Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Still miss the Pink. I used to race back from Maine Road on my bike (about 8 1/2 miles down through Stockport) to get the Pink, to read all about the match I'd just seen.
(Don't remember the Green at all).
Name the players in this 1964/5 squad
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Still miss the Pink. I used to race back from Maine Road on my bike (about 8 1/2 miles down through Stockport) to get the Pink, to read all about the match I'd just seen.
(Don't remember the Green at all).
Yes, me too with The Old Man and my uncles.. and it was persisting down all day and I was envious of my cousin who I knew was under cover in the Platt Lane stand with my other uncle!
Still got my programme from that day. And I remember that next day the Sunday Express back page had a photo of the Scoreboard End taken from the Kippax corner showing the empty terrace and describing how 'once mighty City' had fallen.. you could just make out our group because the peak of my Dad's flat cap was visible!
'Eeee, 'appy days!
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Little did they know how we would come roaring back the following year…
As against the 8015 faithful against Swindon: just over 47,000 the following year against Huddersfield (and we know how the official figure always errs on the low side). Mind you, it was a New Year's Day match. Thousands and thousands of grumpy men desperate to get out of the house, no doubt.
(And 63,000, no less, for the home F.A. Cup tie against Everton, later in the season).
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Indeed.. was at all of those games, a fantastic run in both League and Cup to get us promotion and almost into the semi-final. Highlights for me were (1) the Leicester cup game (2-0 down at half-time) when we came back to force a replay with two Neil Young goals(which we won at Filbert Street, 'Nelly' again for 1-0) and (2) the Huddersfield 'top of the table game' we won 2-0, with goals from 'Tommy' Doyle's flying header and Johnny Crossan's penalty, for which he fooled the keeper when he washed his boot in the trainer's water bucket but then at the last moment he took the penalty with his other foot! Great times!
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JGL07
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That was not how I remembered the Huddersfield match. I remain convinced that the diving header in that match was by Johnny Crossan. I don’t recall a penalty in that match. I can still see the photograph of Crossan heading the ball that appeared in every National newspaper. It was 57 years ago though!
Mad Eyed Screamer
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Wasn't there a bus strike that day?
Impressive. I got Oakes and Pardoe. Kevan was built..shoulders or what?
Doyle got the first at the Scoreboard End with a diving header, then Crossan scored at the Platt Lane end in front of us!
You're correct, I think.. not that it mattered to us walking from Hulme as usual! It was freezing cold that day too.. 'colder than a well digger's ass'..!