You imagined it - confirmed on Wikipedia;-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Osborne
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I think that lockdown may be starting to get to me as I read an article recently about Roger Osborne, the chap who scored the FA Cup Final winning goal for Ipswich and then had to go off as he was so overcome by the situation, and I was SURE that he had gone on to play for us at some stage (maybe on loan, and only for a few games?) but I can find NO record of this.
So from that, I MUST have imagined it, or can anyone else save my sanity? 🤷*♂️
You imagined it - confirmed on Wikipedia;-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Osborne
Maybe there was some interest after we played them in the 3rd round that season?
I'm more convinced than ever that we were after him at some stage. How far our interest went or even if it was just papertalk, I honestly cannot remember but for the 2 Bobs and me to make the connection means there must be something to it. And yes Former Labour leader my memories go way back too, certainly a long time before the Roger Osborne mystery !! (Sounds like an Agatha Christie novel)
I found it as it rang a bell with me.
Richie Morgan tabled a bid of 70,000 but he turned us down as he didn’t fancy moving across the country. However, it didn’t stop him going on a loan to Detroit.
In the article he claims he told Richi3 that he had a dodgy knee to get out of the move.
This comes from a Daily Mail article which I cannot link but it is found via a google search
Don't remember anything about Roger Osborne being linked with City, but I can remember Southampton winning the cup in 1976, beating Man Utd 1-0 with a late goal scored by Bobby Stokes.
Early in the 1976/77 season, City played Southampton at Ninian Park in the Football Combination reserves league. I think it may well have been the first game of that campaign. My father took me down there and I can remember being amazed that the man who'd scored the winning goal at Wembley a few months earlier was playing up front for the Saints at Ninian in front of a crowd of a couple of hundred. Of course, the FA Cup final was a much bigger deal back then. For a kid like me (I was nine at the time), it inconceivable that a superstar like Stokes should be playing our reserves.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...years-ago.html
Scroll right down to near the end for the Cardiff element of his story.
On a similar note I had an almost identical experience in 1973 when Sunderland played us 2 days after winning the FA Cup... it’s perhaps my earliest football memory (I was 6) but remember to this day that Billy Hughes from that Sunderland team was my first footballing hero. The FA Cup was fantastic from 1972 all the way through until the late 80’s for me
It’s threads like this and their outcomes which makes this message board worth the visit.
Well played all.
The FA Cup was truly magical, I’m reminded of a sad anecdote, after he was finished up by the City and before he took over at Newport I spoke to him on a bus stop on Greenway Rd, Rumney. Weirdly he was door to door selling jewellery so he told me, looking back he may have been under a driving ban, hence being in the bus shelter, I was so surprised that such a famous man was actually waiting for a bus. Anyway he shook my hand after we spoke and for ages after I regarded it as a massive thing that I had touched the hand of a man who’d held the FA Cup, the FA Cup meant that much to me.