40 Years Ago Today

Apart from that it was a great night. Two early goals and a cracking atmosphere. Took a mate from Uni along to waht was his first City game and he was hooked from then on. Sadly, we didn't know how bad the injury was at the time.

Buchan actually used to live a few doors down from where I live now. He was a very polished player and Bell never blamed him for the injury. He said he could see Buchan but took the wrong option when he could have avoided the tackle. He was quite upset that Buchan never came to visit him in hospital or apologise though.
 
crazyg said:
November 12th 1975. League Cup match City v Rags.

Marin Buchan (Spit)

Colin Bell

Need I say more?
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Wasn't that a night match and no buses (SELNEC) were running due to recent violence against the bus crews so they went on strike? If that was the game I remember walking to the game from Clayton as a 13 year old then walking back to town and getting a 213 Mayne's bus back from Stevenson square as they weren't on strike. Worth it though as we battered them and went on to lift the cup in Feb.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Apart from that it was a great night. Two early goals and a cracking atmosphere. Took a mate from Uni along to waht was his first City game and he was hooked from then on. Sadly, we didn't know how bad the injury was at the time.

Buchan actually used to live a few doors down from where I live now. He was a very polished player and Bell never blamed him for the injury. He said he could see Buchan but took the wrong option when he could have avoided the tackle. He was quite upset that Buchan never came to visit him in hospital or apologise though.
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Buchan wasn't the type of player many kids have been led to believe,total accident IMO thought he stood on the ball when i watched it later...
 
Great night apart from the injury, we absolutely stuffed them in that first half and could have ended up with 6 or 7 if we'd been a bit more ruthless in the 2nd half. Paddy Roche was fucking awful.

 
Was it 4.0 or 4.1? I seem to remember Asa having a crackin game and scoring one or two. But it was a long time ago and memory fades. I was right behind the goals in the North Stand. Bells going off put a damper on the game even though no one realised it was as bad as it turned out.
 
It was 4-0.
At the time it was the happiest I'd felt leaving a game. We didn't realise the seriousness of Bell's injury until quite a while later.
 
Just watched the highlights of the final. Could and perhaps should have ended up about 4-3. Certainly Joe Royle had a goal disallowed and I've no idea what for.

Funny to think that for such a talented team - Asa Hartford, Dave Watson, Peter Barnes, Dennis Tueart - that was the only trophy they ever won. Even more funny to think that for a team that largely consisted of local lads (Joe Corrigan, Mike Doyle, Barnes, Tommy Booth etc) the next time we would win that particular trophy we would do so without a single English player in the starting XI.
 
just looked at the date its my then girlfriends now wifes birthday ha ha guess where i was in the evening.
what a night, shes a good wife knows the score.
 
I was sat in the North Stand that night and even though we played them off the park that night it was tragic to lose Colin in that way, because he was having a good season up to then, never was the same when he came back against Newcastle.............
 
lancs blue said:
Great night apart from the injury, we absolutely stuffed them in that first half and could have ended up with 6 or 7 if we'd been a bit more ruthless in the 2nd half. Paddy Roche was fucking awful.

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just posted that game on another thread , it was my very first game and youve made me realise Ive now been following the blues for 40 years , blimey
 
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