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The 1960s: FA Cup Draw

On this day (11 January) in 1961 a Maine Road crowd of 39035 watched Les McDowall’s Manchester City play out a goalless draw with Cardiff City in a FA Cup 3rd round replay. The original fixture had ended 1-1. These were the days when drawn FA Cup games would go to a replay and another (and another and another etc.) if necessary.

The draw meant the replay would be played at a neutral venue and Arsenal’s Highbury ground was selected to stage the replay on 16 January. If you’d like to know how that ended (and the rest of that season) have a look at the following subscriber content. If you’d like to read this 1200 word article, plus all other articles on the site, then please subscribe (see below).

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The 1960s: 1965-1966 A New Beginning

Continuing the series of features on the 1960s, here’s a subscriber article on Manchester City during the 1965-66 season. This was an important season in City’s development. If you’d like to read this 4100 word article, plus all other articles on the site, then please subscribe (see below). As with most of the other features in this series it includes words from interviews I have performed with those who were there.

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The 1960s: 1964-1965 A Possible Merger

Continuing the series of features on the 1960s, here’s a subscriber article on Manchester City during the 1964-65 season. This was a remarkable season when a City director held meetings, hoping to merge City and United! Plus much more. If you’d like to read this 2350 word article, plus all other articles on the site, then please subscribe (see below). As with most of the other features in this series it includes words from interviews I have performed with those who were there.

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The 1960s: 1963-1964 Poyser Appointment

Continuing the series of features on the 1960s, here’s a subscriber article on Manchester City during the 1963-64 season. If you’d like to read this 1700 word article, plus all other articles on the site, then please subscribe (see below). As with most of the other features in this series it includes words from interviews I have performed with those who were there.

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The 1960s: 1962-1963 Paying The Penalty

Continuing the series of features on the 1960s, here’s a subscriber article on Manchester City during the 1962-63 season. If you’d like to read this 1900 word article, plus all other articles on the site, then please subscribe (see below). As with most of the other features in this series it includes words from interviews I have performed with those who were there.

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The 1960s: 1961-1962 Pardoe’s Debut

Continuing the series of features on the 1960s, here’s a subscriber article on Manchester City during the 1961-62 season. If you’d like to read this 1600 word article, plus all other articles on the site, then please subscribe (see below). As with most of the other features in this series it includes words from interviews I have performed with those who were there.

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The 1960s: 1960-1961 More Arrivals 

Continuing the series of features on the 1960s, here’s a subscriber article on Manchester City during the 1960-61 season. If you’d like to read this 1200 word article, plus all other articles on the site, then please subscribe (see below).

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Colin Bell Tribute

Four years ago today (5 January 2021) the great Colin Bell MBE died. I did an interview for the Blue Moon Podcast the day after Colin passed away. It was an emotional morning of course. The guys at the podcast have made the entire interview free to listen to here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/gary-james-pays-45924408

There are plenty of articles about Colin on my website. Follow the link below to see those tagged ‘Colin Bell’:

https://gjfootballarchive.com/tag/colin-bell/

The 1960s: 1959-1960 The Law Man

A new series of features on the 1960s starts with this subscriber article on Manchester City during the 1959-60 season. If you’d like to read this 1200 word article, plus all other articles on the site, then please subscribe (see below).

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Starting Tomorrow: The 1960s

A new series of features on the 1960s starts tomorrow. It will focus predominantly on Manchester City during that decade. There will be a mixture of free articles and subscriber features. If you’d like to read everything then please subscribe (see below).

The series starts tomorrow with a 1200 word article on the 1959-60 season.

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