The series of features/articles covering Manchester City in the 1970s continues with this brief reminder of a day when icy conditions brought chaos to many grounds. City managed to get their game against QPR on and it was played on this day (11 February) in 1978. City still had ambitions to catch League leaders Liverpool. There’s a report of the game and post match League table below but the highlights were that Corrigan made some significant saves; Bell scored his first goal since his return on Boxing Day and Mike Channon scored the other in a 2-1 City victory.
Here’s the report:
Here are the top two divisions’ results and positions post match. Note some of those clubs in the second tier.
The following 3,700 word article is on the 1977-78 season and is available to subscribers below. Enjoy!
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