10 years ago today

[jackrfc95 4,255]

[RFC55 108,733]

Ffs. Time flies.

[Bydo 3,211]

I've been dreading this day coming.

A wonderful experience to begin with, but it's so so painful when you think of what could have been, and where we are now.

 

[SuperPapac05 3,383]

Another example of how auld I'm getting

[Bydo 3,211]

Kirk fucking Broadfoot.

[harlands plater 16,958]

Even the weather today is similar. Left about 6.30 am, hit a Bear-swamped  Southwaite services about 8.30 so at this time that day would be on the M6 heading for Preston, the nearest accommodation to Manchester we could get.

[billym27 315]

Fucking breaks my heart thinking about that. Lost out on a European title and look at the state of us now having to settle with 3rd place and the thought of getting pumped off some wee diddy European team again.

[RFC55 108,733]

10 minutes ago, harlands plater said:

Even the weather today is similar. Left about 6.30 am, hit a Bear-swamped  Southwaite services about 8.30 so at this time that day would be on the M6 heading for Preston, the nearest accommodation to Manchester we could get.

You must have left at similar time to us mate. I started drinking at 330 as I couldn't sleep

 

[harlands plater 16,958]

1 minute ago, Rfc52 said:

You must have left at similar time to us mate. I started drinking at 330 as I couldn't sleep

 

I didn’t sleep much the night before either but as I was driving the drink wasn’t really an option   . 

First can in Piccadilly after getting the train in from Preston.

[RFC55 108,733]

1 minute ago, harlands plater said:

I didn’t sleep much the night before either but as I was driving the drink wasn’t really an option   . 

First can in Piccadilly after getting the train in from Preston.

Would a been no bad had you drank whilst driving mate

 

[harlands plater 16,958]

2 minutes ago, Rfc52 said:

Would a been no bad had you drank whilst driving mate

 

Aye it was like one big party all the way down the road, saw some incredible sights. As someone posted it was cars, buses, limos, lorries, you name it. Like being in the Wacky Races cartoon.

One thing I remember was going through roadworks just over the border and one of the workmen was standing there in a tarrier top, obviously the cunt was doing it to wind us up, the abuse he was getting from the Bears was unreal.

[Gascoigne8 3,378]

48 minutes ago, jackrfc95 said:

Fuck, you can see me. Im 2398th from the left 

[RFC55 108,733]

Just now, Gascoigne8 said:

Fuck, you can see me. Im 2398th from the left 

 

[Gascoigne8 3,378]

Just now, Rfc52 said:

 

Fuckin great day up until 8pm lol

[RFC55 108,733]

Just now, Gascoigne8 said:

Fuckin great day up until 8pm lol

Och I enjoyed the full thing. The wee screen repair guy trying to fix the screen and being pelted with bottles

 

[jackrfc95 4,255]

1 minute ago, Gascoigne8 said:

Fuckin great day up until 8pm lol

So you missed 1 hour and 15mins of the game? 

[Gascoigne8 3,378]

Just now, Rfc52 said:

Och I enjoyed the full thing. The wee screen repair guy trying to fix the screen and being pelted with bottles

 

 

 

[Gascoigne8 3,378]

Just now, jackrfc95 said:

So you missed 1 hour and 15mins of the game? 

I couldnae bite ma finger never mind tell the time tbh

[Swagger 7,890]

1 hour ago, harlands plater said:

Even the weather today is similar. Left about 6.30 am, hit a Bear-swamped  Southwaite services about 8.30 so at this time that day would be on the M6 heading for Preston, the nearest accommodation to Manchester we could get.

I was in Preston too. Got the train into Manchester about 0830 - like sardines on the train. 

What a day.

[GWR1979 1,964]

I just wish we had scored just to see everyone going mental. Went with my dad and my brother brilliant day and the biggest movement of fans in modern football history.

Just a shame about the result and the bitterness of the authorities in Scotland who made our schedule as hard as possible whilst Zenit got the week off in Russia.

[Cedrick 8,048]

3 hours ago, Bydo said:

Kirk fucking Broadfoot.

Knew his limits ability wise but did everything in his power to be the best he could be , personal trainers etc , did well for us , current crop could take a leaf out his book they’re shite and unfit 

[Virtuoso 27,180]

A brilliant day ruined by a game of negative tactics.

Cheers Smith.

[ForeverAndEver 71,372]

Just wait until we're celebrating in Baku

[harlands plater 16,958]

2 hours ago, Swagger said:

I was in Preston too. Got the train into Manchester about 0830 - like sardines on the train. 

What a day.

I had naively booked seats on the 2.30 train from Preston to Manchester, but we got down about 10 am and rather than going to the pub in Preston, we decided to head for an earlier one. Can remember the locals shouting “good luck” as we walked from the Holiday Inn to the station. Managed to squeeze on one about 11, I hadn’t realised the trains came from Blackpool so they were rammed full already like those Japanese commuter trains where you see the wee guy pushing people in the doors.

 Train was literally bouncing all the way in, at one station a businessman managed to get on, one of the Bears shouted “he looks like Richard Whiteley” and the poor guy got pelters all the way in. We stopped at Oxford Road (?) and there was a group of Zenit fans on another platform, making “friendly” throat-slitting gestures at us.

If we had waited for the train I had booked seats on, I doubt if we would even have managed to get on it by that time in the day, never mind stroll on and find two empty seats waiting for us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Moody Blue 9,346]

A brilliant day out, from the way down to arrival, place was buzzing and felt the only motivation needed for the players was to drive through the streets and see the sheer numbers for themselves.  Then a very flat performance left me leaving the stadium deflated as fuck, the only high point us doing the bouncy round the stadium about 60-70mins. Had to get the train back to hotel and then home next day, my crowd hardly spoke as I drove, we just wanted home.  10years, ffs.