Premier League memories

Moving on from the Liverpool thread, what's your favourite memories about our season in the Premier League?

As mentioned in the other thread, my main one was our trip to The Dell, along with beating Man Utd in the FA Cup and walking in to school feeling VERY smug considering the amount of Man Utd "fans" that were in school.

Oh, and THAT referee...

 

Ponty, reducing Di Canio to a gibbering wreck...Funny as ****.

 

First game versus West Ham.

Remember vividly, sat in East Stand Lower, looked up to West Stand and could see the Premier League flag fluttering in the Summer breeze.
Felt extremely proud to be a REDS fan......then Captain Fantastic scored and Oakwell erupted.


I actually have many bad memories, most of which involved cheating by opposition players, managers and referees/officials. Opened my eyes, did that season.

 

Queuing for my season ticket on grove street and a kid kicking a ball against the big red emergency doors in the west stand, kicking it a bit too hard and his trainer flying off and over the wall into the ground. Made me laugh anyway, unlike the majority of the season where we were cheated from start to finish

 

The moment Redders scored against West Ham, and I thought "we're guna win the Premier League!".

I actually believed it.

 

Home against Man Utd chanting-

"He's fat he's French he can't fit on the bench Cantona Cantona"


Final whistle vs Arsenal when then were virtually assured of winnong the league and bfc fans sang ' champions champions" to Arsenal fans and they all stood as one and applauded us.

 

Indeed, this was a great season which I would one day love to relive as an adult.

I was a 14 yr old lad and it was that red hot summers day. A buzz around oakwell like never 9th August 1997. Just sat there in my seat Row N Seat 153 of the Ponty End, watching the stadium gradually fill up from 1.30-3. 3pm after 30mins of singing our fave chants (most remembered Cheer Up Mark Mcghee) Hopes were high and in the ninth minute captain fantastic heads home. Never have I heard a roar like that at Oakwell it was immense perfect start to the day. That is probably my most fondest memory of that season.

Other memories that stand out. Our 1st Game on sky vs Coventry and we didn't embarrass ourselves winning 2-0, however my strongest memory from that game was running down the ponty end steps slipping and cutting open my knee and all I wanted was an autograph.

Last but not least I can remember a Steward whom worked on the corner of the ponty end and she would let me and my mates into the West Stand, on the proviso we would return before kick and we always did so we could get autographs. I will upload my favourite one day from that season and it was from Sam Hamman writing to Dave Best wishes from us all at the Crazy gang, Sam Hamman. Also I got every single autograph from the Wimbledon squad that day apart from Vinnie Jones.

 

Got extremely trollied at Highbury on that warm October afternoon.

 

Palace away remember getting to Oakwell sure we took 3 buses and 2 were nice Wallace Arnold ones and a horrid white one, I was only 10 and said to my old man bet that rubbish bus is ours..... It was!!! Redfearns goal and away end went mental. Got home and my rabbit had died!

 

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Redders header against West Ham, it all went downhill after that.

 

Redfearn made the challenge then scored the goal. Shows what talentless, useless toss pieces Perkins, Dawson, Fox and Etuhu really are.

 

Many happy memories, many marred by the events of "that" game.

Just wish we'd had Wardy from the start, we'd have pissed staying up.

 

Redders scoring against West Ham
The Di Canio chant
The Liverpool game at Oakwell

 

Every single game gave me a memory I will never forget, also the promotion season was just one big memory, managed 45 of the 46 league games that season and it was the best 2 seasons I think I will ever see

 

When I look at how our midfield could tackle, run with the ball, pass short or long, counter attack........it does make me realise that our current midfield is absolutely dog sh!te.

You hear coaches saying the game is now different. No it's not, it's still played with a round ball and XI v XI.

The fabric of BFC is to press opposition, play hard but fair and generally "get at em". It worked in Promotion season, very nearly paid off in Premiership and certainly did the trick in our great escape last season. At the minute, we are not moving the ball fast enough and watching these memories has just brought it more into focus for me.

 

Have a look at some of the goals on ld reds video and see how many men we get in the box, theres none of the two holding midfielders sat on the half way line *****. Look at how many of our youngsters got a game that season, this was the premier league they were playing in, wouldn't happen today.