My history teacher when I lived in Wigan went to that game. On the Monday after the game as I came into the classroom he took me to one side and shook my hand and thanked me as he went down to Nottingham to see his in laws and they insisted on taking him to the game and he hated them.
Second division at Manchester City we lost 2-0 1983/84 season, I am pretty sure that result killed off any faint hope of a late promotion push by us to go straight back up.