1990 - 1991 video

[1960maaan]

So , into the 90's. Had to split this one due to extended match highlights from Brighton away, which takes up most of the second video. That Brighton game was a Brilliant night, good lads on the coach, gullible driver and a win. Now the quality should be a little better, the early ones were probably done on Betamax then transferred. Also more highlights were available to tv so I may have to split more of them , anyway hope you enjoy them.

 

 

[alexukhc]

28 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

So , into the 90's. Had to split this one due to extended match highlights from Brighton away, which takes up most of the second video. That Brighton game was a Brilliant night, good lads on the coach, gullible driver and a win. Now the quality should be a little better, the early ones were probably done on Betamax then transferred. Also more highlights were available to tv so I may have to split more of them , anyway hope you enjoy them.

 

 

Awesome

[Red Army 75]

Good old fashioned wingers . Probably my favourite team since I've watched the reds . 

[The_Don]

Many thanks for the video, brings back so many memories.

This was the first season I started going to games with mates instead of the old man. Aged 14, queuing up outside the Eastend half hour before it opened so we could get a space right in the middle behind the goal.

Good times 

[22A]

Here's my memories of 1990-91; In time for the recommencement of second division football at Ashton Gate, City signed two defenders and three strikers. Welsh international Mark Aizlewood came from Bradford City for £110,000 and Andy May cost £90,000 from Huddersfield. Mark Gavin went to Watford and City received Wayne Allison plus £100,000. Louie Donowa joined from Ipswich for £50,000 and Mark Jones was picked up on a free transfer from Crystal Palace. First division Aston Villa were seeking a new manager and approached both Bristol clubs. Joe Jordan declined stating that he wished to complete the job that he had started. This year four clubs would be promoted, the top three automatically and those in fourth to seventh places would play off for the other one. On the opening day of the season, a panel of pundits on B.B.C. Radio 5 stated they believed Bristol City might be good enough to win promotion straight away. That afternoon Blackburn Rovers were the visitors and were 1-0 up at half time. In the second half Aizlewood equalised only to see Blackburn retake the lead. Then Bob Taylor scored twice and Nicky Morgan hit another for a 4-2 victory. In midweek, City went to West Brom for a League Cup match and Morgan scored two more in a two all draw. The following weekend saw City at Swindon, but the match was played on the Sunday at the request of the police. Junior Bent scored the only goal and this was the first time that City had won on a Sunday since the idea was introduced in 1974. That win lifted City to fourth position when the first League table was published, but it was also to be the highest spot achieved in the 1990/91 season. In the return cup match with West Brom, a goal towards the end of extra time was enough to see City through and 14,000 spectators turned up for the next match against Plymouth. Nicky Morgan scored again in a 1-1 draw. This was followed by a bomb shell; Hearts asked Joe Jordan to become their manager. After pondering it for two days, he accepted. As he had but recently signed a new three year contract, the directors sought £250,000 compensation from Hearts who offered £70,000. As they were not English, the matter had to go to F.I.F.A. for arbitration and they decided on a figure of £80,000. Jordan's assistant John Lumsden stayed on as caretaker manager, but that weekend City lost for the first time, 2-1 at West Brom. In Glasgow, Celtic triumphed three nil over Hearts and Jordan was seen in tears at the end of the game. Lumsden was officially appointed manager in midweek and the team responded with three consecutive victories. These comprised a pair of home League wins over Brighton and Newcastle with a visit to first division Sunderland for the League Cup second round, first leg in between. A sensational goal by Morgan in the second half secured the surprise result.  

 October 1990 proved to be dismal though after such a promising start. On the third, Leicester won 3-0. Earlier in the week, their manager had taken them away to escape the abuse of their own fans due to poor results. Three days later City lost four nil at Wolves and then came the return match with Sunderland. They scored after twenty seconds and Morgan equalised five minutes later. Just before the interval, Sunderland went 2-1 up on the night and level overall. In the second half they scored four more for an emphatic 6-1 win. The divisions top two clubs then visited; West Ham drew and Oldham won 2-1. Again the scoring was all done by Nicky Morgan. In midweek, Bob Taylor was dropped for the game at Millwall and City won 2-1, but the month ended with another defeat. November saw an improvement. Bottom placed Watford visited and Wayne Allison, playing in Bob Taylor's place, scored twice against his former club. Watford then scored twice themselves before conceding an own goal and City were positioned 11th. This was followed by a defeat at Oxford, so Lumsden experimented with team formations. 4-4-2 brought a 4-1 win against Hull, he then tried a sweeper system when City returned to Oxford for a Zenith Data Cup tie. This was a competition for clubs in the top two divisions. Towards the end of the game, City equalised an early Oxford goal and in extra time took the lead, only for Oxford to equalise. A penalty shootout was now held and again City failed with spot kicks. For the following game at Ipswich, Lumsden tried 3-4-3 and they always looked like scoring, but after 15 minutes they missed an open goal and five minutes later conceded one. In the second half goal keeper Sinclair was beaten by another shot, but Aizlewood charged through the area, leapt acrobatically and palmed the ball over the bar! Thompson hit the resultant penalty high and wide of the goal. Allison was taken off and Bob Taylor came on. Junior Bent had been causing the Ipswich defence problems with his wing play all afternoon and towards the end of the game, he dribbled the ball past five defenders before passing the ball to an unmarked Taylor who hit the equaliser.

