Anyone remember this game

[ricardo 8,041]

A few City and Liverpool legends in this game.

 

Edited March 10, 2023 by ricardo

[Hairy Canary 759]

Yes I remember it! 

I had to go to a friends wedding in Bedford and missed it. I had no idea of the score so rang my dad who had been to the game (on one of those red payphones) and he told me we had lost 3 nil. I totally believed him and didn't find out we'd won until someone told me hours later! 

Edited March 10, 2023 by Hairy Canary

[Google Bot 3,936]

How come the penalty areas look so wide?  Is it because of the lower camera or did they use different lenses or something? Or Perhaps the video is stretched.

And you're right, so many legends on that field.

Edited March 10, 2023 by Google Bot

[Yobocop 1,444]

Bit before my time (4 years before I was born) 

[Branston Pickle 4,152]

Great stuff. It’s amazing the difference in the quality of pitches when compared to nowadays, and I think I’m right that game was played in December?

[Midlands Yellow 4,682]

3 minutes ago, Branston Pickle said:

Great stuff. It’s amazing the difference in the quality of pitches when compared to nowadays, and I think I’m right that game was played in December?

It keeps flashing up 4th of December so you’re quite correct. 

Edited March 10, 2023 by Midlands Yellow

[canarydan23 4,770]

38 minutes ago, Branston Pickle said:

Great stuff. It’s amazing the difference in the quality of pitches when compared to nowadays, and I think I’m right that game was played in December?

My gut feeling is that maybe it was 4th December....

[Capt. Pants 5,017]

Crying out for brighter floodlights and somewhat questionable quality but...

Here's the final table.

[ricardo 8,041]

Wierd to think that Notts County who finished 15th are no longer in the football league. 

Also quite a number have been down to league 1 between then and now, including us.

[Faded Jaded Semi Plastic SOB 1,223]

I was at this game, thanks for sharing Ricardo...........

[Branston Pickle 4,152]

36 minutes ago, canarydan23 said:

My gut feeling is that maybe it was 4th December....

No real need for smugness - I didn’t see that in my ‘viewer’. I was just guessing from them saying it was our 16th(?) game of the season. The pitch was dire given it wasn’t even halfway through the season.

Edited March 10, 2023 by Branston Pickle

[Google Bot 3,936]

That league table above, the difference between home and away matches seems far greater than nowadays.  Wonder why that was, atmosphere/hostility was greater perhaps.  Or nowadays the higher teams are just more consistent and of better standard?

[cornish sam 1,040]

1 minute ago, Google Bot said:

That league table above, the difference between home and away matches seems far greater than nowadays.  Wonder why that was, atmosphere/hostility was greater perhaps.  Or nowadays the higher teams are just more consistent and of better standard?

I imagine a lot of it also has to do with the stuff around the match, travelling, preperation. facilities, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if the majority of away teams travelled on the morning of the match and played within an hour or two of a many hours long coach trip on a bog standard coach with limited leg room etc.

[TIL 1010 5,246]

I remember it well .

[Peregrine Shorts 538]

I believe you got a star on your shirt for finishing 9th that season

[dylanisabaddog 6,149]

He's fat

He's round 

He bounces off the ground 

Sammy Lee

[damn that Ralph Coates! 74]

great day.

I loved John Deehan, no nonsense striker

[mccanary 106]

And we moan about giving the ball away now !! 

[Norfolk Dan 336]

4 hours ago, Capt. Pants said:

Crying out for brighter floodlights and somewhat questionable quality but...

Here's the final table.

Home and away league table.. try finding one of those for the Prem or Chumps! 

 

[It's Character Forming 1,204]

3 hours ago, Google Bot said:

That league table above, the difference between home and away matches seems far greater than nowadays.  Wonder why that was, atmosphere/hostility was greater perhaps.  Or nowadays the higher teams are just more consistent and of better standard?

I think I remember reading that on average games are 50% home wins, 25% draws and 25% away wins, which was fairly recent.  No idea how that stacks up against the 80s.  Nor indeed can I remember where I read it, possibly The Numbers Game or somewhere else...

