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    City Quiz Answers

    Thought it was time I put a few of you out of your misery.

    1. City’s match with Palace in February 1934 was unusual in that there was no half-time break. A descending fog prompted the ref and two captains to agree to forego their half-time break and crack on with the second half in order to get the game finished.

    2. Alf Sherwood saved a penalty in City’s 1-0 win at Liverpool in April 1934 after he had gone in goal to replace the injured Ron Howells. It was a ‘must win’ game for Liverpool and the result made relegation for the home side almost certain.

    3. Justin Fashanu was the first player to be sent off twice against City – firstly with Notts County in October 1984 and again with Torquay in September 1992.
    Three other players have matched that achievement. Mark Cooper for Northampton in a League Cup tie in September 1996 and again in a play-off semi-final in May 1997, Allan Smith for Leeds in 2002 and Newcastle in 2009 and Alan Dunne – twice for Millwall in 2005 and 2011.
    Cooper’s sendings off were matched by our own Jeff Eckhardt who was twice sent off against Northampton in that same 1996/97 season.

    4. Blackpool H is the next fixture in the sequence of fixtures which are the first league matches of each decade of our league history. We played Blackpool at home on 9th January 2010 – the first league game of the current decade.

    5. The 11 England players since 2003 are:
    Bothroyd, Caulker, Campbell, Drinkwater, Fowler, Heaton, Lambert, Richardson, Ricketts, Sinclair, Zaha.
    Although we’ve had 11 since 2003 there were only 7 during the previous 93 years of our existence.

    6. Phil Bater became the first player to be sent off on his City debut against Wrexham in September 1987 – a feat matched by Keith O’Halloran against Leyton Orient in 1996 and Simon Lappin against Barnsley in 2012. Bater however also became the only player to be sent off playing for us and playing against us. He had been sent off playing for Wrexham against us at Ninian Park in November 1981. He was thus sent off for Wrexham against Cardiff in Cardiff and for Cardiff against Wrexham in Wrexham. A unique but rather satisfying achievement I tend to think !

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    Thanks for those. Good stuff.

    As a follow up to the Bater sending off at Wrexham; which City player missed the team bus that day and had to travel up with the Supporters Club (being made to pay the £5 membership fee before being allowed on)?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loramski View Post
    Thanks for those. Good stuff.

    As a follow up to the Bater sending off at Wrexham; which City player missed the team bus that day and had to travel up with the Supporters Club (being made to pay the £5 membership fee before being allowed on)?
    I'm slightly surprised no one had a go this, especially with the generous prize on offer. I'll roll it over, next time round there'll be a chance to win two Etien Velikonja fridge magnets.

    The answer was Alan Curtis.

    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...%20off&f=false

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loramski View Post
    I'm slightly surprised no one had a go this, especially with the generous prize on offer. I'll roll it over, next time round there'll be a chance to win two Etien Velikonja fridge magnets.

    The answer was Alan Curtis.

    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...%20off&f=false
    I have been giving it a lot of thought. Curtis was the only one of that team who i couldn't imagine missing a team bus. Is he still a member I wonder ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BINGE THINKING View Post
    I have been giving it a lot of thought. Curtis was the only one of that team who i couldn't imagine missing a team bus. Is he still a member I wonder ?
    He enjoyed it so much that he stayed a member for a number of years and travelled away when he could but ended up getting banned after an incident at The Vetch when he opened the emergency door on the coach and ran out shouting "let's have it Swansea, where are your f**king boys then?".

    I can't find a link for all that at the minute but I'm sure you'll take my word for it.

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    You’ve never been wrong in the past.

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    Sorry to be pedantic but there is an obvious error in question 2. Alf Sherwood played for the city for a long time but I doubt he was in the first team in 1934 and Ron Howells was definitely not the goalkeeper back then. I suspect the answer should read 1954.

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    Yes - apologies. It should be 1954.

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