1986 youth team

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Think that game at Xmas was Stokes highest attendance, it was 18,000 odd I think mamba.

What a fantastic sight that was .....

City fans on two sides of the ground all decked out in fancy dress ..... bananas everywhere

i had a vicar sat to my right , and Count Dracula sat to my left !

and i turned around at half time to be faced with Captain Scarlett munchin' on a hot dog !

It was a good day, although Dave Bamber repaid the merciless piss-taking he got by bagging a couple iirc.

The season before was a great day out too, also around Christmas iirc. We won 3-0 and the terrace along the side was rocking. One of my favourite away days.

 

[Skip Donoghue]

IMO only Andy Hinchcliffe would get in the current squad, but would soon be on his way at the expense of Karim Rekik.

Lakey & Whitey possibly... but only because they're English.

Lake possibly you must be joking....he would have walked into our team now, the only player I can think of in football never mind only City who could play and did play in every position on the pitch and play as if he had played there all his life, there is no doubt but for injury he would have played regular for and even captained England and would of no doubt moved for a British transfer record to whom ever, they all wanted him Liverpool who were the top team then, the Rags, Arsenal, Spurs, Everton the lot

Peter Reid was on that fantasy football show on Sky with Fenners and Merson, he was asked to pick his all time greatest team of players he played with, bear in mind that Peter Reid won the league, European Cup Winners Cup, FA Cup etc with Everton, he played for England so has played with some top players, he picked Lakey in his all time 11 at Centre Half and said he could of actually put him in anywhere in the outfield players he was that good he said he would have been one of the greatest players this country has produced but for his injury,

this for me sums up how good Lakey was especially as Reid will have only played with him for a short period of his own career, so those who don't think he would be good enough for the current team obviously are to young to remember or something

 

[mscenterh750]

Another one of my faves v the potters, was when Imre Varadi scored a hat trick at Maine Road (it was a fave, because I thought Varadi was awesome).

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Can I just jump right in and say that myself and a friend have written a book called ''Teenage Kicks'' that will be out (hopefully) around Easter that is the definitive story of the 1986 FA Youth Cup winning team.

Starting in October in 1983, when Moulden, Scott and White make their A team debuts against UMIST and ending in March 1998, when Ian Brightwell plays his last game for City in the reserves against Huddersfield, the book covers the City career of each of the 14 players who featured in the 9 games City played to lift the cup - and follows their after City career right up to what they are doing today.
We tracked down all of the 13 surviving players (with email interviews as far and wide as South Africa, New Jersey and Dublin!) and the family of the player who tragically died of cancer a few years ago, who all contributed so much towards the book.
Paul Power has written a foreword for the book :)

We will be plugging the book a little nearer it's time of being available in the shops :)

For the record, the team names given in the original post had the name of the 12 players on duty for the 1st leg final at Old Trafford.

John Bookbinder was the sub for the 2nd leg and Steve Macauley (now assistant manager / coach at Fleetwood Town) reveals in the book why - thanks to Garry Birtles - he wasn't sub for the 2nd leg!!)
John Clarke was the sub for the first 6 games in the competition.

 

[Vienna_70]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure it was Ian Scott that scored our goal at stoke on boxing day (the day we took over the Victoria Ground), that was a belting day, with fancy dress and inflatables.

I could be wrong myself , but i was at Stoke that crazy day , and i have vivid memories of Nigel Gleghorn scoring our only goal ... but i might have got me matches mixed up !

According to Gary James' 'Complete Record', it was indeed Gleghorn who scored that day.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Just slightly slipping off topic, you look at the team that beat utd 5-1, there was hinchy, bobby, redmond, lakey, whitey and from the utd team from the 86 final I can only recall beardsmore, walsh and martin, of which iirc only beardsmore and maybe martin started that day, and the rest were bought (and they say they never spent a penny !).

Beardsmore wasn't involved in the 86 final.
Here is the United team from the 2nd leg
Walsh, Gill, Martin, Scott, Gardner (captain), Harvey, Murphy, Todd, Cronin, Wilson (Hopley), Goddard.

From that team, four would go on to play for the first team and five others would have a career with other clubs.

Gary Walsh - fifty appearances for the Reds and one hundred and seventy-four in spells with Middlesbrough, Bradford City and Wigan Athletic.

Tony Gill - ten appearances for the Reds before a serious leg injury ended his professional career.

Lee Martin - seventy-three appearances for United and scoring the winning goal in the 1990 FA Cup Final Replay against Crystal Palace. He played a further nineteen games for Glasgow Celtic.

David Wilson - four appearances for the Reds before a couple of loan games with Lincoln City, Charlton Athletic and Bristol Rovers, then playing in over two hundred and fifty games for various clubs in Finland.

