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Me!! Bob Bank. Bobby Woodruff still lives in Canton I think.
I was there and, despite my age, I can spell correctly the surname of the goal scorer unlike some on here.
I'm Spartacus!
(Albeit in the Grange End and having being crushed half to death when exiting the ground).
I was there as well. Those were the days when you could pay on the gate minutes before the match started. If only that arrangement would return.
I'd say that from left to right, they are dunno, Brian Clark, Ian Gibson, John Parsons, Mel Sutton, Richie Morgan, Peter King, Nigel Rees, Jim Eadie, dunno, Don Murray, dunno, dunno, dunno, looks like Bobby Woodruff, Jimmy Scoular, dunno and I think it might be Dave Carver.
Players who were there or likely to be there who I've not named - Gary Bell, Leighton Phillips, Ronnie Bird played in the game before this one, so I assume he was in the party, Frank Parsons, Steve Derrett. Brian Harris and, maybe , Alan Warboys.
Mmm maybe not Leslie Lea next to Gibson as he'd left us before the Real Madrid game. Looks like him though !
Celebrating an occasion like this does put our standing as a football club into perspective though, as it was a tie in which we were eliminated from the competition.
Having said that, I showed my son and then my grandson clips of THAT goal as soon as they could kick a ball !
But there is always 1927 remember !! Now that is worth celebrating.
Talking of which I was checking out my programme collection when I retired 5 years ago and came across one with a load of random signatures inside. Must have been in a batch I bought at the club shop. Anyhow to my surprise it was signed by Ernie Curtis, who played for City in the 1927 final. At the time he was the youngest player ever to appear in an FA Cup final, aged 19. Quite a lucky find that !
I was there. I walked out to Ninian Park via Tudor Street and Ninian Park Road, almost certainly having pie and chips at Dell's Fish Shop. Though at that time I stood on the Grange End, for this game I was on the Bob Bank, about a third of the way up and half-way along towards the Canton Stand. Memories.
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Bob Bank for me that night, normally a Grange Ender. Probably the greatest roar for a goal ever !! Att. was given as 47500 I think, plus about 10000 for the clubs coffers One of the greatest night games ever for me at NP.