City were beaten 2-0 on aggregate in the Final of the 70/71 Youth Cup.

Off the top of my head, the following played some part in the Cup run.

The keeper was called Williams, never played for the first team. Phil Dwyer was right back, john Impey, who played about 500 games for various West Country clubs was captain and played about twenty times for us. Alan Shaw was alongside Impey at the back and was described as our man of the match in one of the legs of the Final, but never played for the first team, nor did Jimmy Hobby who Splott Parker mentioned (he lived around the corner when he was City).

In midfield, Alan Couch was from Briton Ferry and played about ten times for our senior team. Billy Kellock was a Scot who was signed by Norwich after playing about fifty times, he drifted into non league then, but came back to play for Peterborough and Wolves among others. Nigel Rees made his debut for City at 17 and made the goal against Real Madrid, but was playing Welsh League football in his early twenties. There was another Rees, Brian who played on the right wing, he was from Coventry and his one game for the first team was against Sunderland in a Cup match in front of 40,000 at Roker Park.

Up front was Danny Showers who went on to play for Wales and Jimmy McInch another Scot who played about ten times for the first team and settled in South Wales when he was released by us. There was also a kid called George Gibbs I think it was who scored in the Semi Final, but played the Final knowing he’d been given a free transfer.