Most Memorable Matches at SGL

[jupu]

Yesterday I bought a copy of the the special programme that Nuneaton produced to mark the last game at Manor Park. One of the features was the top 5 most memorable matches played there. It led me to think what would be in the list of most memorable matches played at the Lane.

Some obvious ones that I thought of were:-

58/59 FA Cup games v Millwall, Liverpool and Sheffield United (but I'd be interested to know in what order those who witnessed those games would rank them)

78/79 v Plymouth, Newport and Kettering

75/76 v Oswestry (City won 12-2)

93/94 v Harrow Borough

But I guess like a box of Quality Street everyone has a different favourite.

Any more suggestions to add to the above list? If I get enough ideas I could turn this into a programme feature for next season.

[Deleted]

Accrington!!

[Bstander]

"75/76 v Oswestry (City won 12-2)"

I was chosen to pick man of the match that night by Alan Wills
and picked Barry Williams even though John Inglis scored 6 goals!.

As I handed Barry his £3.00 in a brown envelope he looked rather embarrassed

[dave]

For me it has to be either the Accrington game or the Dr Marten's Cup Semi-Final against Newport. I believe Wes Joyce bagged a few goals in a 4-3 extra time win?

[Deleted]

I've forgotten all my most memorable games.

[gobby cow]

I cant remember who we were playing but it was a cup match, Darren Middleton had scored a fantastic goal. It was pissing down and the game was abandoned with a waterlogged pitch. We lost the replay.

My most memorable away game was Newport County when we beat them 5 -0 I think it was, same season they thrashed us at home. That was the first match I saw City win.

[dave]

oooh oooh oooh I just remembered. The game when we put 5 past Paul Hyde including a Webby hattrick(?). (Think he was still at Dover at the time, but I don't really care what team he was capitulating for that day)

Seeing that racist f*ckwit sat on his a**e when the 5th goal went in was pure bliss.

[Deleted]

Best moment for me inthat game was after Webby had scored, Hyde picked the ball out of the back of the net and was standing holding it looking every inch the t**t he was, and Webby picked up his cap and put it on the ball!! Magic!!
One of my most memorable was also the game against Crawley the day after Ian Cottrills dad had died, and he helped us to an incredible 2-0 victory in a decimated team, it was boys against men, and the boys won hands down! Very emotional.
Most memorable away game was either Aldershot in the Cup, or Welling in the season when they lost just 3 games, and two of them were to City!
Least memorable game (which obviously it isn't cos I remember it well!) - Mangotsfield!

[boag]

Agree with the 3 games Dave mentioned.

The Accrington game would have been even better if Sam Wedgbury's goal had stood.

[DazaB]

dave said:

oooh oooh oooh I just remembered. The game when we put 5 past Paul Hyde including a Webby hattrick(?). (Think he was still at Dover at the time, but I don't really care what team he was capitulating for that day)

Seeing that racist f*ckwit sat on his a**e when the 5th goal went in was pure bliss.

F*king brilliant game, and it came just a couple of weeks after we stuck 4 past Acton

[cityslicker01]

my most memorable game was the fa trophy 1st round win over aldershot at the lane, the same season that the shots ran away with the conference south title but with players like adam wilde and adam webster in full in full swing we matched then pound for pound and wilde also scored for me one of our goals of the season cutting in from the left and placing a shot past nikki bull right into the bottom corner thats just one of several great moments down the lane.

[Mark]

For me it's v Plymouth Argyle in third place, second Aldershot but first is Accrington.

[cityslicker01]

gotta mention the new years day game against kettering last year, driving rain a water logged pitch that cut up like paper and a 2 - 0 win that sent almost 300 rather noisey kettering fans home very subdued, city were brillliant that day still able to knock the ball around in atrocious conditions and totally out played one of the best sides in the league at the time

[niels]

gobbycow said:

I cant remember who we were playing but it was a cup match, Darren Middleton had scored a fantastic goal. It was pissing down and the game was abandoned with a waterlogged pitch. We lost the replay.

Almost certainly Sutton Coldfield in the WSC final 2nd leg. Mark Owen scored the goal.

[niels]

Most memorable game at the Lane. Newport in a Cup replay. Close on 11,000 there and City were 1-0 up until we gave them a goal, literally, at the death. Ended 2-1 to Newport, who were a league side at the time, after extra time.

Away. Macclesfield also in the FA Cup. The wall in front of me collapsed with many people spilling onto the pitch, Macclesfield's captain was sent off for standing on our keepers head after missing a penalty, we won 5-1 (I think) and to cap it all one coach driver was attacked and the coach I was on was bricked. Cold going down the M5 in December with a hole just behind my head, but at least I had my coat unlike many others.

