Sandypants
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Post by Sandypants on Sept 8, 2023 9:13:56 GMT
What if Sooty bought the club Best one yet! As if....... Too busy supporting his maj in diplomatic relations for that lark I'm sure.
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Post by saltyvinegar on Sept 8, 2023 9:14:04 GMT
Blackburn v Cambridge/ Coca Cola Cup Jan 6 1993. I think we got to the semis? losing 3-2. I think it was late in the game; Devon White went through on goal and had the chance to round keeper. Keeper gets a hand to it! They go down the other end and score! Small margins! Gary Clayton scored a long range cracker to go 1-0 up & I think soon after that Devon White missed the one-on-one chance before Blackburn dominated the rest of the game & we only scored a consolation late on. I went with a neutral family member from my wife's side & he said that we'd go down that season which was sadly true
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Post by safe standing on Sept 8, 2023 9:30:36 GMT
What if Rimpson hadn't scored the winner against Aldershot in our first season out of the league. Regional football and probably the end of the club, at least as we know it, would have been a real possibility. We would have stayed up with 52 points as 51 was the relegation cut off that season... also, it was our second season in the Conference.
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Wingco's Boy
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Post by Wingco's Boy on Sept 8, 2023 10:09:48 GMT
Ha... was thinking about putting this one in myself, although couldn't think of a way of really calling it a Sliding Doors moment (well done on that )... There are a couple of occasions which I particularly look back on and think the Footballing Gods could have let a little more magic grace the moment... just for the romance of it sort of thing...They wouldn't have changed anything much overall, clearly not Sliding Doors moments, but would have been bloody marvellous to witness and to share with fellow U's. The above is one. Although Lionel coming up for the penalty was great in itself and then managing to crock the 'keeper was some form of compensation for the save... if he'd scored! I'd probably still be celebrating! The other is Elliott hitting the post at Old Trafford. If that had gone in and we'd have led MU at their place, no matter how briefly, well, I'd have enjoyed that an awful lot. I'm probably just being greedy. It's not as if we've not had plenty of magic moments as it is. I actually genuinely though Elliot's strike at OT was going in. Even if it had, I'd still have assumed we were going to lose, but what a moment it would have been. OT pales into insignificance to SJP though. What if Jonjo Shelvey’s big toe hadn’t made contact with Worman’s through ball, and Joe’s winner had been cancelled for offside?
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squibbon
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Post by squibbon on Sept 8, 2023 10:33:31 GMT
What if Rimpson hadn't scored the winner against Aldershot in our first season out of the league. Regional football and probably the end of the club, at least as we know it, would have been a real possibility. We would have stayed up with 52 points as 51 was the relegation cut off that season... also, it was our second season in the Conference. It was a long time ago now! Although we would have just made it the pressure in that last game against Tamworth (I think) would have been different level.
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Post by saltyvinegar on Sept 8, 2023 11:01:36 GMT
I actually genuinely though Elliot's strike at OT was going in. Even if it had, I'd still have assumed we were going to lose, but what a moment it would have been. OT pales into insignificance to SJP though. What if Jonjo Shelvey’s big toe hadn’t made contact with Worman’s through ball, and Joe’s winner had been cancelled for offside? I then wouldn't have caught covid as spent the night in Toon with too many people & too much alcohol & the locals were a lot friendlier than I expected after beating them. However, it was only a mild dose & definitely worth it
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Post by Andrewlang on Sept 21, 2023 14:11:56 GMT
'In the summer of 1931, club president Henry Clement Francis acquired some land very close to the Celery Trenches known as Sindall’s Field and offered the club two choices: they could accept the whole site, undeveloped, or take a smaller parcel of land on which he would erect a fence and a grandstand for spectators. They accepted the latter option'
What if we had accepted the whole site? How much land are we talking?
Andrew
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hhabbin
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Post by hhabbin on Sept 21, 2023 16:48:49 GMT
The ordnance survey map of 1904 indicates that the field is bounded in the north by Newmarket Road east by what is now Cut Throat Lane south by what was the back wall of the Allotment End and west by Coldham's Brook. The only improvements on this are the area of Sindall's works later to become Corona works and is now the Supporters club/car park area. The 1945 map shows the original grandstand and the changing block on the Habbin side, also some sort of building facing Newmarket Road (not houses). The houses on Newmarket Road and Elfleda Road appear for the first time on the 1952 map. So, in brief the site was approximately double the size of the current stadium area.
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hersey
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Post by hersey on Sept 22, 2023 7:46:38 GMT
The only one I recall is Dimi in a penalty shootout last year. Scott Barrett scored for Colchester once. Andres What if Scott Barrett had been a goalkeeper?
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Post by fblock on Sept 23, 2023 10:06:42 GMT
What if Cambridge City had accepted the offer to join the Football League instead of Ipswich in the 1930’s?
Would City now have a stadium the size of Portman Road in Cambridge and have won the FA Cup and a European competition instead of them?
Would a City fan in a pink jacket have videos himself being upset about losing to a tin pot pissy club?
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Post by Andrewlang on Sept 23, 2023 10:38:50 GMT
They had a fairly big ground at one point didn't they..? Or certainly a tonne of land. Looking at the early history of the two clubs they were perhaps the more likely league team of the two.
Andrew
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Denton
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Post by Denton on Sept 23, 2023 10:46:45 GMT
They had a fairly big ground at one point didn't they..? Or certainly a tonne of land. Looking at the early history of the two clubs they were perhaps the more likely league team of the two. Andrew The stand on the left is absolutely huge for a terrace. I can imagine it probably fit 5-6000 in it back in the days before H&S
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Post by Andrewlang on Sept 23, 2023 10:54:15 GMT
I just googled it on Wikipedia and the ground had an estimated capacity of 16000 (one of the biggest outside of the league) with a record attendance of 12058 in 1950 against Leytonstone.
Andrew
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tojo
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Post by tojo on Sept 23, 2023 11:01:54 GMT
The side terrace at city was about the same size as the old away terrace at boro, stood on it many times late 60s/70s
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danielcufc
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Favourite CUFC match: Peterborough 1, Cambridge 5 London Road 3.1.1989
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Post by danielcufc on Oct 21, 2023 21:43:24 GMT
Fejiri’s penalty against Port Vale. Instead of another win and top 10 place we went on a 10 game winless run and Bonner resigned after losing to Bracknell at home…
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