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Posted
January 16th, 2009 Jim Lowe
More memories from this time
No way to spend a birthday!
The first year after the war the FA Cup was played on a 2 Leg basis. City played the now defunct Bradford Park Avenue and having won the first leg away 3-1 the Wednesday game following it looked a formality. No floodlights then of course, the K.O was at 3pm. I truanted from school that afternoon to be there and City lost 8-2!!!. The Bradford forward line boasted Len Shackleton and Johnny Downie who each scored 2 and an amateur centre forward called A.H.Gibbons who scored 4!
Oh Yes, City had Frank Swift in goal!!. It was on 30th Jan 1946. How do I remember all of this so vividly after all these years?, easy, it was my 14th birthday!! Back at school the following day word had got around and the Headmaster sent for me and I got 3 raps of the cane. We have all suffered for City!.
Jim Lowe
January 19th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Yes, Jim. I remember that game very well, and what an astonishing result! Ron Greenwood was at right half for Bradford. I asked the principal if I couild have the afternoon off to see the game. The answer was an emphatic NO. Good mamories !
January 19th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Just remembered the Bradford PA team :- ‘Chick’ Farr, Hepworth, Farrell, Greenwood, Danskin, Hallard, Smith, Shackleton, A.H. “Jackie” Gibbons, Downie, Dix.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Hi all
in the late sixties my Dad always talked about that game we lost at home against a bunch of amateurs, 8-2.
i did not believe him, as i was around 13 and he was very old, as least 50, so i checked the records at the local library.
Typical City, he always said.
i never knew what that meant back then.
Unfortunatly,
i now understand what it means.
come on City, istanbul here we come.