Remember..March 1981.PAUL POWER!

[dennishasdoneit]

Of that era, that match was best night match I ever went to. I remember it well now, even to the fact that my Dad went to Maine Road to get a spare ticket for my friend to come with us. It was a fantastic atmosphere.

I'm glad this thread brought back those great memories for you.
The two fa cup quarter final matches v everton,both watched by crowds in excess of 50k fans ,each played on the original grounds of Goodison and Maine Road,should imo,never be forgotten.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Great memories. My last season as a kippax season ticket holder before I went off to Uni in Wales. Watched all the games home and away with my dad during this cup run to wembley. Goodison was mental but the scenes at Villa park will stay with me forever. Paul Power again. Could not get back for the final replay though so had to watch that on the telly.

Glad this thread brought back those great memories!

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Great days

Indeed.never to be forgotten .

 

[xgorton]

I'm glad this thread brought back those great memories for you.
The two fa cup quarter final matches v everton,both watched by crowds in excess of 50k fans ,each played on the original grounds of Goodison and Maine Road,should imo,never be forgotten.

Also the 2 ties in 66 v Everton played before crowds of over 60,000 I was at both,0-0,0-0.Then we lost the 3rd match 2-0 at Wolves (neatrul ground) they went on to win the cup,we got promoted.

 

[Dodge]

My favourite cup run bar none. Can recall every goal, every scorer, from every round.
And just how small the Norwich keeper was.
And that the game didn’t restart after Bobby Mac’s goal.
Can’t remember a fucking carrot from last season’s run.

Every away match of that cup run me and my best mate got into scrapes and mither. We hitch-hiked everywhere in those days. I was 19 years old, my mate was 22, shit wages, everything spent on City.

Peterborough - we got a lift to Nottingham the day before. As there was supposed to be loads of available women we thought we'd go on the piss and sleep rough. Amazingly we pulled two birds, not great tbh but they were smitten with us scally Mancs. Found a building site and set up two makeshift beds with random building materials. It was only in the morning we realised the material was fibreglass loft insulation and we spent the day scratching and itching red raw welts from top to toe. Me mate was still itching his groin area 2 weeks later. Clinic 6 found the crabs.

Everton - got chased for miles by about 6 scousers. They were relentless. Ended up at Pier Head and ran out of road. Tried to hide in a phone box thinking we'd hold em off, forgetting the door opened outwards. Got kicked to fuck.

Ipswich - better outcome. Again hitch-hiking. A top dollar Le Man's green Capri 2.8i pulled up and offered us a lift to Knutsford. Took us til well up the M6 to realise it was being driven by Tony Morley the Villa winger. Top man he was.

Spuds 1 - treated ourselves and got a coach from Sale. On the way back it stopped for a beer in St Albans. Within 30 mins word got round there was 50 City in town. The pub got surrounded by cockney reds. They sent in a spotter to suss us out. There was a Blue on the bus called Mike Pheonix. I idolised him. Cool as fuck. I literally wanted to be him. I know, sad as fuck. Mike called me over and pointed out the spotter. He said, "we've got you covered, just walk up to him and knock him out". I thought this is it, my chance to impress Mike. I delivered a right hook Mike Tyson would've been proud of. Knocked him clean out. Cue mayhem, a proper wild west scrap, until the coppers arrived. No arrests, just an escort back to motorway.

Spuds 2 - horrible. Just spent the whole game getting gobbed on by countless cockneys in our end.

Top days. Top mates.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Also the 2 ties in 66 v Everton played before crowds of over 60,000 I was at both,0-0,0-0.Then we lost the 3rd match 2-0 at Wolves (neatrul ground) they went on to win the cup,we got promoted.

I've read about those Everton matches in 1966.
Stan Horne played a blinder at Goodison by all accounts.. arguably his finest game for City.
Everton were tough oppenents back then and I'm sure gave Horne a hot reception back then.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Every away match of that cup run me and my best mate got into scrapes and mither. We hitch-hiked everywhere in those days. I was 19 years old, my mate was 22, shit wages, everything spent on City.

Peterborough - we got a lift to Nottingham the day before. As there was supposed to be loads of available women we thought we'd go on the piss and sleep rough. Amazingly we pulled two birds, not great tbh but they were smitten with us scally Mancs. Found a building site and set up two makeshift beds with random building materials. It was only in the morning we realised the material was fibreglass loft insulation and we spent the day scratching and itching red raw welts from top to toe. Me mate was still itching his groin area 2 weeks later. Clinic 6 found the crabs.

