1968 championship

[given_is_ironman]

Suppose this is for the veteran blues. Was there the same outpouring of relief when we won that title as when we won it last season?!

 

[oakiecokie]

I was only 17 at the time and certainly the media outlets that are available now,are far greater than 40 years ago,so i suppose there wasn`t as much pressure on the Players.
Papers,radio and MOTD were the only ways of finding anything about your club.
From my perspective,this last one gives me far greater satifaction,but part of me thinks thats because we were the better team in Manchester,even though the Rags won the European Cup.
Pissed me off no end all them years ago,as the media soon forgot we were the Champions,due to United hogging the limelight after that win.
We never got the recognition we deserved IMO.

 

[Anonymous]

I only started going late 1969 , but i guess the estimated 20,000 City fans who turned up at Newcastle for that famous 4-3 win says it all ....... they invaded the pitch after the game in sheer delight.

We have waited a long time to see a title win before it finally happened last season

...... and so had they , more than 30 years !

.

 

[Big Swifty]

I remember it clearly. There wasn't exactly a sense of relief as such. Excitement, yes, but there no scum fans holding up banners saying "31 Years" (1937 to 1968). They were somehow then not so bitter as now.
What annoyed me was MOTD that night - Utd were home to Sunderland, we had a harder fixture, so the BBC showed the Reds!!! (In those days, kiddies, all top-tier matches were not covered). Happy to say the reds lost anyway. But there was no sense of many years of hurt being washed away. I think we all knew that that side would win the title, and in style.

 

[Pieblue]

I was only 17 at the time and certainly the media outlets that are available now,are far greater than 40 years ago,so i suppose there wasn`t as much pressure on the Players.
Papers,radio and MOTD were the only ways of finding anything about your club.
From my perspective,this last one gives me far greater satifaction,but part of me thinks thats because we were the better team in Manchester,even though the Rags won the European Cup.
Pissed me off no end all them years ago,as the media soon forgot we were the Champions,due to United hogging the limelight after that win.
We never got the recognition we deserved IMO.

Yep agree 100% with above, I was 14 and didn't go to Newcastle and it seemed to be an age before I knew what had happened, thanks to the good old Grandstand Ticker tape, hard to beleive that results came through on a bit of tape via a phone line.

Absolutely true we did not get the recognition then, I think this year meant more to me due to all the up's and down's in the intervening years.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

I was only 17 at the time and certainly the media outlets that are available now,are far greater than 40 years ago,so i suppose there wasn`t as much pressure on the Players.
Papers,radio and MOTD were the only ways of finding anything about your club.
From my perspective,this last one gives me far greater satifaction,but part of me thinks thats because we were the better team in Manchester,even though the Rags won the European Cup.
Pissed me off no end all them years ago,as the media soon forgot we were the Champions,due to United hogging the limelight after that win.
We never got the recognition we deserved IMO.

Yep agree 100% with above, I was 14 and didn't go to Newcastle and it seemed to be an age before I knew what had happened, thanks to the good old Grandstand Ticker tape, hard to beleive that results came through on a bit of tape via a phone line.

Absolutely true we did not get the recognition then, I think this year meant more to me due to all the up's and down's in the intervening years.

I remember the Grandstand ticker tape well, and being exultant, but strangely, not as much as recently after that immense season. I suppose it's the modern communications that enable us to absorb more information immediately.

 

[poh]

I was 10 years old and as you can imagine the only city fan in my whole estate here in rag land,I remember watching the scores come in on grandstand (by the way I think it was called the teleprinter not the ticker tape) and when I saw the city result I ran about the house as only a 10 year old boy can shouting "city,city city" untill my mum told me to calm down or go outside,which I did,and then ran up and down the street shouting "city,city,city" with the neighbours wondering what was wrong with that strange boy who had a giant franny lee poster on his wall.

 

[Bozzie]

I was nearly 9 when we won the championship in 1968 and had been to a few matches with my dad but was obviously too young to travel to Newcastle. I remember running down Mauldeth Road West with my mate when the scores came in but the occasion passed me by a bit. Maybe it was being so young and maybe it was the feeling that this was how it would always be. Had I known that we'd wait 44 years for another one maybe even at 9 years old I'd have taken a bit more bloody notice ! The best part of winning that championship was going to meet the players and get a signed team photo on the 5th floor at Lewis's department store. It still remains one of my fondest childhood memories.

 

[Alex the Blue]

Different feeling back in 1968. I was 18 at the time and although there was strong rivalry between us with quite a few good punch ups there was not the bitterness that there is today.

Like today's team we had loads of attacking flair and we were the best team in the country. It was fantastic to be in Newcastle that week-end with the other 20,000 blues and the Geordies were good to us.

Another big difference was the rags were not has arrogant as they are today so we were more pleased at our success rather than getting one over on them. We didn't get the credit we deserved though cos those bastards went and won the European cup just afterwards.

Another difference was many Blues had a lot of respect for the great Matt Busby especially has it was only 10 years after the tragedy that was Munich. No Blues singing or chanting sick stuff about that fateful day.

Back then it was usually the same 11 week in week out including all the cup games with just one sub who was usually Dave Connor with Bobby Kennedy wearing No 12 on the odd occasion. Another thing is Pardoe, Doyle, Oakes and Nellie were Blue through and through and the entire team was made up of English men.

Personally I got more satisfaction from the 68 title, this years title was more of a relief than anything else.

 

[m7mcfc]

My dad is a utd fan, he said he had a great piss up with his City mates. Then against Benfica utd played in blue and the same pals celebrated with him.

A different world, a lot of my pals fathers speak of going to Maine Rd one week OT the next.
(50's fella's)

How times have changed, it would never happen today but I cannot for a second imagine cheering that lot on.