Wembley twice and beat Northampton for promotion. What a season THAT was!

https://twitter.com/90sfootball/status/1541481488775909376

Forgot how close it was to make the play offs

Ah yes, the semi against Keegan's Fulham.

I loved it when we beat them!

Those were the days. 8) 8) 8)

Quoted from Brazilnut

Forgot how close it was to make the play offs

Yeah, it was a good job we'd qualified before the last game of the season.

For all the brilliant football that season, our for and against is very Pulissy! Looks very low scoring in general, actually (at a glance).


(T, not A)

Wasn't it something like 15 1-0 wins that season?

Quoted from SteffiMariner

Wasn't it something like 15 1-0 wins that season?

8 during the season, plus 2 in the play-offs.

Quoted from RonMariner

Ah yes, the semi against Keegan's Fulham.

I loved it when we beat them!

The whole ground singing keegan keegan what’s the score … neck tingling stuff thinking back

Yeah I'm surprised that we only scored 55 goals that season — Donovan got 19 in the league, didn't he? I remember us hammering Southend and Burnley at home... got a big win away at Bristol Rovers... maybe the cup runs disguised a lack of goals in the league considering we finished third!

Having said that, I'm sure 72 points wouldn't have been enough to make the play-offs in many other seasons!

Quoted from RichMariner

Yeah I'm surprised that we only scored 55 goals that season — Donovan got 19 in the league, didn't he? I remember us hammering Southend and Burnley at home... got a big win away at Bristol Rovers... maybe the cup runs disguised a lack of goals in the league considering we finished third!

Having said that, I'm sure 72 points wouldn't have been enough to make the play-offs in many other seasons!

I'm surprised we conceded 37 to be honest.

I was only 14 but I seem to remember us controlling every match (apart from Fulham at home in Jan), be almost guaranteed a clean sheet and either Donovan or Groves would pounce to give us the three points.

Lifting off the nostalgia specs reveals we only won 1 of the first 8 league matches and only 1 of the last 9!

1.57 ppg.

Whereas Buckley Mark I had the flicks, facial hair and pass and move perversions of some obscure Eastern European side, Mark II was a much more cerebral, Gazzetta Football Italia affair ***

*** that's not a reference to any actual affairs that may or may not have have taken place during that season

Interesting to see Wrexham and chesterfield in that table.
How did Wrexham get into such a mess? Please ignore the obvious answer that they’ve been run by a person even less competent than our regimes for the last 23 years

Quoted from RichMariner

Yeah I'm surprised that we only scored 55 goals that season — Donovan got 19 in the league, didn't he? I remember us hammering Southend and Burnley at home... got a big win away at Bristol Rovers... maybe the cup runs disguised a lack of goals in the league considering we finished third!

Having said that, I'm sure 72 points wouldn't have been enough to make the play-offs in many other seasons!

It’s easy to forget now, but we finished the 97/98 season really quite poorly at home.

After a turgid 1-0 win against Plymouth on a Tuesday night, we followed that up with one of the dullest nil-nils I’ve ever seen against Gillingham, a 1-0 defeat to Luton, a 2-1 defeat to Barry Hayles and Geoff Horsfield’s Bristol Rovers on Easter Monday and then finished the season by losing 2-0 to Bruce Grobbelaar’s Oldham.

We played some awesome stuff in 97/98 but we topped and tailed the season quite badly in the league.

Quoted from buckstown

Interesting to see Wrexham and chesterfield in that table.
How did Wrexham get into such a mess? Please ignore the obvious answer that they’ve been run by a person even less competent than our regimes for the last 23 years

A real mixed bag of how top 12 teams have performed since then:
2 now back in Premiership
4 in Championship
1 in League 1
3 in League 2
2 in national League as you point out

Would have been so unfair if Northampton had beaten us in the final……we finished above them by a clear point in 3rd. I hate it when the team that finishes 6 or 7th go up ;)

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

I'm surprised we conceded 37 to be honest.

I was only 14 but I seem to remember us controlling every match (apart from Fulham at home in Jan), be almost guaranteed a clean sheet and either Donovan or Groves would pounce to give us the three points.

Wasn't it 30 / 31 clean sheets that season?

Quoted from Poojah

It’s easy to forget now, but we finished the 97/98 season really quite poorly at home.

After a turgid 1-0 win against Plymouth on a Tuesday night, we followed that up with one of the dullest nil-nils I’ve ever seen against Gillingham, a 1-0 defeat to Luton, a 2-1 defeat to Barry Hayles and Geoff Horsfield’s Bristol Rovers on Easter Monday and then finished the season by losing 2-0 to Bruce Grobbelaar’s Oldham.

We played some awesome stuff in 97/98 but we topped and tailed the season quite badly in the league.

Almost the opposite to this season.

I guess the 97/98 season is always remembered fondly because of two Wembley visits and wins, thr Lord and saviours return and some excellent players but are times we were excrement. We got twatted at Bristol city too but I do remember us playing some amazing stuff…

Teletext has a place in my heart.

Quoted from Manchester Mariner

Teletext has a place in my heart.

And IDLES have a place too obviously

Quoted from livvo

And IDLES have a place too obviously

Very much so.

Not as much as teletext though.

Quoted from Manchester Mariner

Very much so.

Not as much as teletext though.

AIL. NFAMWIP