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Sunderland and Wolves. The only time I have been on the Highfield Rd pitch. My brother did play there.
Sunderland and Wolves. The only time I have been on the Highfield Rd pitch. My brother did play there.However high we get I don’t think I’ll ever experience a game (atmosphere) like that Wolves game.
That song and the speech. Really was from a different era. Felt modern at the time. Jolly good show old chap.That makes sense, although........
See 3m45s
Nope. Harold definitely touched down at HR in 1966. It was my 1st season of regularly supporting after having my interest in football massively raised by the world cup win that year.Memory plays tricks as you age. Thinking about it,1964 makes sense as labour won the election that year.
He would have been the new prime minister.
Again from memory, Robins owned Banbury Buildings which made pre cast concrete garages amongst other things I guess. It was located on the Oxford to Banbury Road not far from the Sky Blues training ground. There is some business still on the site but not sure what it is. Incidentally, when Robins left the UK to live in South Africa the story was he ran off with his secretary.My dad was at the Wolves game too so has told me stories. Amazing how they built that West Stand in the close season. Didn't Derrick Robins own a building business in Banbury which supplied materials and built it
Yes, I was at that game, it was the season before our promotion season, 65/66. I remember Harold being introduced, thought we lost 3-0? This season doesn’t feel like 66/67, think we had better creative players. Mind you, I was 11/12, City could do no wrong. That Wolves game, the time of my life (until I met you, darling…)I vaguely remember Huddersfield coming in December, and Harold Wilson ( prime minister) being introduced to the crowd.
We lost 3-1?
That seemed to be the kick up the arse we needed, and that was it.
Think next time we lost it was in Division 1
Yup. Had a rattle. Who knew that one day it would serve as the template for the vuvuzela.Who had a rattle back in the day then?
We'd stand on the platform on the back of the bus from the Telegraph offices all the way to Pool Meadow making a hell of a noise with ours.
I expect I was but I don't remember the match!Was any of you there for this?
First ever time we were on Match of the Day
Threw the game away with a defensive error. Could've been now the way the game went. We had just broke the club record for games unbeaten and there were boos at full time!
Bit of a soft goal let in by Glazier.I was 8 so wouldn't of been allowed to stay up that late to watch it.
I remember Derek Robins lived in Broad Lane and so did Bill Glazier a few years later.
How the football world has changed .
Was any of you there for this?
First ever time we were on Match of the Day
Threw the game away with a defensive error. Could've been now the way the game went. We had just broke the club record for games unbeaten and there were boos at full time!
was still in my dads bagDid it feel like this? I know we had a good few years before promotion, but did you go into the 66-67 season expecting promotion? Once you got to Christmas, did it feel like we were really going to do it?
I'd love to know from the older fans if it feels similar to this season.
If we do pull it off, this will be something that most of the fanbase will have never experienced
It.kind of does it's amplified by SM though, the bedwetters v the it's simples lots of Hyperbole either way.Did it feel like this? I know we had a good few years before promotion, but did you go into the 66-67 season expecting promotion? Once you got to Christmas, did it feel like we were really going to do it?
I'd love to know from the older fans if it feels similar to this season.
If we do pull it off, this will be something that most of the fanbase will have never experienced
You mean like the outcome?was still in my dads bag
If I'd still been married to my first ex-dragon, we'd be 55 years wed this year! Phew! Escaped that one!This was a first date with a new girl-friend. We have been married now for 54 years. Marriage has been wonderful. Sky Blue following a bit of a roller coaster at times.Fingers crossed life goes on.
Yes, I was there too with my dad and Granddad. 1964 sounds right.That was my first ever game, but I'm sure it was 1964? I was 11 at the time.
I remember the temporary scaffolding camera platform in the Main Stand, and the crowd singing "we're on the telly, we're on the telly, ee aye addio... etc"Was any of you there for this?
First ever time we were on Match of the Day
Threw the game away with a defensive error. Could've been now the way the game went. We had just broke the club record for games unbeaten and there were boos at full time!
Ronnie was great to see flying down the wing. My dad, cynically, always used to say he was a better player in the few weeks before the Wales team was selected though.I was at that game age 15, Ronnie Rees what a player
I'd forgotten Francis Lee was in the Bolton team before he made a name for himself, good player, hard as nails and a bit of a nutter, loved a good punch up.
Agree these old Match reports were far more detailed and knowledgeableDerek Henderson was a quality writer - one of many at the CET. Not something you could accuse the current iteration of having.
That Sunderland game was my first, 1964. Went with my Grandad who was from South Shields. What an atmosphere, the gate was recorded as something above 40,000, but fans broke a gate down so the actual attendance would have been nearer the record for the Wolves ‘67 game. At that Wolves game as an 11 year old, I went with a friend from school and his dad. We were stood against the front wall of the West End, and about ten minutes before kick off my friend’s dad got so concerned about the crush that he said he and his son were leaving, and would I come with them? Now I was a boy easily led, but on this occasion I said no I’m staying, and 5 minutes later I was sitting on the touchline with a few hundred other kids. One of the best decisions of my life because now I can say that I was there at the ‘Midlands match of the century’.Sunderland and Wolves. The only time I have been on the Highfield Rd pitch. My brother did play there.
Sunderland and Wolves. The only time I have been on the Highfield Rd pitch. My brother did play there.
Yeah, but local journalism was actually a thing then. Not just told to run an ad piece for the national owners but add in a couple of local references or just looking for clickbait listicles.Derek Henderson was a quality writer - one of many at the CET. Not something you could accuse the current iteration of having.
I was at that Bolton game, in the West End and "remember" the Ronnie Rees dribble and Gould's finish but I couldn't have told you about it before seeing it again. I certainly remember Bobby Gould standing with both arms in the air as his (trademark?) celebration. That was the thing, no action replays, no camera angles, just see it live and perhaps read about it later or in this rare case Match of the Day. That's why good match reports were a must and punditry didn't really exist.
It was good to see that team again in action as I knew them, except I didn't remember Barry Lowes at all. Not surprising I suppose on checking up he had just three appearances, Bolton was his only home appearance, his other two games were away which were not usually reachable for a 14 year old. However I was taken to the away match at Northampton (County Ground) with a friend and his father. I don't remember anything about the game but I see it was a nil-nil where Lowes made his debut but my programme collection is long gone and with it any reminders.
One thing I would say, certainly amongst the kids (pub banter was still a few years away for us), I don't think there was any feeling we would have to have wholesale changes to the team to compete in the First Division, no-one knew what lay ahead but just play at our best. Of course the young had the whole team as heroes back then although probably with a favourite ready for the usual question, different times have the celebrity cult and hyperbole. Coventry had never been so high in the leagues so there could be no entitlement, no sense of getting where you belong.
Well, oddly perhaps, as a youngster at the time - not really. Just part of the sky blue revolution, a club seemingly going places with lots of modern innovations. I didn't really consider the history of the club and its position except being aware that the Boltons, Blackburns, Wolverhamptons etc did have lots of stronger history (even if I didn't know what exactly).Interesting what you say about the entitlement. Most of us remember the premier league so don’t consider us out of place there.
However in that crowd in 1967 it must’ve seem very strange seeing us so high.
Incredible to think of some of the changes the older fans at that time would’ve witnessed
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