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44 Years Ago… Johnny Bond, Johnny Bond, Johnny Bond
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plattlanebenches
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Bang on. He wasn’t as bad as some on hear are making out. It was allisons return that destroyed us.He made three great signings in Bobby McDonald, Tommy Hutchinson and Gerry Gow. It transformed the team. Loved watching Tommy Hutchinson and Gerry Gow was a legendary.
Fordyboy46
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Was still a special time to be a blue regardless of how poor we were on the pitch. I wouldn't have swapped it for the world
Fordyboy46
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Used to love our visits to Maine Road back in those days as kids travelling from Chesterfield. My old neighbours mum and dad were still living in Mornington Crescent, Fallowfield and they'd have a tuck bag made up for me, my best mate and another lad down our road.
I remember my old neighbour always taking an age leaving Manchester for Derbyshire to make sure he could get a pink un still. Happy happy days!
I remember my old neighbour always taking an age leaving Manchester for Derbyshire to make sure he could get a pink un still. Happy happy days!
Yes, but on the replay, he should have played Tueart. We would have won that replay.Bond was one of the champagne Charlie type manager's that seemed to be in abundance in that era. Love him or hate him he did give us an exciting season and saved us from relegation. If Steve MacKenzie's shot against Spurs when he rounded the keeper in the final had gone in instead of hitting the post, we would have won the cup. That would have made it 2-0, game over.
chorltonwheelieblue
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Alf Grey?Dead right and my brother and I were right in the mix of it. That bloody referee.
The Stockport Iniesta
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I remember it being more of a fall? I think he tried lowering himself down, lost his grip and fell? Sure he injured himself as well.During the FA Cup run, following a 6–0 win over former club Norwich City, I remember the silly twat,jumped from the top of the tunnel into the player's tunnel, to offer his commiserations to son Kevin, who was playing for Norwich at the time
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It’s Tommy Hutchison please.
gordondaviesmoustache
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What’s wrong with Tommy Hutch?It’s Tommy Hutchison please.
Scaring Europe to Death
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Funny how everything seems to morph into a black or white binary choice when the truth is nearly always a shade of grey.
Allison is quite correctly blamed for self-inflicted financial stupidity, and yet the starting XI for his last game at Elland Road boasted 8 homegrown players (the 2-2 draw at Old Trafford the previous week had featured 9)
Bond is quite correctly celebrated for the 80-81 turnaround after the popular and influential signings of Hutchison McDonald and Gow.
However, two of those players had left the club within 18 months, and by the time of his last game in charge (the infamous Cup defeat at the Goldstone Ground in 83) the other signing had been replaced at Left Back by Bond’s son.
Both Managers also seemed to make a stack of anonymous short-term signings. I’d completely forgotten that Stuart Lee actually scored 2 goals for City, but can anyone remember Bobby Shinton’s loan spell at Millwall or to which clubs John Ryan, Phil Boyer signed for after City, or indeed anything particularly memorable about Martin O’Neill’s time at Maine Road?
Allison is quite correctly blamed for self-inflicted financial stupidity, and yet the starting XI for his last game at Elland Road boasted 8 homegrown players (the 2-2 draw at Old Trafford the previous week had featured 9)
Bond is quite correctly celebrated for the 80-81 turnaround after the popular and influential signings of Hutchison McDonald and Gow.
However, two of those players had left the club within 18 months, and by the time of his last game in charge (the infamous Cup defeat at the Goldstone Ground in 83) the other signing had been replaced at Left Back by Bond’s son.
Both Managers also seemed to make a stack of anonymous short-term signings. I’d completely forgotten that Stuart Lee actually scored 2 goals for City, but can anyone remember Bobby Shinton’s loan spell at Millwall or to which clubs John Ryan, Phil Boyer signed for after City, or indeed anything particularly memorable about Martin O’Neill’s time at Maine Road?