FA cup v Stoke 3rd March 1934

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Sorry Hello I'm a bit confused, I get you worked out conceived in May 1934 to be born in February 1935 , but xgorton yes he was 68 ?

Haha eyesight isn’t what it was I read 86 there not 68

 

[BolinCell]

Was it true there were 25k from Stoke at the game, I just can't see it really but I could be wrong...

only if they walked, had an horse and cart or a penny farthing could stoke fans get to Manchester in the 1930;s

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

My dad went to the game aged ten on his bike.

 

[mancityvstoke]

only if they walked, had an horse and cart or a penny farthing could stoke fans get to Manchester in the 1930;s

They don’t even have central heating, colour tellys, inside toilets or double glazing now

 

[Deleted member 77198]

only if they walked, had an horse and cart or a penny farthing could stoke fans get to Manchester in the 1930;s

Here’s a photo from the round before of the FA Cup that year against Sheffield Wednesday:

loads of cars/coaches there!

There were 68,614 that day n’all

 

[Bill the Blue]

only if they walked, had an horse and cart or a penny farthing could stoke fans get to Manchester in the 1930;s

Double thumbed a lift.?

 

[xgorton]

Here’s a photo from the round before of the FA Cup that year against Sheffield Wednesday:

loads of cars/coaches there!

There were 68,614 that day n’all

Think that game was the replay,first game at Hillsborough was watched by 72,000 record crowd for them and it still stands.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Here’s a photo from the round before of the FA Cup that year against Sheffield Wednesday:

loads of cars/coaches there!

There were 68,614 that day n’all

Brilliant photo.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Stanley Matthews Joe Fagan and Matt Busby all played that day.
On paper this match and it's attendance sounds brilliant ..but just like the Charlton promotion match in 85..I've heard some scary stories about crowd congestion. .indeed some poster in another thread has said a relative of his described City fans fighting to get out of the Kippax in 1934 as it was so dangerously full..

 

[petrusha]

Stanley Matthews Joe Fagan and Matt Busby all played that day.
On paper this match and it's attendance sounds brilliant ..but just like the Charlton promotion match in 85..I've heard some scary stories about crowd congestion. .indeed some poster in another thread has said a relative of his described City fans fighting to get out of the Kippax in 1934 as it was so dangerously full..

My late Grandad, who died in 1989 and would have been 21 at the time of the Stoke game, always insisted that the gate was a lot bigger than officially announced. Said it was bedlam that day, with serious over crowding in parts of the Kippax.

That replay against Sheffield Wednesday of which the photo is shown above would have taken place on a midweek afternoon. In those circumstances, 68K was a hell of a gate.