Wembley / Millenium visits

Wrexham away was brilliant as you say.
Millwall at home for the playoffs the year after, Derek Stillie made some great saves late on IIRC and that was quite tense for a while.
Arsenal was good simply because of the timing. I was replying to the barage of ‘unlucky’ texts that I’d got when they scored criticising the officials and luckily had just put my phone away when the ball was hacked long to Roberts as it could have ended up anywhere.
Loved Everton simply because I didn’t see it coming.

In style

I wasn’t born for the 1st one & I wasn’t a Latics supporter for the 2nd one so I’m only goign off the last 4

For me it’s a toss up between the Wrexham away to qualify for the Auto Windscreens & Arsenal away for the Carling Cup
For Wrexham, we filled the away end & the atmosphere was bouncing all night – helped by a very early goal from Simon Haworth (scored down the far end, but all the players ran up to the away end to celebrate & the ref allowed Wrexham to re-start as all the Latics players were in their own half. The last one from Haworth was one of them screamers that he was capable of pulling out of the bag & was down in front of us. I’d snapped all my ankle ligaments celebrating a Paul Rogers equaliser a couple of weeks before at home to Gillingham & momentarily forget I was only on one foot when the first went in – I can still feel the pain now!!!

I say the Arsenal game for different reasons as I never thought we had a chance – didn’t go as it was midweek & I worked in a school that didn’t allow leave during term-time. So watched it in the Black Horse up Tyldesley with my future wife & a Latics mate. The emotions were up & down that night as we gave away a pen, saved it, had 3 penalty appeals turned down (2 were so nailed on that I’m still not sure how they weren’t given) & then Arsenal pressure told as they went ahead on aggregate in extra time. It looked like Latics had just run out of steam with seconds remaining – my mate got up for a slash as he “can’t stand watchin them gits celebrate at full time”, I had a face on & was just about to snap at the lady for coming out with the “it’s only a game & they’ve played well” line, when the ball got punted forward by Kavanagh. I leapt up shouting, my arm getting tugged to sit down by my girlfriend coz I was “embarrassing”, bit of grunting & growning as Scharner & Roberts seemed to get the ball stuck under their feet & finally knocking numerous tables & stools over, screaming as it hit the back of the net. Closely followed by my mate coming legging it from the direction of the bogs, tryna do up his zip & with a fresh pish stain on his keks. I remember getting some shots in at full time & then the rest of the evening is a bit of a haze.
Had the mother of all hangovers in work the next day

I was at the Arsenal game and my seat was about half way back behind the goals. When I realised we had won I went with the bouncing crowd from middle to bottom, to right at back and then down to bottom again. I made myself ill by screaming my head off and had to sit down, I felt that sick.

Came out of Highbury singing and then realised coach wasn’t were it had dropped us off. Started to panic a bit and had to ask a copper were the coach was.

The trip home felt like 5 minutes. What a night even beats the Stoke away game for shear elation. :woohoo:

I went to the England-Spain game a few years ago, and it was about £8 for the “pie and a pint” deal :angry:

Wrexham was a good night, seem to remember half the Latics following missing the 1st goal as it was a 7.30 not 7.45 KO…cracking celebrations.

Arsenal has to be the best one though, for what it meant, we weren’t supposed to get through v Henry/Bergkamp etc, but most of all the drama at the end and the celebrations/disbelief at what we’d just seen. Remember Whelan coming over to us fans down the side of the pitch and just shouting about “Europe/Cardiff/Final” allsorts.

I suppose for me personally it would have to be the FA trophy semi v Stafford Rangers at Owdums ice station zebra.I was only a young kid and the 2-1 victory saw the club at Wembley for the very first time.Arsenal and Wrexham were awesome but it doesnt seem to be as exciting as an adult as when your just a child.Oh and at the time Owdum had their own radio station called Radio Latics which was appropriate.