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And according to Warky plenty of players were carrying knocks that day and there was a 'flu bug ripping through the Town squad, which he reckons had it been affecting Utd instead, Fergie would have got the game postponed
Might explain the way Yallop and Linighan played. They looked miles off it.
The Utd 9-0 match... on 21:17 - Sep 20 by pointofblue
I was in Colchester to on that day, but at Layer Road. This was obviously soon after we had taken Burley from them, so Town were hardly flavour of the month. And every Manchester United goal was announced over the tannoy to ever increasing glee...
I was at a Cambridge United game where they were at home to Bristol Rovers (a young Marcus Stewart playing for the Gas.) The main stand had a scoreboard on top of it which you cannot see if you are in that stand, during the second half the crowd in the other stands kept cheering at moments that seemed to have nothing to do with what was going on on the pitch. Got back to the car in time for James Alexander Gordon after the match and turned on the radio, 'Let's see how Town got on at Old Trafford' and presently I understood that three sides of the Scabbey Stadium had been gloating at our downfall.
I remember this season from a sky sports perspective from afar. We started decently enough when Lyall was still in charge.
However with Lyall stepping up stairs and general instability it became a mess. Mick McGiven took over from Lyall in December and it was a car crash from there on in.
I'm sure others will are more informed than I and watched this in person, but as I recall we basically played like 10 players behind the ball like an extreme Mccarthy setup. All confidence drained from the squad and it was totally hapless. The dream was over...
Edit: As an 18 year old in Ireland the 3-2 win against Man U holds a very special memory. Can't remember back then whether I was listening to Radio 5 with sketch reception but remember jumping around the room when Sedgley scored. Then went out on the beers that evening and headed out clubbing. My best mate asked the DJ in the early hours to play a song for the Ipswich Fans in the club which was me! I remember bouncing around with the rest of the place wondering what the hell???
That song was..
Despite being 100s of miles away from FPR when I catch up with my school mates it's still legendary stuff.
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The Utd 9-0 match... on 01:25 - Sep 21 with 636 views
I was okay about losing 9-0 but absolutely fuming about that.
Quite ridiculous to call the keeper over to be booked and then allow a quick free kick but to do so when a match is 7-0 just summed up attitudes towards Man Utd at that time. They were so relentlessly favored it was laughable.
I still remember the way they chased the ref when they conceded their first penalty at home for eight years or whatever insane period of time it was. What was even more ridiculous is Stam went right through Juninho's foot to play the ball and it was a stonewaller.
Equally loathsome of Ince to score with the free-kick like that and then laugh about it when already 7-0 up, unsporting little tosser.
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The Utd 9-0 match... on 08:33 - Sep 21 with 569 views
The Utd 9-0 match... on 00:51 - Sep 21 by WicklowBlue
I remember this season from a sky sports perspective from afar. We started decently enough when Lyall was still in charge.
However with Lyall stepping up stairs and general instability it became a mess. Mick McGiven took over from Lyall in December and it was a car crash from there on in.
I'm sure others will are more informed than I and watched this in person, but as I recall we basically played like 10 players behind the ball like an extreme Mccarthy setup. All confidence drained from the squad and it was totally hapless. The dream was over...
Edit: As an 18 year old in Ireland the 3-2 win against Man U holds a very special memory. Can't remember back then whether I was listening to Radio 5 with sketch reception but remember jumping around the room when Sedgley scored. Then went out on the beers that evening and headed out clubbing. My best mate asked the DJ in the early hours to play a song for the Ipswich Fans in the club which was me! I remember bouncing around with the rest of the place wondering what the hell???
That song was..
Despite being 100s of miles away from FPR when I catch up with my school mates it's still legendary stuff.
[Post edited 21 Sep 2024 1:14]
I think that was the previous season, we started off with 3 wins then downhill from there, utterly dull, Mark Stein saved us.
We were never going to be any good the next season. And we weren't.
Fortunately I spent most of this time in Oz so avoided majority of it, but my first game back in pommieland was the 9-0, followed by an almost as bad 3-0 at Spurs a few days later - the middle of a run of 10 games without a goal. We were ridiculously bad that year, particularly away from home where 29 years on we still hold PL records for most away defeats, most away goals conceeded etc (albeit in a 42 game season).
15 years later I returned to Oz for a secondment. Arriving at the hotel I switched on the TV to be presented with a rerun of the 9-0 ffs. Bloody aussies, wind up merchants the lot of em...
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