FA Cup Memories

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city v spurs 1977

BBC Match Of The Day
January 1977
FA Cup 3rd Round
Cardiff City 1-0 Tottenham
Commentator Alan Weeks#CityAsOne #Cardiff #THFC #FACup pic.twitter.com/A0dFMuhVRq

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[Baloo]

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Sign of the times - judging by the opening commentary Spurs put out their strongest XI that day.

[tpcnw]

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Start of the run which led to losing to Everton at home in the fifth round. Fourth round was the famous 3-2 win over Wrexham. Billy Ashcroft equalised in the 89th minute and John Buchanan scored the winner almost straight away.

Many thought at the time that it was Cardiff's year to win with it being 50 years since 1927.

Big crowds at Ninian Park for those days in all three games. 27868 v Tottenham, 28,953 v Wrexham and 35,582 v Everton. League average that season was 12 thousand.

The Wrexham game was on Match of the Day as well, but I think that the Everton one wasn't because of a BBC strike.

[Rjk]

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Before i was born, but nice kit, and good to see we weren't afraid of throwing youngsters into a big game back then.

[City123]

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Lovely kit

Wonder why we've ditched yellow in recent years

[NYCBlue]

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Start of the run which led to losing to Everton at home in the fifth round. Fourth round was the famous 3-2 win over Wrexham. Billy Ashcroft equalised in the 89th minute and John Buchanan scored the winner almost straight away.

Many thought at the time that it was Cardiff's year to win with it being 50 years since 1927.

Big crowds at Ninian Park for those days in all three games. 27868 v Tottenham, 28,953 v Wrexham and 35,582 v Everton. League average that season was 12 thousand.

The Wrexham game was on Match of the Day as well, but I think that the Everton one wasn't because of a BBC strike.

I definitely had that feeling.

There's footage of McKenzie's goal in the Everton game somewhere, but I don't recall ever seeing the other goals.

[Cardiff-Cal]

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One of my favourite FA Cup memories aside from the obvious ones was beating Bristol Rovers 5-1 with that exquisite own goal from the own goal specialist Andy Jordan.

Can’t really explain why but it’s just a really nice happy memory watching the City. The score line probably helped 😄

Anyone got any footage of that match? Had a feeling it was on TV.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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I definitely had that feeling.

There's footage of McKenzie's goal in the Everton game somewhere, but I don't recall ever seeing the other goals.

Some tremendous defending by Albert Lamour ! I used to play snooker frequently with Alan Campbell. I remember asking him why everyone thought Lamour was a good defender when he wasn't. He replied that he was crap and all the other City players thought the same !

[Dave Blue]

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Before i was born, but nice kit, and good to see we weren't afraid of throwing youngsters into a big game back then.

That was our first team.

[rich munn]

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Some tremendous defending by Albert Lamour ! I used to play snooker frequently with Alan Campbell. I remember asking him why everyone thought Lamour was a good defender when he wasn't. He replied that he was crap and all the other City players thought the same !

Dorothy Lamour cost us that game.

I was on the Bob Bank and there were many Everton supporters around us. They were terrified of Evans and Alston. (As I remember it!)

Exciting game but we could have won it.

:xmasayatollah:

[the other bob wilson]

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One of my favourite FA Cup memories aside from the obvious ones was beating Bristol Rovers 5-1 with that exquisite own goal from the own goal specialist Andy Jordan.

Can’t really explain why but it’s just a really nice happy memory watching the City. The score line probably helped ��

Anyone got any footage of that match? Had a feeling it was on TV.

It was on Sky and I’ve got a feeling Josh Low was made Man of the Match despite Earnie scoring a hat trick.

Regarding the Everton game in 1977. City’s goal, scored by Tony Evans, was excellent as he finished off a great passing movement - we ran Everton ragged in the first half, but ran out of steam a bit after the interval and lost out to a controversial Duncan McKenzie goal.

[the other bob wilson]

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Dorothy Lamour cost us that game.

I was on the Bob Bank and there were many Everton supporters around us. They were terrified of Evans and Alston. (As I remember it!)

Exciting game but we could have won it.

:xmasayatollah:

Think Alston was gone by then Rich, we had Robin Friday by then, but he was cup tied and we had Evans, Peter Sayer and David Giles up front - I doubt if any of them were more than five foot nine tall.

[splott parker]

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It was on Sky and I’ve got a feeling Josh Low was made Man of the Match despite Earnie scoring a hat trick.

Regarding the Everton game in 1977. City’s goal, scored by Tony Evans, was excellent as he finished off a great passing movement - we ran Everton ragged in the first half, but ran out of steam a bit after the interval and lost out to a controversial Duncan McKenzie goal.

I was on the Bob Bank that day and was convinced the McKenzie tapped Larmour’s ankles. Watching it back, I think I was way off the mark, seemed a legit goal.

[Harry Paget Flashman]

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The game last night and the one tonight aren't making many memories.

Brennan Johnson doesn't look like he can do it at the highest level, nothing seems to go right for him.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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FA Cup memories:

Blake's winner against Man City and winning at Ayresome park.
Bowen's og in the game against Crewe. They were 2 divisions above us, we outplayed them twice and lost at Gresty ice rink in the replay.
Leeds.
Trailing to Chasetown but reaching a final that Ramsey should have started.
Playing Bristol City in the snow.
Not much to have enjoyed since.

We've played 31 FA cup ties since the FA cup final in 2008 and won 9.