The games that you wanted to be at as City recovered from 2002.
Four games into new chairman Gordon Gibb's first season at Valley Parade and City were being presented as a joke as they rolled into Ipswich. "Town want 100 goals this season, maight get that tonight" suggested one local reporter. Darren Bent's goal after ten minutes suggested he could be right, Paul Evans bent free kick form 25 yards and on loan Michael Proctor's drive thumbed noses at the people who suggested that Ipswich were definantely up and City were definantely down. Nicky Law had described his team as "not knowing how to be beaten", you could believe him.
The game that launched the next era of Bantam football. Nicky Law was struggling for a striker and called in aging Adrian Littlejohn who subsequently turned down City's offer of £350 to turn up for games with no offer of training. Law, who had already refreshed the career of Lewis Emanuel and introduced youngster Simon Francis to the side was forced to field 18 year old Danny Forrest. The game was tight until Ipswich went down to ten men and responded by sacrificing the wings to City's young pair of Francis and Emanuel.
The City juniors ripped into Ipswich creating chance after chance one of which was gobbled up by Claus Jorgensen and the other by Forrest who sprinted to his brother at the front of the Kop to celebrate his strike.
The buzz after the game was all about the three youngsters. Emanuel and Francis were appreciated but the emergence of a centreforward, so long City's Achilles heel has been up front, and a local one at that galvanised the trend of youngsters Gordon Gibb had called for into a genuine movement at City.
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