23rd September 1989

[Indaparkside]

You lucky bastards

 

[Blueboy73]

My first league Derby.
Remember it like yesterday

 

[Mifred]

The fifth is definitely up there as one of my all time favourite City goals.

And where did the left back come from

 

[Maly]

Yep, you're indeed correct, I remember it now, coming on the back of so many goals.

And I was one of the 17,000 at that Huddersfield game!

People might not remember the week before the 5-1, United had actually walloped Millwall by five goals at home!!

& were chanting during that win ‘City are next, City are next whoa whoa’

 

[Maly]

‘86

85 we lost 3-0, my first derby. Think that was part of them their winning first 10 games of the season under Atkinson when he claimed they’d win the league by Christmas, which of course they didn’t :)

 

[johnnytapia]

The 2nd goal was bedlam,

Delirium is about right. I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same sense of breathless hysteria that I experienced when the 2nd went in that day. Truly amazing scenes. Even Yaya’s SF winner or Sergio’s goal weren’t quite the same - must be to do with being young I suppose.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

85 we lost 3-0, my first derby. Think that was part of them their winning first 10 games of the season under Atkinson when he claimed they’d win the league by Christmas, which of course they didn’t :)

That was the previous season. We drew the following season (‘86/87) when McCarthy scored that amazing header, to which @tolmie's hairdoo was referring.

You are correct about that game being in the middle of that great start to the season that united had in ‘85/86.

 

[tregyblue61]

What a wonderful day!

Lovely kit and what a sight Maine Road was when it was packed

 

[Mozzer]

I went to away game on a coach from Stockport the week before. I can't remember who it was against but someone mentioned Brentford in an earlier post. There was a few days holidays to use up from work so I booked time off for the match.

Anyway a lad on our coach said there would be trouble, he'd heard the Rags had got hold of 200 seats, not sure where from. So I wasn't surprised when it kicked off.

 

[Maly]

That was the previous season. We drew the following season (‘86/87) when McCarthy scored that amazing header, to which @tolmie's hairdoo was referring.

You are correct about that game being in the middle of that great start to the season that united had in ‘85/86.

Was there for both. That big Mick goal was a belting header. Right in front of my seat in the middle of the NS I seem to recall

 

[jimharri]

 

[Postman Pep]

 

[jimharri]

You can take the boy out of Citeh, but you can't take Citeh out of the boy.

 

[salford blue 62]

Great memories for many, but are we not being a bit small-time to keep going on about this one-off game that changed nothing for us that season?

No

 

[Kippax77]

This pic is a rarity cos Bish was normally "hugging" Trev Morley on most shots back then

 

[citydad]

I went to away game on a coach from Stockport the week before. I can't remember who it was against but someone mentioned Brentford in an earlier post. There was a few days holidays to use up from work so I booked time off for the match.

Anyway a lad on our coach said there would be trouble, he'd heard the Rags had got hold of 200 seats, not sure where from. So I wasn't surprised when it kicked off.

You may have gone Wimbledon the week before in our 1-0 defeat. I was there with many others and also a few days later went Brentford away in the League cup another defeat and I killed two birds at the brentford day as I went to a travel agent in London Polorbis a specialist in travel to Poland in them days for an England trips a couple of weeks later. the one where we drew 0-0 and Peter Shilton had a stormer and we qualified for Italia 90 on that night. a very very incident packed trip !!

 

[LongsightM13]

Amazing day. We bought about five copies of The Pink and decorated the walls of The Springbank pub in Longsight with the match report pages. The resident reds were not happy

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

Totally heartwarming to think that one of our heroes that day still remembers it as fondly as we do

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

No

Correct

The victories against them in those days tasted so much sweeter

They spent millions, enticed the best managers of the time and we fucking spanked them with a wonderful group of players who had come through the ranks together

 

[Norbert D]

Totally heartwarming to think that one of our heroes that day still remembers it as fondly as we do

i met Bish at Hurley Sports in town a few weeks ahead of the 5-1 When buying the famous 5-1 shirt. Easy going bloke, signing autographs and having a bit of banter.