Aiden Murphy - one hundred and thirteen appearances for Crewe Alexandra

Mark Todd - seventy appearances for Wolverhampton Wanderers and sixty-four with Rotherham United

Paul Harvey - moved back to his native Scotland and played for ten Scottish league sides over the following twenty years.

Karl Goddard - seventy-two appearances for Bradford City

Dennis Cronin - played briefly for both Stockport County and Crewe Alexandra before moving to non-league Northwich Victoria

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure it was Ian Scott that scored our goal at stoke on boxing day (the day we took over the Victoria Ground), that was a belting day, with fancy dress and inflatables.

I could be wrong myself , but i was at Stoke that crazy day , and i have vivid memories of Nigel Gleghorn scoring our only goal ... but i might have got me matches mixed up !

According to Gary James' 'Complete Record', it was indeed Gleghorn who scored that day.

another "typical city" day..

12-15,000 blues turn up in fancy dress,its boxing day away from home and we go 1nil up..only to collapse and lose 3-1.

thank fuck those days are over.

 

[Asa's left peg]

Just slightly slipping off topic, you look at the team that beat utd 5-1, there was hinchy, bobby, redmond, lakey, whitey and from the utd team from the 86 final I can only recall beardsmore, walsh and martin, of which iirc only beardsmore and maybe martin started that day, and the rest were bought (and they say they never spent a penny !).

Beardsmore wasn't involved in the 86 final.
Here is the United team from the 2nd leg
Walsh, Gill, Martin, Scott, Gardner (captain), Harvey, Murphy, Todd, Cronin, Wilson (Hopley), Goddard.

From that team, four would go on to play for the first team and five others would have a career with other clubs.

Gary Walsh - fifty appearances for the Reds and one hundred and seventy-four in spells with Middlesbrough, Bradford City and Wigan Athletic.

Tony Gill - ten appearances for the Reds before a serious leg injury ended his professional career.

Lee Martin - seventy-three appearances for United and scoring the winning goal in the 1990 FA Cup Final Replay against Crystal Palace. He played a further nineteen games for Glasgow Celtic.

David Wilson - four appearances for the Reds before a couple of loan games with Lincoln City, Charlton Athletic and Bristol Rovers, then playing in over two hundred and fifty games for various clubs in Finland.

Aiden Murphy - one hundred and thirteen appearances for Crewe Alexandra

Mark Todd - seventy appearances for Wolverhampton Wanderers and sixty-four with Rotherham United

Paul Harvey - moved back to his native Scotland and played for ten Scottish league sides over the following twenty years.

Karl Goddard - seventy-two appearances for Bradford City

Dennis Cronin - played briefly for both Stockport County and Crewe Alexandra before moving to non-league Northwich Victoria

Think you may have it wrong there pal. Everyone knows that Robson McQueen Bruce Pallister Veron all played for their youth team. It's in their istry.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Is there any video footage of the Youth Cup final against the rags. I went to both legs (our fans had most of the ground at Old Trafford).

 

[Zabbasbeard]

Lakey definitely would have made it. I think Hinchcliffe was as good as Clichy is. Whitey woud have made a decent squad player. He was certainly better than Adam Johnson in terms of pace and effectiveness, but not skill. Brighty would also be a squad player.

The rest, of which Redders was the best, wouldn't have made it for me.<br /><br />-- Tue Jan 15, 2013 5:08 pm --<br /><br />

Can I just jump right in and say that myself and a friend have written a book called ''Teenage Kicks'' that will be out (hopefully) around Easter that is the definitive story of the 1986 FA Youth Cup winning team.

Starting in October in 1983, when Moulden, Scott and White make their A team debuts against UMIST and ending in March 1998, when Ian Brightwell plays his last game for City in the reserves against Huddersfield, the book covers the City career of each of the 14 players who featured in the 9 games City played to lift the cup - and follows their after City career right up to what they are doing today.
We tracked down all of the 13 surviving players (with email interviews as far and wide as South Africa, New Jersey and Dublin!) and the family of the player who tragically died of cancer a few years ago, who all contributed so much towards the book.
Paul Power has written a foreword for the book :)

We will be plugging the book a little nearer it's time of being available in the shops :)

For the record, the team names given in the original post had the name of the 12 players on duty for the 1st leg final at Old Trafford.

John Bookbinder was the sub for the 2nd leg and Steve Macauley (now assistant manager / coach at Fleetwood Town) reveals in the book why - thanks to Garry Birtles - he wasn't sub for the 2nd leg!!)
John Clarke was the sub for the first 6 games in the competition.

Will look forward to that. Loved that team particularly.