55 Years ago today

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Re: 55 Years ago today

My brother and I entered the bob bank from the grange end. I remember 2 things. A tight, dour game with Arsenal [Ure] keeping Toshack in his pocket, and that fact it took us half an hour to squeeze our way to approx. the halfway line !

[xsnaggle]

Re: 55 Years ago today

I was there too, on the grange end.

[light up the darkness]

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I was in the standing section behind the home dugout against the wall

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: 55 Years ago today

I was there too, on the grange end.

Ditto.

[Cowbridge Blue]

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My only memory of the game itself now is of the crowd’s anger at Ian Ure for the way he was roughing up Toshack.

I was stood in the Bob Bank, Grange End corner with my Dad, didn’t have a bad view if I remember rightly.

Seems we were all on that corner! I was 24 at the time and recently married. Took the missus up to London for he replay.

[rich munn]

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Ditto.

Ditto ditto.

[the other bob wilson]

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Here's a link to the full matchday programme:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/114058793@N05/albums/72157716670302602/

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That picture of Toshack’s goal in the game with Hull a week earlier reminded me of the white trainers (made by Adidas I think) our players wore at the time when the pitch was frozen - pretty sure it’s Ronnie Bird with them on in the photo.

[pomeroy]

Re: 55 Years ago today

I was on the bob bank with my Spanish brother in law who was at a City game for the first time. He was scared to death almost as we were packed in like sardines. I can remember Ian Ure kicking lumps out of Toshack.