Having had to admit defeat iu my attempt to do a Burton seven decades quiz, I’m not even going to try and do something for our next opponents. It’s going to be a similar format to the one I did for Burton, this time with nine questions, the answers to which spell Stevenage. I say that mind, let’s see how I go – I may have abandon it at Stevena!
Here we go then, the answers will be posted on Wednesday.
S. We’ve only played this team once and never at home, the City side which faced them was Davies, Carver, Ferguson, Williams, Murray, Hole, Farrell, Johnston, Coldrick, Harkin King and the crowd was just over 14,000 – who were we playing?
T. Which team did James Collins score his first two goals in senior football against?
E. Can you name this former City player from these four clubs that he also played for during his career – Formby, Wolves, Bolton and Swindon?
N.B. He played for more than five teams.
V. Initially Mastiffs crave bone. (10)
E. Our last victory in a competitive game on this ground was almost forty years ago, it was by 1-0 in front of a crowd of 2,332 – name the venue.
N. They play in yellow shirts with a black diagonal band on the front of them and black shorts and their ground has a capacity of 20,500. They are managed by a former Belgian international defender, who, among others, played for Stoke, West Brom and a team called Manchester 62 based in Gibraltar. This team aren’t Belgian and have faced City twice, drawing at home and being comfortably beaten at Ninian Park, name the team.
A. I’m happy to be corrected on this, but I make it we’ve played three teams with the prefix AFC in competitIve matches, name them.
G. Our last two competitive games with this team produced a total of fifteen goals with ten of them being conceded by us, name our opponents and when the games took place.
E. Which team did we play in a Cup tie which we won after a replay only for it then to be discovered we’d fielded an ineligible player? We were thrown out of the competition, but, on an appeal, were then reinstated by the Governing body in a move which went against precedent and the tie replay was ordered to be replayed! We eventually won the second replay which was played three months to the day after the teams had first met!
Answers:
S. City were beaten 2-0 at Haig Avenue Southport in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup on 12 February 1966.
T. James Collins scored in both first game and the replay of a First Round FA Cup tie with Tranmere in 02/03. The first game at Prenton Park was drawn 2-2 and we won the replay 2-1. -apologies, it was pointed out to me later that he scored an earlier goal on. his debut against Colchester.
E. Tony Evans started his career with Formby and later on played for Wolves, Bolton (on loan) and Swindon. Besides us, he also played for Blackpool and Birmingham.
V. (Graham) Vearncombe.
E. Kevin Bartlett’s goal was enough to give us victory at Edgeley Park, Stockport on 2 October 1987 – it was the last time we won there, albeit we’ve only played there five times in competitive matches since then.
N. Dutch side NAC Breda are currently managed by former Stoke and West Brom full back Carl Hoefkens and were beaten 5-2 on aggregate (1-1 away, 4-1 at home) by City in a Second Round European Cup Winners Cup tie in 1967/68.
A. AFC Bournemouth, AFC Wimbledon and in 1989 and 1991 we played AFC Newport in the Welsh Cup at Ninian Park, winning the first game 1-0 and the second one 3-0.
G. In 84/85, Grimsby Town beat us 4-2 at Ninian Park and 6-3 at Blundell Park in what was then Division 2.
E. We were drawn against Ebbw Vale in the Third Round of the Welsh Cup in 94/95 and on 7 November, drew 1-1 with them in a match Vale had decided to switch to Ninian Park. Fifteen days later, we won 2-0 in the replay only for it subsequently to emerge that when we had resigned Paul Ramsey from St. Johnstone, we had registered the transfer with FA, but not the FAW. Surprisingly, when we appealed against being thrown out of the tournament, the Welsh FA relented and restored us while ordering that the replay be replayed. Therefore, on 7 February 1995, some three months after the tie had begun, we beat Vale 7-0 to progress on our way to a Final where we were beaten by Wrexham..