Everton - got chased for miles by about 6 scousers. They were relentless. Ended up at Pier Head and ran out of road. Tried to hide in a phone box thinking we'd hold em off, forgetting the door opened outwards. Got kicked to fuck.

Ipswich - better outcome. Again hitch-hiking. A top dollar Le Man's green Capri 2.8i pulled up and offered us a lift to Knutsford. Took us til well up the M6 to realise it was being driven by Tony Morley the Villa winger. Top man he was.

Spuds 1 - treated ourselves and got a coach from Sale. On the way back it stopped for a beer in St Albans. Within 30 mins word got round there was 50 City in town. The pub got surrounded by cockney reds. They sent in a spotter to suss us out. There was a Blue on the bus called Mike Pheonix. I idolised him. Cool as fuck. I literally wanted to be him. I know, sad as fuck. Mike called me over and pointed out the spotter. He said, "we've got you covered, just walk up to him and knock him out". I thought this is it, my chance to impress Mike. I delivered a right hook Mike Tyson would've been proud of. Knocked him clean out. Cue mayhem, a proper wild west scrap, until the coppers arrived. No arrests, just an escort back to motorway.

Spuds 2 - horrible. Just spent the whole game getting gobbed on by countless cockneys in our end.

Top days. Top mates.

1981.
.not a cup run you will ever forget!!

 

[Legalamb777]

The anniversary slipped by unnoticed...
What a game,what an Atmosphere,and Caton Bennett and Power stood up to Everton on their own ground,Gerry Gow helped out too,not forgetting Kevin Reeves adroit header assist
I wasn't there.....but still remember listening to Radio 2 second half commentary back home in Carlton notts....one of the best days of my life.....had to do my paper round straight after final whistle....
Buzzing.on a Chopper bike,big beaming smile on my face...delivering football post to Carlton and St Anne's.....

Happy Days.; )

What an absolute fantastic post,this was my childhood era of supporting City.was 10 at the time….i know it’s controversial…but I loved Johnny Bonds City

 

[dennishasdoneit]

What an absolute fantastic post,this was my childhood era of supporting City.was 10 at the time….i know it’s controversial…but I loved Johnny Bonds City

Thanks for the compliment!

Glad this thread brought the memories flooding back. The FA cup in the 80s of course meant so much more to every single football fan up and down the country.i can still feel the excitement of the early rounds ,with the added bonus,as a teenager of watching The Blues on Motd sat night as they put 4 past Crystal Palace( R3) ,and 6 past Norwich City in round 4....will never forget Paul Powers great run and lofted finish over the Norwich City keeper....then of course his vital goals away at Everton and in the semi final against Ipswich Town.1981 must have been Powers most eventful time at City ,and I find it hard to believe he was a Kippax boo boy...maybe because he was a home grown player,who maybe didn't have the stylish play of more gifted City players down the years..

Pleased for Power that he ended up with a League title winners medal,albeit wearing a different shade of Blue,ironically playing for Everton FC....


I always think of Ian Bowyer who left Maine Rd as a boo boy before winning the title and two European cups with Forest,not good enough for City but good enough for the champions of Europe...

Some fans routinely shout abuse at players and concentrate on the negative aspects of their game or decide not to support them when going through a bad patch of form...each to their own I suppose ...

Hope you enjoy the rest of the thread!

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Of that era, that match was best night match I ever went to. I remember it well now, even to the fact that my Dad went to Maine Road to get a spare ticket for my friend to come with us. It was a fantastic atmosphere.

My biggest memory of that match was looking at the Kippax late on(we were in the Main stand) and the flickers of lighters going off all over the place. It was a fantastic site to see. Maybe it was 20 thousand City fans desperately needing a cig to calm their nerves :)

 

[normskih]

My biggest memory of that match was looking at the Kippax late on(we were in the Main stand) and the flickers of lighters going off all over the place. It was a fantastic site to see. Maybe it was 20 thousand City fans desperately needing a cig to calm their nerves :)

That’s where I was, with my brother, friend and his mate. What a night:)

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

That’s where I was, with my brother, friend and his mate. What a night:)

We usually went in the Kippax but that game and the Forest game(1-1) we went in the main stand. You are right though, it was a magical night.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

We usually went in the Kippax but that game and the Forest game(1-1) we went in the main stand. You are right though, it was a magical night.

The Everton cup replay always seemed an easy win after a really tough battling away performance at goodison only 3 days beforehand.Home advantage played a big part ,although I think there were huge numbers of everton and not just in the away end ,several hundred(?) in the North stand too I've read over the years..lots of fighting in the replay too I think..

