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Highs:
The FAI Cup final win in 1998
The league Cup final win of the same year.
Last season's european run
Anytime beating Shels in Tolka
The 3-2 games vs Bohs and Rovers
Lows:
City fans fighting amongst themselves.
The way Derek Mountfield was treated.
Misbehaviour by some city "fans", especially against rovers last year.
Being beaten by Metalurgs
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Originally Posted by Éanna
and gunther ;)
Top 5 Highs (Not neccesarily in this order
1) Dundalk - April 96. We needed a win to clinch the title. Score standing at 1-1 with 5 minutes left after numerous chances had gone begging in the 2nd half. Up steps "Soupy" Campbell for a free kick on the edge of the box.... the rest is history. Glorious moment.
2) Kilkenny 98. Shels needing 1 point for the title, us heading to Kilkenny very much more iin hope than in expectation. With the score at 1-1 in the second half the news comes through on my walkman, Dundalk 1, Shels 0. I leapt up and the radio flew from my coat pocket. A couple of minutes later, Dundalk 2, Shels 0. The nerves are jangling now as we press for a winnner. For Shels to lose and Pats to blow it by not winning themselves is unthinkable, surely. Ten minutes to go and a jammy deflection off a weak Eddie Gormley shot...we are the champions :D
3) Cup quarter final epic series v Shels in 98. This should be a low really, as we lost on penalties in the 2nd replay, but those games had everything. Drama, excitement, goals, great attendances and wonderful passion in the stands. It summed up for me at the time, and still does, what this league could be like all the time.(And we chanted at the end "We're going to win the league"- which we did)
4) Turners Cross, January 99. One of the great series of title deciders with Cork that season. We should have been dead and buried at half time, and more than a goal behind. Second half we turned it around in the space of a few minutes. Another game with a great attendance and wonderful athmosphere.
5)December 1996. 5-0 v Bohs. Brian Kerrs 10th anniversary in charge, an ice rink for a pitch, and probably the best display of football I've ever seen from any Pats team. A brilliant hat trick for Martin Reilly, the third a breakaway move that swept the length of the pitch. So that's what sublime looks like.
6) (OK, I said 5, but I couldn't leave this out). Beating Shels 3-2 at Richmond the year of the registration wars. 2-0 down after 15 minutes, we come back and beat them. And Charlie and Paul Marney get two of the goals, now that's what I Call Karma.
Lows
1) Cup final replay v Shels 1996. Eddie Gormley misses a penalty, a couple of minutes later they break and get the winner. And we lose out on the first double in the clubs history.
2)FC Zimbru 1999. 10-0 to the Refugees. The 5-0 defeat at home was the night it all came crashing down for the club in my view. I don't think we've ever really recovered the optimism we had before that game.
3) Cup final v Longford 2003. After 40 years this just had to be our cup, didn't it ? No, it bloody well didn't.
4)Being comprehensively beaten by Shels every time we've played them in the last couple of seasons. After years of regularly sticking it to them it's just soooo hard to stomach.
5)The retirement through a life threatning condition of Mr Charles MBabazi Livingstone. Too cruel for words.