1970's MCFC

This is a photo of my 21st birthday party on 26/6/1977.
The 3 guys at the front were all part of the Fred/Sid crew.
The guy with the tash was Denny(Paul), next to him is Chris,and stood next to him is Mike (Keeny).
At the back holding the can up is Big John,who walked from town to OT with his City scarf on and not one red had a go at him.
I am in the middle with the silver tankard in my hand.(a 21st birthday present).
Anybody recognise anyone on this photo??
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paulchapo said:
Yes looking at it like that you're probably right although I remember a lot of heartache too. We won the ECWC and League cup right at the start of the decade, 1970. Aside from the League cup win in 1976 the rest were heroic failures. I don't look back and think, "We almost won that" I just remember the pain I felt when we didn't. We should have won the title in 1972 I think it was when we petered out from Easter and runners up to the dippers was tough to take, we were the best team that year. We lost the 1974 League cup final to Wolves thanks to a certain Gary Pierce when we had Bell, Lee, Summerbee,Marsh and Law in our side, again hard to take. At least looking back we were competing though and did win three trophies and given what was to come for 35 years yes we weren't as shit as I made out.
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The 70's were my formative years as a blue and absolutely loved it. I only started going away in 1978 aged 14 and then only locally. I wasn't overly worried about the near misses at the time simply because I was sure more trophies were around the corner.......little did we know the corner would come 35 years later.

However, looking back we did underachieve for the team and players we had. Not winning the league in 1972 when we really should have was a bigger blow that i thought because of course we missed out on the European Cup and who knows how well we might have done? The FA Cup run the year after when we lost to Div 2 Sunderland (Watson, Tueart, Horswill and all) was a blow because again we could easily have won it. League Cup final v Wolves was I suppose a typical City moment but Pierce has the game of his life.

76-77 was the year I went to a load of home games and we were really unlucky not to win the league and again missed out on the European Cup......Dave Watson's OG the difference.
Despite all of the above I suppose for me the defining moments were the injury to the King and selling Tueart in his prime
 
blue44 said:
remember another derby seeing a rag come into the kippax with a scarf on,iv never ever seen anyone beat up as much in my life,god knows why he came in our end,i was about 10 years old,1975,it sickened me,i still think what happened to him
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Wonder if this was the same lad I remember being hung by his scarf over one of the entrances to the Kippax. If so, the last I saw of him, the knot came undone, he fell about 15ft to the ground and legged it down the tunnel.

I often wonder what would have happened if the knot hadn't come undone.
 
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