Atletico Madrid 26/03/95

[City_Shirts]

City played away to Atletico Madrid during Brian Horton's final season, Surprisingly the game was played 26th March as City battled for Premiership survival.

Does anyone recall this fixture or attend it.

 

[Cityisland]

U been playing too much champions manager?

 

[Cellarite]

Eh?!? Been waiting for us to play them since 1991. Can't remember this at all. Where did you see this?

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Don't remember this one bit, but it happened...

 

[City_Shirts]

Was covered in the match day programme that season also

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Was covered in the match day programme that season also

Presumably this was one of those hastily arranged friendlies during an International Break because the game was played on a Sunday, and England were hosting Uruguay the following midweek. Scotland were due to play in Russia.

City’s next fixture was a 2-1 defeat at Selhurst Park, just a few months after we’d been stuffed 4-0 in the League Cup at the same venue

Sadly, I attended both games.

 

[sickboyblue.1]

When did Brian Hortrop manage us?

 

[bluealf]

Looking at the team line up and I am thinking who the fuck is John Foster, looks him up on wiki, only to find he then moved to my home town club Carlisle Utd and played 7 games, I don't remember him for either team, the poor bastard :/

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Looking at the team line up and I am thinking who the fuck is John Foster, looks him up on wiki, only to find he then moved to my home town club Carlisle Utd and played 7 games, I don't remember him for either team, the poor bastard :/

Became a doctor, by all accounts!!

 

[City_Shirts]

U been playing too much champions manager?

I have no idea what this means

 

[franksinatra]

Became a doctor, by all accounts!!

And Rae Ingram trained as a Physiotherapist

 

[Gray]

Looked a very open and attractive match, also Simeone was playing for Athletico in those days.

 

[yeseye]

When did Brian Hortrop manage us?

Around the same time Ian Brightcoell played for us!

 

[Ric]

I have absolutely no recollection whatsoever of this game. Great find with the video, Zin.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Looking at the team line up and I am thinking who the fuck is John Foster, looks him up on wiki, only to find he then moved to my home town club Carlisle Utd and played 7 games, I don't remember him for either team, the poor bastard :/

I think Foster eventually became a Policeman.
I remember a game at Newcastle (might have been the fluky 2-0 LC victory) when he cleared a couple off the line).
After that, I'm struggling.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Honestly don't remember this fixture, how bizarre?!

 

[chaddblue]

Where was it played? Cos that ain't the Vincente Calderon stadium

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Where was it played? Cos that ain't the Vincente Calderon stadium

Hough end if the pitch is anything to go by....

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Hough end if the pitch is anything to go by....

Brilliant!

Sure it is the Calderon though

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Brilliant!

Sure it is the Calderon though

Educated guess, but Atletico’s new stadium (from August 2017) was originally built in 1994 with a smaller capacity of 20,000.
Not exactly sure how it was utilised, (apart from failed Olympic bids), but it might be that City
played there rather than the Calderon?

Interestingly, Atletico were also struggling against relegation, and only survived on the last day of the season.



This hastily arranged friendly highlights the lack of media exposure in the pre internet mid 90s. In fact, to put the game into context, it was only a few weeks after the England fans had rioted in Dublin, and Cantona had attacked the Palace fan