Oh, thanks for that. Senility not got me yet, it seems.Yeah, spot on.. We battered Wanderers 4-1 that day, the week after Easter when we‘d lost at Bury 1-2 to end a decent unbeaten run on the way to the 2nd Division title.. I think Allison gave them a rocket up their collective jaxie for losing at Gigg Lane and we took it out on Bolton! Kennedy’s header was really powerful as you say, a real stand out goal!
1966 = "really old"?A really old one. Bobby Kennedy vs Bolton, MR 1966 (?) Bullet header from edge of the box. Anyone else remember that, or has my addled old brain made it up?
To put one forward that I don't think anybody has said, Bianchi v Spurs was a cracker (7 secs in on the video below)
Aguero in the FA Cup Semi v Chelsea is probably my favourite. Although Kompany v United was more important and probably celebrated more at the time.
I was sitting in Row 10 behind the goal.Dave Watson v Ipswich 1977
Andy Hinchcliffe, 5-1
I remember thinking “fuck me theres half an hour to go yet” thinking it could be 7 or 8 when we were all shitting ourselves about getting pasted in the Pub pre-gameBishop’s long ball to White, White’s first time cross and Hincliffe’s bullet header just inside the box in front of an ever dwindling number of United fans in Platt Lane to make it 5 and he reminded them it was 5. No contest.
Bobby's header in the 1955 Final. Spent next two years bloodying my knees trying to copy it past the lamppost in our street.Bobby Johnstone 1956 final.or Tommy Booth semi against Everton 1968/9
Bobby's header in the 1955 Final. Spent next two years bloodying my knees trying to copy it past the lamppost in our street.
Dzeko at Spurs.
Kompany v. rags.
Benarbia v Villa one Boxing Day at Maine Rd when he jumped into the Platt Lane stand after it..
30th April 2012 Vincent Kompany’s headed goal in the 1 v 0 win over the rags.
A brilliant goal, the one he got at Brighton on the final day was huge as wellAnother fantastic headed goal was Eric Laportes in last season’s League Cup Final -
Tueart got hat trick we beat villa 4-1
You suddenly started to believe “we could win this” with that goalIan Bishop v the Rags
Blueprint said it was a good job he didn’t score the second!Bishop’s long ball to White, White’s first time cross and Hincliffe’s bullet header just inside the box in front of an ever dwindling number of United fans in Platt Lane to make it 5 and he reminded them it was 5. No contest.
I was sitting in Row 10 behind the goal.
I have never heard a header like that before. Rattled the goal on impact, too.
Unforgettable, even almost 45 years later.
2:08 in, if you don’t want the other highlights.
That one escapes he. I would certainly have been at that match as I only missed the away matches at Cardiff and Norwich that season. Bobby Kennedy was something of an enigma as he was signed as a wing-half but played most of his later matches for City at full-back.A really old one. Bobby Kennedy vs Bolton, MR 1966 (?) Bullet header from edge of the box. Anyone else remember that, or has my addled old brain made it up?
If you're on about the confrontation on the touchline, wasn't that the LC sf, when Tevez scored and cupped his ears at Ferguson? Or am I finally losing it?For importance, Vinnie's against the swamp dwellers in April '12.
The night Bobby Manc put the pisscan tyrant in his box.