Man City V Southend 1956

Article about Man City getting ready for their first ever meeting with Southend in the FA Cup 4th Round in 1956. City won the game 1-0

 

 

1970 League Cup Final

The 1970 League Cup Final, Man City V West Brom.
Here is Glyn Pardoe's winning goal in extra time. Sadly Glyn died earlier this year. 

Phil Woosnam

Phil Woosnam
Former Leyton Orient, West Ham, Aston Villa and Man City player also a Welsh international before becoming a big wig in the American Soccer league.

 

1956 F.A Cup Final

The 1956 FA Cup Final. Man City beat Birmingham 3-1.
Roy Paul is holding the cup.

 

 

Goals Goals Goals

List of the top scorers in all 4 divisions for the 1957/58 season.
Plenty of famous names on the list and amazing to think how many players scored more than 20 goals in a season.

 

Goals, Goals, Goals!! Champions Wolves, 2nd placed Preston and Man City all scored over 100 that season, with West Brom and Tottenham getting over 90.

West Ham won the 2nd Division also scoring over 100 goals.

Leading scorer in Division 1 was Bobby Smith (Tottenham), leading scorer overall was Tommy Johnston who started the season for Leyton Orient but transferred to Blackburn mid season.

Obvious star names on this list include Bobby Robson, Jimmy Greaves, Brian Clough, Tom Finney, Jimmy Hill and many others.

Giants

Derby County V Man City from 1973.
Man City 6'4" keeper Joe Corrigan and Tony Book towering over Derby's 5'3" forward Willie Carlin.

 

Kids Kits

Congratulations to Bayern Munich winning this season's Champions League.
This advert for kids kits from 1973 looks alright apart from the Munich kit looking more like Barcelona?
Sure they must have screwed up?

 

Scrapbook Cards (Part 2)

The 70/71 season had 22 teams, for some unknown reason there wasn't any cards produced for Huddersfield Town? also there were only 10 Ipswich players.

Everton

Ipswich Town

Leeds United

Liverpool

Manchester City

Manchester United

Cigarette Cards (Part 2)