For those that remember 1967 (1 Viewer)

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However high we get I don’t think I’ll ever experience a game (atmosphere) like that Wolves game.

Sunderland and Wolves. The only time I have been on the Highfield Rd pitch. My brother did play there.

 

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That makes sense, although........

See 3m45s

That song and the speech. Really was from a different era. Felt modern at the time. Jolly good show old chap.

 

[pedrwyth]

I was another 14 year old who ended up on the side of the pitch for the Wolves game. There may have been hope but not expectation (we were already both promoted) - the Sky Blue Song was still proud Posh or Cobblers (although Northampton had just had a year in Division One I think) not the "bigger" clubs. Wolves were seen as a big club (look at 1958-60) only in that division two years and even after our win they were likely to be champions. Imagine the delight of a late birthday present when the day after my birthday we beat Millwall AND became champions as they faltered. There was certainly not any sense of inevitability even from the turn of the year when we were up at the top. This was the culmination of my second full season (I had been at a few games in 64-65), pulled in by Jimmy Hill's Sky Blue revolution. Soon to be tempered by JH leaving ,and George Curtis breaking his leg heralding future struggles.

 

[ProfessorbyGrace]

T’was 13 years before I entered the world but if I did remember 1967, I’d say: ‘ooh, this were all fields in my day.’

 

[The Great Eastern]

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.

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.
I can recall Harold Wilson and City director, John Camkin, wearing identically coloured rain coats standing side by side in the main stand. Harold had a broad grin on his face as his Huddersfield team beat us.

 

[Feb57]

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

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.

 

[Cov kid 55]

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

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…)

 

[Otis]

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.

Yup. Had a rattle. Who knew that one day it would serve as the template for the vuvuzela.