Remembering 92/93

[Exeter 77]

I couldn't get to that Southampton game because the points on the railway track between Crewe and Stafford had frozen.

[AV82EC]

I drove to that Southampton game from Chester in a mini metro. How I got home through the snow was a miracle in itself! In fact wasn’t that 93/94?

[usav]

The coldest I have ever been at a game was at Notts County in midweek in the BFR days.

Cup replay or postponement on a Tuesday night - feckin' freezing.   Tons of Villa there.

[Matt Collins]

I am trying to remember if there was a point when I was 100% convinced we would win the league. Possibly when we won at Anfield in the January. But I don't remember ever thinking it was ours, whereas in 1990 I was totally convinced we would be champions as we left White Hart Lane on the night of our 2-0 win.

I loved that season but I never really believed we’d win. As BFR said when interviewed on the Villa Review podcast, Man Utd had much better players than us. The hope was that they’d bottle it again.

Obviously th Sheffield Wednesday comeback didn’t help but personally I think they were always likely to win

[Damo70]

I am trying to remember if there was a point when I was 100% convinced we would win the league. Possibly when we won at Anfield in the January. But I don't remember ever thinking it was ours, whereas in 1990 I was totally convinced we would be champions as we left White Hart Lane on the night of our 2-0 win.

I loved that season but I never really believed we’d win. As BFR said when interviewed on the Villa Review podcast, Man Utd had much better players than us. The hope was that they’d bottle it again.

Obviously th Sheffield Wednesday comeback didn’t help but personally I think they were always likely to win

We lost some crucial very 'winable' games late on in 1990 and 1993 whereas in 1981 we won those kind of games.

[Withe or without you]

Some great away days that season, Anfield, Old Trafford and Highbury - how many seasons can we say we did those three unbeaten.

[Holte L2]

Some great away days that season, Anfield, Old Trafford and Highbury - how many seasons can we say we did those three unbeaten.

2009/2010 season.

[eamonn]

How were we tipped to do on the eve of the new dawn 92/93 season? Was United's squad streets ahead? Or were Leeds, Liverpool and Arsenal more hotly-tipped?

We bought Deano early on, they got Cantona a couple of months after, without looking I'm not sure how much football Bryan Robson played for them that season.

[Damo70]

Some great away days that season, Anfield, Old Trafford and Highbury - how many seasons can we say we did those three unbeaten.

We had a good spell in North London for a while. Winning 3-2 at Arsenal early on in our first season back up in 1988 (the whole game is on Youtube). That was my first visit to Highbury. Winning at Spurs and Arsenal in live midweek games at crucial points in the season in 1990 in what at the time were crucial title six pointers. Spurs and Arsenal finished third and fourth just behind us that season. Coming out of White Hart Lane that night I was convinced we would win the league. At Highbury Chris Price missed a sitter quite late on, prompting one of our car load of mates to announce "Price will never score as long as he has got a hole in his arse"! Moments later he scored the only goal of the game. I remember in BFR's first season going to WHL and being 2-0 down and winning 2-5. I also remember winning 1-0 at Highbury with a late Tony Daley goal and then finding out on the radio of the coach after the game that the noses had been 4-1 up at home to Swindon and ended up losing 4-6.
I moved abroad for a couple of years in the mid nineties but as I recall our success in North London carried on for a while.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Remembering 92/93?

I try not to...

[tomd2103]

Remembering 92/93?

I try not to...

To not win the league that year was one of the biggest disappointments I have had following the club.  To win the first Premier League title would have been great as would have winning the last FA Cup final played at the old Wembley. 

[Damo70]

Remembering 92/93?

I try not to...

To not win the league that year was one of the biggest disappointments I have had following the club.  To win the first Premier League title would have been great as would have winning the last FA Cup final played at the old Wembley.

We had a bit of Karma thrown back at us that season. Ipswich like to point out they beat us three times in 1980/81. We played United three times in the first PL season and won two and drew one.

[eamonn]

So, Damo, you're a betting man. Can you cast your brain back 26 years back and recall how well we were tipped?

[Damo70]

So, Damo, you're a betting man. Can you cast your brain back 26 years back and recall how well we were tipped?

I didn't start my football betting until I moved abroad in 1994. A mate of mine out there ran a bookies business from a corner in one of the bars.

[Deano's Mullet]

Pretty sure we were only fancied as an outsider? Leeds,. Arsenal, Man United and - yes - Sheffield Wednesday were all the favourites that season. Knowing the media, probably Spurs too.  Chelsea and Man City would have been nowhere and Newcastle and West Ham weren't even in the division.