For the second time within a month we face one of the two sides I find it impossible to do a seven decades quiz about. When we played Stevenage three weeks or so ago I did a quiz with nine questions where the first letter of the answers gave you the word Stevenage.This time around, I’ve decided to go by the first letters of the word “Borough” which they used to use in their name, but I believe they’ve stopped doing it for the last ten years or more.
As for tomorrow’s game, Stevenage’s results since we beat them 1-0 at their place have suggested that they will not be going away just yet when it comes to the promotion race – they’ve won impressively at Stockport and although a home draw with Burton doesn’t look great, it can be put into some sort of perspective by the Brewers’ 5-1 thrashing of Northampton on Boxing Day when Stevenage played out a goalless draw at AFC Wimbledon.
My prediction for tomorrow is that we’ll see a match that is more Exeter than Leyton Orient or Doncaster and I just hope that we can come up with the sort of moments of quality which got us the three points on Friday and at Stevenage earlier this month.
On to the quiz then, the answers to which will be posted on Tuesday.
B. Nicknamed the Magpies, they were Champions of their league in the season they faced City for the one and only time and may have been filling their ground (current capacity 1.200) at the time. What is the club and for which City player was the game a particularly memorable occasion?
O. Which player whose surname began with the letter O scored almost twice as many goals in a season as our second top scorer for that campaign? Also, can you name the season in which this happened?
R. Another obscure opponent to name. Nicknamed the Cuckoos and wearing the same club colours as the Magpies in the first question, they travelled around thirty miles to play City at Ninian Park? Who are they?
O. Which now defunct ground starting with the letter O did City play at seven times, winning four times, drawing once and losing twice? Ivor Allchurch, Billy Kellock and Andy Kerr were among the players to score for us there.
U. Which player with a surname beginning with the letter U played a total of six games for City with the only win among them coming in his debut against Bury? Also included in the six were 4-1. 5-2 and 3-0 defeats at Bury, Charlton and Wrexham respectively.
G. Fevzi, Ertan and Neilsen were scorers for which team beginning with the letter G in a game against us and who is the only City player to have found the net against this team?
H. This player with a surname beginning with the letter H only made four appearances for us. We scored thirteen times in those matches (eleven of them coming in the three league games he played) and he managed to get sent off in the last of them, who is he?
Answers:
B. City entertained Barmouth and Duffryn FC on 21 January 1970 in the Third Round of the Welsh Cup in front of a crowd of 4,901. John Toshack scored, but it was Brian Clark who. made any headlines the game attracted with his five goals in our 6-1 win.
O. Gordon Owen scored 18 goals in all competitions for City in 1983/84 – Nigel Vaughan with 10 was our second top scorer.
R. Risca United faced City in the Fourth Round of the Welsh Cup on 15 February 1995. We were 4-0 winners with Carl Dale scoring a hat trick and Derek Brazil getting the other goal.
O. The Old Show Ground, Scunthorpe.
U. Scottish full back Jim Upton played six times for City in the autumn of 1963.
G. Goztepe Izmir beat City 3-0 in the First Leg of a European Cup Winners Cup Second Round tie on 12 November 1969. Ronnie Bird scored in the return game a fortnight later, but it was not enough to stop us going out of the competition 3-1 on aggregate.
H. Loan signing from Arsenal James Harper made his City debut in a 6-1 win over Exeter on New Years Day 2001. He also played in a 2-0 FAW Premier Cup win at Merthyr, a 1-1 draw at Southend and a 4-1 win over Plymouth where he became one of three players to be shown a red card.
