Just love this pic...

[petrusha]

Top pic, of course, shows someone who has featured a fair bit on another thread in this forum in recent days - Mr Francis Henry Lee. From season 1972/3 or 1973/4, I reckon, because they were the only seasons we wore those dark blue socks with the red and white tops: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Manchester_City/Manchester_City.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Manches ... r_City.htm</a>

Afraid I can't place the Arsenal player. I'll try and date the specific game later.

The Goater shot is his equaliser at Blackburn in the 2000 promotion game. Blackburn 'keeper is Alan Kelly.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The Goater shot is his equaliser at Blackburn in the 2000 promotion game. Blackburn 'keeper is Alan Kelly.

Unplayable cross by Mark Kennedy from a defenders point of view.

The Highbury photo was before my time ;-)

Edit: I've just realised it was Horlock. I hang my geeky head in shame :-(

Still a great cross though.

 

[petrusha]

The Goater shot is his equaliser at Blackburn in the 2000 promotion game. Blackburn 'keeper is Alan Kelly.

Unplayable cross by Mark Kennedy from a defenders point of view.

The Highbury photo was before my time ;-)

Edit: I've just realised it was Horlock. I hang my geeky head in shame :-(

Still a great cross though.

Fantastic cross - pretty much our first meaningful attack, as well, after being battered all afternoon until then (no doubt we all remember all those Blackburn attempts that hit the woodwork).

The Highbury game looks like it's either a 0-0 draw on 28 October 1972 or a 0-2 defeat on 23 March 1974. Lee played in both. However, the excellent history section on this site states that the crowd for the first of those games was over 45K and for the second, only 25K were in attendance. Looks a lot more than half full to me, so I'm leaning towards the October '72 game.

I think that 0-0 draw also featured the famous incident in which an Arsenal player blatantly handled on the line, the ball went in anyway but bounced out again, and the ref refused to give us either a goal or a penalty (at least, that's how Hornby describes it in 'Fever Pitch' - "How we laughed!" he writes, the twat!). IIRC, the City players presented that ref with dark glasses and a white stick the next time he took one of our games.

 

[lancs blue]

The Goater shot is his equaliser at Blackburn in the 2000 promotion game. Blackburn 'keeper is Alan Kelly.

Unplayable cross by Mark Kennedy from a defenders point of view.

The Highbury photo was before my time ;-)

Edit: I've just realised it was Horlock. I hang my geeky head in shame :-(

Still a great cross though.

Fantastic cross - pretty much our first meaningful attack, as well, after being battered all afternoon until then (no doubt we all remember all those Blackburn attempts that hit the woodwork).

The Highbury game looks like it's either a 0-0 draw on 28 October 1972 or a 0-2 defeat on 23 March 1974. Lee played in both. However, the excellent history section on this site states that the crowd for the first of those games was over 45K and for the second, only 25K were in attendance. Looks a lot more than half full to me, so I'm leaning towards the October '72 game.

I think that 0-0 draw also featured the famous incident in which an Arsenal player blatantly handled on the line, the ball went in anyway but bounced out again, and the ref refused to give us either a goal or a penalty (at least, that's how Hornby describes it in 'Fever Pitch' - "How we laughed!" he writes, the twat!). IIRC, the City players presented that ref with dark glasses and a white stick the next time he took one of our games.

Yes Petrusha, it was the 0-0 game where Jeff Blockley punched the ball onto the crossbar and the officials claimed IIRC that the sun was in their eyes!

The incident is at the end of one of the vids in the excellent mcfcvideos library on youtube. Watch Blockley leg it out of the area when he realises he's got away with it.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFtogydYpW8#t=152[/video]

 

[petrusha]

Yes Petrusha, it was the 0-0 game where Jeff Blockley punched the ball onto the crossbar and the officials claimed IIRC that the sun was in their eyes!

The incident is at the end of one of the vids in the excellent mcfcvideos library on youtube. Watch Blockley leg it out of the area when he realises he's got away with it.

Thanks. I'm very familiar with the youtube channel but have missed that. First time I've ever seen it.

It's unbelievable that they gave us nothing for the incident. Yes, Blockley (who was a big money defensive signing for Arsenal at a young age and never lived up to expectations - the Tommy Caton de ses jours, I suppose) was like a cat on a hot tin roof there! :)

 

[DelToro]

The Goater shot is his equaliser at Blackburn in the 2000 promotion game. Blackburn 'keeper is Alan Kelly.

Unplayable cross by Mark Kennedy from a defenders point of view.

The Highbury photo was before my time ;-)

Edit: I've just realised it was Horlock. I hang my geeky head in shame :-(

Still a great cross though.

Fantastic cross - pretty much our first meaningful attack, as well, after being battered all afternoon until then (no doubt we all remember all those Blackburn attempts that hit the woodwork).

The Highbury game looks like it's either a 0-0 draw on 28 October 1972 or a 0-2 defeat on 23 March 1974. Lee played in both. However, the excellent history section on this site states that the crowd for the first of those games was over 45K and for the second, only 25K were in attendance. Looks a lot more than half full to me, so I'm leaning towards the October '72 game.

I think that 0-0 draw also featured the famous incident in which an Arsenal player blatantly handled on the line, the ball went in anyway but bounced out again, and the ref refused to give us either a goal or a penalty (at least, that's how Hornby describes it in 'Fever Pitch' - "How we laughed!" he writes, the twat!). IIRC, the City players presented that ref with dark glasses and a white stick the next time he took one of our games.

Even then there was an agenda.

 

[hateutd]

who could scan and upload this pic without.... :(

 

[petrusha]

who could scan and upload this pic without.... :(

You mean second from the right, back row, who here looks like a proper member of this group but only played 30-odd games over the next three years and more, even then only as a pale shadow of what he'd been. Yes, tragic for him and a really severe blow for the club. I'm sure we'd have gone on to greater heights with these players had he not had that terrible injury.

This shot is from the 1975/6 season, which is when I saw my first senior game at Maine Road - Leeds on Boxing Day, which we lost 1-0. I think we can pinpoint that it's mid-season, because if it had been pre-season or the first ten weeks of the campaign, Rodney Marsh would have been in it. Towards the end of the season, Gary Owen had made his debut and probably would have featured.

Moreover, there's no Keith MacRae. Corrigan was an automatic pick when fit for the entire 8-year period from early 1975 until March 1983, but MacRae would invariably feature in squad photos. And I believe the number of players - fourteen - is significant.

My hunch is that it's taken in February 1976 and shows the travelling group for the League Cup final. Then, teams usually went with 13 men - the starting eleven (in this case Corrigan, Keegan, Donachie, Doyle, Watson, Oakes, Barnes, Booth, Royle, Hartford, Tueart), plus the substitute (here, Kenny Clements) and a reserve to cover for an unexpected illness or injury (Paul Power for us). Bell is in it, I believe, as a nod to the immensely popular, injured star player.

I loved these days because we had some great players, won a lot of games (especially at home, which was where I saw us), were a indisputably big-time club and drew huge crowds, so it all seemed tremendously exciting to an impressionable kid. It was only later that I really understood what we lost in Colin Bell.

 

[hateutd]

once again,thank you petrusha,but can you remove from the pic,this 'getty images' shit???????? :(

 

[hateutd]