City's 1968 Championship winning side

[Macker]

All of them ! They were good individuals but as a team they were brilliant.

If we had Colin Bell in the current side we would be at least 3rd.

 

[bridgeblue]

Use to have that on my wall as a kid.

 

[trevorcitytilidie]

The last all English team to win the league!

Possibly the 2 goalkeepers wouldn't make it but what a team,any team with the King in would always have a chance of winning the League

 

[r.soleofsalford]

OK,

Dowd/Mulhearn
Book
Pardoe
Doyle
Heslop
Oakes
Summerbee
Bell
Lee
Young
Coleman

Out of these, how many would be fit/able to slot into the current City team, if you could wind the clock forward?

I would suggest Doyle, Oakes, Summerbee, Bell and Lee........agree??[/q

tony book the best rightback and captain we`ve ever had at the club.
pardoe
doyle
summerbee
bell just the king
lee

 

[Gordyola]

Combined the squads of 68 and today's then the starting eleven would be

Given
Book
Pardoe
Doyle
Heslop
Oakes
Summerbee
Bell
Lee
Young
Coleman

Subs Connor Johnson (A) Tevez Lescott Dowd Kompany Adebayor

 

[Bill]

Combined the squads of 68 and today's then the starting eleven would be

Given
Book
Pardoe
Doyle
Heslop
Oakes
Summerbee
Bell
Lee
Young
Coleman

Subs Connor Johnson (A) Tevez Lescott Dowd Kompany Adebayor

this, as a unit these were just fantastic.

 

[Nelly's Left Foot]

Combined the squads of 68 and today's then the starting eleven would be

Given
Book
Pardoe
Doyle
Heslop
Oakes
Summerbee
Bell
Lee
Young
Coleman

Subs Connor Johnson (A) Tevez Lescott Dowd Kompany Adebayor

Book for sure as captain and right back. Don't agree re Pardoe. Right footed and not very quick for a left back and I am not sure about big George either.Doyle yes if only to wind the scum up , Oakes yes along with yes for all the rest apart from TC.

Might just play myself wide left and get Tevez a game alongside Frannie down the middle.

 

[cleavers]

What a lot also forget, is that there was 1 sub back then, and we probably had a squad of 15 for potentially a lot more league and cup games than now, and it was damned sight harder than it is now, some of these fairies wouldn't have last 5 minutes back then. A team back then were a mix of brawn and skill, and we had the best. For nearly a decade this squad were one of the best in the country, sadly they never showed it in the one european competition that really mattered, the European Cup, it should have, but even then typical city reared its head occasionally. Don't get me wrong the cup winners cup win was a great achievement, but it just didn't contain the best in europe, and City went and got knocked out of the main one by a relative minnow.

I don't think that its really a fair question to compare now and then, its completely a different game now, built around different things entirely, a number of those players weren't athletes, but they didn't need to be, they used their ball skills.

For instance Richards wouldn't have made their reserve team, of the current squad that would have made their squad, Bellamy, Tevez, Zabaleta, Vieira, Ireland, and maybe Given, but I don't think he would have been first choice.

 

[Ballet On Ice]

Football is a team game and the original team posted on hear were a complete team, won the league with fast paced attacking football, if they were all 20 to 30 now they could all be in the first team, abilility never chages.
Oh and Colin Bell would be priceless

 

[NPBlue]

Happy days, remembering that team. It was swashbuckling football, but you had characters in the game in those days that would bring the game into 'disrepute' today.

I don't think Buzzer would get many games today, but what a great entertainer he was. My favourite player, anyway.

The thought that crossed my mind though, having thought about it for a while, is how similar Francis Lee and Carlos Tevez are in their play.

They are both short and a little bit stocky, but the way Tevez looks for the openings as he trawls around the box, the way he rides the challenges, his general play, the way he hustles, it reminds me of Lee.

Maybe I'm on my own with this, but I remember Lee with the ball around his feet and somehow breaking loose, and Tevez looks similar.

I watch Tevez, and it reminds me of Lee.