[Croc]

dave said:

the Dr Marten's Cup Semi-Final against Newport. I believe Wes Joyce bagged a few goals in a 4-3 extra time win?

yep - pissed down in extra time - and we both were probably the only two who went behind the Canal goal for the 2nd bout of extras whilst everyone else took shelter in the shed

[ctod1959]

First season of the Trophy 69/70 - we got to the QF and lost at home to Telford 1-3 c8000 crowd.

Coventry away (when we took the lead) 83

Plymouth & Newport in the Cup run.

Kettering when we clinched SL - that's my No 1

[Deleted]

"Kettering when we clinched SL - that's my No 1"

Yes, a great night.

[dorothy]

For me it's the Huddersfield cup game. Great atmoshere and the ground as it should be, full. Wrong result and then hearing the cup draw after the game. If only........

[suv]

Taking the lead at Coventry FA Cup 1983.
Macclesfield away 5-1 win also FA Cup? -Tuohy scored hattrick.
A shed night late seventies/early eighties verses Bath possibly a replay, huge attendance maybe 5,000 but announced as 1,800!!!!!!

Anyone add any info regarding my first away game with City, Hereford at Edgar St, 17/05/1979 Hereford senior cup?

[Tim Munslow]

Anyone remember the Southern League Cup game v Weymouth when we were 4-0 down at half-time but played out of our skins in the 2nd half and levelled it @ 4-4 (and missed a penalty into the bargain). I seem to remember we went away and won the replay.

I can remember all those listed above; Liverpool just has to be the best. My mother stands 5ft nothing and couldn't see a thing; I had to give her a running commentary throughout the game. I can still see Tommy Skuse putting the first goal in the back of the net if I shut my eyes. What a day; we even made the 9 o'clock news on BBC. I can still remember reading Hugh McIlvenny's great write-up in the Observer the next day.

[armchair]

I remember Frickley Athletic at SGL 16/04/83 - being 0-4 down with 10 minutes to go and getting a draw and beating Kettering 6-2 in the pouring rain in Feb of the same year.

[tim]

Most of the above will always stick in the mind, I also remember the delayed 6-2 win over a desperate (and desperately late) Gravesend side in Phil Lines's first game in charge, the 4-1 win over Burton when Cotty scored an absolute screamer that would have been Goal of the Season had the BBC been at the game, and for away games, the 8-1 win at Melksham having been a goal down, and a 4-2 FA Cup defeat at Tiverton where the reception we got from the home fans was nothing short of amazing.

[armchair]

Aldershot in FA Cup replay 83 and getting home to hear the result on News at 10

[Deleted]

tim said:

Most of the above will always stick in the mind, I also remember the delayed 6-2 win over a desperate (and desperately late) Gravesend side in Phil Lines's first game in charge, the 4-1 win over Burton when Cotty scored an absolute screamer that would have been Goal of the Season had the BBC been at the game, and for away games, the 8-1 win at Melksham having been a goal down, and a 4-2 FA Cup defeat at Tiverton where the reception we got from the home fans was nothing short of amazing.

Ah the 4-1 over Burton - 10/09/1990 that was, i know that because I spent the whole evening from about 4.00pm through till 8.00am the next morning watching my wife going through the last throes of labour! A painful and exhausting procedure! - missed the game of course! Looking back I had time to go down to the game, have a meal at the Anarkali, get home for a few hours sleep, and still be back at the hospital for the arrival Wasn't that Joe Jacksons last game before heading down to Yeovil?

[Deleted]

Wrexham in the Cup. I got in with about 10 minutes left, met a mate who told me we were 1-0 down but had just won a free kick. Two free kicks later we were 2-1 up!!!

[StopfordianWCFC]

tim said:

Most of the above will always stick in the mind, I also remember the delayed 6-2 win over a desperate (and desperately late) Gravesend side in Phil Lines's first game in charge, the 4-1 win over Burton when Cotty scored an absolute screamer that would have been Goal of the Season had the BBC been at the game, and for away games, the 8-1 win at Melksham having been a goal down, and a 4-2 FA Cup defeat at Tiverton where the reception we got from the home fans was nothing short of amazing.

That 4-1 was just fantastic - the first half being the best display I have probably ever seen from City. John Purdie was just brilliant and then Cotty enlivening a drab second half with the best goal i've ever seen at SGL.

The one that really sticks in the memory (or does it) was a cup tie in my youth against Sutton Utd (I think). City were 2-1 down with seconds left, then scored with the last kick of the game and went on to win 5-2, with Jimmy Cumbes also saving a pen. A marvellous match.

Connection: both under floodlights - it just has to be under lights!!!!

[tim]

No game will ever beat the two ties against Harrow Borough in January 1994 though.

3-1 down with 5 mins to go at their place only to come back for a 3-3, then 2-0 down at half time at the Lane, enter Roy Green. Magical stuff!

[cityslicker01]

anyone remember the 8-0 mauling of folkstone back in i think 1986 at the lane, anyone one with any further info on that game please drop me an email things like goal scorers etc would be hugely greatful. thanks..

[ac]

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