I can't remember who scored for Everton but it was the 1st goal we'd conceded at home in the cup that season......the next goal we were to concede was the fateful Tommy hutch own goal at Wembley in May.....

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

The Everton cup replay always seemed an easy win after a really tough battling away performance at goodison only 3 days beforehand.Home advantage played a big part ,although I think there were huge numbers of everton and not just in the away end ,several hundred(?) in the North stand too I've read over the years..lots of fighting in the replay too I think..

I can't remember who scored for Everton but it was the 1st goal we'd conceded at home in the cup that season......the next goal we were to concede was the fateful Tommy hutch own goal at Wembley in May.....

Without looking online,it could of been Eastoe. You're right on the scousers in the north stand, I watched the highlights not long back and a few hundred at least were in there down towards the bottom,but I do believe we had 100s all over their ground too. And it did seem a lot easier than the first game. A magical time to be a blue,I thought it was always going to be this way.

 

[Alfie Budd]

Without looking online,it could have been Eastoe. You're right on the scousers in the north stand, I watched the highlights not long back and a few hundred at least were in there down towards the bottom,but I do believe we had 100s all over their ground too. And it did seem a lot easier than the first game. A magical time to be a blue,I thought it was always going to be this way.

It was Eastoe.
A very late consolation from memory. Certainly far too late to have any impact on the result.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

My biggest memory of that match was looking at the Kippax late on(we were in the Main stand) and the flickers of lighters going off all over the place. It was a fantastic site to see. Maybe it was 20 thousand City fans desperately needing a cig to calm their nerves :)

That's brought a memory back. I used to count the lighters in the Kippax every game. When I got home I used to draw it. That Everton game we went on a coach from junior school and sat together in the Platt Lane. We spent the week before the game practicising the songs because we had some stupid idea that we could start songs at the game. When it came of course we got totaly ignored, a bunch of lads who's balls hadn't dropped. All I really remember about the game is that I thought it was 3-0 until I got home.

 

[normskih]

My biggest memory of that match was looking at the Kippax late on(we were in the Main stand) and the flickers of lighters going off all over the place. It was a fantastic site to see. Maybe it was 20 thousand City fans desperately needing a cig to calm their nerves :)

Talking of the flickers of lighters, that’s what my many memories of my time in Platt Lane and looking over the Main Stand. That and the smell of cigars. Those were the years when I first started to attend City matches with my brother. He wouldn’t let me go in Kippax in those days and deep down I think he regretted the day he said he’d take me to see City with him because he couldn’t go into Kippax. We did start to go in Kippax a couple of years later and for the odd match when it was all ticket and my brother couldn’t get a ticket in Platt Lane. I remember a particular night match v Sunderland. We were stood in Kippax below where away fans used to be put at the top corner. Stan Cummings scored and this big aerosol can came flying across almost hitting me on the head. The next thing I felt myself being lifted and dragged well away from the area to the middle of Kippax at the front. It frightened the life out me at the time.

 

[Enzo's Mascara]

Indeed.never to be forgotten .

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1981.
.not a cup run you will ever forget!!

I was 11 and went to most of the away games on that cup run. The semi final at Villa Park as we hitch hiked down me,Kev and his dad John. I'll always remember coming out of the ground and John saying to us right you 2 stay there 'I'll be back in 10 mins. He arrived in a car and off we went back to Manchester. Back then it never even entered my head he had nicked the car lol.

 

[Enzo's Mascara]

Talking of the flickers of lighters, that’s what my many memories of my time in Platt Lane and looking over the Main Stand. That and the smell of cigars. Those were the years when I first started to attend City matches with my brother. He wouldn’t let me go in Kippax in those days and deep down I think he regretted the day he said he’d take me to see City with him because he couldn’t go into Kippax. We did start to go in Kippax a couple of years later and for the odd match when it was all ticket and my brother couldn’t get a ticket in Platt Lane. I remember a particular night match v Sunderland. We were stood in Kippax below where away fans used to be put at the top corner. Stan Cummings scored and this big aerosol can came flying across almost hitting me on the head. The next thing I felt myself being lifted and dragged well away from the area to the middle of Kippax at the front. It frightened the life out me at the time.

Same here. Was not allowed in the Kippax until I was 15.It always looked magical from Platt Lane especially at night.

 

[Doddy]

Met Paul Power at Crystal Palace last year he actually lived near me in Woodhouse Park Wythenshawe so knew him quite well