The Fulham game at Filbert Street was in 1975 . Fulham got to the final that year . In the first replay at BP Fulham equalised with seconds remaining of extra time .
It was a brilliant finale by Burnsy, very appropriate last musical offering “The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum!” Hopefully, not lost on the senior BBC powers that be, doing their utmost to wreck our local radio. Well done that man. Just hope sense prevails regarding RH sports coverage, although sense and BBC not a great fit currently.
I was at the Boothferry Park game. Fulham had Bobby Moore, George Best and I'm sure Rodney Marsh playing for them. Also recall, before Fulham equalised, City kicking towards the North Stand were awarded a penalty very late on in the game for hand ball. The ref pointed to the spot then after speaking to Bobby Moore changed his mind and awarded Fuham a free kick. I think the game I refered to was earlier than this one, and it could have been against Pompey?
Did Hiron score? He always scored against us...He was lanky streak of **** just like Crouch...Not quite as tall, but just as skinny..
Just an aside on the League Cup. Wasn't it created by the Hull chap who was head of the Football League at some time? Alan something or other..Seemed to recall the family had business interests in Hull. Give yourself a point if getting the surname..I can't remember it, without checking.
Indeed it was, Alan Hardaker OBE. Ex-Hull City junior. Lived down Boulevard and was a part of the Hardaker family who owned the removal firm. He was also the secretary of the Football League when England won the World Cup in 1966. A very influentiual character at the time. I tried to launch a campaign to get the council or the civic society, of which I was member at the time, to recognise Alan Hardakers birthplace down the Boulevard with a blue civic plaque, but of course it fell on deaf ears, like the plaque to recognise the site of Boothferry Park, or the plaque to recognise Ebenezor Cobb Morley, but rest assured there is a plaque to someone who wrote a book on beekeeping.
I've read them and he repeated some of them in his book 'Can you kick with both feet'. But those thoughts and comments were made in the 1960's. Hardly relevant today and he probably wouldn't have made them if he was head of the Football League in 2023.
Brian Taylor was good, and a nice bloke also, I played a bit of golf with him after he retired, a very personable guy.
Wasn't it Dave Gibbons while commenting on Blunderside described a City goalkeeper make a save as...... 'he flew through the air like a radish to tip it around the post' Burnsey used it as a guess the next word during a quiz night.
I believe the term he used was like a fast growing radish. I see the goalie in question sometimes. Still comes to City games now and again.,
