Odds & sods

[Oldsmobile-88]

Alan Banks testimonial was a couple of years after he left the club.
Iirc there was a decent crowd at SJP for it(over 3,000)

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

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Finished 1-1. att: 3546.
Frank Worthington for Leicester, Graham Parker scoring for the Grecians.

 

[iscalad]

Alan Banks testimonial was a couple of years after he left the club.
Iirc there was a decent crowd at SJP for it(over 3,000)

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Fairly good team there

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Fairly good team there

I remember going to the game..Memorably my cousin who was 14 got lead out of the Cowshed Choir by a copper for a misdemeanour, then left to cool his heels with a few others in the Black Maria Police van that was always parked in St James Rd in those days.
He was let out at the end of the game..

 

[haka]

I went to that Leicester game, and got a few autographs from "big names" (!). It seemed even more exciting because City went through a few seasons in the early 1970s with no Cup draws (at home) against top sides.

There was a testimonial against Coventry too, around the same time.

 

[Grecian 1901]

From the wonderful Grecian Archive.

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It now has well in excess of 2000 match reports uploaded in a variety of formats much of the early reports are from Alex Wilson’s unpublished work. There are also over 3000 programmes digitised. We are currently adding film/pictures of games and players to matches and their A to Z.

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

2nd March 1968.

 

[Greyhound]

That season was a struggle, although the signing of John Newman and Alan Banks did lift the spirits. The mass clearout in 1967 hadn't done much good.

 

[Greyhound]

Three of that Argiggle side ended up at SJP, an indication of how often we used to sign players from them in those days. An Argyle-supporting cousin of mine from West Devon reckoned that City's team were "Argyle's throw-outs", which I indignantly denied!

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

8/10/79 to 13/10/79.