Ted Hughes wrote:Excuse to post it again for old cunts.
The first save Pat Jennings makes, you can see him hobbling around after landing on the frozen mud. The ball sticking one second then bobbling around the next, it's like it's got another ball rattling around inside it, but it has no effect whatsoever on Neil Young's left foot. A still frame of that bloke striking a ball, is like a text book.
I recon the move leading up to Coleman's goal, Summerbee outside of the foot, to Lee running full tilt, would cause us big problems now, on a perfect pitch. Clichy might just get near Lee if he read it, but Kolarov would be utterly fucked.
Buzzer played a blinder.
Memories, memories, memories !!
"Manchester City; the most exciting team in the country today".......it just goes to show that what goes around, comes around again, latterly via 'King Kev' and now the admirable Mr. Pellegrini.
What a pleasure, also, to have a 'proper' commentator. I always liked Kenneth Wolstenhome and in the late 1950s/early to mid 1960s he was very knowledgeable about European football, apart from which, he was virtually the only commentator on games featuring foreign sides..
I still remember his commentary on a game from around 1961 or 1962 between Austria and Hungary; a sort of local derby as it were. Austria had decided not to play in the qualifiers for the 1962 World Cup in Chile, on the grounds that they did not consider themselves either good enough or worthy enough to participate in that competition (could you ever envisage such a thing happening today ??). Having made that decision, they then went on an unbeaten 20 game run to confound everyone and we, the youngsters in the football team I played in at that time, all adopted Austria as our favourite international side.
This fine run continued until they came up against Hungary and I was firmly glued to the TV set when this game was televised.
Can't remember the score after all these years, but Hungary ran out as winners and it was a really good game, with 'Ken' being in full flow at the fine football that was being played. The thing that really stuck in my mind though, were the tactics and formation changes that were being made and which he described very informatively; one of them being the way that Hungary were playing and, as they went on the attack, their defensive players retreated to the edge of their own box to avoid being caught on the break (Austria had a very fast and tricky right-winger called Raffreider), even though this left a huge 'hole' in the centre of the pitch.
Given the popularity of today's high-line, pressing game, this now seems arcane but Wolstenholme described it all perfectly, to viewers watching on a tiny, black and white screen.
Memories indeed and City are, currently, in the process of making exciting new ones.
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