Lesser known / Quirky records City hold

Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
This is a tricky one, but I can't help wondering: are we not the only team to be 3-0 down in an F.A. Cup tie, have one man sent off, and come back to win it in normal time with no need for a replay!!
In the lower divisions there must be cases of this (although I'm not sure), but in the higher echelons?
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And our main striker was taken off injured at 3-0
 
4 losses prior to the end of November but went on to win the League.
Twice! '36-7 (5 losses) and '13-14.

Not 100% certain on this one but appears to be true.
 
Big Swifty said:
And two days after the match at Plymouth we played Leicester at home - three games in four days including a round trip to Devon - and on public transport too. Try going to Plymouth and back on Xmas Day & Boxing Day by train nowadays!
And Jimmy Constantine scored in all three games.
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I am amazed that they were able to pack in a 42-match season (46 in D3 and D4) before the days of floodlighting.

It’s no wonder that they played so many matches during the Christmas and Easter breaks.

They must have had kick-offs much earlier than 15:00 on Saturdays. When were mid-week matches played?
 
JGL07 said:
I am amazed that they were able to pack in a 42-match season (46 in D3 and D4) before the days of floodlighting.

It’s no wonder that they played so many matches during the Christmas and Easter breaks.

They must have had kick-offs much earlier than 15:00 on Saturdays. When were mid-week matches played?
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FA Cup games were usually played midweek at 3PM. Lots of Grannies/Grandpa's died a few time a season back then!
 
JGL07 said:
I am amazed that they were able to pack in a 42-match season (46 in D3 and D4) before the days of floodlighting.

It’s no wonder that they played so many matches during the Christmas and Easter breaks.

They must have had kick-offs much earlier than 15:00 on Saturdays. When were mid-week matches played?
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According to my 93 year old Dad,Saturday afternoon games kicked off at 14.00 hrs so that each game finished at around 15.40 hrs(10 minutes for half time back then) just before it started to go dark in December/January.
 
Javi Garcia's Hairstylist said:
4 losses prior to the end of November but went on to win the League.
Twice! '36-7 (5 losses) and '13-14.

Not 100% certain on this one but appears to be true.
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Try the 1967-68 season.

City lost to Southampton and Stoke in the first three matches. They then lost at Arsenal, at home to United and away at Sunderland. That was all by 07 October. They still went on to win the League.
 
JGL07 said:
I am amazed that they were able to pack in a 42-match season (46 in D3 and D4) before the days of floodlighting.

It’s no wonder that they played so many matches during the Christmas and Easter breaks.

They must have had kick-offs much earlier than 15:00 on Saturdays. When were mid-week matches played?
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Games kicked off earlier in the Winter before floodlights.

Everyone thinks Saturday at 3pm is the traditional time for football, but I think most of the season games used to kick off at dinnertime.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Games kicked off earlier in the Winter before floodlights.

Everyone thinks Saturday at 3pm is the traditional time for football, but I think most of the season games used to kick off at dinnertime.
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I do recall watching mid-week afternoon matches at Maine Road during the miners’ strike in 1974 when floodlights could not be used. I can’t remember the kick off times. It was a very strange atmosphere.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Also the other way around, didn’t one of our keepers back in the mists if time score a goal after getting injured and they stuck him out in the wing in the pre-substitute days?
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In a similar vein, the first ever goalkeeper to score from open play was playing for City at the time: At Roker Park, a 3-1 loss to Sunderland in April 1900 - Charlie Williams's long kick downfield was City's only goal of the game.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
We have done it 2 times!
Martin Margetson v Wycombe League Cup
David James v Boro

Has any other team had 2 goalkeepers on the pitch at the same time as we have with Immel / Margetson and James / Weaver
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The Margetson one completely passed me by. What was the back story? Did we just want to keep him out of harm’s way or something?
 
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