City and Luton
The two met several times during the 1950/60s.
On one occasion in 1958 the City returning football special ran into the back of another train at Chinley fortunately with no deaths and only 8 injuries.
In many of these matches Trautmann at Luton had a rare difficulty with crosses from. Billy Bingham the Luton winger. I suspected it was because of the low slung, poor quality of the floodlights.
Years later Bingham was NI manager and I sat next to him on a flight from Manchester to Belfast when he confirmed that he flighted his crosses deliberately.
Of course the most famous encounter was the. called off Match after Denis Law had scored 6 for city with the “replay” at Luton ending in a 3-1 City defeat Was at the 1961 first but could not make first but could not make the second. The rags had a replay against Sheffield Wednesday on the evening of the second and lost it 7-2. To give me a little consolation.
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