 The team slipped to 13th. position on December 1st. when struggling Charlton won 1-0 at Ashton gate.  Sheffield Wednesday became the third team in nine matches to concede an own goal when they came to Bristol. A week later, Newman scored the only goal in the return with Blackburn and City were nicely placed, but Notts. County were close behind. At  Meadow Lane, Bent and Smith put City 2-1 up after County opened the scoring, but two goals in the last nine minutes resulted in a home win. The final two games of 1990 saw Portsmouth beaten 4-1 and Middlesbrough 3-0.          

Five matches were played during January 1991 and all were defeats. On New Year's Day it was two nil at Barnsley and a player was sent off. Four days later they slipped out of the F.A. Cup 2-1 at first division Norwich. Swindon won 4-0 in the only home game of the month, then Plymouth won one nil and at Bath, Rovers triumphed 3-2. By doing so, they climbed above City for the first time that season as they slipped back to thirteenth. February saw the pendulum swing the other way with only three games played due to the weather, but all were victories and they ended the month eighth. Ten of City's final 16 games pitted them against teams chasing one of the top seven positions. In March they were unbeaten at home, but only scored twice in four away games. One of those was a 4-1 defeat at Portsmouth. All six games in April were against higher placed teams. On Easter Monday, Notts. County were beaten 3-2 followed by the fixture at Middlesborough who had the same points as City. Bob Taylor scored in the second minute, but 'Boro equalised before the interval. In the final minute of the game, City appealed for a penalty when a home defender clearly handled the ball in his area, but the referee allowed the game to continue. Their 'keeper punted the ball upfield and with a desperation shot a forward volleyed it on.  The shot hit a post and went in for a 2-1 home win. City bounced back with Newman scoring the winner against Barnsley and he was on target again in the defeat at Oldham. Fortunately, three of the clubs in the play off places also lost that day. City then went to Brighton and were all over them, but only won due to a last minute goal by Gary Shelton enabling them to enter the final four games with high hopes of a play off place.

The home game with Millwall fell on the anniversary of the death of Dean Horrix. His two sons were mascots for the day and led the teams out, one in each of the club's colours. Nicky Morgan gave City an early lead, but Millwall hit four themselves in the second half. The following week they again lost an early lead and had to settle for a draw with Port Vale. Four days later they visited Hillsborough. Sheffield Wednesday needed one point to grab the last of the automatic promotion places, but they took all three with a 3-1 win. On the final day of the season City could still get into the promotion frame by winning at Watford whilst Barnsley and Brighton lost. City did win, 3-2, but the others failed to cooperate and the season ended in 9th. spot on 67 points. Eight clubs beneath City, including relegated West Brom, had actually lost fewer games. Although they might not have been ready for promotion, three more points would have seen them sixth. Perhaps that referee's decision at Middlesbrough had a greater effect on the club's fate than was seen at the time as the next few years would be relegation fights. In the close season City returned to Watford and signed Gerald Harrison as a free transfer and goal keeper Keith Welch came from Rochdale for £200,000. Chris Honor went to Airdrie for a tenth of that and Rob Newman was bought by Norwich for £600,000. Both of those players had been in the City youth team that had won an International tournament in France in 1984.

[alexukhc]

50 minutes ago, 22A said:

