Man City Thunderbastards

[Scott mcfc]

The strike from debryne at newcastle was a propper thunderbasterd ha

 

[Stelea]

One of our finest away performances

 

[Tarnats left peg]

Michael Tarnat vs Blackburn

 

[Tarnats left peg]

Sylvinho vs scunthorpe

 

[citymad]

At thirty seconds you will see Tueart score the most amazing free kick against Swansea,1982..some other crackers too.

Some amazing goals bringing so many great memories. Whitey’s cross for Hinchcliffes bullet header and Hutchinson‘s little header to McKenzie were sublime pieces of skill.

 

[petrusha]

I remember [Dennis Tueart's volley after Asa Hartford flicked up a free kick to him] as a kid. There was a big fuss over whether it was legal IIRC.
Scored right at the death too.

Remember it clear as day, was at the match and then Jimmy Hill prefaced theat night’s MoTD show with reference to a (in)famous free kick by Ernie Hunt and Willie Carr in the 70s, Coventry or Wolves?
iirc it was the game that Duncan Davidson (who remembers him?!!!) ‘scored’ last minute, og off the post and back off the keeper’s head and in.
Which ironically was the very antithesis of a Thunderbastard

Some confusion here between two different home games against Swansea a year apart, both of which we won 2-1.

In October 1982, Tueart's volley set up by Hartford's free kick at the North Stand end put us one up in the first half. Hartford himself scored a second after the break but we had a nervous finish to a game we'd largely dominated after Bob Latchford pulled one back late on.

In October 1983, Derek Parlane gave us the lead in the opening period but we went in level at the break after Latchford, as 12 months previously, had scored a header at the North Stand end. We huffed and puffed ineffectually until that late winner. Davidson - my shout for the worst player I ever saw in our colours in a senior competitive game - was credited with the goal, though nowadays it would go down as a Jimmy Rimmer own goal.

There was no serious debate about the legality of Tueart's goal. It was simply likened to Ernie Hunt's volley for Coventry against Everton in 1970/1. That one had won the BBC's Goal of the Season contest, but the laws of the game were subsequently amended to make the 'donkey-kick' illegal. The move in question involved a player jumping up with the ball between his heels and was used by Carr to set up Hunt's strike.

Hartford had simply flicked the ball up from an indirect free kick so Tueart could volley it. He claimed it was a move they'd worked on in their first spells at the club in the seventies. In any case, it was widely accepted that they'd found a way to achieve the Carr/Hunt ploy legally.

 

[East Level 2]

About 40 seconds in:

Kiddo at Elland Road in '79

I was at that one. Very dodgy on the way out.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Think he actually catches Slippy G's head with his boot after he's hit the ball. Makes the goal even more impressive.

Clearly a foul then. A horrendous assault on our Liverpool hero. Should have never played again.

Was that his only ever goal for us?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

And also resulted in this classic...

 

[JRockBlues]

This just came up on twitter