The tension was almost unbearable in the closing minutes but City hung on. It also contains a table with average age, cumulative market value and average market … var pCid="uk_bbc_0"; A physical player with a reputation for the spectacular. I’d like to think so but we could have been dead and buried,” Horlock declares. Alan Kelly (Goalkeeper) Age: 33 "Jobbo was a fantastic player and brave with it – he was a real warrior in his own way. It’s like someone decided these fans and the Club has had enough.’”, Hartford concurs: “You just turn and you think: ‘We’re going to win here.’ You know when things just turn for you…”. With two fine goals against the Clarets, the Republic of Ireland winger made a key contribution – the first of many, which would quickly endear him to the Blue faithful and his new teammates.
Long-serving coach Tony Parkeswas placed in temporary charge of the team as the … Whenever we played Ipswich, I was always in one goal and Richard Wright was in the other and we were battling it out for the England Under-21 spot at the time. He’s an unbelievable character.”. Mark Hughes (Forward) Age: 38 The Republic of Ireland international is a tricky left-sided player with the ability to beat his man and deliver an accurate cross. Duff signed for Rovers at the age of 17 and has now made over 100 appearances for the club.

1999–2000 Blackburn Rovers F.C. One-one. Climbing the hill to the top before eventually reaching the summit…. As soon as I turned, I could see him and I went over to him. True enough, City were not at the races in the opening 45 and we could most definitely count ourselves lucky to head into half-time trailing by just a solitary goal. We didn’t have a big row – I just sat down with the players and said: ‘Listen, this isn’t us and the golden rule is: no matter how bad we play at times, we always score.’, “I think they hit the post again and it bounced back into Nicky Weaver’s arms and I turned around to our coach Asa Hartford and said: ‘There’s something strange going on here. 'codebase="http://server-uk.imrworldwide.com/"'+'width=1 height=2>'+ "It was probably my best game in a City shirt.”. All we needed to do was hang on… but instead, the floodgates opened! Taking to Twitter, goalscorer Dickov took to Twitter to remember those post-match scenes, writing: "The most amazing game, the most amazing fans for the most amazing club.". Bolton's leader David Greenhalgh on why he took Tier Three deal, The Bolton leader has been the first to announce that he has been in talks with the government after collective Greater Manchester discussions failed yesterday, Legal fightback against Tier 3 pub closures starts, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has previously warned he would take legal action, The GM Tory MPs who voted against proposals for more cash for our region, The motion was brought to the Commons after talks for a Greater Manchester deal collapsed ahead of yesterday’s noon deadline. Knowing what was riding on the game, then-Chairman David Bernstein made a rare intervention in the City dressing room before kick-off. It’s that situation: if you slash at it, you can miss it and it was a guided pass into the goal because you can see that coming as a striker. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. We were almost there. Stig Inge Bjornebye (Defender) Age: 32 Fortunately, that night I had a good game. Goater echoes: “We started to invest in quality players – Mark Kennedy being one of those players and with him being a winger and the way we played in those days, you got the ball to wide players and they delivered. “We’d gone from strength to strength and rode on a crest of a wave and before we knew it, we get to the last game at Blackburn needing a point to go up.”.

“Poor Graeme Souness was fuming afterwards – he was trying to be civil in the coaches’ room and talk to us as nicely as he could but in the previous week, he had just seen someone else promoted in Blackburn – Charlton – and he was not a happy chappy!”. There were so many City fans!”. Hughes has had a successful, varied career in England, Germany and Spain.
Get the biggest City stories, analysis and transfer window updates delivered straight to your inbox. explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. I remember Man City fans being in the Blackburn end and the pressure was on. An accomplished defender who is cool on the ball, Johansson quickly established himself in the first-team squad at Ewood Park. “We went in 1-0 behind at half-time and we sat down. “They’d hit the post, crossbar… it was bizarre and again: was it fate for this Club to be back where it is now? var w0=0; Three more points and promotion would be within touching distance, three points closer to achieving the ultimate dream…. Two consecutive promotions… it doesn’t happen that often.”.