Manchester City fans still hold a grudge against Luton for relegating them in 1983. Luton's recent promotion to the Premier League brings back painful memories for City supporters.
Manchester City spend their time these days mixing with with Liverpool and Real Madrid, but for some of their fans they will never forget or forgive Luton .
Another League Cup had followed in 1976 and City finished runners-up the following year, yet six years after that they were relegated having finished 10th the season before. A generation of Blues couldn't contemplate how things had gone so badly wrong so quickly, and what made it worse was that fans had been convincing themselves for months that the unthinkable would not happen.
City should have had home advantage at the raucous Maine Road, although fans who were used to competing for trophies were not best pleased at the slide down the table. The players got it in the neck when things weren't going well, and captain Paul Power remembered the tension in the crowd working against the team.
"I'm probably thinking of the Luton game. We played Brighton the week before and we got a result, beating them away, but we still had to draw the final game at Maine Road and it was like as long as the game went on you could feel the tension in the players but more so in the crowd. "They dropped in it. It was horrible," said Horton. "You can't play for a draw, I find it impossible because I'd never set a team up to play for a draw like teams do now when they come to City. I didn't want to do it as a player and I wouldn't as a manager.
Things weren't any better outside the stadium. City fans looked to attack the Luton bus as it headed out of Moss Side but one supporter was so eager he didn't see the car coming as he crossed the road. Luton physio John Sheridan actually got off the bus to treat the man for a suspected broken leg, all while being spat at and having insults hurled at him, with police warning him to get back and escape before any of the players were put in danger.
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