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Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:Blimey we were bloody good.
And good to hear proper commentators again. Memories of Sunday afternoons with Brian Moore and Gerald Thermostat.
Think it was a young Martin Tyler on Kidds goal Elland Rd.
When Barnes scored at Spurs, I couldn't help thinking a modern day player would have gone down and it would have been a penno and a sending off for the challenge that came in.
Splendid stuff.

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john@staustell wrote:

Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:Blimey we were bloody good.
And good to hear proper commentators again. Memories of Sunday afternoons with Brian Moore and Gerald Thermostat.
Think it was a young Martin Tyler on Kidds goal Elland Rd.
When Barnes scored at Spurs, I couldn't help thinking a modern day player would have gone down and it would have been a penno and a sending off for the challenge that came in.
Splendid stuff.

Good goals but Piccs, your rosy view of the 70s matches your dire view of the 2010s! 12 goals doesn't a decade make!

Sometimes we were inexplicably fucking awful. After 1970 we had the season Rodders was signed, when he lost us the league, allegedly, and we had the LC in 1976. Then we had Tony Book just losing the league and getting moved upstairs. But often there just the pain we came to know and love.

Oh, and Francis Lee and Rodney Marsh were two of the worlds original 'penalty getters'! Modern players indeed!

Ted Hughes wrote:

john@staustell wrote:

Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:Blimey we were bloody good.
And good to hear proper commentators again. Memories of Sunday afternoons with Brian Moore and Gerald Thermostat.
Think it was a young Martin Tyler on Kidds goal Elland Rd.
When Barnes scored at Spurs, I couldn't help thinking a modern day player would have gone down and it would have been a penno and a sending off for the challenge that came in.
Splendid stuff.

Good goals but Piccs, your rosy view of the 70s matches your dire view of the 2010s! 12 goals doesn't a decade make!

Sometimes we were inexplicably fucking awful. After 1970 we had the season Rodders was signed, when he lost us the league, allegedly, and we had the LC in 1976. Then we had Tony Book just losing the league and getting moved upstairs. But often there just the pain we came to know and love.

Oh, and Francis Lee and Rodney Marsh were two of the worlds original 'penalty getters'! Modern players indeed!

The season Rod was signed & 'lost us the league' we played way way better football than we do now imo. In fact most seasons through to Allison coming back, although we weren't always title contenders, we played better football than we do now. Almost all of the best goals I ever saw City score were in that period as were most of the best players. Hughes' team was the nearest to producing that level of football imo but Robinho is a pale, weak attempt at Rodney Marsh & apart from Tevez, we've lacked the real 'A' list players we had then.

That goal Rod scored v Stoke: any of the old farts remember when he did the same from the edge of the box v QPR (last min I believe) flicked it up & leathered a head high overhead kick into the top corner? Still got the press cuttings somewhere. What a pity his best stuff wasn't on TV.

Beefymcfc wrote:

Ted Hughes wrote:

john@staustell wrote:

Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:Blimey we were bloody good.
And good to hear proper commentators again. Memories of Sunday afternoons with Brian Moore and Gerald Thermostat.
Think it was a young Martin Tyler on Kidds goal Elland Rd.
When Barnes scored at Spurs, I couldn't help thinking a modern day player would have gone down and it would have been a penno and a sending off for the challenge that came in.
Splendid stuff.

Good goals but Piccs, your rosy view of the 70s matches your dire view of the 2010s! 12 goals doesn't a decade make!

Sometimes we were inexplicably fucking awful. After 1970 we had the season Rodders was signed, when he lost us the league, allegedly, and we had the LC in 1976. Then we had Tony Book just losing the league and getting moved upstairs. But often there just the pain we came to know and love.

Oh, and Francis Lee and Rodney Marsh were two of the worlds original 'penalty getters'! Modern players indeed!

The season Rod was signed & 'lost us the league' we played way way better football than we do now imo. In fact most seasons through to Allison coming back, although we weren't always title contenders, we played better football than we do now. Almost all of the best goals I ever saw City score were in that period as were most of the best players. Hughes' team was the nearest to producing that level of football imo but Robinho is a pale, weak attempt at Rodney Marsh & apart from Tevez, we've lacked the real 'A' list players we had then.

That goal Rod scored v Stoke: any of the old farts remember when he did the same from the edge of the box v QPR (last min I believe) flicked it up & leathered a head high overhead kick into the top corner? Still got the press cuttings somewhere. What a pity his best stuff wasn't on TV.

The Arsenal of the era, who'd've thought it?

Blue2 wrote:That goal by Bell at Chelsea = still one of my favourites

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:

Blue2 wrote:That goal by Bell at Chelsea = still one of my favourites

Mine too. I kept thinking it must be next on the list and there it was:) And as usual he just jogged back to the half way line as if he had done nothing special.

Ted Hughes wrote:

john@staustell wrote:

Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:Blimey we were bloody good.
And good to hear proper commentators again. Memories of Sunday afternoons with Brian Moore and Gerald Thermostat.
Think it was a young Martin Tyler on Kidds goal Elland Rd.
When Barnes scored at Spurs, I couldn't help thinking a modern day player would have gone down and it would have been a penno and a sending off for the challenge that came in.
Splendid stuff.

Good goals but Piccs, your rosy view of the 70s matches your dire view of the 2010s! 12 goals doesn't a decade make!

Sometimes we were inexplicably fucking awful. After 1970 we had the season Rodders was signed, when he lost us the league, allegedly, and we had the LC in 1976. Then we had Tony Book just losing the league and getting moved upstairs. But often there just the pain we came to know and love.

Oh, and Francis Lee and Rodney Marsh were two of the worlds original 'penalty getters'! Modern players indeed!

keegan era with benarbia etc was probably as close to that as it could be, but some way off, and watching peter barnes trick his way round players is sublime!!!


The season Rod was signed & 'lost us the league' we played way way better football than we do now imo. In fact most seasons through to Allison coming back, although we weren't always title contenders, we played better football than we do now. Almost all of the best goals I ever saw City score were in that period as were most of the best players. Hughes' team was the nearest to producing that level of football imo but Robinho is a pale, weak attempt at Rodney Marsh & apart from Tevez, we've lacked the real 'A' list players we had then.

That goal Rod scored v Stoke: any of the old farts remember when he did the same from the edge of the box v QPR (last min I believe) flicked it up & leathered a head high overhead kick into the top corner? Still got the press cuttings somewhere. What a pity his best stuff wasn't on TV.

Ted Hughes wrote:
Only City could have Bell, Lee, Summerbee, Marsh & Law in the team & still win fuck all.