when we were relegated from the first division to this league

it seemed like such a non event. i still can't believe we went down that season - is my mind playing tricks or were we really that bad?!

 

Still a shock.

I don't think we were that bad, but everything seemed to conspire against us.

 

Its wierd but I agree. I missed the game we were relegated, I think I was at a wedding. So to me, it seems very unreal, almost a non-event. One year we are playing football, next year we are still playing football, the teams are different, the crowds are slightly smaller but everything else was the same.

 

Here's a few clues

Jones, Donavan, Lumsden, Naylor, Bertos, Crookes etc ect.</p>

Bizarre though but I remember crewe away where crookes was as slow as a slug and undone by Rodney Jack..Walsall where Don &quot;wheres your ford capri&quot; Goodman score the winner for walsall after failing to threaten the onion bag for the reds....bad memories.</p>

Good string of results mid season appeared to give us hope and some miraculous results (4-4 at pompey).</p>

Circumstances conspired against us though I feel as well as Parkin et al.</p>

From www.soccerbase.com</p>

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First game I took ar lass and her young un to so I was sat away from my normal seat. What I remember was a couple of blokes in front of me who didn't make any noise and kept looking at me as though I was mad when I was shouting encouragement....particularly remember when they missed the penalty and I was going crazy...the guy was looking at me gone out!
Yet ar lass fully understood what I was going through...also just slumped in my seat for 5 mins after final whistle.

 

RE: Here's a few clues

Remember listening to that Walsall game on radio when I was at girlfriends house.....weren't we leading til late in that? That was the game when I thought relegation was a reality

 

did we go down with 41pts?

 

I missed the last couple of months of the season

As I was off work looking after Crystal ( she'd had a Hysterectomy ) and Laura . Just after I returned to work,Crystal's Mum died . Then , the following month , Laura had to go into hospital for a major operation . Just prior to all this , our German Shepherd died aged 16 . We'd bought her as a pup when Crystal had been told,in 1986,that she couldn't have any children . It seemed to be one disaster after another . Without doubt,2002 was the worst year of my life . With the players we had at the club , there should've been no chance of relegation . Spackman and Parkin can rot in hell , as far as I'm concerned !

 

RE: Here's a few clues

hehehehe

that about says it all really.

 

RE: I missed the last couple of months of the season

too many draws and a really bad run at the end of the season did for us!

 

RE: Here's a few clues

Lumsdon, how can you include him in that, he was outstanding all season. It was after we went down he didn't want to know!! His goals and assists in the 1st div nearly kept us up!!

 

Yes you're right

But the poor start we had meant we were always playing catch up , as well . Once we'd lost narrowly at Birmingham in February , the club and players showed that they were not up for the fight .

 

RE: Just like

watching Grange Hill on Saturday Kev ff

 

RE: Yes you're right

I had the pleasure of being witness to the 5-1 drubbing by Man City - I was in the Gene Kelly Stand with a Man City loving mate. I had to leave before the end, City were celebrating promotion and I just couldn't cope with it, walked home through Moss Side (lived nearby at the time) and felt like the loneliest person in the world.

Ali Benabia was awesome that game, made us look like absolute pillocks.

 

me too, but i remember the norwich subs warning up in the left hand corner of the ponty end blocking my mates dad view who was unwell at the time but made an effort to go to the match only to have his view obstructed all game and for the subs to just laugh, oh an i got threaten with been kicked out of the ground for telling the subs what in thought!!!!

 

48points.</p>

Rotherham just stayed up with 49 and washday above them with 50.</p>

 

If we'd held on to the lead at Walsall

We'd have stayed up , they'd have been relegated . Water under the bridge now .

 

RE: If we'd held on to the lead at Walsall

. to be honnest I thought we were awful the season before, but somehow managed stay up .00/01.</p>

Odd considering we were in the play-off final the season before that.99/00.</p>

 

RE: If we'd held on to the lead at Walsall

not really,we sold hignett, so lost our main maker and taker of goals and replaced him with mitch ward....oh dear</p>

 

Like Eaststander I thought the Walsall game was when we lost the battle. We went to that game and said beforehand that it was the game that would decide our fate.

The manner of the defeat said everything.