onehowie Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Memorabilia from 1970...crowd of 30,022. 4 shillings (about 20p) for juvenile and 9 shillings (about 45p) for entrance to the East End! Anyone else remember this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiderEyed Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Oof, that Spurs side weren't half bad mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyredredrobin Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Yeah, I was there, still have that programme and remember being disappointed that I could not go to the second leg. Memories of this one are very vague now though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicki's soulmate Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 10 minutes ago, onehowie said: Memorabilia from 1970...crowd of 30,022. 4 shillings (about 20p) for juvenile and 9 shillings (about 45p) for entrance to the East End! Anyone else remember this? Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinMan's left peg Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 That’s great! The parallels in Harry Dolman’s programme notes with today are striking - Steve Lansdown could copy and paste much of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelton Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I remember my grandad showing me his ticket, for a moment I thought he'd bought me one ( I was too young) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onehowie Posted January 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 26 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said: Oof, that Spurs side weren't half bad mind We weren't too bad either!...great memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I was there for both ties ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Remember queuing for tickets and the excitement in the lead up to the first leg, although I can't really remember much about the match itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 45 minutes ago, TinMan's left peg said: That’s great! The parallels in Harry Dolman’s programme notes with today are striking - Steve Lansdown could copy and paste much of it! Uncanny isn’t it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 The first match I remember going to. The sight and sound of the East End as I looked over for the first time from the top of entry slope is what got me hooked on City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 City had been all ready for that Spurs match, but due to the power workers being on strike, there no guarantee of electricity all night for the floodlights, so the first leg was postponed. That "took the wind out of everyone's sails". When the game was played, City were 1-0 up through Alan Skirton when Garland broke through and we all waited for him to lob the ball over Pat Jennings into the empty net, but he dithered allowing Jennings to dive on the ball. Spurs had nine internationals playing that night. Looking back, where are Tuesday's officials coming from? In 1970 one of the Ref's assistants (Linesman in those days) was from Swindon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Fox Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I was there, to get tickets you had to collect coupons from previous matches. If i remember right there was also problems as to when the match would be played due to industrial action. To young to go to the away leg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myol'man Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Yeah, I was there, aged 12. Didn't realise what a massive game it was. We've only got this close to a major cup final twice in the 47 years since. 3rd time lucky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomerRed Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I had to stand at the front of the East End to have any chance of seeing anything. From memory Skirton's goal was at the Open End so all I really remember are the celebrations. Gilzean glanced in a header for the equaliser I think. I still have the programme and ticket somewhere. I was also too young to go to second leg. The coupons system to get tickets was a big thing back then. In 1974 for the Liverpool FA Cup match they released coupons to buy tickets at a match against Oxford and we had about 25,000 in for an awful 0-0 draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southstandoriginal Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Seems strange that we "only" had 30k for that match. Four years later we had 37k sell outs for the Leeds and Liverpool FA Cup matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Red Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 5 hours ago, wendyredredrobin said: Yeah, I was there, still have that programme and remember being disappointed that I could not go to the second leg. Memories of this one are very vague now though The programme says 9th December but was played on 16th December. Can't remember why the game was postponed for a week. Been to all five League Cup semi-finals. Number 6 coming up on Tuesday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
where's the joy Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 i wuz there and at nottingham forest away too and at man city. heartbreak twice in the end BUT this time we will be third time lucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red7 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Fantastic. Ah, the days of just one sub... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 25 minutes ago, Southstandoriginal said: Seems strange that we "only" had 30k for that match. Four years later we had 37k sell outs for the Leeds and Liverpool FA Cup matches. If memory serves.............it was a case (for some) of "we've got no ****** chance over two legs" (ring any bells ?) edit also I think it was more than at WHL for the return (couple of days before Xmas) ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midred Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Spurs so confident they didn't bother with a substitute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyredredrobin Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 They played a full strength team in those days too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 5 hours ago, downendcity said: Remember queuing for tickets and the excitement in the lead up to the first leg, although I can't really remember much about the match itself. I'm the same as don't remember anything about the game. I had an ST in Williams so assume I sat there with Dad. I had thought I was at second leg at WHL but realise this was only a year after getting married so no cash for away trips. Expect the end result on Tuesday will be the same but we've done great in this cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 34 minutes ago, cidered abroad said: I'm the same as don't remember anything about the game. I had an ST in Williams so assume I sat there with Dad. I had thought I was at second leg at WHL but realise this was only a year after getting married so no cash for away trips. Expect the end result on Tuesday will be the same but we've done great in this cup. The gulf between teams like Man City and the likes of us is substantially greater these days than was the gulf between first division teams like Spurs and us back in 1970. We are not out of the tie yet and I hope we again give a good account of ourselves. Most of us realistically expect Man City to win, but with this team, this season you never know! Whatever the result, and whatever the outcome at the end of the season we have every reason to be proud. From where we were this time last year the change and improvement has been phenominal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 This will be my third semi final as well, hopefully third time lucky as we've always been the underdog. I feel very privileged compared to some supporters of some teams that have never experienced proper adult big games. There's one not too far from us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRock Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I was there too. Infact, still not seen us lose in a LC semi-final as was also at Forest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashton_fan Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 2 hours ago, Southstandoriginal said: Seems strange that we "only" had 30k for that match. Four years later we had 37k sell outs for the Leeds and Liverpool FA Cup matches. The League Cup was much lower importance than the FA Cup, even more so than now. I think the League Cup only started in the mid-60's so was still getting established at that time whereas the FA Cup was much more important than it is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dolman Pragmatist Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I was there as a schoolboy and now I work with the daughter of Phil Beal, who was playing for Spurs that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymm55 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I was at both games, Gilzean scored at the East end and Alan Skirton at the open end. In the second leg Gerry Sharpe had a good chance minutes from the end which just went wide, lost in extra time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted January 21, 2018 Admin Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I was there.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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