Tigers' history

Sorry I took so long to get back, my old clippings are a little mixed up.
Sadly I didn't have anything for the Plymouth game, though I did find one for an Ipswich game that was irritatingly a few weeks after

15th April 1968

 

Bloody hell Malcolm, a rarity for Waggy scoring with his crust - for his 100th too. Bet he was teased about it by the rest of the lads at the time.
Ipswich always seemed to be a bogey side to us in those years. In 66 when we were on a roll in Division 2, they beat us 5-4 at Portman Rd and knocked us of the rails and we lost 4 or 5 straight after that.
May have been different had Cliff Britton realized that conceding more goal than we scored that day away from home needed a strengthening of the defense in front of your dad. We may not have had to wait 104 years to reach the Holy Grail !!

 

Sorry chum, it was Ken Houghton who headed home his 100th...
True but in fairness my Dad loved to charge out, great if you get to the ball first but sadly he was left floundering more than once as the ball was lobed over him.
In this case, nodded delicately over his head ...

 

..oops..misread the article, or forgot what I read. Not a good sign.

 

I was at Portman Road that day and if I remember right it was the old codger Ray Crawford who did the damage, past his prime then maybe but he played havoc with the City defence. Much like another old codger who terrorised City at Wolverhampton, one Derek Dougan.

 

Today ( Sept 17th) marks the 111th Anniversary of City's first competition game played against Stockton in an FA Cup Preliminary Round fixture. The match was drawn 3-3. A second match resulted in a 4-1 loss. Tie lost on 4-7 aggregate.

Almost 26 years later in 1930 City reached their first FA Cup semi-final. Played against Arsenal in Leeds it was 2-2 (after leading 2-0 and conceding a last minute equaliser). Replay was lost 1-0.

Almost 110 years after that first competition match came our first FA Cup Final.

 

I have been contacted today by someone who went to watch City in 1944.

 

I don't suppose there were any League Tables during WW2 as it was very restricted. Didn't realize City played during the war years - it must have been one of the few games they played. Any more details ?

 

Not as yet. He could not remember what teams were playing, but he went to the Boulevard to watch and was aged 12. I am hoping to get some details on Saturday.

 

This period is covered by Craig in Post No 500. Around 25 matches were played in season 44/45. My cousin who came to live in Sydney went to one of the 1944 matches. He did tell me who City played but my memory is a blank!

 

Thanks Mr B_M_B - post #500 answers my earlier question.
Must get a copy of the book Craig mentions on my next trip back home.

 

I definitely recommend it TC. It has everything in detail from 1904 to 2004 and a fair bit about the minor teams and people involved in the evolution of football in the city culminating in the formation of the club.
To anyone interested, the book is called A Century Of City by Mike Peterson.

 

Also a plug for the book " A Century of HULL" by David Gerrard. Over 100 pictorial pages of events,people and places over the 20th century. A must for every bookshelf !

 

The Old Dear had let herself go a little bit by the early 90s, n'est-ce pas?

 

Never thought of it before but I suppose the stands were corrugated sheeting or was any of it asbestos?

 

Just very rusty corrugated sheeting. When the ball went up there everyone in the West stand beneath were showered in rusty flakes.

 

Well there did used be quite a bit of pigeon ****. Didn't we employ falcons to get rid?