Show Me The Money! Posted August 29, 2017 Posted August 29, 2017 Just spotted on my BT TV guide that they have a Big Match Re-visited series on BT Sport 2. This Friday at 8.30am they are showing the episode from 22nd August 1976 when City made their big entrance into the top flight at Highbury. So set to record if your interested Admittedly you'll also get to see Tranmere Vs Chester
City Rocker Posted August 29, 2017 Posted August 29, 2017 Cheers mate! Pretty sure I have it on dvd somewhere but you can't have too many recordings of that game can you?
havanatopia Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 Of all 92 clubs Arsenal is the one we have played the longest time ago. Thanks for letting us all know.
harvey54 Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 It was a gloriously warm and sunny day. City played superb. Arsenal paraded their new big signing Malcolm MacDonald and we spoilt their party. Happy days
wendyredredrobin Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 Remember Cheesely, Richie and Whitehead particularly having stonking games, though the whole team played a blinder. Watched it on motd and was so proud that we were in the big time at last. Motty comentated I think.
Mr Popodopolous Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 I'm glad to see this back on TV! Never seen that game- aside from some brief youtube highlights, hopefully this will be more extended. I remember the Big Match Revisited Series on ITV4, looked quite good. Only saw us on it once though and more generally, only showed 78-79 Xmas onwards and part- last third of season maybe- of 82-83.
AppyDAZE Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 16 hours ago, havanatopia said: Of all 92 clubs Arsenal is the one we have played the longest time ago. Thanks for letting us all know. Accrington Stanley? '50s i think.. and never played Forest Green Rovers
archie andrews Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 1 hour ago, wendyredredrobin said: Remember Cheesely, Richie and Whitehead particularly having stonking games, though the whole team played a blinder. Watched it on motd and was so proud that we were in the big time at last. Motty comentated I think. it was the big match..............not match of the day and brian moore was the commentator...
wendyredredrobin Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 Ah, maybe it was. A long time ag to be sure.
headhunter Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 I'm sure it was Big Match not MOTD and Brian Moore was the commentator. He was a Gills fan IIRC and I think their fanzine was called Brian Moore's head looks like the London Planetarium!!
chinapig Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 11 hours ago, swanker said: I was there, great day out. The greatest ever for me. No fluke win, we played them off the park. Only the woodwork and Jimmy Rimmer in goal stopped a thrashing.
handsofclay Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 41 minutes ago, headhunter said: I'm sure it was Big Match not MOTD and Brian Moore was the commentator. He was a Gills fan IIRC and I think their fanzine was called Brian Moore's head looks like the London Planetarium!! It was the Big Match. At one stage Brian Moore, I'm sure, became chairman of Gillingham and he offered Alan Dicks the job as their manager after he left City, which Dicks turned down iirc.
Ska Junkie Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 My first away game was that Arsenal game. My uncle lived in Islington so my dad took little me to London for the weekend and we went to the game with my uncle. Stood on the north bank and went mental (I was only 8) when city scored. I thought they were all city fans although we had 1000's there! Great memories of a blistering hot summer and the finest City side I will ever see. Thanks dad.
wendyredredrobin Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 I do remember the commentator saying somethig about some of the city players having to ask which way to go when they entered the ground.
22A Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 19 hours ago, Show Me The Money! said: Admittedly you'll also get to see Tranmere Vs Chester Don't knock it. A local derby decided by a freak own goal.
Guest SpezetRed Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 Hi all. This will be my first post on this site so ..... please, be gentle with me. I, too, was at this inaugural City First Division match at Highbury in 1976, having been a very impoverished Bristol City supporting student at London Uni at the time. It has always held fabulous memories for me as being a stand-out game, full of hopes, dreams and unexpected drama. I don't recall much of the aftermath as revelry, drink and euphoria all too rapidly took hold. The reality of those three seasons in the top flight still help me believe that we can get there again - and maybe this collection of players can emulate the achievements of Alan Dicks, Gerry Gow, Paul Cheeseley, Garland and the rest of those 1970s heroes. Anyway, the main reason for writing this is to ask whether any member of this forum could record this Big Match program and somehow (I'm not a techie) post a link to it after the fact, so that I can watch it (re-live the dream, if you wish). Any help would be appreciated. Cheers. CITD Onwards and Upwards.
Nicki's soulmate Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 2 hours ago, chinapig said: The greatest ever for me. No fluke win, we played them off the park. Only the woodwork and Jimmy Rimmer in goal stopped a thrashing. Maybe Jimmy Rimmer stopped a thrashing, but the woodwork?, I was there and don't recall the post and crossbar diving around to keep City out
Ska Junkie Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 1 hour ago, wendyredredrobin said: I do remember the commentator saying somethig about some of the city players having to ask which way to go when they entered the ground. 'It's a whole new world for them' IIRC from Brian Moore.
RedRock Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 I was there too. They thought a load of country bumpkins would turn up. Got a bit of a surprise off the pitch as well as on it!
Ska Junkie Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 5 minutes ago, Moor2Sea said: I was there too. They thought a load of country bumpkins would turn up. Got a bit of a surprise off the pitch as well as on it! If I remember Spurs didn't make the same mistake that season?
RedRock Posted August 30, 2017 Posted August 30, 2017 20 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said: If I remember Spurs didn't make the same mistake that season? At AG they did!
Dr Balls Posted August 31, 2017 Posted August 31, 2017 15 hours ago, Ska Junkie said: If I remember Spurs didn't make the same mistake that season? Wasn't 76-77 the season Spurs got relegated? Thrashed the Gas 8-2 in Div 2, got promoted, then bought Ardiles & Villa after the 78 World Cup. And after the Bristol Post suggesting last week that we lost the game against Arsenal, perhaps one of their staff might want to tune in to learn the result.... Only 41 years late!
archie andrews Posted August 31, 2017 Posted August 31, 2017 8 hours ago, Dr Balls said: Wasn't 76-77 the season Spurs got relegated? Thrashed the Gas 8-2 in Div 2, got promoted, then bought Ardiles & Villa after the 78 World Cup. And after the Bristol Post suggesting last week that we lost the game against Arsenal, perhaps one of their staff might want to tune in to learn the result.... Only 41 years late! they thrashed the nag worriers 9-0..............get it right
Jack Dawe Posted August 31, 2017 Posted August 31, 2017 9 hours ago, Dr Balls said: Wasn't 76-77 the season Spurs got relegated? Thrashed the Gas 8-2 in Div 2, got promoted, then bought Ardiles & Villa after the 78 World Cup. And after the Bristol Post suggesting last week that we lost the game against Arsenal, perhaps one of their staff might want to tune in to learn the result.... Only 41 years late! October '77, 9-0. It was on MOTD. 40th anniversary coming up.
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