Halifax...shudder

[BlueMo']

Brought back memories of that day when i was
watching game today.
I gave my 12yr old lad a rundown of it.
Got beat by Halifax? was all he could say in disbelief.
Little does he know the shit we've been through.

 

[m32blue]

Listened on the radio as an 8yr old living in Fallowfield
was not amused, though have never seen the highlights until today.
Pitch wasnt fit for Sunday league football.
Hopefully these frequent cup disasters are a thing of the past now

 

[Cityfan1uk]

Got the Halifax shudder myself when I heard it on TV. The muddy bank and slipping down - how I remember that. Bought myself some boots with Christmas money which were ruined that day. So was the life of a teenage girl blue. A very dark day!

 

[paulchapo]

The thing was in those days you knew,just KNEW if we got drawn against a lower league club,no matter how crap or how badly they had been playing before playing us,we would get beat.We were a big name team in name only, with a piss poor team of third rate gutless players.

Ours was the name they all wanted out of the hat.Massive publicity,big crowd,usually tv money and a great chance of winning.

Notts County had that feel about it last season thank God we got through!

Lower league clubs have less chance now,for a start the pitches even at the lower levels are nowhere near as bad.That game would never have been played today on a pitch like that it would have been called off.

 

[BillCarlisle]

I remember 4 of us travelling back by car, with 3 different drop-off's. Not a single word was spoken all the way back to Manchester. I mean literally not one word, apart from 'See ya' at each drop off.
I don't think I've ever felt so gutted after a match.

 

[lancs blue]

i was at the shay that day , daley played , we missed half a dozen sitters , remember city fans hanging out of the trees , trying to get a better view ,most of the terracing consisted of a mud heap , i am pretty sure the burger stall in our end got turned over. Shit day ,crap pitch,pissed down all day , just proves we were there when we were shit.

Yes, apart from the shit ground and even shittier performance that's the main memory I have of the day!

 

[isab23502]

Heart-breaking as they felt at the time, when you look at the conditions for both the Shewsbury and the Halifax defeats.. it is hard to say they were really proper football matches rather than total lotteries.

 

[lancs blue]

Heart-breaking as they felt at the time, when you look at the conditions for both the Shewsbury and the Halifax defeats.. it is hard to say they were really proper football matches rather than total lotteries.

Tbf the pitch at Maine Rd was often not much better in those days after a bit of Manc drizzle! It only really improved after undersoil heating was installed.

 

[johnny crossan]

For the older Blues seeing Halifax in the Cup today brought back memories of the Shay in 1980.

It was an awful day,pissed it down,and I was with a mate of mine and we were stood on a mudbank of about 4 foot high and every so often we would slide to the bottom of it and not be able to see the pitch.I even got a piece of cardboard to try and keep our shoes clean buit we just slid faster.

I lived in Sheffield at the time and the shit I got in our local pub on the Sunday was at another level to anything I had ever experienced although in hindsight it was ideal preperation for the next 28 years!

Ray Ranson was quoted some years after City's defeat at the Shay as saying "I can never pass a sign to Halifax without a shudder"

Heart-breaking as they felt at the time, when you look at the conditions for both the Shewsbury and the Halifax defeats.. it is hard to say they were really proper football matches rather than total lotteries.

Tbf the pitch at Maine Rd was often not much better in those days after a bit of Manc drizzle! It only really improved after undersoil heating was installed.

and not only drizzle

 

[BillCarlisle]

For the older Blues seeing Halifax in the Cup today brought back memories of the Shay in 1980.

It was an awful day,pissed it down,and I was with a mate of mine and we were stood on a mudbank of about 4 foot high and every so often we would slide to the bottom of it and not be able to see the pitch.I even got a piece of cardboard to try and keep our shoes clean buit we just slid faster.

I lived in Sheffield at the time and the shit I got in our local pub on the Sunday was at another level to anything I had ever experienced although in hindsight it was ideal preperation for the next 28 years!

Ray Ranson was quoted some years after City's defeat at the Shay as saying "I can never pass a sign to Halifax without a shudder"

Heart-breaking as they felt at the time, when you look at the conditions for both the Shewsbury and the Halifax defeats.. it is hard to say they were really proper football matches rather than total lotteries.

Tbf the pitch at Maine Rd was often not much better in those days after a bit of Manc drizzle! It only really improved after undersoil heating was installed.

and not only drizzle

That's a great pic. Wonder what year ? Must have been the 1950's or earlier
Note the Platt Lane with terracing. I remember that as a young kid.