Name the players in this 1964/5 squad

ColinBellsjockstrap said:
Two notable games I went to from that era:-

Bert Trautmann's testimonial match.

Also January 1965 stood on a virtually deserted freezing scoreboard end, when we lost 2-1 to Swindon Town and Mike Summerbee scored for Swindon. We had our lowest ever attendance 8015.

I bumped into Stan Horne about five years ago, he was looking well and says he still goes to City.
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I was at that game and on the scoreboard end. We've had plenty of previous when it comes to reverses. The CL final was a bloody cake walk compared to some of the results in the first half of the 60s.
 
spacecadet said:
Correct, mustn't have been taken on 1st March 1958 then as medadata implied. Possibly 5th v Brum at Maine Road?
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Nope - Just checked & Barlow scored in that game. Not sure if the photo was taken at Maine Road. With the black arm bands I would have thought it likely to be immediately following Munich. Thus either Spuds away on the 8th Feb (lost 1-5, Hayes scored) or Leicester away on 22 Feb (lost 4-8 - yes 8 ! - Johnstone 2, Barnes, McAdams).

Reckon it must have been Spuds away on the 8th Feb. We wouldn't have been playing in sky blue at Leicester.

Bit of a brain teaser this ! Where's Gary James when we need him ? Lol.
 
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My first City game was v Blackpool in 1961, but my dad (aged 10) went to the sixth round 84,569 match, sixth round of the FA cup v Stoke. Eric Brook scored from near the corner flag in a 1-0 win. City went on to the final to beat Portsmouth 2-1. Frank Swift played a blinder.

City were in the final the year before, but were beaten by Everton 3-0. This was the first final numbers were worn on the back of players shirts.
 
ColinBellsjockstrap said:
My first City game was v Blackpool in 1961, but my dad (aged 10) went to the sixth round 84,569 match, sixth round of the FA cup v Stoke. Eric Brook scored from near the corner flag in a 1-0 win. City went on to the final to beat Portsmouth 2-1. Frank Swift played a blinder.

City were in the final the year before, but were beaten by Everton 3-0. This was the first final numbers were worn on the back of players shirts.
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Your last sentence can not possibly be correct - we have no history.
 
crazyg said:
I (think I)remember both the above scoring in the same match, but I cba looking through the History section to find out. I also think the score was 4-1, but I'm not sure.


EDIT: 16th April 1966, City v Notlob, won 4-1.
Scorers:
Dave Connor
Johnny Crossan
Bobby Kennedy
Cliff Sear
Attendance: 29459

Two and a half weeks later, we clinched promotion at Rotherham, We won 1-0 and we were back into Division 1.
Since then, ........

I'm sure we could make up a song about that!!
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Was at rotherham and can prove it, a pic of Neil young on the pitch at full time and I was next to him, the pic was in the daily Express paper . I still have a copy
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I was at that game and on the scoreboard end. We've had plenty of previous when it comes to reverses. The CL final was a bloody cake walk compared to some of the results in the first half of the 60s.
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Strangely loads of people mention the 8,015 attending the Swindon match but there are few references to the match the previous season against Middlesbrough in March 1964 where the attendance was 8,053.

The Middlesbrough match was on a cold, dark Tuesday evening and that may help to explain. It wasn’t that the season was a write off. City were left behind by Leeds and Sunderland but were certainly in the hunt for third place and came close to a League Cup final appearance.
 
BillCarlisle said:
Neither did I - only 8 then ! First game was Leicester (H) in 1959. Having a Dad & elder brother who were City fans meant I was drip-fed from an early age !
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I know exactly what you mean, Dad took us and told many stories about City and past players his trips to Wembley in the 50s, but one thing he said was that we were a good second division team, even at that young age it didnt sit well with me, but he is still my footballing hero because he made me a City fan.
 
I missed the Boro match with flu but was "one of the 8000" for Swindon.

The Huddersfield 6-1 was before the Scunthorpe 8-1. The return was only a couple of days later. BR had got a special train on (a diesel multiple unit) but so many people turned up at Piccadilly that they put fans on a scheduled train to London Marylebone via Sheffield, and diverted it to Scunthorpe. I've no idea what they did for passengers from Sheffield on toward London. Funny though - I can't remember which train I was on.

I don't know when it was but a special train for a match at Hull was delayed when it hit a cow.
 
Vic said:
I don't know when it was but a special train for a match at Hull was delayed when it hit a cow.
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The only match I can recall at Hull over that period was an FA Cup tie in January 1970. I went by car rather than on the train.
 
Starr Gate Blue said:
!964/65 was slightly before my time but I enjoy hearing the stories. My first match at City was in March 1968 and by then we had a terrific team. A trip to Moss Side, as a nipper, felt like a journey to another world. I remember the ugly exterior of the Main Stand and thinking it looked like a scary Victorian workhouse. Back then we all had black and white televisions so to see the team run out in glorious sky blue was always a joy. I love the memories of the clunky old scoreboard. United were always A and everybody was always hoping to see 2 or 3-0 go up at half time. Great days!
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That made me laugh. I remember my my first trip to Maine Road. There wasn't a game being played but I was in the car with my father and elder brother. I don't remember where we had been, but my brother asked my father if we could go to Maine Rd.

I don't know how old I would have been at the time, probably 7 or 8 years old, but when we arrived and drove slowly past the ground on Maine Rd, like you, I couldn't see a stadium. I thought it was a warehouse or a factory, and a depressing one as well!

I honestly thought it was a factory of some sort, and couldn't understand why we had gone there.
 
JGL07 said:
Strangely loads of people mention the 8,015 attending the Swindon match but there are few references to the match the previous season against Middlesbrough in March 1964 where the attendance was 8,053.

The Middlesbrough match was on a cold, dark Tuesday evening and that may help to explain. It wasn’t that the season was a write off. City were left behind by Leeds and Sunderland but were certainly in the hunt for third place and came close to a League Cup final appearance.
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The 8015 game is gonna knock York Away off its perch. Won't be long when the gate for the Swindon game is 80,150!
 
BillCarlisle said:
Nope - Just checked & Barlow scored in that game. Not sure if the photo was taken at Maine Road. With the black arm bands I would have thought it likely to be immediately following Munich. Thus either Spuds away on the 8th Feb (lost 1-5, Hayes scored) or Leicester away on 22 Feb (lost 4-8 - yes 8 ! - Johnstone 2, Barnes, McAdams).

Reckon it must have been Spuds away on the 8th Feb. We wouldn't have been playing in sky blue at Leicester.

Bit of a brain teaser this ! Where's Gary James when we need him ? Lol.
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I remember reading the score in The Pink and feeling mighty proud we'd got 4. How many pens did Leicester get in the 8? Was that the season we let in 9 v WBA?
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I remember reading the score in The Pink and feeling mighty proud we'd got 4. How many pens did Leicester get in the 8? Was that the season we let in 9 v WBA?
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There was the PINK and the GREEN in those days. Hope I am right The pink was the Evening Chron and the green was the Evening news.
 
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