Teams you have strong memories of playing

[Harry Dowd scored]

City v Bury 0-0 1964 Boxing day game played on ice, little did we know what awaited us with Joe & Big Mal.

Do you remember in 66 playing against Preston on total ice 0-0, a winger called Ernie Hannigan turned our full back inside out all game, might have been Dave Bacuzzi.

[johnny crossan]

back in the day Leeds was always interesting!
some lovely football on the pitch but the fans were right arseholes as were the plod round the ground - cnuts!

Leeds was a short journey into a war zone. As a kid living in Hulme my walk along Upper Brook St. Alongside the away teams escort. At the age of 9 or 10 yes walking to a game with mates we would be intrigued. A few years later your aware of the Fear those fans had as hordes of City were gathered all along that route. Sounds nuts but what a buzz. Geordies brought thousands to an FA Cup game. Loud but stuck to the escort. When I look back and chat with mates Maine Road was our home it was not so welcoming, we thought it was normal….. When they turned into the area 8. Front of the souvenir shop it would be the start of the mayhem ! You would end up with trophies like Scarves or bobble hats of the terrified visitors. No wonder our away trips were not for the faint hearted.

Sorry mate didn't make it clear... Home was as you say... They were shitting it at Maine rd but at theirs... We were in bandit country with the fucking plod just frustrated fans that couldn't get in to the ground!
So they'd lead us to t'station... But mysteriously take a wrong turn leaving us with hundreds of the 6 fingered cunts around us...
Me dad came from Leeds which is why I got tickets but he never believed me they were cunts!

FA cup 1/4 final (I think) 1976 or 77, Elland road was a fucking zoo.

Was there for that, total war zone - nearly lost an eye.

[johnny crossan]

City v Bury 0-0 1964 Boxing day game played on ice, little did we know what awaited us with Joe & Big Mal.

Do you remember in 66 playing against Preston on total ice 0-0, a winger called Ernie Hannigan turned our full back inside out all game, might have been Dave Bacuzzi.

No neurons firing for that one NB, he seems to have moved on the following season
https://www.pnefc.net/news/2015/may/ern ... sses-away/
Do recall attending a charity match in Preston for Alan Spavin a few years later
Alan Spavin testimonial 1971 to 72 prog

PRESTON NORTH END 2 CITY 3
Testimonial for Alan Spavin
15th November 1971
attendance 14,000

Scorers
City Lee(28), Doyle(29), Bruce(73 og)
Preston Book(23 og), McIlmoyle(89)

FROM THE PRESS BOX

Manchester City provided superb entertainment for 14,000 Preston fans in the Testimonial match for North End skipper Alan Spavin at Deepdale, playing exhibition football The Blues won 3-2 in a match that marked another comeback for David Connor, the plucky little defender who has twice been hit by damaged ankle ligaments this season.
Left back Connor, who had been having one of his best ever seasons before the double injury blows, came through the test confidently and could soon be challenging for a first team place once again.
A Tony Book own goal from an Alex Spark cross gave Preston the lead, before Francis Lee and Mike Doyle shot City ahead in a thrilling sprint.
With Neil Young, Derek Jeffries, Tony Towers and Ronnie Healey taking over for the second half, City went further ahead when Alex Bruce put a Lee cross through his own goal, and then Hugh McIlmoyle scored a second for Preston with a fine header.
Peter Gardner writing for The Manchester Evening News 16th November 1971