Not really sure what this means or what point it gets to? It is like comparing facebook likes.
The point is that City fans have always been loyal.Not really sure what this means or what point it gets to?
KK left Liverpool in summer 1977, and they replaced him with Kenny Dalgliesh,bought from Celtic for £500,000 .78 was my first season. First game was Liverpool at home.I think Keegan scored for them I cant remember as I was 9 years old but we lost 1 nil.My fave was the 81 season under Bond..Will always remember that season and some cracking attendances..Was a great buzz.First season ticket was 86
Spot on.Let me be honest.
Most of the time it was shit on the pitch, but it was also great off the pitch as well. On the pitch the teams were shit. Of the pitch City fans were ace. That's where and why we got our loyal reputation from and our self deprivation sense of humour from. No other fan base can or will ever take that from us.
I am sure every supporter of every other team says the same. You cannot take these moments away from me, no matter how many stats.The point is that City fans have always been loyal.
The occasions you refer to are easy to remember, of course, but it hasn't always been like that!
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Did think about that when I commented on Oxford United!Very poor choice of words. Though a UEFA investigation of Robert Maxwell’s finances might have caused them some problems
Steady on…He's nearly as obsessed with them as I am with L***s.
Nearly.
We entered the UEFA Cup in 1977/78 because we were runners up in the league (to Liverpool) the previous season, mate.
We also entered it the season after by finishing fourth.
Then Swales decided to bring Big Mal back…
Thought it was a simple typo, but I won’t ever miss an opportunity to be a smart arse!Aye, we did. It should have read 1976-77.
Clive Wilson scored in both games.Main highlights that season were beating Liverpool at Maine Road on Boxing Day and coming back from 2-0 down at Old Trafford.
Was at both. Both epic days to be a blue.
He scored all the goals that were scored by City players in both games!Clive Wilson scored in both games.
Clive Wilson scored in both games.
The other goal was also scored by a left back, a curler into the bottom corner.He scored all the goals that were scored by City players in both games!
Bizarrely we sold him to Chelsea before the end of the following season, but then Chelsea loaned him straight back to City and he played for us until the end of that season. I guess precontracts weren’t a thing back then!Fantastic diving header at the stretford end followed up by albiston’s 20-yard piledriver own goal still bring a smile all these years later.
I was gutted when we sold Clive Wilson.
My first!
Plus you’ve got to factor the Swales Effect into our average. True figure close to 30k most likely.
In the 70s only five clubs managed consecutive average attendances over 40k, and that was the same top5 as that list there^.