That game against Ip-shit in the 99/00 season was probably the best goalkeeping performance I have seen live.
And some of Joe Hart’s were more than decent. Nicky was phenomenal that night. Some of his saves were world class-class, including the one he seemed to claw back, when it looked like it had gone past him.
I recognised every player in the team shot, but Paul Power.I totally get everything you have said about 1976. I was 8 in 1974 and my Dad went with his mates v Wolves. So in 1976 when I was 10 I thought he would take me as I already went to all the home games with him. He said he was going again with his mates for the last time and after that if we got there again he would take me. My Mam walked me over to the Queens pub on Monsall estate to wave him off at closing time. They had a van with an old carpet lay in the back and some old seats thrown in and a load of Watney Party cans.
When he got back early Sunday morning he had brought me a cracking Batman comic, a silk scarf and a Newcastle rosette which a Geordie gave him. Dad said the Geordie had an empty bottle of Whiskey so couldn't give my Dad a drink but asked if he had any kids and said give your lad my rosette and I still have it. We went down to Albert Square, silk scarf tied to my wrist. Ever since that game my 2 subbuteo football teams were always City v Newcastle. I've still got the Manchester Evening News Special they did in the Cup Final and other stuff related. I think I've also always loved Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads because of 1976 haha
Shame he had to travel at all ,and the surgeon with his replacement body part ,didn't instead travel to Manchester..I suppose america ,on reflection,with the then .. buyount dollar...was where advanced advanced medical treatment was based.When I read his biography and see the cheap ass way Swales treated him I was so disappointed. They made fly cattle class to the US for treatment with not enough space for his injured leg.
Van Basten was an outrageous playerFavourite City players Aguero, Haaland, Kdb, Kompany, Tevez, David & Bernardo Silva...favourite football player ever Marco Van Basten.
I was going to offer up Paul Lake as a player who could do all you mention,but on reflection, id have to say ,on the limited game time Lake had with us,his passing or heading could not compare with Bell.Will always be Colin Bell , i have not seen a player who could pass, dribble , tackle , head , shoot , read a game and run forever with such aplomb , and with such humility ...................The King.
An example of this was a few years back,Watford away,a night match I didn't attend but it was on the box...De Bruyne. Made the hardest things look so, so easy.
I used to live behind the Jolly Roger in Kingsmead. Yes, I'm a Moston kid from Lightbowne Rd. Not lived there since 2000. It's all changed now. Kiddos sister had a chippy right near our house,it was on Egbert street, off Lightbowne road. Sorry for the derailment folks :)
The chippy was on the corner,just like the other one 50 metres down Egbert street. There was a corner shop facing kiddos chippy(off licence/video shop/sweetshop etc) and another sweet shop facing the other chippy on Attleboro/egbert. I think I know which house your grandparents was, did it have a massive long garden which was like a jungle and it went into a corner where Joyce St met Kenyon. If so we used to play in that garden when we were kids. Its houses now.I remember that chippy as a kid!!
My grandparents lived on the corner of Kenyon Lane/Joyce Street and they used to go there every Friday as a treat.
There was a corner shop next door to it and I'm sure there was a butchers if memory serves me right
The chippy was on the corner,just like the other one 50 metres down Egbert street. There was a corner shop facing kiddos chippy(off licence/video shop/sweetshop etc) and another sweet shop facing the other chippy on Attleboro/egbert. I think I know which house your grandparents was, did it have a massive long garden which was like a jungle and it went into a corner where Joyce St met Kenyon. If so we used to play in that garden when we were kids. Its houses now.
I know exactly where you mean. I mates gran lived there.I know the house you're talking about but they didn't live there. They lived in one of the flats opposite the post box on the top of Joyce Street
Loved that promotion season and got to quite a few away days. Swindon was in New Years Eve iirc.Shame he had to travel at all ,and the surgeon with his replacement body part ,didn't instead travel to Manchester..I suppose america ,on reflection,with the then .. buyount dollar...was where advanced advanced medical treatment was based.
All I know is I felt robbed,for years afterwards,still to this day in fact,of seeing a genuine quality home grown player turn out in sky Blue.
One of my fav Paul Lake memories,is Swindon town away, in the league under Machin..
Lake I think was playing in defence,and from a Swindon corner kick,the ball landed at Lakes feet in the pen area....Big Dave Bamber,the Swindon centre Forward approached Lake looking to close down any defensive clearance......quick as a flash,Lake put the ball thru Bambers legs,ran outside of him and collected the nutmeg...then at full pelt ,glided down the right hand side line as He launched a breath taking quick counter attack...Lakewas fast.the only player who could keep up with him was David White,who'd made the run down the left / centre channel,lakes ball found him on the edge of the Swindon pen area,but White blazed his shot over the bar,prob as a result of running so fast,he couldn't compose himself to shoot on target.
Those few years Under Mel Machin,were brilliant,imo, watching the academy graduates playing with passion ,often on instinct,sometimes naive,but taking the game to the oppenent with relish
Roared on by a raucous away following ...back in the lower division days.
Blues on Tour ; )
Wrong thread ?Only because of Weaver we won that game 1-0, he was phenomenal that night and think there was another game maybe away to Birmingham where he was just unbeatable too. Harts performance vs Dortmund deserves mentioning too
Very well said.Only because of Weaver we won that game 1-0, he was phenomenal that night and think there was another game maybe away to Birmingham where he was just unbeatable too. Harts performance vs Dortmund deserves mentioning too