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  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,796
    Covered End....snap.

    We chose to pop the corks outside a pub and ended up getting chased back to the station.

    Also memorable as I got kicked and sworn at by a dwarf - yes it was inside Ewood Park.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    Was with OohAah at Blackburn moaning about our terrible turnout.

  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,216
    Covered End....snap.

    We chose to pop the corks outside a pub and ended up getting chased back to the station.

    Also memorable as I got kicked and sworn at by a dwarf - yes it was inside Ewood Park.
    Now, now, that's no way to talk about our leader :-)
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,173
    Pretty sure I was with my family on Easter holiday, may have been in Scotland my mind's blank! I heard the news that we were promoted on radio 5 whilst we were driving down the motorway, It was more of a relief than a celebration!

    Great story huh?!
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,836
    drinking champagne in the fox in keston
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    turning the teletext off
  • valleyman1973
    valleyman1973 Posts: 1,226
    I was at blackburn that day after having spent the weekend at a posh blackpool hotel, fantastic day waited behind to congratulate the players as they boarded the coach, kinsella 2 pints of lager in hand. Quality. Played we are the champions all they way home on the car cd player
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,968
    Man City away on a Sunday that season was a blinding weekend up there, with a 27yr old @Riscardo patrolling the Manchester clubs in some rascal Gianluca Vialli / skool disco get up, and about 5am Covered End on here pulling a blinding prank on a very drunk East Terrace which resulted in him having a face covered in soot.
    That was a classic !
    As for the game I was at Blackburn with a few others. We bought some cheap champagne which we were necking, walking back to the station. For some reason the locals didn't take too kindly to our celebrations & offered some pavement dancing. Fortunately (not saying for who) the police turned up in the nick of time :-)
    Can barely remember any of this....... except the soot in the wonderful Dolby Hotel!
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,997
    When I found out we had been promoted me and a couple of pals went to the Beehive in New Eltham for an impromptu celebratory light ale - only two if I remember rightly. Sitting there we agreed that we would go up to Blackburn to see us crowned Champions - just! - and had the "pleasure" of watching Ian Cartwright behaving like a rabid dog as he plunged to the front to get Kinsella's shirt.
  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,088
    my first year after graduating from uni

    i spent oct 1999 - june 2000 mostly living and working on a farm in the sicilian countryside

    no phone, no internet

    usually went to town on fridays to go to market and watch a film at the cinema paradiso type set up

    used that opportunity to check my emails in the office of the director of the local museum (internet was new! ish)

    was amazed throughout the season at how well we pulled away.... then head in hands at the collapse... then elated when we clinched it

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  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    In the Dockhead pub, in Shankling, IOW.
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    I barely remember what I did last week so I've got no chance with this. I would have been working and living in the woolwich or greenwich area. Single. My eldest daughter would have been 3. Funnily enough my youngest daughter will be 3 on the 15th april - so we might have to wait a week until promotion comes - for symmetry.
  • Went blackburn as a junior red, didnt know until i got there that they housed junior reds in the opposite home end upper tier, we was all singing though to the annoyance of the home fans. However they did let us in the away end for the full time celebrations.
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,525
    In Costa Rica, desperately trying to find an internet cafe
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,593
    Was 16 at the time was just at home with 5 live on
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,983
    I was 16 and living in Luton, so probably dancing in a old warehouse
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    I barely remember what I did last week so I've got no chance with this. I would have been working and living in the woolwich or greenwich area. Single. My eldest daughter would have been 3. Funnily enough my youngest daughter will be 3 on the 15th april - so we might have to wait a week until promotion comes - for symmetry.
    Me too! I had a season ticket that year, but had young kids at the time and didn't go to any away games. I guess I would've been at home with the family.

    That was a great season and a good squad of players.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,366
    and had the "pleasure" of watching Ian Cartwright behaving like a rabid dog as he plunged to the front to get Kinsella's shirt.
    that is giving me a flashback , not sure if i'm remembering right but did he sort of take out a few passengers on his way to flying thru the air elbowing a woman and child and claiming the prized shirt!
  • scidbox
    scidbox Posts: 539
    In the jungle in Burma. Didn't find out until 2 months afterwards.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,325
    In The Gold Lion, Penge.

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  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,657
    Drove down from Scotland to go to the Good Friday game, then stayed with friends in Bedford on the Saturday, so heard the QPR result in a litle pub there and knew we were promoted - real anti-climax! Then headed on to Ewood Park on the Monday. Saw the team getting off the coach and suggested to Andy Hunt that he could score another hat-trick. He didn't, but at the end of the game in the celebrations he threw his boot straight at Mr W. Instead of catching it, he ducked, and the bloke behind him got it!!
  • sadiejane1981
    sadiejane1981 Posts: 9,012
    I barely missed a game that year was it the pub when city lost.
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,179
    In the Lake District for a few days. I think I found out from a shop in Ambleside. A pity we couldn't manage the winner against Pompey the day or two before.
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,338
    Man City away on a Sunday that season was a blinding weekend up there, with a 27yr old @Riscardo patrolling the Manchester clubs in some rascal Gianluca Vialli / skool disco get up, and about 5am Covered End on here pulling a blinding prank on a very drunk East Terrace which resulted in him having a face covered in soot.
    Was that this year ... ?? The vialli jumper/ slacks combo .... ahhhh
  • superclive
    superclive Posts: 1,811
    Great to stir up there memories. me and my mate got walked to the valley on the Saturday and spent the afternoon having some beers in floyds. we thought there would be load of addicks there, not so, us and Vince and his mate. was good though danced around a bit outside the main reception got battered. Vince got a pizza and shared it with u, top bloke.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,997
    and had the "pleasure" of watching Ian Cartwright behaving like a rabid dog as he plunged to the front to get Kinsella's shirt.
    that is giving me a flashback , not sure if i'm remembering right but did he sort of take out a few passengers on his way to flying thru the air elbowing a woman and child and claiming the prized shirt!
    Yeah, that's how I remember it too - but was trying to be charitable!

    Amazing what you can remember. Don't remember anyhing of the game, but that has always stuck in my mind.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,796
    I believe @riscardo also spent the evening strutting round the dancefloor with an imaginary cane. The club was Royales. Remember as I got chucked out for complaining when a bouncer mistakenly chinned me whilst breaking up a fight. A feet only suppassed when myself and @jimmyseed (atleast that's his name on twitter) got chucked out of the same club twice in Liverpool. Only to be let back in after the boxer Shea Neary insisted we were with him and had done nothing wrong.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Just remember Rock Spectacle making a spectacle of himself.

    "Kins, Kins that shirt is mine"
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,997
    Just remember Rock Spectacle making a spectacle of himself.

    "Kins, Kins that shirt is mine"
    He wasn't even aware of the women and children left crying in his wake, was he?
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,796
    I'm pretty sure the dwarf who kicked me was angered by Mr Cartwright.