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NEW EPISODE #38 - Andy Dibble

Tales of Blue caught up with former City keeper Andy Dibble to share his memories of eight years a blue, which included his pride at signing, Promotion, 'THAT' Crosby goal referee, Tony Coton's arrival, rooming with John Burridge and how Manchester's is his adopted home.

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First I heard of him was the semi-final he lost in 1988 v Wimbledon, it had a behind the scenes things during the highlights with Bobby Gould and the Dons referring to him as Top Cat. That was before the FA Cup semis were all show live (1990 I think). A few weeks on he is MoTM in the League Cup final.

He is credited with an appearance for Accrington Stanley on his wiki, but he was only a coach there making an emergency appearance in the Lancashire FA Senior Cup, so not the first team.
 
Corky said:
First I heard of him was the semi-final he lost in 1988 v Wimbledon, it had a behind the scenes things during the highlights with Bobby Gould and the Dons referring to him as Top Cat. That was before the FA Cup semis were all show live (1990 I think). A few weeks on he is MoTM in the League Cup final.

He is credited with an appearance for Accrington Stanley on his wiki, but he was only a coach there making an emergency appearance in the Lancashire FA Senior Cup, so not the first team.
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Had a great career but if not for injuries he would have had a lot more appearances on top of the 400 odd games he played
 
As a kid I often used to go to Platt Lane to watch the side train (early 90s) and he was always the friendliest player by a country mile. He even bibbed his car at me once and waved and although the latter part of his City career did not go to plan at one time the fans were up in arms about Tony Coton coming in as his replacement.

Great servant, but he had an absolute nightmare against Oxford at home during the dark days.
 
loved Dibble, absolutely fantastic servant for us , unfortunately his later years he spent a lot of time out on loan, will never forget his performance at home v Villa early in 90/91 season , new signing Coton was injured , Dibble came in and played a blinder in a 2-1 win think it was also game that Lakey did that injury
 
gloryhuntersince85 said:
loved Dibble, absolutely fantastic servant for us , unfortunately his later years he spent a lot of time out on loan, will never forget his performance at home v Villa early in 90/91 season , new signing Coton was injured , Dibble came in and played a blinder in a 2-1 win think it was also game that Lakey did that injury
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He mentions that in the vid when asked about the April away game 2-1.
City_Shirts said:
Had a great career but if not for injuries he would have had a lot more appearances on top of the 400 odd games he played
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The fact we needed Paul Cooper, Tracy, Burridge, Immel and Tommy Wright when in most cases we had 3 keepers already, shows how bad the keeper injury situation tended to be.
 
City_Shirts said:
NEW EPISODE #38 - Andy Dibble

Tales of Blue caught up with former City keeper Andy Dibble to share his memories of eight years a blue, which included his pride at signing, Promotion, 'THAT' Crosby goal referee, Tony Coton's arrival, rooming with John Burridge and how Manchester's is his adopted home.

SUBSCRIPTION TO TALES OF BLUE IS FREE AND WILL TAKE A MATTER OF SECONDS TO JOIN WITH ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS MUCH APPRECIATED AS THE CHANNEL CONTIUES TO GROW: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY5BdBapnML251jYkablsuQ


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Thanks for adding a bit to the thread titles of these articles.
 
I still want to know if he really was injured when he went off at Oxford away and Paul Moulden ( I think ) had to go in goal. Dibble let a soft goal in and the City fans behind the goal were giving him stick. Next minute he takes a dead ball kick, goes down injured and is stretchered off. Many of us thought he was feigning the injury
 
paulchapo said:
I still want to know if he really was injured when he went off at Oxford away and Paul Moulden ( I think ) had to go in goal. Dibble let a soft goal in and the City fans behind the goal were giving him stick. Next minute he takes a dead ball kick, goes down injured and is stretchered off. Many of us thought he was feigning the injury
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It was Nigel Gleghorn iirc, first of two games in goal that season, also Palace in the penultimate game.
Or was it Steve Redmond? Pretty sure he had a game in goal aroubd that time as well
 
LongsightM13 said:
It was Nigel Gleghorn iirc, first of two games in goal that season, also Palace in the penultimate game.
Or was it Steve Redmond? Pretty sure he had a game in goal aroubd that time as well
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You might be right, Diddle definitely went off I was behind the goal that day.
 
jimharri said:
Did Gary Crosby come up in the conversation?

;-)
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More interested in Carl Bradshaw being called into the manager’s office for a dressing down after shagging some married strumpet in the back of his car in the car park of the Kenilworth in Cheadle, in full view of the staff and punters
Wasn’t him at all, the daft lad complied when Dibble said ‘lend me your keys for half an hour’
 
paulchapo said:
You might be right, Diddle definitely went off I was behind the goal that day.
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Dibble went off and Gleghorn took the gloves twice in the closing weeks of the 1988/89 season.

The first was at Walsall, where we drew 3-3 and Dibble went off in the first half when we were two down. We went 3-2 up before conceding late on, when David Oldfield's ill-judged back-pass presented the home side with an equaliser.

The second was the Palace home game, where I seem to remember Dibble struggling on until half-time after clearly suffering a recurrence of the same injury. We led 1-0 at the break, and Gleghorn came out wearing the goalkeeper's jersey for the second half. It ended 1-1, with Ian Wright scoring a cracker that no keeper would have had a chance of saving.

PS - No chance he feigned the original injury. Machin wouldn't have let him miss several matches in a crucial promotion run-in just to protect a false story that he was injured.
 
LongsightM13 said:
More interested in Carl Bradshaw being called into the manager’s office for a dressing down after shagging some married strumpet in the back of his car in the car park of the Kenilworth in Cheadle, in full view of the staff and punters
Wasn’t him at all, the daft lad complied when Dibble said ‘lend me your keys for half an hour’
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Did you leave out an "allegedly" there?

;-)


IIRC, didn't Dibble have a reputation as a bit of a swordsman back in the day?
 
petrusha said:
Dibble went off and Gleghorn took the gloves twice in the closing weeks of the 1988/89 season.

The first was at Walsall, where we drew 3-3 and Dibble went off in the first half when we were two down. We went 3-2 up before conceding late on, when David Oldfield's ill-judged back-pass presented the home side with an equaliser.

The second was the Palace home game, where I seem to remember Dibble struggling on until half-time after clearly suffering a recurrence of the same injury. We led 1-0 at the break, and Gleghorn came out wearing the goalkeeper's jersey for the second half. It ended 1-1, with Ian Wright scoring a cracker that no keeper would have had a chance of saving.

PS - No chance he feigned the original injury. Machin wouldn't have let him miss several matches in a crucial promotion run-in just to protect a false story that he was injured.
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Bloody hell Walsall, no wonder I couldn't find it anywhere. Oxford we won 4-2 after being 2-0 down and Dibble let another soft one in.
 
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