City's 1968 Championship winning side

[johnny on the spot]

Cool as absolute fuck.

 

[blueonblue]

The one that always gets left out is sat on the front row, Dave Conner was the utillity man and a brilliant man marker, could play across the back an midfield..........he would walk into todays team, Allison was always first to tell anyone that he was one of the most important players in the team

Of the others, Book, doyle, Oakes, Bell, Lee, and Young* could again just walk into todays team, both goalies while not bad were not that special in the days of Banks, Jennings, an a few more, Pardoe maybe and Buzzer not a certainty either.

Young was the other forgoten man, unless you watched the team in those days, "Nelly" scored 2/3 of the goal in what is called the Bell ,Lee , Summerbee era, a real class player with a deadly left foot.

Big Dave deserves explanation as to why he would not fit into todays team.........when he tackled someone, they stayed tackled, the refs today would have him off the park in two mins, an I dont mean he was a dirty player, just that he treated ever tackle full on, in the air he was as dominant as any today.

 

[johnny on the spot]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hJPMIYsPI8[/youtube]

Here's one to gear you all up for the run-in. Great stuff from Bell, Buzzer, Lee, Davies and Connor. Lovely.

 

[Blue Tooth]

All of them...They were a Team and the onus would be on our current 'hopefuls' to try and break in.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Not one weak link. Can't even remember anyone saying anything about 'little' 'Arry (Which is our team, Boss?) Dowd in goal. The essence of that team is that it wouldn't have cost as much in real terms as today's team, but they had a team ethic which we can only hope becomes instilled into the present collection.

 

[1970IrlamBlue]

the 68 team was great but there has to be a place for Carlos. Bell was the greatest but if Tevez plays as many games as Bell for then it will be interesting to see who the fans think is the all time Number 1 City player. One things for sure if he's around that long we would have won something!

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Agree about Dave Connor........If Carlsberg made substitutes.........

 

[SWSB]

and they played 42 games on mud heap pitches,my team anyway;
Given
Book
Pardoe
Doyle
Lescott
Oakes
Summerbee
Bell
Lee
Tevez
Coleman

 

[KentBlue]

Franny would be slaughtered in the media today for his theatrical dives in the area. But aside from that, yes, there are similarities between him and Carlos.

Wonder what price the King would demand nowadays? 40 million?

 

[crumpsallblue]

1st ever treble by an English team.

my old man tells me we were the last team to win the league with an all english 11.. cant see that ever happening again!