15 years ago this weekend, Isaiah Rankin was the relegation saving hero in injury time against Brentford. Is someone going to write themselves into folklore tomorrow against the same opposition?
I don't think we'd exist in the same form we do now had that goal not been scored. Some people reckon we were five minutes from going bust at one point during the administration saga. Had we dropped into the bottom division, we'd have been done for.
There’s only one player who could emulate this on Saturday - Thiam. Would love him to get a brace tomorrow. He’s been injured, but I’ve always felt that if he can score a couple, his confidence and self-belief will be sky high and we might see a changed man.
I know it's awful that we've a decent chance of going down tomorrow, but as a younger supporter I can't fathom that we were so close to being relegated to League 2 on that day. League 2 ffs.
They were dark, dark times. A completely different world to the situation we find ourselves in now. Relegation tomorrow will be a temporary setback. Then, it could easily have been fatal.
Just checked the table that year and 1 team that were relegated to the bottom division was Huddersfield Town.
