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TRUE BLUE STORIES

WHY I LOVE CITY

Tom Sweetman

Corrigan
Book
Pardoe
Doyle
Booth
Oakes
Summerbee
Bell
Lee
Young
Bowyer
City 4 United 0
United 1 City 4
City vs. United League Cup semis: 2-1 and 2-2
City 2 Gornick 0 (agg 2-2) - play-off 3-1

Heady days, all out attack, the best forward line ever. 54,000 crowds and magical dark smoke-filled klaxon nights of european adventure.

City 3 Athletico Bilbao 0

And the mighty night against Schalke with the 5-1 dream win and the greatest noise ever heard in that stadium. Coming back from 1-3 down to win 4-3 against Wolves in the League Cup with 3 goals in 7 minutes. Crying tears as United knocked us out of the Cup in 1970 at O.T.

And through it all my dad smiling and knowing that he had the happiest eleven year old in the world...

It was the best of times.