Happy 5-1 day

Bluekiwi said:
Thanks for the good wishes.

I have two leaky heart valves - the procedure (cardiac catheterisation) involved putting a camera through veins and arteries in the groin and wrist to the heart to check for any other abnormalities. My blood flows are strong and no blockages meaning it is only the valves that need attention.

Supporting City since the 1950s certainly gives our hearts workouts!
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It's incredible that you have the Heart and Energy as a Blue to be still posting and adding to our history,so close to such a big operation.You are i imagine one of only a handful of BM posters who can say they saw City in the 1950s..,I would have loved to have see Joe Hayes and Bert Trautmann play.You did. I only hope your operation is a success...and you can continue to post great Blue recounts from the 50s...and indeed the 1960s.... including....the1961 match at Luton away Fa cup, 4th Round when Denis Law scored 6!....I'd love to know if you were there at Kenilworth Rd that rain drenched day... And any memories.
All I have is the info I got on the back of the old Football player cards...an Amazing game,in our History...Were you there Blue Kiwi...spill the beans..
 
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dennishasdoneit said:
It's incredible that you have the Heart and Energy as a Blue to be still posting and adding to our history,so close to such a big operation.You are i imagine one of only a handful of BM posters who can say they saw City in the 1950s..,I would have loved to have see Joe Hayes and Bert Trautmann play.You did. I only hope your operation is a success...and you can continue to post great Blue recounts from the 50s...and indeed the 1960s.... including....the1961 match at Luton away Fa cup, 4th Round when Denis Law scored 6!....I'd love to know if you were there at Loftus Rd that rain drenched day... And any memories.
All I have is the info I got on the back of the old Football player cards...an Amazing game,in our History...Were you there Blue Kiwi...spill the beans..
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Bert Trautmann was my hero - whenever I played football with my friends, I always wanted to be the goalie.
Yes, my dad took me to Luton - I was devasted on the way back home. Unfortuantely we couldn't go to the replay - a real travesty.
Edging closer to the day of the final box I am writing a personal history for our family - football memories consume quite a chapter.

Just a comment on my recent procedure - due to a hematoma around the groin insertion - I had a minimum of four young nurses working on me at any one time. Oh, to have been a lot younger!
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
What was worse was the rags had lost to Galatassaray in midweek, 3-2 having been 2 up. City fans lobbing Turkish delights onto the pitch and singing “2 nil up and fucked it up, doo dah doo dah”

And we were 2 nil up and fucked it up and had that song rammed back at us…..
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Wasn't that the derby where we were 2 nil up at half time through Quinn. They won 3-2 in the end?
 
Bluekiwi said:
Bert Trautmann was my hero - whenever I played football with my friends, I always wanted to be the goalie.
Yes, my dad took me to Luton - I was devasted on the way back home. Unfortuantely we couldn't go to the replay - a real travesty.
Edging closer to the day of the final box I am writing a personal history for our family - football memories consume quite a chapter.

Just a comment on my recent procedure - due to a hematoma around the groin insertion - I had a minimum of four young nurses working on me at any one time. Oh, to have been a lot younger!
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Maybe your inability to deal with the four nurses working around your groin area...mirrors Trautmann s inability to stop the 4 goals conceded around the penalty area during the fa cup replay defeat ...back at Kenilworth road! ;)

Edit. Just checked and it was a 3 -1 defeat not 4 in the replay .
 
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dennishasdoneit said:
Maybe your inability to deal with the four nurses working around your groin area...mirrors Trautmann s inability to stop the 4 goals conceded around the penalty area during the fa cup replay defeat ...back at Kenilworth road! ;)

Edit. Just checked and it was a 3 -1 defeat not 4 in the replay .
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The results from that game contribute to the "typical City" feeling many of us share. Huddersfield 10- 1 only to lose 0 - 1 in the reverse fixture yet another example.
Whenever City play, my wife comments "Expect the unexpected".
 
Bluekiwi said:
The results from that game contribute to the "typical City" feeling many of us share. Huddersfield 10- 1 only to lose 0 - 1 in the reverse fixture yet another example.
Whenever City play, my wife comments "Expect the unexpected".
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Your wife is a wise Woman.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
What was worse was the rags had lost to Galatassaray in midweek, 3-2 having been 2 up. City fans lobbing Turkish delights onto the pitch and singing “2 nil up and fucked it up, doo dah doo dah”

