Sheff Utd 5 City 1

[alfie]

Any of you old dogs remember this promotion game being on the radio. Im guessing it was not. The reason i say that is when the game was almost over i went around to the phone box as we did not have a phone to call the club for the score. When i got to the telephone box there were about 8-10 people waiting to use it.With that a guy came out and asked if any of us if we were phoning to find out the score. Everyone said yes and he told us th bad news.I think i cried myself to sleep that night.

[Cleve van Leef]

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Remember it well. In the Masons Arms Whitchurch that night and we were all hovering around the phone trying to get some info. Bloody awful result.

[alfie]

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If my memory serves me right wasnt Gil Reece playing for Sheff Utd then?

[rich munn]

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If my memory serves me right wasnt Gil Reece playing for Sheff Utd then?

I was in school and there was a great absenteeism on Wednesday (it was sports day!) as so many went up to Sheffield by coach.

At 4-1 it was time to leave and go to the pub but we kids weren't allowed to by the leader of the Grange End mob, whose name now escapes me. Bearded fellow, didn't argue with him.

Got home about 4 a.m. and faced a school inquest next morning.

Gil Reece was brilliant that night, but when we signed him soon afterwards he was ....not so good. I have a feeling our goal was an og as well.

No wonder we are rather pessimistic supporters.

:ayatollah:

[Steve the Tea]

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Any of you old dogs remember this promotion game being on the radio. Im guessing it was not. The reason i say that is when the game was almost over i went around to the phone box as we did not have a phone to call the club for the score. When i got to the telephone box there were about 8-10 people waiting to use it.With that a guy came out and asked if any of us if we were phoning to find out the score. Everyone said yes and he told us th bad news.I think i cried myself to sleep that night.

I was there. I travelled up to Sheffield on a special from Cardiff General. Sheffield had 6 shots and scored 5. It was unbelievable.

StT.
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[Former Labour leader]

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Yes I was getting the scores via a phone box in Llandaff north.
Bad night.

[the other bob wilson]

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If my memory serves me right wasnt Gil Reece playing for Sheff Utd then?

He scored one of their goals and, apparently, ran us ragged.

I tried to forget about the game by going to play five a side football in the old Dutch barn in Cantonian lower school - it didn't work!

[bobh]

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Thanks for reminding me of this game :cry: :furious:

[splott parker]

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Didn’t Steve Derrett score our goal?

[ksbenchpwllheli]

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I was on that train as well,Steve the Tea. Sheffield seemed to score every time they attacked and passed us off the pitch. Game was played at a cricket ground!

[Moodybluebird]

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When the score came up on the TV I was shellshocked and incredibly deflated. I really felt that we could do it but this result set the tone for many years to come.

I've heard from a few sources that we didn't play that badly, one of which is Steve Derrett, who scored for the City on the night.

Ironically we drew them away in the FA Cup the following season and beat them 3-1. That result instead of the 5-1 dribbling the year before would have seen us promoted.

[Moodybluebird]

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Drubbing ! Bloody predictive text.

[the other bob wilson]

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Didn’t Steve Derrett score our goal?

He had a shot that was deflected in by Trevor Hockey - the Western Mail match report records the deflection, but gives the goal to Derrett, but, based on the research I did for the book, I think it tends to be shown as a Hockey own goal these days.

[Moodybluebird]

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I was there. I travelled up to Sheffield on a special from Cardiff General. Sheffield had 6 shots and scored 5. It was unbelievable.

StT.
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Not too dissimilar then to the league game at home against the same opposition in 1977. Every time the ball went loose in the area they had a player available to slot it in and we got beaten 6-1. Typical City, we won the reverse fixture at their place 1-0.

[the other bob wilson]

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Not too dissimilar then to the league game at home against the same opposition in 1977. Every time the ball went loose in the area they had a player available to slot it in and we got beaten 6-1. Typical City, we won the reverse fixture at their place 1-0.

We lost 6-3 at Bolton in our next game after the 1-6 against Sheffield United as well.