Barring an unwanted Play Off game against one of two sides
still in with a chance of finishing in the top six, this will be the last of
quizzes where I’ve been unable to set seven questions in the normal format for
a club.
With Burton and Stevenage I used their second names so to
speak to set questions for the return matches, but, this time, I don’t fancy
basing the quiz on the word Wanderers because there’s two letters in there
which I’d have to set two questions for, so I’m going to use another nine
letter word – their nickname, Chairboys.
Ten days ago, Wycombe were looking strong contenders to come
through and take a Play Off spot, especially when they were then leading 2-0 at
Bolton in the eighty eighth minute. That was the point when it all started to
go wrong for Michael Duff’s team, they ended up losing 3-2 and on Saturday,
they became the side that allowed Luton to end their long run without an away
won by conceding two identical goals from corners as they ended up with a rare
home defeat which leaves them in ninth place still only three points away from
the top six, but their Bolton experience must have been a traumatic, possibly
season defining, one.
Wycombe’s recent defensive woes do not disguise the fact
that they still possess one of the division’s better goals against records and
only seven away defeats from eighteen games is a stat you’d associate with a
top six side,. However, with only three of them having been won, you then get a
big clue as to why they’ve struggled to repeat last season’s performance where
they made it a three way fight with Birmingham and Wrexham for the two
automatic promotion places before fading somewhat late in the season to leave
themselves in the Play Offs.
Wycombe’s low number of away defeats suggests tonight won’t
be as straightforward as some are saying it will be and I wouldn’t rule out a
draw, but, although I’m not that bothered about winning the title, it is
definitely a game we need to be winning if we are to have a chance of
overhauling Lincoln.
I’ll post the answers to the quiz on here tomorrow morning.
C. This former City player made his senior debut in his one
and only appearance for the club, in 1959, which bore the name of the city of
his birth. Later in his career a club he eventually signed for was charged with
making an illegal approach for him and when he did eventually sign for them,
the manager of the selling club said he was “an over-aggressive and slow
midfielder who couldn’t keep his mouth shut”. His time at City was relatively
brief, but could be called a success because the object of the exercise when he
signed was achieved, can you name the player being described?
H. Signed on loan from a team we encountered fairly
recently, he played just the one match for us (which was lost) during a
promotion season in what became something of a problem position during the
campaign. He also played a couple of matches for another Welsh club that was,
coincidentally, the team he played against in his single appearance for us, who
is he?
A. Capped thirty nine (the same number of league appearances
he made for City) times for Wales, he made his debut for them in Riyadh, name
him.
I. His two international goals were scored in Berrechid and
Fez, he scored three times for us during his brief stay, do you know who he is?
R. China Crisis meet two Beatles Doctors perhaps!
B. Bored on nut diet possibly? (4,6)
O. A tough one this, as I didn’t recognise the name before I
came across it this morning. He was a midfield player from North Wales whose
sole appearance for the club came in a game which was won 3-2 by City at Ninian
Park in front of a crowd of 832 – our scorers were Nugent, O’Sullivan and
Middleton. Apparently, he was highly rated by the club, but a broken leg
shortly after his debut scuppered his career almost before it had started. Do
you know who I’m describing?
Y. According to Wikipedia, there are three players with a
surname beginning with a Y who’ve made first team appearances for us, can you
name them and as a bonus point, can you say who the son of one of them was who
played for us at under 21 level?
S. A defender won four caps for Wales, playing against the three home Nations and Norway and had two spells with City, scoring against Exeter, Newport and Huddersfield. Name him.
Answers:
C. Willie Carlin played once for Liverpool before going on to have a long career mostly spent at clubs that were challenging for promotion from the old Second Division. While he was at Carlisle, Carlin was the subject of an illegal approach to sign him by Brian Clough who was manager of Derby at the time. After Carlin moved on to Sheffield United, Clough eventually got his man to leave Blades manager telling the press he’d “got one over” on Clough because he’d signed someone who was, essentially, slow and stroppy! Carlin joined City half way through the 73/74 season tasked with helping to keep the club in the second tier, something which was, just about, achieved in the “Villars match” which sent Crystal Palace, rather than us, down. That was the last game of Carlin’s career as he called it a day after that at the age of 33.
H. Steve Humphries made one appearance, in a 2-1 home defeat by Wrexham on the opening day of the 82/83 season, while on loan from Doncaster. He was the first of five goalkeepers used during that season which ended with us finishing second in the old Third Division.
A. Mark Aizelwood.
I. Uche Ikpeazu scored twice in six appearances for Uganda, he scored three times for us after signing on loan during the January transfer window in 2022.
R. Christian Roberts – Christian was a single released in 1983 by China Crisis and the Beatles track Doctor Robert is supposedly about a medical man who provided drugs to some of the best known British bands of the mid sixties.
B. Deon Burton.
O. Bangor born Phillip Owen’s sole appearance for City came in an FAW Premier Cup game with Rhyl on 10 February 1999.
Y. Scott Young, Eddie Youds and Josh Yorwerth. Scott Young’s son, Connor was also on the club’s books as a youngster.
S. Nigel Stevenson.
