We Will See These Moments Again

Far too painful to view.

 

Coventry and Oldham have had some really dreary times of late, Coventry's first promotion since being relegated from the top flight in 2001 was from League 2 in 2018, and Oldham have yet to experience a promotion from any division since they got relegated from the Premier League in 1994, but for most clubs (including Coventry of course), the bad times don't last forever!

 

Where did you get that ceefax screen grab from? I remember vividly looking at that particular one for quite some time as well as various others in the 90’s!

 

Not while Gino is in charge.

 

We really won’t. Most of those pics are from an era where it was possible to take on the big boys without having a Russian or Arab in charge. From a day when players gave a monkeys about the club they played for

football has changed so much since those days. The 84 cup final is closer to the end of the Second World War then it is to today

 

You are too kind.

 

Bloody hell!! How did that happen?

 

Hitler invaded Poland

 

The reason I go to football and probably won't stop is because of the days out posted by @SkylaRose
There are loads of others of course and I'm sure there will be some in the future as well even if that is hard to believe right now!

 

The good times wouldn't feel as special if you didn't sit through years of hopeless performances prior to them.

 

Regardless of billionaire sheikhs and oligarchs, I don't think a repeat of 1997-98 is beyond us in the not too distant future...

 

The only shame is that all of our best moments aren't followed through. In fact most of my least favourite moments have followed immediately afterwards.

Palace, Deulofeu, City, Relegation...

 

It's why I'm not a big fan of The Deeney goal. Yes a great moment but actually ended in failure. I prefer winning at Brighton or Beating Wrexham or winning at Fulham on the last day

 

Yes even that Nick Wright goal is tarnished by the fact that he barely played again due to injuries after that fairytale afternoon.

 

Tbf, we are a small club starved of success, I don't feel like disregarding brilliant moments like that just because ultimately it ended in failure (though there is definitely a more bittersweet memory of the Wolves game in the semi for obvious reasons). Our recent struggles have taught me to appreciate every little victory we have

 

I agree but the play off final was a crushing disappointment. If ever there had seemed to be a “written in the stars” story, that had seemed to be it. And I’m a natural pessimist.

 

It’s what supporting a basically crap football team is all about . It’s those amazing moments when you stick it to the big boys or that last minute goal . Regardless of who owns the club at the time or what happened the next season that’s what brings me joy from watching my team . We’ve had a lot of great moments over the last ten or eleven years but now it’s all a bit cr@p and I’m not sure when the next one will be .

Having said that you adjust downwards a bit . Staying up in div 2 at Oxford in 1990 ( I think ) shoudnt really be a classic but something like that could come round again .

 

I feel the same about our eventual promotion - losing the Championship in the last minute was one of the biggest disappointments ever. Completely took the gloss off of the Brighton game and the promotion (which to me felt inevitable - unlike lifting a proper famous old trophy).

 

In simple terms “yes”.
They’re easy to find on the internet.

 

I’m not sure if this season is just a blip in terms if maybe the top three and bottom three maybe just swapping places again, but I think this will become harder and harder. When we first went up big clubs like Newcastle, Villa and Sunderland were complete basket cases, now two of them very much aren’t. More and more obscenely rich owners are getting into buying English clubs and that trickles down with them looking to buy the next biggest sleeping giant. Of course you’ll still get the odd surprise package (Luton) but I think it will become harder and harder for this to happen. The game now and the finances involved compared to 1998 is almost unrecognisable, in the same way how we finished 2nd in the eighties was as unrecognisable to when we went up again in 98, but that was only even the previous decade, not 26 years ago.

 

As fans of Man Utd and Chelsea (along with many others at all other levels around the world) are finding out football is cyclic and at the moment we’re on a downwards curve. Success has happened before and it’ll happen again - just make sure you really enjoy it when it does!

 

Yes, we've been lucky enough to see 4 promotions to the prem in the last 25 or so years, 3 of which resulted in immediate relegation and one of which resulted in the second most successful period in our history. Promotion to the prem is only going to get tougher, and staying up for a smaller club is only going to get tougher as the 2 smallish clubs automatically promoted last season are finding.

 

Yep, realistically, we'll eventually see another cycle of PL football and a cup run, attendances will be back up to it's peak. Wont happen with these owners but they'll be gone in the next two or three years.

 

100%. It feels like a huge ending, but then, as a coda, there's a limp performance at Wembley and failure at the final hurdle.

 

He played again for us in the Prem and was awful. He was always awful, but gave us a great moment.

 

Careful what you wish for mate. Remember Basini?

 

Deeney goal was also a weird one from the point of view that Leicester went on to win the premier league shortly after, so they always have that as a response.

It was an incredible memory in isolation though, not just for us but for all football fans.

 

Yeah and their crappy substitute went on to captain England and break all sorts of records.

 

He really wasn't awful and only played a handful of games at prem level before injury. That season was dreadful for injuries....Johno, Mooney, Wright...

 

I've said on numerous occasions on here that I think we were very lucky to get promoted when we did, not that it was 'easy' to stay up for so long, but certainly easier than now. That wasn't the point I was making though, 97/98 was our promotion from the third tier, the last time we won a league. I don't know if fans at the time were 'expecting' it, sort of like our Covid promotion season, or whether our horrible season the year before realigned expectations, but either way, you can't turn your nose up at a league title, whatever division it is in!

 

The previous season I think we finished around 13th and drew a ridiculous amount of games. It was pretty miserable to be fair but back came GT and Elton and just gave the whole place a lift. Maybe not winning the league but I think most felt with those two back we would be in the fight to go up

 

Not to make one of the greatest achievements in English football about us, but those players who played at the Vic that day probably used it as motivation