Manchester City v Everton 1962-63

[Scaring Europe to Death]

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Can't upload this properly, but it's now on the heavy roller you tube.

First time I've ever seen Alex Harley in action.

 

[lancs blue]

First time I've ever seen Alex Harley in action.

Good find. Same here, he left a couple of years before I started going to matches, though I remember reading about him in my dad's Pink, especially that late winner at the Swamp.

For context - Everton won the title that season, City were relegated.

 

[bluemanc16]

Good find. Same here, he left a couple of years before I started going to matches, though I remember reading about him in my dad's Pink, especially that late winner at the Swamp.

For context - Everton won the title that season, City were relegated.

The winner he scored was in the last minute ( 3 - 2 ) me and my dad went ballistic, happy days

 

[portisheadblue]

I was at OT that day with good mate Pete E who sadly no longer with us.

We were 14 years young.

Don’t remember the Everton game off hand but it was a long time back.

 

[JULES]

harry dowd looked decent

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

harry dowd looked decent

Harry was a very good keeper, used to be a plumber. Malcolm Allison's team talk:-

"Right Harry, were playing Arsenal tomorrow, and they play in red and white"

Peter Dobing was a very good player, as was Alex Harley, I used to pretend to be Harley playing footie in the school playground :)

Notice Alan Oakes and Nelly in the line up.

 

[JGL07]

Harry was a very good keeper, used to be a plumber. Malcolm Allison's team talk:-

"Right Harry, were playing Arsenal tomorrow, and they play in red and white"

Peter Dobing was a very good player, as was Alex Harley, I used to pretend to be Harley playing footie in the school playground :)

Notice Alan Oakes and Nelly in the line up.

Why would Allison be doing a team talk three years before he joined City?

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Why would Allison be doing a team talk three years before he joined City?

Harry Dowd played played for City until 1970. Big Mal was joking in an interview about Harry being more interested in plumbing than football, and was referring to a team talk he did around 1967. It used to be on You tube. HTH.

 

[johnevans]

Great find!

This game is still vivid in my memory for a number of things, including The Old Man's expectation that the Everton fans might cause trouble like the Liverpool fans did earlier in the season (it was a time of train wrecking, programme seller beating up and so on, with both sets of Scousers leading the way on these, ahem, 'pastimes'..)

But most of all I remember The Old Man telling me on the walk to the ground to look out for Everton's Alex 'The Golden Vision' Young. 'Watch and learn, son' he said. And it was good advice.. he ran the game that day from midfield as a deep-lying centre-forward and I 'played' like him for weeks and months afterwards.

A couple of years ago I was fortunate to meet Alex Young's widow at a wedding. It was lovely to see her response to my recollections of her husband and to be able to tell her just how much my 10 year old self was touched by his footballing genius.

Thanks for posting!