What is the most defining moment for your club/s??? what was the event that made everything that follow it fantastic to support your team?? Or vice versa what was the key moment that left your club in the lurch it is in now???
Portsmouth - Milan Mandaric coming in and saving us from extinction in 1999
Rangers - Celtic winning the league in 1998 and stopping our dominance
our biggest moment hasn't happened yet though, it will happen in less than two years when we move around the corner to Drayton Park to our new 60,000 seat stadium. :happy:
Becoming the first British team (non-Latin actually) to win the European Cup in 1967.
Or, when the rebels led the "sack the board" campaign to overthrow the old family dynasty that took Celtic to within hours of being bankrupt in 1994, which led to a massive regeneration of Celtic, inc a new 60,000 all seater stadium, league title wins and a European final within 10 years.
our biggest moment hasn't happened yet though, it will happen in less than two years when we move around the corner to Drayton Park to our new 60,000 seat stadium. :happy:
1968 - Ending the 11 year run of not beating Santos of Pele
1974- Expelling Rivelino from our club for being a coward git
1976- Biggest ever away fan invasion into another stadium. Actually it was the biggest movement of people in the world from one location to another without the reason being war or religion! Corinthians were 22 years without a major trophy and we packed 70K fans in the Maracana against Fluminense in Rio. It was a 10 hour drive for all buses & cars
1977- 23 years of no Sao Paulo state trophies coming to an end
1982- The year of the "Corinthians Democracy", which helped Brazil go back to a democracy and end the years of military regime Everything was decided on the vote internally within the club.
1990 - We win our first Brazilian championship title, wiht a goal scored with the knee and the other was a slide tackle..... pure Corinthians style
2000- Corinthians win the FIFA First Club World Title
2004 - Kia Joorbichian's MSI signs a multi-million dollar contract with Corinthians, and has plans to make the brand (which is the most powerful of Sao Paulo state & Second of Brazil), be the biggest of the left side of the Atlantic
Probably Dickov's equaliser against Gillingham in 1999. If we'd have lost that we'd never have got promoted again and maybe gone bankrupt.
How sad is that though? A Division 2 playoff the most important event for us having won the European CUp Winners' Cup, the League, FA Cup and League Cup? Tells you how much money plays a part nowadays.
Winning the European Cup in 91. It's the pinnacle of our achievements, the season after was the last time we have competed in Europe's premier competition.
+ The only our championship title of independent Lithuania in 1993.
- Month ago: almost kicked out of the league two days before decisive match in final round at home against level-on-points rivals.
I'd also probably say the sanctions being put in place in 92, causing us to fall behind, having to sell all our players with the funds being frozen in banks. All that has probably led to our downfall along with some really poor management in recent years.
-Beating the crap out of the European Cup holders Man Utd
-Beating the crap out of one of the most hated teams around, Arsenal.
-Losing to Real Madrid in the final of the Champions League back in ol' days
-Getting relegated from Serie A, going bankrupt, then reforming getting succesive promotions in the lower divisions till we got back to where we belong.
-Owning the most talented striker in modern football history; Gabriel Batistuta.
what ? we outplayed you in both games, only Kanu missing a penalty and numerous chances plus a goal from Batistuta in virtually your only attack sent you through.
hmmm....now I think about it, we beat you in the return game. Hardly registers really, but glad to see a win over us is one of the high points of your club's history :dielaugh:
****, even as a city fan I can say that was not the most important. Busby's appointment was more important, as was Ferguson winning the League Cup in 1990 (I think thats the year, correct me fred), because had he not won that, he'd have probably been sacked and you'd have struggled in mid-table most likely.
I suppose if you're looking at more historic ones, for City the appointment of Joe Mercer OBE (how was he never knighted?!) and Malcolm allison in 1965. They turned the club fomr Division 2 strugglers to Division 1 winners in 3 years, plus brought 4 more trophies in after that. Also the signings of Bell, Lee, Summerbee and Book perhaps?
~ The Green ne
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