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Home 'movies' taken from Canton stand. A few City goals, a handball shout [no VAR], a City forward pinching a yard or two taking a free kick. Big crowds, shocking pitch later on, hard, no grass. City finished 4th in 2nd Division..
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/...rk-1949-online
Great stuff!
Loads of it though. Not the greatest quality in terms of the pitch or skill, but these were different times.
:ayatollah:
Enjoyed that.
Massive crowds, the ball looked so heavy, that it's understandable that they had brain injuries when they were older.
Give me a marching band to that bloody light show any day of the week.
Fascinating stuff. Pretty sure the opening sequence is of City v Spurs played on 3rd September 1949.
The teams that day were:
City: Joslin, Lever, Sherwood, Glyn Williams, Montgomery, Baker, Hollyman, Roley Williams, Best, Stevenson, Edwards.
Spurs: Ditchburn, Ramsey, Withers, Nicholson, Clarke, Burgess, Walters, Bennett, Duquemin, Baily, Medley.
Spurs won 1-0 and went on to win promotion that season and then became champions the following year.
Yes, that's Ted Ditchburn in goal. Lost 1-0, 42,649.Quote:
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That side were my granddads heroes.
Local lads that took City all the way to the top division.
Lots of Welsh Internationals too
A much more innocent time- would prefer that to what we have now
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