This next upload takes us back to the dramatic final day of the 1995/96 Premier League season, a day when four clubs Manchester City, Coventry City, Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton all entered the afternoon fighting to avoid the one remaining relegation place, with Bolton and QPR already down. As results filtered through, Wednesday, Coventry and Southampton all drew their matches against West Ham, Wimbledon and Leeds respectively. That left Dave Merrington’s Saints in the most precarious position of the lot. Everything now hinged on what Manchester City could produce at Maine Road against Liverpool, who themselves had one eye on the upcoming FA Cup Final the following Saturday against Manchester United. What followed was a tense, emotional and chaotic thriller, the kind that would later become a trademark of clashes between these two clubs in the Pep versus Klopp era of epic Premier League title races and Champions League battles. But in 1996 the stakes were even more brutal. Top flight survival was on the line for Alan Ball’s Manchester City, in his first season in charge.
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