And we were 2 nil up and fucked it up and had that song rammed back at us…..
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Nope. The Galatasary game preceded the 3-2 win for them at Maine Rd when we were 2-0 up.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
It's incredible that you have the Heart and Energy as a Blue to be still posting and adding to our history,so close to such a big operation.You are i imagine one of only a handful of BM posters who can say they saw City in the 1950s..,I would have loved to have see Joe Hayes and Bert Trautmann play.You did. I only hope your operation is a success...and you can continue to post great Blue recounts from the 50s...and indeed the 1960s.... including....the1961 match at Luton away Fa cup, 4th Round when Denis Law scored 6!....I'd love to know if you were there at Kenilworth Rd that rain drenched day... And any memories.
All I have is the info I got on the back of the old Football player cards...an Amazing game,in our History...Were you there Blue Kiwi...spill the beans..
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I am also one of the handful of BM posters who saw the likes of Bert, Joe Hayes, Bobby Johnstone & Co play for City (I think there must be more than a handful though). Unfortunately the team was on the wane by the time I was first taken to Maine Road by my Dad. Still going regularly now, in my mid-70's and one of the SC-holding FOC's that the club hierarchy seemingly wants to be rid of.
 
johnnytapia said:
You didn’t. You said we started singing “2 nil up and fucked it up” at the 3-3 draw at Maine Rd.
we sang it at the 2-3 defeat at Maine Rd just after they’d drawn against Galatasary.
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I replied to a comment about the 3-3 but I said “what was worse….” as in “another game was worse……
The 3-3 wasn’t immediately after the Gallatassary game (it was a few years before), the 2-3 was, hence mentioning it, but yes I could have been clearer.
 
BillCarlisle said:
I am also one of the handful of BM posters who saw the likes of Bert, Joe Hayes, Bobby Johnstone & Co play for City (I think there must be more than a handful though). Unfortunately the team was on the wane by the time I was first taken to Maine Road by my Dad. Still going regularly now, in my mid-70's and one of the SC-holding FOC's that the club hierarchy seemingly wants to be rid of.
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You're nobbut a newcomer, Bill lad.

I saw Roy Clarke, Roy Paul, Jimmy Meadows, George Smith, Dennis Westcott....I could go on, but I don't want to bore you.
 
Bluekiwi said:
Bert Trautmann was my hero - whenever I played football with my friends, I always wanted to be the goalie.

Edging closer to the day of the final box I am writing a personal history for our family - football memories consume quite a big chapter
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Here's another blast from the past Blue Kiwi ;)

Fa cup 4th round ,1955. Maine Road City v utd in front of 75k at Maine Road.Trautmann in goal,Joe Hayes opening the scoring ..

Note the match commentary stating proudly at the start;

" When utd play City,it's utd who usually win "

Apparently this statement was rubbish

A poster in the comments section states ;

" Not true ! ..
Including 1955, league and Cup, it's all square....18-19 in the league and 2- 1City in the Fa Cup '

Just goes to show you have to check every comment made by so called experts...
 
dennishasdoneit said:


Here's another blast from the past Blue Kiwi ;)

Fa cup 4th round ,1955. Maine Road City v utd in front of 75k at Maine Road.Trautmann in goal,Joe Hayes opening the scoring ..

Note the match commentary stating proudly at the start;

" When utd play City,it's utd who usually win "

Apparently this statement was rubbish

A poster in the comments section states ;

" Not true ! ..
Including 1955, league and Cup, it's all square....18-19 in the league and 2- 1City in the Fa Cup '

Just goes to show you have to check every comment made by so called experts...
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Thanks for the memory. One of the remarks made by the commentator brought a smile to my face "It has been a relatively clean game so far".
Why the smile?
The pictures showed players splattered with mud. Imaging heading one of those "medicine weight balls" in those conditions.
 
Big Swifty said:
You're nobbut a newcomer, Bill lad.

I saw Roy Clarke, Roy Paul, Jimmy Meadows, George Smith, Dennis Westcott....I could go on, but I don't want to bore you.
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I too saw Roy Clarke !!
When he ran the old social club at Maine Rd late 80s ; )
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
I replied to a comment about the 3-3 but I said “what was worse….” as in “another game was worse……
The 3-3 wasn’t immediately after the Gallatassary game (it was a few years before), the 2-3 was, hence mentioning it, but yes I could have been clearer.
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The best derby as a game of football I can ever remember was in the autumn of 1971. City vastly the better team found themselves 0 2 then 1 3 down if my memory serves me. Stepney produced a world class save going into injury time which their was little of in those days. Buzzer banged it in from the resultant corner, two thirds of Maine Rd went wild. Their was barely time to kick off, if ever a draw felt like a win, 14 at the time 69 now, seems like yesterday. Was in the terraced North Stand, not much segregation , but saw little mither.
 
dennishasdoneit said:


Here's another blast from the past Blue Kiwi ;)

Fa cup 4th round ,1955. Maine Road City v utd in front of 75k at Maine Road.Trautmann in goal,Joe Hayes opening the scoring ..

Note the match commentary stating proudly at the start;

" When utd play City,it's utd who usually win "

Apparently this statement was rubbish

A poster in the comments section states ;

" Not true ! ..
Including 1955, league and Cup, it's all square....18-19 in the league and 2- 1City in the Fa Cup '

Just goes to show you have to check every comment made by so called experts...
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A good win but that was shite. Was that the typical standard? No wonder they charged threpunce to get in
 
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