Hear’Say had been high of the pops, a cell phone recreation known as ‘Snake’ was all the trend and Tony Blair was Prime Minister.
Wind the clock again to April 2001 and issues seemed fairly totally different.
It was additionally the final time Coventry Metropolis tasted victory in English soccer’s high flight.
That got here courtesy of a 1-0 win over Sunderland – John Hartson heading within the winner for Gordon Strachan’s aspect in entrance of 20,946 followers at Highfield Street.
A lot has occurred within the lifetime of Coventry since that second 9,287 days in the past. A rollercoaster journey is perhaps understating it.
They had been relegated on the finish of the 2000-01 marketing campaign and would spend the following 11 seasons within the second tier earlier than dropping all the way down to League One in 2012.
Then adopted a very darkish and turbulent interval within the membership’s historical past that includes factors deductions and a stint in administration.
Having left Highfield Street in 2005 they turned embroiled in a bitter dispute over the Ricoh Enviornment in 2013 and its lease.
The nadir, arguably, was once they had been pressured to play matches away from Coventry, at Northampton City, earlier than later plummeting all the way down to the fourth tier for the primary time in 59 years in 2017.
Likely there have been these packed into the Bridgford Stand on the Metropolis Floor on Saturday who had been current throughout these years of Sky Blue hell.
So the explosion of emotion on the full-time whistle – after Jay Dasilva’s objective settled issues – felt like Sky Blue heaven.
“It has been a tricky opening for us, so these first Premier League factors really feel nice,” Coventry boss Frank Lampard informed BBC Radio 5 Dwell.
“I assumed the gamers had been good. The combat, work ethic and togetherness but additionally the tactical aspect of it. They dug and fought for one another which is what that you must win a Premier League recreation.”