The thing is most of us knew what was happening with the exception of some of the happy clappers, the club was rotten at the core since we were relegated from the Prem, we knew about the debt situation, poor management, our joke of board at the time, money being wasted left right and centre. The best way to describe it was a mixture of despair and rage, if you've ever seen your team relegated times that by about 100.
It was certainly a day we should all remember,and thank everyone from the top to the bottom for turning it round. We as supporters can only sit and watch the saga unfolding before us,we have no way of dictating what actually happens. Lets trust we never see the dark days again.
......and if it had never happened, we would never have met mike !!! http://www.not606.com/member.php/1001118-colu_mike7
This match was the best possible thing that could have happened to us at the time. Controversial? True? Would we have still got Lambert if we'd won the match comfortably? Would it have mattered in the long run if we hadn't got him (would we still have achieved promotion)? Would McNally have been the overriding factor if we didn't have Lambert?
Really strange thinking back on it eh Rob? It marked such a rapid change of fortune for us that I can completely understand your sentiments.
remember it? i still look back to that day and laugh. i laughed at the time. it was so horrendous it became funny but it was the game which signalled the clubs lowest ebb and it probably needed to happen. would we still have got lambert? well, baring in mind we were fined for 'tapping up' lambert the summer before that game, you'd have to assume we would - but the 7-1 game speeded up the process and allowed mcnally to bring in the man he wanted to run the club. it may have been too late had we stuttered along with gunn at the helm for a few games.
I laugh now, but I certainly didn't laugh at the time. At the time it was like staring into the abyss.
I went to this match with my Dad who is an avid Col U fan. It was excruciating at the time, if I'm honest it was the worst goal keeping display I have EVER seen and Docherty was the worst that I had ever seen him. My dad was laughing like a hyena and taking the piss out of me the whole match and afterwards I ended up in the Compleat Angler surrounded by drunk Col U supporters taking the piss out of me. However, I also did the away leg at Col U and was sitting with my dad in the home end and it was sweet. Some nob head tried to get the stewards to kick me out and almost succeeded. That was a great away day.
I can honestly say i watch those highlights now with a feeling of happiness. That game was the end of the joke that the club had become and the beginning of what we have now. Great stuff, We owe Colchester huge gratitude for that day and what has happened since.
