Reply With QuoteSign of the times - judging by the opening commentary Spurs put out their strongest XI that day.
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city v spurs 1977
BBC Match Of The Day
— TV Football 1968-92 (@1968Tv) January 4, 2024
January 1977
FA Cup 3rd Round
Cardiff City 1-0 Tottenham
Commentator Alan Weeks#CityAsOne #Cardiff #THFC #FACup pic.twitter.com/A0dFMuhVRq
Sign of the times - judging by the opening commentary Spurs put out their strongest XI that day.
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.
Before i was born, but nice kit, and good to see we weren't afraid of throwing youngsters into a big game back then.
Lovely kit
Wonder why we've ditched yellow in recent years
I definitely had that feeling.Originally Posted by tpcnw
There's footage of McKenzie's goal in the Everton game somewhere, but I don't recall ever seeing the other goals.
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.
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 !
That was our first team.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.
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.
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.
This would have been my introduction to heavy duty football violence, I went over to Cae Glas shops in the morning and the fella who ran Garrods at the time advised me to keep aware, being 16 just laughed it off, I wasn't laughing in the Central bus station when the Spurs emptied into the station, I was a bit quicker then and thus avoided a right shoeing, an eventful day on and off the pitch but a great win when the cup mattered. In the grange end, in line with Sayer seemed surreal with mental celebrations
Gloucester City away fa Cup
Night Of The Living Dead
Weve been knocked out a few times by lower league opposition, but when was the last time we beat a Premier league team in the Cup?
Newcastle, 2014.
Weymouth 83 was a bad memory for me a window cleaner scored a hat trick to beat us but we did go on to get promotion that year so perhaps the old saying of concentrating on the league worked out for us that year.
Hi theotherbobwilson…
Why was Duncan McKenzie’s goal controversial?
From my memory, throughout the game he was getting the usual non-stop abuse from our fans, that the opposition best player always used to get.
I was in the Grange end that day and I remember the ball arriving at him with his back to goal. He “turned on a sixpence”, but it took as long as an oil tanker would take to turn. All the while, all the players seemed bamboozled by his amazing ability to turn and no one made an effort to tackle him.
After he scored, he went to celebrate, but stopped in his tracks and turned back to face the Grange end and began to raise his hand. I thought he was going to stick his fingers up, maybe he was, but then thought better of it, and he actually gave a little wave to the crowd.
It was a long time ago and I must have been about 14ish at the time, but that is how I remember McKenzie’s goal.
Leeds at home, my earliest FA Cup City memory. On the Bob Bank I was more or less in line with Billy Bremner as he let fly with the winner for them twats (I didn’t refer to them as twats in those days though). 4th January 1963, can still picture the little ginger git hitting it and his double fisted celebration
Earliest non City FA Cup memory is Burnley’s Adam Blacklaw, stranded, going the wrong way from Danny Blanchflower’s pelanty in the ‘62 Final.
Was Southport away, an FA CUP game ??
Great day out anyway
Only to lose at home to Wigan
Believe the last time we knocked out a higher division side was Middlesbrough when we reached the final and that was the first team since beating Leeds
I was on the Bob Bank and, as I remember it, McKenzie and Albert Larmour chased a long ball which the latter looked to be in charge until he went down and McKenzie was left with a one one with Ron Healey. It seemed to me to be the sort of challenge which would usually be seen as a foul, but nothing was given and, although I may be wrong, I don’t remember the players arguing too much about it with the officials, although the crowd definitely thought a goal shouldn’t have been given.
I can remember reading an interview with McKenzie a few years ago in which he said although it looked like a foul, it wasn’t one + I think he said Larmour kicked his foot and that’s why he fell over.
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