Lesser known / Quirky records City hold

RibboCop said:
For a short while we were part of Wembley history ref 2 teams having players score a hat trick in same game till some twert scrubbed one of mark lillis’s


It would have also been the fastest hat trick in wembley istory

first team to play full members cup final

created in the wake of Heysel massacre
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Possibly the only team/time the fa have demanded a team to play a final the next day after a league game........ no agenda?
 
East Level 2 said:
Did Chelsea also play on the previous day?
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Playing on successive days was common back in the day. It was usual for teams to play Friday, Saturday and Monday over Easter (apart from the Midlands where it was Saturday, Monday and Tuesday). It was similar over Christmas.
 
We scored the first goal given by goalline technology IIRC. At least in the league. Sorry if already said.
 
s1ty m said:
Ah, the old Fairs Cup thing. It's a no from me, Phil, it was a quirky competition for sure. Was it not rooted in an invitational thing based on cities staging a fair, or something weird?

By the way, good to see you on the Ian Cheeseman vlog.
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Thanks - though the camera gave me a couple of extra chins.....

Yes entry was around some international trade fair but seems there were plenty of them around (Leeds beat Hibs, Rangers and Dundee United on their way to winning it!) And only one club per city could enter.

Newcastle won it in 1969 having qualified finishing in 10th place!
City as champioms and United as the holders qualified for the EC, Liverpool (3rd) and Leeds (4th) took the first 2 (of 4) Fairs Cup places. Everton (5th) couldn't because Liverpool had qualified so Chelsea in 6th took the 3rd spot meaning Spurs (7th) and Arsenal (9th) were ruled out. West Brom (8th) as FA Cup winners went into the ECWC so Newcastle in 10th place took the final Fairs Cup spot and went on to win it!
 
portisheadblue said:
I think Navas holds the PL record (maybe the whole world) for scoring 2 goals (a pair)in one game with the longest time interval between them

Against Spurs he scored after about 12 seconds and got his second in about 4th minute of added-on time at the end
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Unfortunately, he never had this record. Marouane Chamakh scored two goals with a bigger gap in Arsenal's 2-0 win at Wolves in 2010.
 
Joint highest 2nd place goal difference (premier league) +67 (shared with the dippers from last year)? Tenuous I know
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Read an old post from Gary James recently where he mentioned that City have held the highest English attendance at their own club ground since 1924 with a 74,000+ crowd and then broke our own record crowd in 1934 with the 84,569 crowd against Stoke, which still stands.
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The first record was 76,166 v Cardiff in FAC during the season the stadium opened. It was not only a provincial record crowd (i.e. English outside of London), it was the largest on a club ground; higher than any crowd at Old Trafford at that time (and still only about 900 less that OT's current record, which isn't for a MUFC game in any case); and higher than 3 FA Cup finals played in Manchester too. Give it another 3 years 7 months and we' will have held the record attendance on an English club ground for a century! We should make sure the world hears about that anniversary!
 
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