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There was also the 'Paul Edwards factor'. Once Edwards was introduced as fullback Smith's confidence fell away.

I like the way Smith confuses Paul Kerr for the second goal - ball one side of Kerr and Smith the other - Kerr is rooted to the spot.

I think I've seen someone score 4 against us - possibly early 1980s...

Peter Ndlovu - first visiting player to score a hat-trick at Anfield in 30 years.

A creditable performance. It is a shame your manager didn't build on it by getting you a trial at the academy or Ryton. Now your talent has been lost to the team...

Yet people will always insist Smith was crap...

He was at Coventry railway station on cup final morning when some nice people brought the overhead power lines down in the Willenhall area. The damage meant that trains were delayed and then diverted via Nuneaton. Andy Blair stayed at the station until all the Coventry fans were on trains...

I remember the Fergie 4, now you've reminded me. Kevin Gallacher, I always think people underrate him.

I saw a testimonial game that Perry played in (maybe the one for Harry Roberts). Any shot that was to his left and was at a height between his shoulder and knee went in the net. The players knew....

That is pretty impressive for a player some don't rate.

Doesn't have to be 5 or more than that, just the most goals you've seen one of our players score in a first team game. I have to grudgingly admit Hurst's 6 is quite impressive (First Division, I guess).

Well remembered! I went to that match too. Saw Livingstone the next morning illegally parking his blue Ford Capri outside Yorkshire Bank in the High Street.

It seemed to be in our favour, but Melrose was trouble. Tommy was 18 when he made his debut (different times). I think Tommy was a victim of managerial changes. He thrived under Gordon Milne and he didn't seem to be rated by Dave Sexton. Gordon Milne had gone to Leicester, he needed a...

The mention of Cyrille Regis in the Terry Gibson thread set me thinking... What's the most goals posters have seen a City player score in a first team match? I'll start the ball rolling, I saw Cyrille knock 5 past the mighty Chester City in a League Cup second round tie at Highfield Road on a...

Platnauer scored after the goalkeeper couldn't hold Gibson's shot.

Interestingly, when the city fans were held after the FA cup game against Stoke in 1986-87 it was Alan Brazil who turned up outside the closed the gates of the enclosure asking the stewards and police what was going on and making sure we were ok. Didn't think much of him as a player for us, but...

Jim Melrose from Leicester for Tommy English doesn't seem bad on the surface. Melrose started 25 games for Coventry and scored 10 (including a hat trick). Tommy English started 31 games for Leicester and scored 4. We sold Melrose to Celtic for £100,000, which seems weird considering he...

I blame Godden, if he hadn't scored so many times last season the team wouldn't have got promoted and wouldn't have been playing against Cardiff. I hear some others are blaming God...

It was Steve Murcott that came out of the stands (he was a registered player). Murcott only played that single game for the club. Perry Suckling was drafted into the first team by Bobby Gould after Raddy Avramovic mishandled the ball into his goal against Stoke. Gould said Avramovic would...

Feed the goat hair and it will score grow. I think he was shaving his head when he was at Man City. Probably wanted to cut down the wind resistance so he would be even faster (this had stopped working by 2005).