The media coverage we (York) have had since events at Spotland on Saturday have been nuts.
There were over 4,000 of us at the LNER for a screening of the game and a few left when Rochdale scored. We stayed and because of the nature of our goal it was a few seconds before I realised what had happened.
It would have been a travesty if we hadn’t won the league but Rochdale kept getting out of jail with injury time winners in their previous three games. It felt inevitable that there would be more injury time madness.
And so apt that both teams scored in that period.
I don’t think any City fan will ever witness anything like that again in our lifetime and I hope we continue to progress. With the ambitions of the Ugglas we should hopefully do that.
Unfortunately the council/police have at least for now put paid to any hope of an open top bus parade which wasn’t a problem back in 1984 (4th Div Champs and 1st team to score 100 pts) and our two play off wins in 1993 and 2012.
Still there will be a sizeable crowd at the ground tonight for a get together and whilst like a lot of York fans we miss Bootham Crescent, the LNER is a great facility. Although with us doing well and the Knights now in Super League the current capacity of 8500 here may not be enough in the future.
