As an aside to a thread started earlier about best Hull City videos on the net it gt me thinking that I once had a video of our "last ever game" against Leyton Orient 00/01 season when the **** had really hit the fan and despite all that has gone on this season it really is the closest Ive ever thought we were to going out of business. I was 16 at the time and even made a banter with my sister, as seen about 7 seconds in. I'll always remember that game for a few reasons, great atmosphere, great goal from rodney rowe, awful miss from david brown and extraordinary scenes as thousands of city fans hurl pound coins from all the way up the terraces towards a makeshift sheet in support of the players who hadn't been paid for months. Just wouldn't have been allowed in this day and age and probably shouldn't have been aloud then. Puts things in perspective really, and part of me would happily go back to then.
I clearly remember that game, there was a special bond between the fans at that time, with everyone throwing in money that they knew would go directly to the players. I'm meeting one of those players in the pub on Thursday(there's a few of us getting together for my birthday), I'll ask him what it meant to him and how much he knew about what was going on at the time. More to follow.......
that would be good olm, it still ranks higher than promotion to the premiership that period for me, the survival from closer followed by the late charge to the play offs. Great memories.
my memory from that time, is people having a go at me..saying, do you think they would all throw money at you if you lost your job......the probably had a point to be honest
Remember those days only too well as indeed I did when we went into receivership no less in the early 80's when Christopher Needler was Chairman. To think a short 10 years after the Great Escape we'd risen to the PL - no one would ever have believed it. Angie Rowe was always a drama queen though. Only ever surfaced ni the days of doom and gloom.
Never again will we have the same feeling of City being OUR club, at its lowest point we were there. Its strange looking back and remebering just how close we were to losing the club, but at the time it didn't really feel like it cause everyone just pulled together and supported the players who were playing for nothing, just for the and club for the shirt. I remember the Scarboro game, the gate from South to Kempton getting forced open and flooding into Kempton, ****ing mental. My mates uncle got fed up of waiting in the que at the snack bar and reached into the back knicking a box of Yorkie bars, brought them back to were we were standing and dished them out, funny as **** seeing everyone around eating a knicked Yorkie bar!! Belting header from Brabs to equalise. Great days.
I look back on that time with amber coloured specs, I don't remember any time at which I actually thought we'd lose our club.
Me and my dad stood on Bunkers that day. Only got taken a few times before then but this match was the start of me going all the time.
Can't believe that was all 10 years ago, me being a small kid on the terraces back then. I remember one night before i was going to sleep i was thinking who i'd support if the worst came to the worst, and even at the height of their success i chose York City over TWS! It's the first season i really remember supporting city, and what a season it was.
That was the first season i got my season pass i only ever went occassionaly for the 3 years before then. Think i was also mascot that season, against Shrewsbury i think. Apart from August-December, i think 2001/02 was pretty **** to say the least!
2001/02 started well then went down the ****ter after christmas. Sounds all too familiar. Brian Little did a great job for us.
I go back to that day when I think about the one or two we get complaining on here now and think, well we've come a long way really!
Rosie always seemed a bit "touched", now we have it straight from the horses mouth - admission of guilt!!!
This was my 5th city game and i was only 5, never doubted my support since that match i chucked all my pocket money at them! no penny sweets for me
Yes i remember those days well. I went to a Tigers co-op meeting at 147 and payed Fifty sqiud to join my dad brother in law and myself,keep the change ! Had to go over me overdraught to do it. It all turned out unbelievably well though didn't it ! Even won a Tigers co-op raffle for a signed shirt and ended up wearing it for Wembleee ! Thats beautiful irony ! Wearing a shirt that came about due to dark days of administration and wearing it the day we won premier status ! utt
Never met Angie Rowe but can never thank her enough for mailing me info about Tigers 2000 and HDM articles,no internet for me back then and very little media info for exiles,how times change.
I'm only 21 but I've been going since I was three. I can remeber to this day the "Fish Out" chants. I was only really little and I can still remember sat in the old West Stand and literaly everybody in Boothferry chanting it. It was that loud and agressive that it would make me cry (I was only about three of four) That's my earliest memory. Throughout the 90's I was dragged both home and away. The excitement of playing Liverpool and Chelsea at home in the cup will be feelings I'll never forget.
That was only my second City game, I was sat in the corporate seats. Didn't really have a ****ing clue what was going on, but I came home hooked.
Missed the Orient game because I was living darn sarf at the time, but went to Shrewsbury the next week and there were a load of bucket rattlers outside the ground. Put a fiver in and clearly remember loads of Shrewsbury fans chipping in too and wishing us well. We won 0-2 anarl, Rodders and Big Kev. Interestingly, the team that went up that season through the play-offs was Blackpool, who have a last day match with Man Utd and still rely on other results going their way to stay up in their first PL season. Sounds familiar.
