Before he took his place in goal to face Guy Butters' penalty, Weaver checked with the linesman. It is impossible to know what would have happened to City if they had failed to beat Gillingham at Wembley. Despite being in the third tier, City boasted the 13th highest average league attendance in English football during the 1998-99 campaign. The only non-Premier League club to exceed their 28,261 was Sunderland. "If City now were just a mediocre Premier League club, people wouldn't talk about it as much as they do.

Source: BBC May 24, 2019 21:33 UTC