Niall Quinn - Goal and Penalty Save 1991

Whatever happened to those very muddy night football games?

Now pitches look beautiful and green.

Did they import some special grass from India where it's always green or something?
 
Top keeping by Quinn, a bloke that size narrowing the angle by being halfway to the 6 yard line by the time Saunders had struck it! One of many things from that era that sadly you wouldn't get away with these days.
 
We had a few outfield players going in nets in the 70's to 90's until keepers were allowed onto the bench

Mike Doyle (twice)
Bobby MacDonald
Tommy Booth
Steve Redmond
Nigel Gleghorn (twice)
Niall Quinn

The last outfield player to do so was Kyle Walker away at Atalanta - after Ederson went off injured at half time and then replacement Claudio Bravo was sent off.
 
deano ou812 said:
I remember the save and Quinn scoring but don’t remember the final result did we win that game ?
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Won 2-1.

The result relegated Derby, we also relegated Sunderland in the next home game.

Saunders who missed the penalty, signed for Liverpool along with Mark Wright in pre season. We played Liverpool at home the first home game of the season won 2-1 again with Saunders missing another penalty at the Platt Lane end.
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
Won 2-1.

The result relegated Derby, we also relegated Sunderland in the next home game.

Saunders who missed the penalty, signed for Liverpool along with Mark Wright in pre season. We played Liverpool at home the first home game of the season won 2-1 again with Saunders missing another penalty at the Platt Lane end.
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He missed one at Villa against us also.

3 missed pens against us, for 3 different teams, in 3 different ways (save, wide, bar).
 
its a Barm said:
i remember it well for some reason i was in the main stand, Quinn would of made a good keeper was in his irish football dna.
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He used to go in goal in training, and bet players they couldn't score a certain amount of pens against him. Think it was 4 out of 5 but I might be wrong on that. I remember Clive Allen talking about it.
 
Blue_Lightsaber said:
Whatever happened to those very muddy night football games?

Now pitches look beautiful and green.

Did they import some special grass from India where it's always green or something?
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It wasn’t a night game. It was 3 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon right at the end of the season as I recall. I think Derby may already have been down. I was sporting a full length plaster cast (broken leg) and had to make the missus drive to the game with me sat sideways across the back seat. She had the hump even more after the match, cos PC Plod came along after we’d parked, slapped a load of cones down and ticketed the whole street. Cnuts
 
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Jesus2020 said:


Talking to a lad I work with who's genuinely interested in City before the takeover etc and ended up telling him about Niall Quinn. He says that's a bit before his time. Got onto remembering this and thought it deserved a share!
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It's even better because it's Dean Saunders who took the penalty.
 
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