Here's my memories of 1990-91; In time for the recommencement of second division football at Ashton Gate, City signed two defenders and three strikers. Welsh international Mark Aizlewood came from Bradford City for £110,000 and Andy May cost £90,000 from Huddersfield. Mark Gavin went to Watford and City received Wayne Allison plus £100,000. Louie Donowa joined from Ipswich for £50,000 and Mark Jones was picked up on a free transfer from Crystal Palace. First division Aston Villa were seeking a new manager and approached both Bristol clubs. Joe Jordan declined stating that he wished to complete the job that he had started. This year four clubs would be promoted, the top three automatically and those in fourth to seventh places would play off for the other one. On the opening day of the season, a panel of pundits on B.B.C. Radio 5 stated they believed Bristol City might be good enough to win promotion straight away. That afternoon Blackburn Rovers were the visitors and were 1-0 up at half time. In the second half Aizlewood equalised only to see Blackburn retake the lead. Then Bob Taylor scored twice and Nicky Morgan hit another for a 4-2 victory. In midweek, City went to West Brom for a League Cup match and Morgan scored two more in a two all draw. The following weekend saw City at Swindon, but the match was played on the Sunday at the request of the police. Junior Bent scored the only goal and this was the first time that City had won on a Sunday since the idea was introduced in 1974. That win lifted City to fourth position when the first League table was published, but it was also to be the highest spot achieved in the 1990/91 season. In the return cup match with West Brom, a goal towards the end of extra time was enough to see City through and 14,000 spectators turned up for the next match against Plymouth. Nicky Morgan scored again in a 1-1 draw. This was followed by a bomb shell; Hearts asked Joe Jordan to become their manager. After pondering it for two days, he accepted. As he had but recently signed a new three year contract, the directors sought £250,000 compensation from Hearts who offered £70,000. As they were not English, the matter had to go to F.I.F.A. for arbitration and they decided on a figure of £80,000. Jordan's assistant John Lumsden stayed on as caretaker manager, but that weekend City lost for the first time, 2-1 at West Brom. In Glasgow, Celtic triumphed three nil over Hearts and Jordan was seen in tears at the end of the game. Lumsden was officially appointed manager in midweek and the team responded with three consecutive victories. These comprised a pair of home League wins over Brighton and Newcastle with a visit to first division Sunderland for the League Cup second round, first leg in between. A sensational goal by Morgan in the second half secured the surprise result.  

 October 1990 proved to be dismal though after such a promising start. On the third, Leicester won 3-0. Earlier in the week, their manager had taken them away to escape the abuse of their own fans due to poor results. Three days later City lost four nil at Wolves and then came the return match with Sunderland. They scored after twenty seconds and Morgan equalised five minutes later. Just before the interval, Sunderland went 2-1 up on the night and level overall. In the second half they scored four more for an emphatic 6-1 win. The divisions top two clubs then visited; West Ham drew and Oldham won 2-1. Again the scoring was all done by Nicky Morgan. In midweek, Bob Taylor was dropped for the game at Millwall and City won 2-1, but the month ended with another defeat. November saw an improvement. Bottom placed Watford visited and Wayne Allison, playing in Bob Taylor's place, scored twice against his former club. Watford then scored twice themselves before conceding an own goal and City were positioned 11th. This was followed by a defeat at Oxford, so Lumsden experimented with team formations. 4-4-2 brought a 4-1 win against Hull, he then tried a sweeper system when City returned to Oxford for a Zenith Data Cup tie. This was a competition for clubs in the top two divisions. Towards the end of the game, City equalised an early Oxford goal and in extra time took the lead, only for Oxford to equalise. A penalty shootout was now held and again City failed with spot kicks. For the following game at Ipswich, Lumsden tried 3-4-3 and they always looked like scoring, but after 15 minutes they missed an open goal and five minutes later conceded one. In the second half goal keeper Sinclair was beaten by another shot, but Aizlewood charged through the area, leapt acrobatically and palmed the ball over the bar! Thompson hit the resultant penalty high and wide of the goal. Allison was taken off and Bob Taylor came on. Junior Bent had been causing the Ipswich defence problems with his wing play all afternoon and towards the end of the game, he dribbled the ball past five defenders before passing the ball to an unmarked Taylor who hit the equaliser.

 The team slipped to 13th. position on December 1st. when struggling Charlton won 1-0 at Ashton gate.  Sheffield Wednesday became the third team in nine matches to concede an own goal when they came to Bristol. A week later, Newman scored the only goal in the return with Blackburn and City were nicely placed, but Notts. County were close behind. At  Meadow Lane, Bent and Smith put City 2-1 up after County opened the scoring, but two goals in the last nine minutes resulted in a home win. The final two games of 1990 saw Portsmouth beaten 4-1 and Middlesbrough 3-0.          

Five matches were played during January 1991 and all were defeats. On New Year's Day it was two nil at Barnsley and a player was sent off. Four days later they slipped out of the F.A. Cup 2-1 at first division Norwich. Swindon won 4-0 in the only home game of the month, then Plymouth won one nil and at Bath, Rovers triumphed 3-2. By doing so, they climbed above City for the first time that season as they slipped back to thirteenth. February saw the pendulum swing the other way with only three games played due to the weather, but all were victories and they ended the month eighth. Ten of City's final 16 games pitted them against teams chasing one of the top seven positions. In March they were unbeaten at home, but only scored twice in four away games. One of those was a 4-1 defeat at Portsmouth. All six games in April were against higher placed teams. On Easter Monday, Notts. County were beaten 3-2 followed by the fixture at Middlesborough who had the same points as City. Bob Taylor scored in the second minute, but 'Boro equalised before the interval. In the final minute of the game, City appealed for a penalty when a home defender clearly handled the ball in his area, but the referee allowed the game to continue. Their 'keeper punted the ball upfield and with a desperation shot a forward volleyed it on.  The shot hit a post and went in for a 2-1 home win. City bounced back with Newman scoring the winner against Barnsley and he was on target again in the defeat at Oldham. Fortunately, three of the clubs in the play off places also lost that day. City then went to Brighton and were all over them, but only won due to a last minute goal by Gary Shelton enabling them to enter the final four games with high hopes of a play off place.

