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That the Saturday when there were no Premier League games, no Championship games and no BBC afternoon football programme?

I think what Robson said was that he wanted to see how he did against his defence (Beatie & Hunter?) to see if he was worth the money. Remember the old scoreboard on the Kop showing "Ferguson 4 Ipswich 1" during the game.

Ticket sales for Saturday are going fairly well. You have to assume that in the event of us making the play-offs, the home leg would sell out. The question is, how many would we be able to sell? Would the SAG still insist on keeping blocks 11, 12 and 13 closed?

Sales don't look bad for the Monday before a game, but no idea how many Stoke are bringing.

A friend of mine was a youngster on City's books in the 60's. He said that the day he knew he wouldn't make it was when a scrawny little red haired kid turned up at training and ran rings round everyone.

Plus Willie Carr, Quinton Young, Gary Gillespie and I'm sure others that I've missed. Not sure that O'Rourke was Scottish though - always thought he was English?

You're both right really. Derby was the first Sunday game, but it was FA Cup. Blues was the first Sunday league game,

God, it was cold that night - and we were only in September (I think)

I remember that one as Get into ‘em - Fuck the ball

21k would be disappointing for tomorrow, but a few years ago if you'd said you'd be disappointed by "only 21k" against unfashionable opponents, you'd have been locked up for your own safety!

We all agree Coventry City are magic or its close relation We all agree Ian Wallace is magic or depending on who we were playing, something like We all agree Nottingham Forest are tragic

Didn't we sign Noel Whelan pretty soon afterwards?

Interesting. They were certainly blanked out when I was looking this morning, but they're back now.

It was difficult to tell if they were any good or not in the first half hour, as they hardly had a kick of the ball!

Think the Ipswich game was called off due to floodlight failure. I remember the programme for the next home game had a jokey article that said that Colin Stein's header, that gave us the lead, had been so powerful it had drilled into the ground and gone through the power cable! Worrying that I...

It was reported a few days after the match that we'd been very close to signing a certain Chris Coleman (wonder what happened to him?) but that after conceding 5 to us Blackburn came in with a late bid for him and he went there instead.

The forecast says that despite being cold, it'll be sunny on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Maybe that will inspire a few more to head to the CBS????

I remember watching us play Forest at the City Ground. We were all standing behind the goal and lots of stewards came round telling us to sit. I pointed out that the home fans in the stand to our left were all standing and no one was telling them to sit, but as you might imagine, that was not...

I remember both. We were getting stuffed in the Sheffield Utd game until it was abandoned. IIRC it was replayed after Noel Cantwell had been sacked and Bob Dennison was in temporary charge. You're right that we won, but I thought it was 3-2?

If our SAG has carried out proper research that shows that they have a better way of crowd management than (pretty much) every other club in the country, then I’m sure we’d all be interested to see it. Presumably, all those other clubs that don’t currently see a need to keep massive empty...