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    55 Years ago today

    City 0 Arsenal 0 in front of 55,000.
    I was there as an excited 11 year old.
    Anyone else?

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    Re: 55 Years ago today

    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Gillis View Post
    City 0 Arsenal 0 in front of 55,000.
    I was there as an excited 11 year old.
    Anyone else?
    Oh hang on, it's 2025, 56 years

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    Re: 55 Years ago today

    Remember Arsenal running on to the pitch in their red shirts white sleeves,very impressed.

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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.

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    Re: 55 Years ago today

    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Gillis View Post
    City 0 Arsenal 0 in front of 55,000.
    I was there as an excited 11 year old.
    Anyone else?
    I was there and Ian Ure marked Toshack out of the game. No other centre half in our division (Div 2) had managed that throughout the season. I was standing on the Bob Bank near the television gantry and couldn't move a muscle it was so packed.

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    I was sat on the wall at the corner of the bob bank and canton stand, Ian Ure stood out with that mop of blond hair, I remember John Radford up front, did Ray Kennedy play alongside him that day? I can't recall, it was a long time ago

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    Re: 55 Years ago today

    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Gillis View Post
    I was sat on the wall at the corner of the bob bank and canton stand, Ian Ure stood out with that mop of blond hair, I remember John Radford up front, did Ray Kennedy play alongside him that day? I can't recall, it was a long time ago
    Dont think Kennedy had broken into the Arsenal team at the time.

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    Yes I was on the bob bank. Can't remember much about the game mind you.

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    Re: 55 Years ago today

    Quote Originally Posted by Moodybluebird View Post
    I was there and Ian Ure marked Toshack out of the game. No other centre half in our division (Div 2) had managed that throughout the season. I was standing on the Bob Bank near the television gantry and couldn't move a muscle it was so packed.
    That's the biggest Ninian Park crowd I've been in. My memories are the same as yours, I was standing by the cameras and it was packed and it was a real squeeze exiting the Bob Bank at the Canton Stand end. If anyone had fallen over they would have been trampled in the crush. As others in this thread have said Toshack got absolutely nowhere with Ian Ure

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    Re: 55 Years ago today

    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Gillis View Post
    City 0 Arsenal 0 in front of 55,000.
    I was there as an excited 11 year old.
    Anyone else?
    And me, Joe. Had deserted my usual place on the Grange End for a place on half way line on the Bob Bank for this one.

    StT.
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    Re: 55 Years ago today

    Was living in Rumney at the time and my cousin came down from London for the game, big Arsenal fan, my mother’s brother’s son, lived on Highgate Hill. Despite not knowing Cardiff, the bugger got back to my house before me.

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    Re: 55 Years ago today

    Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
    Some real stars in that Arsenal line-up. I never knew Bobby Gould played for them.

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    Bobby Gould came to national prominence when he scored the late equaliser for Arsenal in the League Cup final in 1969 when they lost to Swindon. Don Rogers scored twice in extra time to win it for Swindon.

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    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 !

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    Re: 55 Years ago today

    I was there too, on the grange end.

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    Re: 55 Years ago today

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
    I was there too, on the grange end.
    Ditto.

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    Re: 55 Years ago today

    Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    Ditto.
    Ditto ditto.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Morris View Post
    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.

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    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.

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