An Evening With Manchester City Legends - 6th May at the Opera House

[Vienna_70]

Yep. Definitely wasn't live. There were very few live games back in those days. The FA Cup final, the England vs Scotland annual game in the home internationals, the European Cup final and if there was a Euros or World Cup in the summer. That was about it back then.

Didn’t they show all the games in the Home Internationals live?

 

[jimharri]

Didn’t they show all the games in the Home Internationals live?

Don't recollect that, to be honest. But then again, FOCs can suffer from iffy memory.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Didn’t they show all the games in the Home Internationals live?

Yes I think they did Mr Vienna

 

[Stephen230]

Was the 76 league cup final not televised ?

The first League Cup Final to be shown live was the 1981 replay between Liverpool and West Ham.

A game we could very easily have been involved in of course after being robbed in the semis.

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

I liked Reid as a player, you knew what you were going to get with him and whilst he wasn't at his peak with us, he didn't let us down.

As a manager, he guided us to positions we'd rarely been in since I was born! He was a legend to me :) after he left, we really started that slow slide downwards and it was only when Big Joe came in that it stopped. If we'd had kept Reid, we wouldn't have been relegated.

 

[Alfie Budd]

Didn’t they show all the games in the Home Internationals live?

The final few seasons of the Home Internationals in the early 1980s had all the games on live TV but before then it was just England v Scotland with highlights only of all the others.

 

[LongsightM13]

Quite a lot of these kind of events kicking about lately
I’m a member of a seat filling agency and even 99% of the rag ones end up on there
The Opera House will have a musical booked in either side and this is the kind of cheap ‘filler’ event they can lob in at short notice. A few chairs, a PA and a projector screen
PS some short memories on here. We were ready to riot when Peter Reid got sacked. That was the final straw that kicked off the entire Swales Out movement
Remains a decent and socially conscious man online. And publicly celebrates every time we deny the Cult yet another trophy

 

[Keeper!]

Pretty sure it wasn’t live. Highlights on the Sunday. Game on the Saturday. As far as I recall

ITV I seem to remember, with Brian Moore introducing it.

 

[melrose40yarder]

People have short memories Ok the football under Kendall and Reid was not the best they made us competative again.For the 1st time since John Bond you would go to the game thinking we had a chance no matter who we were playing.If we could have just gone that little bit further in the transfer market who knows.Remember how gutted we all were when Kendall left and as another poster stated Reid's sacking was the begining of the end for Swales.

 

[Vienna_70]

People have short memories Ok the football under Kendall and Reid was not the best they made us competative again.For the 1st time since John Bond you would go to the game thinking we had a chance no matter who we were playing.If we could have just gone that little bit further in the transfer market who knows.Remember how gutted we all were when Kendall left and as another poster stated Reid's sacking was the begining of the end for Swales.

I thought we played pretty decent football under Kendall.

I know, when he came in, he was playing five at the back, but that was out of necessity to stop us conceding so many, but certainly in the second season, it was much better.