Immediately after the game it was Sunday

 

I've since read shouts for reading

 

Hull maybe

 

But, on reflection it's Sunday

 

Massive tension

 

Never really believed we would pull it off

 

Topped off a season I've enjoyed and was worried would end in failure

 

As it is I can remember some proper gutsy wins and draws and blank out the dismal capitulations

Reading. Expected to win. Fucked it up battled back.

 

Hull great night win with ten men

 

Forest no expectations need everything to fall in place and the pure drama.

 

Liverpool away deserves a mention.

 

Does it really matter ? I have had at least half a dozen people congratulate me on my success today.

Suppose Wrexham is similar to forest

 

But there was always another day

 

I believe we are such an iffy place with money that it was so much more than a game of football

 

Such a release when it was over

Reading for me but I was 14 then so view it through rose tinted glasses.

Maybe just because it's only just happened it feels like Sunday is the winner for me. It's just the way it happened, to go from despair to joy so quickly and so late on.

 

I'm still buzzing from it.

Reading seems a long long time ago now... I think I was in more disbelief on Sunday; that 95 didn't know it was beat, never gave up, and played at pace

There are different kinds of great games like promotion clinchers at B/burn, Hull,Wrexham, or the sheer pleasure of the Frankie Worthy win at munich, or the pride of playing in Europe etc etc but for pure ( almost unbelievable ) drama, it has to be between Sunday & Reading.

 

I'm choosing Sunday because it could mean so much to the future of the club, & also because i was stone cold sober & felt every second of those last 10 ?? minutes.

I think the thing with Sunday is that we only had 4 minutes to save ourselves. Against Reading we had at least 45 minutes.

 

Can't pick between the two - but if someone had said we'd even be having this discussion this time last week I'd have said they were insane.

I think Reading shades it for me as the prize was bigger.

 

2nd leg v Swindon is up there too.

 

Best moment in the last 20 years though, that's for sure

Forest. Thought nowt could top Reading and been waiting for that feeling ever since

 

This did it, with knobs on

For me, Preston meant more to the club at the time. We were skint (again) so failure would have been horrific.

 

Sunday was great but I doubt I will ever see anything better than Wrexham

I think I went more mental when Holden scored against Blackburn but Sunday it was pretty nuts hugging strangers bouncing on seats absolutely ace

The thing about Reading is that it wasn't just the result and the manner in which it was achieved. It was the first time we'd been in the top flight for 15 years and we'd been through some utter shit in the intervening period. 

 

The Preston play off match in 2001 isn't being mentioned but deserves to be. I admit it's not gonna make the top 3 but it was a brilliant day. 

 

Clinching European qualification at Fratton Park in 2005 was some feeling.

 

Bayern Munich, two wins at Old Trafford, Athletico Madrid ...

 

Overall though there's something about Sunday that punches through. I'm going to go joint greatest games ever - yesterday and Reading. That's over 40 years of watching the club.

Reading then Sunday for me

Reading has always been the legendary game but I wasn’t there and only saw it on TV as a nipper.

 

I’ve had Munich as my number one for a decade because of the experience, the opposition, the level we were playing at and the late goal, but Sunday now tops it for me. It’s the stuff of legend there should be a giant black and white photo of that diving header adorning the town hall steps.

 

Personally as well I didn’t enjoy last season’s final game and celebrations as much as I should have, made sure I put that right on Sunday and it won’t be forgotten ever.

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I’ve not been in a celebration like Sunday as a grown adult.

Certainly the best of the Horwich era.

 

I’m pleased for the current yoof, they’ve earned that and it should add to their numbers.

 

One massive game can secure a fanbase.

 

Seismic

Sunday will certainly take some beating, Incredible scenes. My shins are fucking battered.

Reading for me

We certainly have kept up the something happening in every season thing.

 

I can only think of 3-4 flat ends to a season that didn’t involved some kind of drama, promotion, cup run or relegation.

 

Right from the 80’s, every single season bar 3 or 4 had something.

We certainly have kept up the something happening in every season thing.

 

I can only think of 3-4 flat ends to a season that didn’t involved some kind of drama, promotion, cup run or relegation.

 

Right from the 80’s, every single season bar 3 or 4 had something.

It was quite refreshing the year we had the “not going down, not going up” song but fuck me I’d hate to do it every year a la Forest. Can’t beat the drama you get following BWFC.

 

And although I’m a bit too young to have been at the Reading game (I do remember listening to the game on the radio though when on a Bank Holiday family day out), that game at least had an expectation that the team were more than capable of a comeback. To go from the Burton game to the last 3 minutes - the entire game, in fact - on Sunday is just incomparable.

The thing about Reading is that it wasn't just the result and the manner in which it was achieved. It was the first time we'd been in the top flight for 15 years and we'd been through some utter shit in the intervening period. 

 

The Preston play off match in 2001 isn't being mentioned but deserves to be. I admit it's not gonna make the top 3 but it was a brilliant day. 

 

Clinching European qualification at Fratton Park in 2005 was some feeling.

 

Bayern Munich, two wins at Old Trafford, Athletico Madrid ...

 

Overall though there's something about Sunday that punches through. I'm going to go joint greatest games ever - yesterday and Reading. That's over 40 years of watching the club.

Aye...lots of different feelings from those games. Reading was astonishing when the equalizer went in, but then we had 30 mins during which we just knew we'd do it. Sunday was more immediate. Was Reading bigger because we got to the Prem? Maybe, but there was much less money involved then and we got battered most of the time the following season. If we'd have missed out that day then we could have done our 100 goal/point the next season anyhow.

If we'd have missed out on Sunday we might have come straight back up but maybe not - and could have been consigned to 3rd tier stuff for many a year. But we may be facing that this time next year anyway.

So hard to judge. Completing the comeback against Swindon in the LC semi was as great a story in many ways, but again with a good team who you thought could do it and just played into the frenzy that resulted. But Sunday was just so odd, so astonishing in the circumstances.

So in that sense it edges it for me, but as noted above Fratton Park at full time was equally astonishing when the penny dropped about what we'd done. We'll have late survivals again sometime down the line, but it could be well beyond my lifetime before we get the feeling of Europe culminating a generation-long climb back from the old 4th. In fact looking at it that way, it will probably never happen again....not the long 4 division haul back / qualify through the league combo anyhow.

So if I had to drop one the great days from my memory, that would be the last one I'd go for.

Having said that, for simple "what the fuck have I just witnessed" then Sunday will equal anything.

Reading for me

To be fair I'm just on about games I've seen

 

Just imagine being a Coventry City fan for the last 25 years

Sunday will certainly take some beating, Incredible scenes. My shins are fucking battered.

Aye when Alf scored I nearly went over.

Wilbrahamavic scoring had me the next row down.