1970's MCFC

manclad said:
We drove past the Albion a couple of months ago and it was closed and all the windows were boarded up.
A bit sad, but it looks like it is going the way of alot of the old style boozers.
Give it another 3/4 years and there will be new houses built there.
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We'll have to get the old gang back... They'll never take the Albion!
 
mancityvstoke said:
Fred and Sid know lads in that photo.........we were on our way to Leeds FA cup......77 or 78
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There are a few I seem to recognise but couldn’t for the life of me put a name to the faces other than Brian. I had a chat with him a couple of years ago at a funeral, still going strong and still a right ugly bastard.
 
manclad said:
Yes pal one or two of them do look familiar.
Trouble is that we used to see lads for an away match or two and then others would take their place for the next match or two.
Most of them were from the Burnage/Chorlton/Withington area.
Me and my pal Barry were the odd ones out being from Middleton.
But we were all Blues,that is what counted.
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Barry was as funny as fuck, I think I told you when he was in the magistrates court for a little bit of weed and the going rate then was maybe a 10 or 20 quid fine. The magistrate asked him if he had anything to say and he shouted “Yes, legalise weed”. The magistrate replied “Thank you for that Mr P….. that’ll be a £100 fine.
I think he was quite chuffed he broke the record.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Shit, in the 70s?

We won the European Cup Winners Cup (+another SemiFinal), 2 x League Cups (+1 runner-up), the Charity Shield (+1 runner-up), and got to the QuarterFinal of the UEFA Cup (losing to the eventual winners, Gladbach). We finished 2nd in the league, plus 4th twice, 8th twice and were never anywhere near a relegation fight. We beat Juventus and AC Milan in Europe. Our highest ever average attendances (up to moving to the CoMS in 2003) were in the 70s.

It was probably our second best decade ever as a club, and we were easily seen as one of the big four or five clubs of that decade.
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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.
 
blue44 said:
Its ingrained in me
started around 3 years old in 1968
in the platt lane with me dad and grandad and sister,even my mam sometimes
always remember my grandad lifting me up when he paid to get in,lifted me up and said " future supporter ",it always worked
Mind yer car mister anywhere you parked near MR,me grandad always gave them 10p,one time,it was v newcastle and he give 1 kid 10 p and we were walking away and this other kid said " mind yer car sir",my grandad said," iv just paid him "
we came back and the windscreen was smashed in !

i remember a derby mid 70's,stuart pearson had been mouthing all week what utd were gonna do to us,we shit on them 3-1 and my difining memory of being in the kippax was a deathening song of " pearson is a wanker ".i remember that game too,cos 2 rags climbed on the top of the north stand and came to the edge and pulled down the city flag ,it was mayhem outside as usual

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

remember my dad coming back from leeds away and he said never again,bricks raining down on city coaches,scrapping everywhere

my dad and grandad went to ot when Denis scored,they both knew ot from going from the 1950's,they said when we scored they decided to make an exit,went out with a utd fan who said to them," look at this ",he pointed to his hand,one of the ends of his fingers was hanging off,he told my dad ,a utd kid ran passed me and did that,even though he knew i was a utd fan too

mad times.
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Last time I went to Leeds was a cup game we lost and a Leeds fan in his 30s took his knob out and started pissing on the City fans below him. City fans tried to climb up the wall to get at him. Amazing thing is he had his two eight to ten year old kids with him. Those two kids are probably today's Leeds idiots.
 
berryblue said:
Last time I went to Leeds was a cup game we lost and a Leeds fan in his 30s took his knob out and started pissing on the City fans below him. City fans tried to climb up the wall to get at him. Amazing thing is he had his two eight to ten year old kids with him. Those two kids are probably today's Leeds idiots.
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that in way,reminds me of that scouser,stark bollock naked somewhere in a packed madrid square,wanking his dick infront of hundreds,when they beat tott in the champs league final.absolutely appalling
 
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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