Just how good was Cheesley here???

Its like Zebedee leaping around.

 

When you see the highlights we were all over them for most of the game and only losing 0-1 flattered them.

A group of players who worked their socks off for each other.

Oh for something similar now to cheer us up !

 

feels like yesterday, like sardines on the clock end and a massive ruck kicking off next to us second half.

 

Proper football,played with passion for the badge and club.A little bit different from today's mob.

 

Fantastic!
I was just getting into football at that time but sadly neither of my parents liked it so I never went.

Look at that lovely sunshine too - 1976 was certainly a good year!

 

Cheesley was formidable, frightening and the height he gets to was awe-inspiring. David O'Leay was a class act. Made to look ordinary

 

Just how good are the ball boys here???

 

The best team in the history of Bristol City.
Cheesley took a season to materialise at AG, having been signed from Norwich as I remember (80K wasn't it ?)
Then he took his place alongside the live wire Ritchie, and the whole thing suddenly clicked into place.

Cheese was mentioned as a future England centre forward, and his performance at Highbury confirmed it. In those days we had the potential for an England forward and Scottish internationals in Ritchie and Gow. Nobody would have guessed in that home game against Stoke that Cheesley's career was over. How unkind can life be sometimes !
But AD picked us all back up and kept us in the big time for 4 years, having turned us from a third Division club (in all but name) into a team that could hold its own among superstars
THAT is the kind of manager this club needs.
Find another AD SL, and let him do it his way...

 

Spot on RR.

I often wonder how things may have panned out if Cheesley hadn't broken his leg??

 

At the end, AD had been in post 13 years after being assistant manager with Jimmy Hill at Coventry. There is no way, these days, that that could happen at a club such as ours. In the early days things were just as ****e as they are now, so why not give LJ a chance? Just saying!


I've got a DVD of the Arsenal match which was produced from ITVs coverage of the game. City released it some years ago and I still watch it from time to time.

 

Englands no 9 without doubt.

 

Gow & Ritchie both played for Scotland U21's or maybe U23's against England at St James Park Newcastle.

I remember as a kid I begged my Mum to let me stay up and watch the highlights in the days before video recorders and such like. She let me stay up (it was mega late) and the game finished 0-0 and neither of them played a full game !

 

I remember Gow's back heel to an overlapping Ritchie that went behind him. Far as I can remember that was the only touch either player got (or didn't).
It is a shame, because Gow in particular should have got himself 50 caps. He was that good (but then Billy Bremner was pretty good too)

 

You've got a better memory than I have then Rickster !

For me Gerry Gow was twice the player Bremner ever was, but the latter played in a very high profile (and dirty!) team and won a fair few honours, and with it international recognition.

It was a case of wrong place at the wrong time for poor old Gerry I guess.

A bit like the scenario when England Managers picked Clemence and Shilton for alternate games. For me Shilts was head and shoulders above anyone else and should have easily won 150 caps for his country. I never understood it and I still don't.

 

SPOT ON

 

Yeah, but he was the bastard that took out Cheese!! Never forgave him for that!!!

 

Yes was there when it happened

 

i was with peter shilton in October last,lovely bloke

 

Great keeper, but will still never forgive him. Not that I bear a grudge or anything