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Foreword Wow, 10 years ago, 1999. A decade is an awful long time in football, hey for City a week is a long time. But for some reason, despite all that has gone on in the last 10 years, and my god has a lot happened, it still feels like yesterday when I was making my way to London for my very first visit to see City play at Wembley albeit a third-tier football match. Easily defined as City’s darkest moment in its illustrious history I can quite confidently predict that if this play off final game against Kent’s finest had been a run-of-the-mill victory then this foreword you are reading now would have never even been considered writing down on paper. But the way the final 14 minutes of normal time played out turned the game into such a special victory that folklore and legends were born that day. On the flip side. I would also confidently say, with slight nervousness - still!, that if Mr Horlock and Mr Dickov had not equalised and Mr Weaver not saved two penalties then the club that we all love dearly would have never recovered from having to spend a minimum of two years down in the Nationwide Division Two or Division Three in old money terms. Without the sponsorship and the media interest, even if they were rubber-necking at the time, I believe the club could not have sustained its premiership style infrastructure and would have turned into a modern day Leeds United, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday and so on. 04 .THE FANS: From utter despair to unbridled joy within five minutes However, as you all know that was not the case and we’ve gone on to enjoy a real rollercoaster of a decade which includes three promotions and one relegation, winning the championship, getting into Europe twice and having not one but two billionaire owners within the space of 12 months. Yes, typical City is never for the faint hearten! But none of this would have been possible without the heroes that took to the field on 30th May 1999 in their illuminous yellow and dark blue shirts. Despite the level of football, the dire state City were in and the stark fact we were 30 seconds away from another year of playing the likes of Macclesfield Town and Wycombe Wanderers I look back at the class of 1999 with nothing but fond and warm fuzzy feelings.
.WEAVER: His Wembley run created an instant City legend Yes, I admit I’m wearing a very heavy shade of blue tinted glasses but I reckon I’m not alone in my fondest for this team. Thousands of other blues hold many of our heroes that day in highest esteem, even enough to match our legendary heroes of the late 60’s. 1999 made legends of Horlock, Dickov and Weaver for their on the day heroics. 1999 was also the year the one and only Shaun Goater began his journey from striking leper to striking legend. Bagging over 20 goals in 1999 Goater spearheaded our attack with great support from the hornet-like Dickov up front. 1999 was also the year that a proper hardman joined the club. No I’m not referring to Jamie Pollock, much as he thought he was, I’m referencing the one and only Andy Morrison. A born leader who would take no prisoners. It was just what a weak willed City team needed at a time when everyone around the club was looking for leadership. Then there was a young Terry Cooke. Bought in January from them, he had a tough crowd to please. But please he did. Seven goals and numerous assists sky-rocketed City in third place, just being pipped to automatic promotion by Walsall. This book is a celebration of those Wembley ‘99 heroes 10 years on. What follows are real fans recollections of that day and what it meant to them. Thanks to those fans who took the time to contribute and thanks to the players of Wembley ‘99 for providing the most dramatic football match of my supporting career. Andy Gilhooley mancityfans.net 05
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Page 8 and 9: 08 It seemed to be City's last chan
Page 10: 10 Penalty shoot-out - how they wen
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friends but I never took anyone up
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84 Baldyblue’s memory I cried whe
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86 Nelly patch’s memory What a da
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88 raych’s memory My strongest me
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92 Super Kev, Super Kevin Horlock s
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101 BLUESTEP’s memory Me & my dad
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118 The Incredibles - from Shaun’
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120 and they hung on and took it to
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126 Final League Table (P) Fulham 1
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