On This Day – 14th May

DAVID PLEAT (LUTON MANAGER) RUNS ONTO THE PITCH AT THE FINAL WHISTLE AFTER HIS TEAM HAD AVOIDED RELEGATION TO THE 2nd DIVISION WITH A GOAL 4 MINUTES FROM TIME BY RADDI ANTIC, THUS SENDING DOWN THEIR OPPOSITION INSTEAD. MANCHESTER CITY V LUTON TOWN, 1982/83. CREDIT: COLORSPORT One of the most memorable football moments of the […]

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On This Day – 17th January

Maine Road being used by Manchester United The record attendance for an English Football League match was made on this day back in 1948, with 83,260 fans watching Manchester United play Arsenal. The match was played at Manchester City’s Maine Road due to significant damage to United’s Old Trafford home during the Second World War.Two […]

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On This Day – 7th November

Tony Adcock, Paul Stewart and David White with the match ball It was on this day back in 1987 that Manchester City famously hit ten goals past Huddersfield Town in a Second Division match.Tony Adcock, Paul Stewart and David White all bagged hat tricks, with Neil McNab netting the other in the comprehensive win at […]

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Football’s Greatest Goals No.21

This week’s ‘Greatest Goal’ comes from Manchester City’s Georgian play-maker Georgi Kinkladze.The Georgian had been one of Alan Ball’s first signings when he replaced Brian Horton in the summer of 1995. He joined City a couple of weeks after Dennis Bergkamp, another foreign forward had signed for Premier League side Arsenal. Ball decided to build […]

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