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I think that lockdown may be starting to get to me as I read an article recently about Roger Osborne, the chap who scored the FA Cup Final winning goal for Ipswich and then had to go off as he was so overcome by the situation, and I was SURE that he had gone on to play for us at some stage (maybe on loan, and only for a few games?) but I can find NO record of this.
So from that, I MUST have imagined it, or can anyone else save my sanity? 🤷*♂️
You imagined it - confirmed on Wikipedia;-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Osborne
I wouldn't swear to this Bobby but something in the back of my mind tells me that we were after him at some point but the deal didn't go through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
Must admit there was something in the back of my mind to that effect as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moodybluebird
You and TOBW have made me feel a BIT better ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Moodybluebird
I dont remember any interest and my football memories stretch back a very long way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
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Maybe there was some interest after we played them in the 3rd round that season?
I'm more convinced than ever that we were after him at some stage. How far our interest went or even if it was just papertalk, I honestly cannot remember but for the 2 Bobs and me to make the connection means there must be something to it. And yes Former Labour leader my memories go way back too, certainly a long time before the Roger Osborne mystery !! (Sounds like an Agatha Christie novel)
I found it as it rang a bell with me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
Richie Morgan tabled a bid of 70,000 but he turned us down as he didn’t fancy moving across the country. However, it didn’t stop him going on a loan to Detroit.
In the article he claims he told Richi3 that he had a dodgy knee to get out of the move.
This comes from a Daily Mail article which I cannot link but it is found via a google search
Don't remember anything about Roger Osborne being linked with City, but I can remember Southampton winning the cup in 1976, beating Man Utd 1-0 with a late goal scored by Bobby Stokes.
Early in the 1976/77 season, City played Southampton at Ninian Park in the Football Combination reserves league. I think it may well have been the first game of that campaign. My father took me down there and I can remember being amazed that the man who'd scored the winning goal at Wembley a few months earlier was playing up front for the Saints at Ninian in front of a crowd of a couple of hundred. Of course, the FA Cup final was a much bigger deal back then. For a kid like me (I was nine at the time), it inconceivable that a superstar like Stokes should be playing our reserves.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...years-ago.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Majorblue
Scroll right down to near the end for the Cardiff element of his story.
Great work Major :thumbup::sherlock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Majorblue
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:thumbup: Well done, you’ve saved someone’s sanity by the sound of it
On a similar note I had an almost identical experience in 1973 when Sunderland played us 2 days after winning the FA Cup... it’s perhaps my earliest football memory (I was 6) but remember to this day that Billy Hughes from that Sunderland team was my first footballing hero. The FA Cup was fantastic from 1972 all the way through until the late 80’s for meQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Wow. Hadn't seen that....memories are made so this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Majorblue
Great memory ,I do remember the fuss in the press, as the fee at that time was highQuote:
Originally Posted by Majorblue
It’s threads like this and their outcomes which makes this message board worth the visit.
Well played all.
Brilliant work Major ! Saved my blushes somewhat 👍Quote:
Originally Posted by Majorblue
I remember that game! I was 9.Quote:
Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanton
How could these now-household names be suddenly coming to play us!
Partially! ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Thanks though :-)
And I also remember my Dad saying that theyQuote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
might bring the Cup with them (which of course they didn’t)
I was 17 and felt exactly the same way - I was also in a state of shock when we best them 4-1 down here seven months later.Quote:
Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanton
The FA Cup was truly magical, I’m reminded of a sad anecdote, after he was finished up by the City and before he took over at Newport I spoke to him on a bus stop on Greenway Rd, Rumney. Weirdly he was door to door selling jewellery so he told me, looking back he may have been under a driving ban, hence being in the bus shelter, I was so surprised that such a famous man was actually waiting for a bus. Anyway he shook my hand after we spoke and for ages after I regarded it as a massive thing that I had touched the hand of a man who’d held the FA Cup, the FA Cup meant that much to me.
Jesus, I’m still so overcome, I forgot to mention that it was Jimmy Scoular:facepalm:Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
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When I first read it, without the name, I thought it was about Brian HarrisQuote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
In a similar vein I can't remember if it was on here or Facebook I asked the question of were the City ever in the running for signing either one or both of the Futcher brothers who played for Luton but they turned us down.?
Im convinced we were?
Rather off topic but your comments make me nostalgic for the old Football Combination. It was a proper competition with teams containing reserves, promising youngsters and gnarled old pros. Crowds weren't too bad on occasions if a big team were the visitors and they were often very competitive games played on Saturday afternoons when the first team were away. Before the days of social media and score flashes would be given over the tannoy during the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
My father used to take me to plenty of Football Combination games, mainly because they were often played on Saturday afternoons. As there was only one substitute allowed in those days, I think reserve matches were of much greater interest to the average fan as the team would often contain genuine first team regulars who for whatever reason were out of favour that week, whether it be form or fitness. The Football Combination also seemed to be a considerable step up from youth team football, so the youngsters who featured usually had a decent chance of making it to the first team in due course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyncoed Slumdog
I'm not 100% certain about this, but I think as season ticket holders we used to get into the Football Combination games for free. Were there vouchers in the back of the season tickets for such matches or did you just have to show your season ticket at the gate? Not sure, but we used to go to lots of those games whatever the arrangements were.
Now you mention it Tony, this might be one of my imagining things from the mists of time, I’ve got a really vague recollection of Scoular mentioning that him and Harris were working together. This could be total bollocks but there’s a nagging something in the back of my mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
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Originally Posted by splott parker
Well you have been locked up for 8 weeks :hehe::hehe:
Used to have a drink with Brian, upstairs in the doubles bar, at the Globe in town, most Saturday nights.
Great fella
I used to watch the City reserves down Llandaff Road
Was it the Corinthians ground?
And was it Welsh league or Combination games probably about 1980
When City were away on a Saturday afternoon.
I know loads of City 1st team players used to play.
I vaguely remember this (as they were hot property for a while).Quote:
Originally Posted by insider
Then again most things in my mind are vague nowadays......
I think they did. I remember them walking round the pitch with it before the kick off. They'd come straight from London so we got to see the cup before it got back to Sunderland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
Yes it was Corinthian Park, I used to go along to watch Welsh League matches on Saturday's (often before City played at home) in the late sixties and seventies, but I would have said that it was not used in the eighties (may be wrong though).Quote:
Originally Posted by insider
Corinthian Park was originally used solely by Cardiff Corries, but it seems our old Chairman Fred Dewey was involved with them as well and he was the driving force behind our third team playing there.
On the subject of Cardiff Corries, how many of you knew they played Barcelona four times in the early years of the twentieth century?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...ourney-9398122
Was that a case of what goes on tour stays on tour? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Really?!Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
I really AM losing my mind........ :-0
I was at the game but can’t remember them walking around the pitch with the Cup but I do remember that prior to the game they had a work out at the University Playing Fields near Ball Road School and the Cup was on display there.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
I remember them parading the cup around the ground before kick off. Just as others have said the FA Cup was a massive competition and for a 9 year old like me seeing Bobby Kerr with the cup at our ground so soon after the final was a great experience. I was still in awe at Jim Montgomery's save on the Saturday and to see him live within days just seemed unreal.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
It was Welsh League games only there (City's third team then). I remember going to watch them play Haverfodwest and Mel Charles, Ivor Allchurch, and Derek Tapscott were all playing for the visitors. Less money in football then so lots of ex pros would play at lower levels for a few bob after leaving the full time game.Quote:
Originally Posted by insider