The home game with Millwall fell on the anniversary of the death of Dean Horrix. His two sons were mascots for the day and led the teams out, one in each of the club's colours. Nicky Morgan gave City an early lead, but Millwall hit four themselves in the second half. The following week they again lost an early lead and had to settle for a draw with Port Vale. Four days later they visited Hillsborough. Sheffield Wednesday needed one point to grab the last of the automatic promotion places, but they took all three with a 3-1 win. On the final day of the season City could still get into the promotion frame by winning at Watford whilst Barnsley and Brighton lost. City did win, 3-2, but the others failed to cooperate and the season ended in 9th. spot on 67 points. Eight clubs beneath City, including relegated West Brom, had actually lost fewer games. Although they might not have been ready for promotion, three more points would have seen them sixth. Perhaps that referee's decision at Middlesbrough had a greater effect on the club's fate than was seen at the time as the next few years would be relegation fights. In the close season City returned to Watford and signed Gerald Harrison as a free transfer and goal keeper Keith Welch came from Rochdale for £200,000. Chris Honor went to Airdrie for a tenth of that and Rob Newman was bought by Norwich for £600,000. Both of those players had been in the City youth team that had won an International tournament in France in 1984.

What international Tournament did we win?

[Tipps69]

What great memories, Me & my mates used to switch between the Eastend & the Openend depending on who the opposition was.

And really nice to see highlights of Louie Donowa, I was good mates with him & one memory that sticks was taking him to the Chipping Sodbury 'hippy festival' (a weekend or so long illegal rave that used to happen once a year for a few years when loads of caravans would descend on Chipping Sodbury common & the music & everything else that came with it would last for days), I shan't divulge what occurred during these times as that wouldn't be fair.

And it was about this time that the first 'football manager' type games started coming out on the ZX Spectrum!!

How we could do with a 'Gary Shelton' type central midfielder now, not the biggest in size by any stretch of the imagination but he would compete & generally win every challenge & to have a midfielder who could get beyond the front men & score as he used to would be great now.

[Clevedon Red]

John Bailey. What a character he was.

[Wanderingred]

Great memories! I remember being tucked up in bed as an 8 year old listening to that Brighton game on my old fisher price radio! Also remember the Notts County win and heartbreaking 1-4 Millwall defeat.

One of the only seasons in my lifetime that we've been able to compete in the second tier. The following season was eerily familiar to this one.. Started well then had a hideous run of form that saw us slip down the table... Once we went into the bottom 3, Lumsden was replaced by Dennis Smith and we rallied before finishing 17th. I can see something similar happening here.

[1960maaan]

22 minutes ago, Clevedon Red said:

John Bailey. What a character he was.

We were in the bar after a friendly Vs Mangotsfield (I think) and suddenly JB popped in the corner of the bar, in a towel for a quick bottle of Pils. All a bit hush hush type of thing. Not sure what he would have told the manager, finished his drink and back to the changing rooms  great character.

[CotswoldRed]

9 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:

Good old fashioned wingers . Probably my favourite team since I've watched the reds . 

Some very composed, confident and attacking football in there. Happy memories. 

[Wanderingred]

Could we have gone on to the first division if Jordan hadnt left for Hearts?

[Spoons]

Loved watching that, thanks very much.

Always good to remember why I loved Dave smith so much!! Never mucked about beat his man and crossed the ball. 

[SouthStand Sandwich]

Great trip down memory lane.... Where is Rog Malone now? 

[Wanderingred]

15 minutes ago, Spoons said:

Loved watching that, thanks very much.

Always good to remember why I loved Dave smith so much!! Never mucked about beat his man and crossed the ball. 

Did something happen with Dave Smith? I remember him coming back with another team a couple of years after and getting pretty bad abuse.

[Spoons]

9 minutes ago, Kim_il_sung said:

Did something happen with Dave Smith? I remember him coming back with another team a couple of years after and getting pretty bad abuse.

Not sure, got a feeling he left on bad terms? I stand to be corrected. Loved watching him play though.

[Tipps69]

Didn't John Bailey shag his missus?

[COYR's]

Thank you so much for posting this! First full season I watched after attending a few in the promotion season. This is the season that got me hooked on the City, oh how I miss those days.