HarrowGill
Vital Youth Team
I read earlier this week that Man City fans were going to be calling for Pep Guardiola's head should they not make the Champions League this season, and suffer the 'ignominy' of Thursday nights visiting KAA Ghent, PSV Eindhoven or Marseille instead of Juventus, PSG or Barcelona.
Hmmm... short memories given that it wasn't too long ago that they were playing in the division below their local-ish rivals Stockport County and playing Macclesfield Town in what is now League One, and their fans were greeting us with chants of 'Where the fook is Gilling-yam?!' In their league fixture that season with us that season at Maine Road.
And we are nine mere days shy of the 18th anniversary of *that* day at Wembley, when were beating Man City 2-0 in the last ten minutes of the Second Division Play-Off final in front of 76,000 fans -still a third division/League One play-off final record- until Mark Harlsey, Paul-My-Dickov, and Nicky Weaver decided to fuck up our afternoon.
Given the passing of time, does anyone else wonder what if fortune took a different turn and we DID prevail that afternoon? Would the Qatari billionaires still have taken any interest in the light blue half of Manchester or would they be still have been the poorer, forgotten half of Manchester stuck somewhere in the football league and not in the Premiership?
Hmmm... short memories given that it wasn't too long ago that they were playing in the division below their local-ish rivals Stockport County and playing Macclesfield Town in what is now League One, and their fans were greeting us with chants of 'Where the fook is Gilling-yam?!' In their league fixture that season with us that season at Maine Road.
And we are nine mere days shy of the 18th anniversary of *that* day at Wembley, when were beating Man City 2-0 in the last ten minutes of the Second Division Play-Off final in front of 76,000 fans -still a third division/League One play-off final record- until Mark Harlsey, Paul-My-Dickov, and Nicky Weaver decided to fuck up our afternoon.
Given the passing of time, does anyone else wonder what if fortune took a different turn and we DID prevail that afternoon? Would the Qatari billionaires still have taken any interest in the light blue half of Manchester or would they be still have been the poorer, forgotten half of Manchester stuck somewhere in the football league and not in the Premiership?