5th February 1955 v Cardiff won 4-1
followed a week later at the swamp when we beat them 5-0
A 17 year old Carl Grifiths scored two to put Shrewsbury ahead that day...we signed him later...City dragged two back to make it 2-2.City v shrewsbury 17/12/88 - Hinchcliffe scores direct from the corner. as my dad was a red, so was I until I
a: scored free school tickets to this game.
b: awoke from my stupidity
c: became a glory hunting bastard.
Been blue ever since.
Beat me to it...
... pretty sure the first half was the quietest half of football City ever played.
No wonder they never scheduled any more games at 11:15AM on a Sunday.
5th February 1955 v Cardiff won 4-1
followed a week later at the swamp when we beat them 5-0
"Bless em all bless em all Bill Levers Bert Trautman and PaulAnyone remember the song supporters sang in 50s 'Bless em all' the long and the short and the tall,
Neil would normally have played at 7 in those days.
Harley was an enigma, He was great at City but did nothing at other clubs. He jumped ship to Birmingham City after City were relegated but only lasted one season before moving to Dundee with brief spells at Portadown and Cape Town. He was working in a hotel in Birmingham when he died aged 33.
Wagstaffe was my favourite City player. A few years later, as usual we went down to Shropshire at my Grandparents for Christmas. I decided to get the bus to watch the Wolves match on Boxing Day. I arrived a the stadium as they introduced their new signing: David Wagstaffe. I was gutted! Imagine the City team in 1967-68 with Wagstaffe at number 11 instead of Coleman?
Brilliant"Bless em all bless em all Bill Levers Bert Trautman and Paul
Bless Roy Little who blocks the wing and Jackie Dyson the penalty King
Can't remember any more and first match was 55 or 56 with my old man and three older brothers I was five and can't remember who we played though.
Well that's me already out then. I can remember standing next to my dad in the Kippax with my 2 years younger sister on his shoulders, it must have been late 60's but that is all I can recall besides not being able to see a damn thing :(Obviously City have no history, but what’s the earliest match that any of you were at? Not your dads or granddads, I mean genuine forum members. I’d like to think we have someone that was at the 55/56 cup finals. Do we have any earlier? Surely nobody can claim to have seen us win the league in 1937. Can they?
EDIT: EARLIEST ATTENDANCE CLAIMED SO FAR IS 1949 BY TWO POSTERS, ALTHOUGH ONE WAS A RESERVE MATCH AND ONE CANNOT REMEMBER OPPONENTS.
WE ALSO HAVE JUST ONE POSTER WHO ATTENDED AND CAN REMEMBER THE 1955 CUP FINAL
I remember that night. We had to wait for the score from the bloke who put the scores up for the full time result between villa and WBA