Last night’s Champions League victory over Sparta Prague was not the first time the Czech side travelled to Manchester to face the Blues. Back on 11 December 1967 Sparta were at Maine Road ready to face City but the game was called off that evening as fans queued to enter the ground. The pitch had been frozen earlier but as the ground thawed it became waterlogged.
That night Sparta invited City to a friendly in Prague but that game never occurred either.
Of course the 1967-68 season ended with City as League champions.
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