The series of features/articles covering Manchester City in the 1970s continues with a brief flashback to a time when industrial action and power cuts led to us all having to look in the local newspaper to see when our electricity would be available. It feels like an alien world today but in February 1971 (and at other times in the years that followed) electricity was provided at certain times of the day in certain areas. This led to games being re-arranged for afternoon kick offs or postponed altogether.
On this day (15 February) Liverpool newspapers carried the story that LFC’s match with Manchester City would be one game played earlier in the day.
These newspaper cuttings give a brief idea of how it all was. If there’s interest I may do a more detailed piece on this later. There’s a famous gave v Coventry a few years later that I remember being at. That day a generator ensured the match went ahead but we also had a bomb scare. We were asked to look under our seats and around us to see if there was a bomb there (seriously!) and play was halted. Mike Summerbee (in my memory but others say it was the referee) picked up the ball and shook it to see if it was a bomb! More of that another day. Here are the cuttings from today in 1971:
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