Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
Dibble was injured, not sent off. We used five keepers in 82/83 and Dibble's injury saw two of them signed as replacements for him. The first was Scottish international Jim Brown who was signed on loan from Sheffield United I think it was. However, despite saving a penalty in his first game against Reading, Len Ashurst clearly wasn't fully convinced by him as he only played twice more before Eric Steele arrived on another loan deal, this time from Watford. Steele took over for seven games before the fit again Dibble came back and his best moment came in the "clock game" at Portsmouth where he made a superb save in front of the Match of the Day cameras.
I'm ninety nine per cent sure Loramski is right about that Northampton game though - Moseley was sent off in the thirty seventh minute of the match. We were drawing 1-1 at the time and the penalty came in the forty fourth minute, before Northampton ran away with the game with a couple more goals in the second half. What the information I have doesn't do is say who replaced Moseley in goal, but, from my not infallible memory, I'm pretty sure it was Mike Ford - he definitely went in goal for us somewhere along the line in his two spells at the club and so, I'd say there's a very good chance that he's the last outfield player to go in goals for City before Perry Ng on Saturday.