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The 1970s: 1973-1974 Wembley Return

The series of features/articles covering Manchester City in the 1970s continues with a 1,700 word article on the entire 1973-74 season – a season which included a Wembley final, multiple managerial changes and a controversial Manchester Derby at Old Trafford! You can read this below. This series of articles and features on Manchester City in the 1970s has been running throughout January with indepth articles some days and smaller ‘on this day’ style posts on others. Every day in January will offer something to enjoy.

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The 1980s: Join the Hamper Club

Today’s 1980s flashback is a brief reminder from the Manchester City match programme for this day (29 December) in 1984 when City defeated Wolves 4-0 (yes, another day of beating Wolves at Christmas) at Maine Road.

The goalscorers were Graham Baker, David Phillips, Gordon Smith and Clive Wilson but today’s reminder isn’t really about the game it’s about this programme advert for the MCFC Hamper Club. That’s right City’s Development Association used to have a hamper club whereby you could save all year and receive an hamper full of items you might just need over Christmas, like a tin of ham or real fruit jellies!

Did you join City’s hamper club? My family used to get one from Park Hampers, not City sadly! Now, back to the football…

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Tomorrow’s feature is on the 1985-86 season. If you missed the earlier features then start here:

The 1980s: 1980-1981 Gow, Hutchison & McDonald

The 1980s: Wolves Beaten Again

Following on from yesterday here’s another 1980s Christmas visit to Maine Road by Wolverhampton Wanderers and just like yesterday’s reminder, this game also ended in a Manchester City win. This was one year and one day after yesterday’s match and was played on 28 December 1981. This programme cover is not quite as Christmassy as yesterday’s but the Blues did make an attempt at highlighting the festive season.

The previous season’s FA Cup finalists had signed Trevor Francis at the start of the season and he scored, as did Asa Hartford (on the cover of the programme), to help the Blues to a 2-1 victory.

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The 1980s: City 4 Wolves 0

Here’s a nice Christmassy Manchester City match programme cover from today (27 December) in 1980. This was for City’s game with Wolves. Some of the players look happy others seem to have a fixed stare as if to say ‘do we really need to hold this banner?’

That day City defeated Wolves 4-0 with goals from Tommy Hutchison (2 goals; holding the banner above the ‘a’ in Christmas), Bobby McDonald (3rd player from right) and Kevin Reeves (4th player from right).

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Wolves v MCFC The Story So Far

It’s Wolves v Manchester City today (30 September 2023) and there are dozens of stories referencing Wolves on this website. There have been major finals and significant league games. One of the away games I vividly remember going to came in October 1987 and is a great contrast with City’s modern day records:

Away Run Ends: Wolves v City

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City’s record in these meetings (all competitions): Played 127 Won 54 Drawn 25 Lost 48.

Ferran Torres Coincidence

Today (21 September) is the anniversary of Ferran Torres’ first League game from Manchester City AND the anniversary of his last game for City. Considering he played more than one game this is quite a coincidence. His first League appearance was on 21 September 2020 against Wolves and his last was exactly one year later on 21 September 2021 against Wycombe in the League Cup.

The Wolves game ended in a 3-1 City victory. Highlights here:

https://www.mancity.com/citytv/mens/wolves-v-man-city-extended-highlights-1-63736312

The Wycombe match ended in a 6-1 City win and can be seen here:

https://www.mancity.com/citytv/mens/manchester-city-6-1-wycombe-match-highlights-63767857

Manchester United Fixtures 2023-24

The Premier League fixtures have been released for League Cup winning Manchester United. As always some of these will change due to TV and potential FA Cup clashes etc. Key fixtures to look out for are the Manchester derbies on 28/10 at Old Trafford and 2/3 at the Etihad. Here they are:

14/8/2023 – Wolverhampton Wanderers (H) – 20.00

19/8/2023 – Tottenham Hotspur (A) – 15:00

26/8/2023 – Nottingham Forest (H) – 15:00

SEPTEMBER:

2/9/2023 – Arsenal (A) – 15:00

16/9/2023 – Brighton & Hove Albion (H) – 15:00

23/9/2023 – Burnley (A) – 15:00

30/9/2023 – Crystal Palace – (H) – 15:00

OCTOBER:

7/10/2023 – Brentford (H) – 15:00

21/10/2023 – Sheffield United (A) – 15:00

28/10/2023 – Manchester City (H) – 15:00

NOVEMBER:

4/11/2023 – Fulham (A) – 15:00

11/11/2023 – Luton Town (H) – 15:00

25/11/2023 – Everton (A) – 15:00

DECEMBER:

2/12/2023 – Newcastle United (A) – 15:00

6/12/2023 – Chelsea (H) – 20:00

9/12/2023 – Bournemouth (H) – 15:00

16/12/2023 – Liverpool (A) – 15:00

23/12/2023 – West Ham United (A) – 15:00

26/12/2023 – Aston Villa (H) – 15:00

30/12/2023 – Nottingham Forest (A) – 15:00

JANUARY:

13/1/2024 – Tottenham Hotspur (H) – 15.00

30/1/2024 – Wolverhampton Wanderers (A) – 19.45

FEBRUARY:

3/2/2024 – West Ham United – (H) – 15:00

10/2/2024 – Aston Villa (A) – 15:00

17/2/2024 – Luton Town (A) – 15:00

24/2/2024 – Fulham (H) – 15:00

MARCH:

2/3/2024 – Manchester City (A) – 15:00

9/3/2024 – Everton (H) – 15:00

16/3/2024 – Sheffield United (H) – 15:00

30/3/2024 – Brentford (A) – 15:00

APRIL:

3/4/2024 – Chelsea (A) – 19:45

6/4/2024 – Liverpool (H) – 15:00

13/4/2024 – Bournemouth (A) – 15:00

20/4/2024 – Newcastle United (H) – 15:00

27/4/2024 – Burnley (H) – 15:00

MAY:

4/5/2024 – Crystal Palace (A) – 15:00

11/5/2024 – Arsenal (H) – 15:00

19/5/2024 – Brighton & HA (A) – 16.00

Old Trafford’s Record

On this day in 1939 Old Trafford was packed like never before (or numbers wise since!) when Grimsby faced Wolves in the FA Cup semi final. It was the record crowd for the venue – I’m sure many people would expect United to have attracted the venue’s record crowd but that’s not true.


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gjfootballarchive.com/2021/03/25/old-traffords-record-crowd-wolves-v-grimsby/

Manchester City 4 Wolves 1

On 2 March 2021 Manchester City defeated Wolves 4-1 at the Etihad. The scoring started in the 15th minute with an own goal (netted by Dendoncker). Coady equalised 16 minutes into the second half but goals from Gabriel Jesus (80 & 90+3) and Mahrez (90) gave City the victory. The win extended City’s winning run to 21 games in all competitions.

City were 15 points clear at the top of the Premier League after this game. Afterwards Guardiola told the press: ‘In winter time in England it’s hell and in that time we did something incredible. It’s more than remarkable. The players have all my compliments but Liverpool have the crown. To win the Premier League we need those points.’

Trautmann’s Back

On this day (15 December) back in 1956 was Bert Trautmann’s first League game after his devastating injury in the 1956 FAC final. It was also filmed by the BBC and ended in a 3-2 victory by Wolves.  It wasn’t a great Trautmann performance sadly and the general perception is that he was rushed back too soon. Here’s a match report of the game:

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