Daily Express 5 a side 1970 Winners

[tonycoleman]

This used to be a big deal shown on BBC1 at 10pm and was the first team playing.

When we won a chap called Harry who was a pensioner then who sat near me (I was 8) handed me a poem an excerpt of which i can recall - if i find the rest ill let you know

"We usually see eleven men when City play a game,
but this time we saw five but we triumphed just the same"

If anyone has seen this poem please add the other lines

Simon

 

[urmston]

Can't help you with the poem but I do remember the 5 a side tourrnament.

It was a minor big deal in the early 70s.

It legitimised the bounce off the wall pass at our school playground matches.

Before then bounce off the wall passes had to be agreed before kick off.

 

[mcfcvideos]

City actually won it in 1969 with a squad of Corrigan, Book, Pardoe, Bell, Young and Oakes...

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[happychappy]

Can't help you with the poem but I do remember the 5 a side tourrnament.

It was a minor big deal in the early 70s.

It legitimised the bounce off the wall pass at our school playground matches.

Before then bounce off the wall passes had to be agreed before kick off.

As did over head height and fly keeper

 

[Falastur]

This used to be a big deal shown on BBC1 at 10pm and was the first team playing.

When we won a chap called Harry who was a pensioner then who sat near me (I was 8) handed me a poem an excerpt of which i can recall - if i find the rest ill let you know

"We usually see eleven men when City play a game,
but this time we saw five but we triumphed just the same"

If anyone has seen this poem please add the other lines

Simon

Never seen it myself, but google says the poem is this:

We usually see eleven men, when City play a game,
But they turned out five at Wembley pool, and triumphed just the same
With Tony Book, Joe Corrigan, Alan Oakes, Neil Young, Colin Bell,
They knocked out Crystal Palace and Coventry as well.
Then in the semi-final they really turned the screw,
They whipped the pants off Chelsea, by four goals to two.
They struggled in the final to master Swindon Town
But made it by two goals to one to win another crown
Six goals came from Neil Young and five from Colin Bell
To make it a round dozen, Alan Oakes got one as well.
And so on television, before ten million eyes
With a perfect exhibition, they carried off the prize.

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[Mad Eyed Screamer]

This was always a big fixture in the season and shown on ''Sportsnight'' on BBC 1.
It faded in the late 70's but revived by the ''Guinness Soccer 6'' first held at Birmingham's NEC Arena and then GMEX.

 

[Gary James]

When I set up the museum we included the Daily Express trophy in one of our display cases. It should still be in City's archive now (alongside the Head Tennis trophy - film of that here: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.britishpathe.com/video/head-tennis/query/head+tennis" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.britishpathe.com/video/head- ... ead+tennis</a> ). The head tennis trophy never went on display in the museum but I know it was on display at Maine Road up to 2003.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

When I set up the museum we included the Daily Express trophy in one of our display cases. It should still be in City's archive now (alongside the Head Tennis trophy - film of that here: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.britishpathe.com/video/head-tennis/query/head+tennis" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.britishpathe.com/video/head- ... ead+tennis</a> ). The head tennis trophy never went on display in the museum but I know it was on display at Maine Road up to 2003.

WOW!!!!! (to the head tennis clip!)

 

[mancitymick]

Did we ever play in one over in Australia in the 80's with us getting to the final?