[Christoph Stiepermann 1,261]

16 minutes ago, mccanary said:

And we moan about giving the ball away now !! 

True but it's part of the charm. Well before my time but I love watching football from past era's. Games are very robotic now and you can often tell within the first 10 minutes or so how the game is going to pan out. Back then it was scrappy, almost like current L1 football but the players have a great first touch, shot and ball control, it was unpredictable and more exciting imo. Even going back to the early 2000's when I started supporting there was usually very little pattern to a game, it ebbed and flowed and you never knew what was going to happen at any given moment.You still get exciting games now obviously and we have more than our fair share, but in the past it seemed more like 11 men v 11 men as opposed to one well drilled tactically astute team working as a whole against another fighting for marginal space and trying to exploit specific weaknesses. I enjoy both sides but football from the past has it's charm. 

[raunds canary 238]

Remember it well. My brother was Liverpool fan and in the away section. I was in the Barclay and my dad was sat on the half way line. Could do with a John deehan now and a Dave Watson 

[Barham Blitz 869]

1 hour ago, damn that Ralph Coates! said:

great day.

I loved John Deehan, no nonsense striker

John Deehan was my first favourite City player.  Not convinced that goal was a cunning little lob though: more of a lucky slice on second viewing, but who cares !?  Still think that first half handball was in the area mind ..

Edit:  got to the end and saw the interview where he admitted it was a miss-hit !

Edited March 10, 2023 by Barham Blitz

[damn that Ralph Coates! 74]

6 minutes ago, Barham Blitz said:

John Deehan was my first favourite City player.  Not convinced that goal was a cunning little lob though: more of a lucky slice on second viewing, but who cares !?  Still think that first half handball was in the area mind ..

Edit:  got to the end and saw the interview where he admitted it was a miss-hit !

He was still playing up front a couple of years later, in our best home win

https://youtu.be/7Ls5AwzPGiM

[Barham Blitz 869]

3 minutes ago, damn that Ralph Coates! said:

He was still playing up front a couple of years later, in our best home win

https://youtu.be/7Ls5AwzPGiM

I remember that one very well - my family had just moved down South and I was getting some stick at school for being the lone Norwich fan amongst a sea of Spurs and Arsenal supporters.  I enjoyed the next Monday !

[Barham Blitz 869]

Just having an idle if nostalgic scroll through the 81/82 squad list when I came across a semi-familiar name that looked wildly out of place so I had to check it.

I had no idea that we had Wynton Rufer on the books that season.  According to Wiki, Ken Brown signed him but he was denied a work permit.

Won the Bundesliga and the Cup Winner's Cup and went on to finish joint top scorer in the Champions League in the 93/94 season for Werder Bremen ?!

Edited March 10, 2023 by Barham Blitz

[How I Wrote Elastic Man 1,331]

6 minutes ago, Barham Blitz said:

Just having an idle if nostalgic scroll through the 81/82 squad list when I came across a semi-familiar name that looked wildly out of place so I had to check it.

I had no idea that we had Wynton Rufer on the books that season.  According to Wiki, Ken Brown signed him but he was denied a work permit.

Won the Bundesliga and the Cup Winner's Cup and went on to finish joint top scorer in the Champions League in the 93/94 season for Werder Bremen ?!

Yeah

A New Zealander, couldn't get a work permit 

😧

[Graham Paddons Beard 2,797]

Special mention to Eric Gates throwing himself on the floor for the Binners in the opening credits. Proving that diving isn’t a new thing . 

[Graham Paddons Beard 2,797]

6 hours ago, Peregrine Shorts said:

I believe you got a star on your shirt for finishing 9th that season

It was the beginning of the end for the Binners. The era of winning cups no longer played for in stadiums that have been long demolished was at an end . 

[Mutley 167]

Thanks for sharing Ricardo. I was there in the Barclay. An unexpected victory. On the way out I was attacked by a group of scousers on the zig zag path leading off Rouen Road up the hill who then stole my scarf as a souvenir. So mixed emotions of the day.