Mo Salah and Bristol City - 43 Years Apart

[archie andrews]

8 hours ago, cidered abroad said:

Not a clue. No segregation. Away fans were usually spread out on all sides, possibly not at Stretford End. So hearing a lone voice in 47,000 is difficult.

This was our second win at Old Trafford in four seasons.

That was the day that I lost any respect and affection for Man U. The boy who cried all night after Munich, had grown up. Their manager Docherty, slagged City terribly to cover up their inadequacies.

Donnie Gillies specialised in winning away games 1-0. Remember  also Leeds!!!

pretty sure there was segregation...we were sat in the scoreboard end above the city fans below but couldnt really tell how many were there 

[sugarwray]

On 25/10/2021 at 21:27, Eastendboy1965 said:

 

Yes  its poor quality but it was almost never ever seen, because luckily we managed to find a process to rescue what would have been lost forever. The original 1/4 inch film tape, recorded at the game by John Pearce, had unfortunately been badly stored for 35 years and was damaged.

The story began when Downend City and his colleagues at the City Supporters Trust found a bag of 1/4 tapes and after a time of trying to play them, they gave them to me. Although I had the 1/4 film player the tapes were unplayable, literally falling apart but through a 'miracle' we found a process to enable them to be played and identified for what they were. By 'baking them slowly in an oven' at a low temperature for several hours. Amazingly the system worked and retained the important 'backing' from the tape, it enable us to run the tapes and we discovered that on one of them John Pearce had recorded a sequence of the 50 goals scored during the 1978 season, the goals scored at every game during that of City's most successful post war season. To be able to identify each goal; the clips were watched through to identify the game and the teleprinter effect added to illustrate the clip. Thankfully all fifty goals from that season were rescued and can be seen...Hope that makes things a little clearer.. ER... as it were. 

Of course the quality is below standard but i really appreciate the effort. Is there a link to other video footage similarly saved? In particular the first 1976/7 home fixture vs Stoke City was my first City game and I don’t recall ever watching footage of the game.

[PHILINFRANCE]

1 hour ago, sugarwray said:

Of course the quality is below standard but i really appreciate the effort. Is there a link to other video footage similarly saved? In particular the first 1976/7 home fixture vs Stoke City was my first City game and I don’t recall ever watching footage of the game.

I suspect it has been erased - horrible memories for everyone present, as that was the match in which Paul Cheesley suffered his career ending injury.

I was right behind it in the Open End.

[sugarwray]

17 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

I suspect it has been erased - horrible memories for everyone present, as that was the match in which Paul Cheesley suffered his career ending injury.

I was right behind it in the Open End.

I was also in the open end. My mum took me and we followed the crowds and ended up in the “away” corner of the open end. Stoke fans were vastly outnumbered by City fans. Other than the horror injury I remember how green the grass was. City claimed they were only using bath water during the 76 hosepipe ban.

[Curr Avon]

18 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

I suspect it has been erased - horrible memories for everyone present, as that was the match in which Paul Cheesley suffered his career ending injury.

I was right behind it in the Open End.

Its referred to in the Paul Cheesely edition of HTV's 'Flashback for the Fans'

(from 14:50).

You see Paul helped from the pitch (not stretchered) by Bill Tovey and Les Bardsley, then candidly mention in a subsequent interview that he's done this before and expects to be out for two weeks.

Edited October 29, 2021 by Curr Avon

[Eastendboy1965]

On 28/10/2021 at 22:18, sugarwray said:

Of course the quality is below standard but i really appreciate the effort. Is there a link to other video footage similarly saved? In particular the first 1976/7 home fixture vs Stoke City was my first City game and I don’t recall ever watching footage of the game.

I've looked into this for you but unfortunately, the Stoke 76'77 home game was not featured in the section of film tapes that we were able to save and recreate, but HTV did show the clip of his injury walk off.  'Curr Avon' has shown us earlier.

As a reminder of Paul's amazing jumping ability I found this picture of him playing against York City which City won 4/1 and was in the 1976 promotion season. Thought anyone who didn't see him in action live might appreciate. 

[sugarwray]

15 hours ago, Eastendboy1965 said:

I've looked into this for you but unfortunately, the Stoke 76'77 home game was not featured in the section of film tapes that we were able to save and recreate, but HTV did show the clip of his injury walk off.  'Curr Avon' has shown us earlier.

As a reminder of Paul's amazing jumping ability I found this picture of him playing against York City which City won 4/1 and was in the 1976 promotion season. Thought anyone who didn't see him in action live might appreciate. 

Thanks for checking. I was only 11 at the time but I have some memory that this game was on Match of the Day. Great photo, including the rarely seen Y design on the York City shirts.

[Eastendboy1965]

On 31/10/2021 at 13:32, sugarwray said:

Thanks for checking. I was only 11 at the time but I have some memory that this game was on Match of the Day. Great photo, including the rarely seen Y design on the York City shirts.

Yes it was featured on Match of the day, Tom Ritchie I think got a hat trick ? My pleasure anytime.