Some great pics of some great times! please log in to view this image Football League Division Two 1968 Bristol City v Birmingham City Mike Gibson please log in to view this image Ernie Hunt 1974 please log in to view this image Chris Garland 1968 please log in to view this image Brian Drysdale in the locker room at Ashton Gate after the cancellation of the match against Tottenham Hotspur after a power cut. 1970 please log in to view this image A D 1974 please log in to view this image City v Leeds 1974 please log in to view this image Keith Fear lobs the ball over the head of Leeds goalkeeper David Harvey 74 please log in to view this image Don Gillies defies the challenge of Norman Hunter and knocks mighty Leeds out of the FA Cup with a 73rd minute goal in the fifth round replay at Elland Road, please log in to view this image goalscorer Don Gillies is congratulated by coach John Sillett after second division City beat First Division Leeds 1-0 in the FA Cup fifth round replay at Elland Road. please log in to view this image Bristol City Team Photocall 1975 Bristol City football club, back row, from left: Keith Fear, Joe Durrell, Len Bond, Ray Cashley, John Shaw, Mike Brolly, and Clive Whitehead. Middle row, from left: Ken Wimshurst (coach), John Emanuel, Donnie Gillies, David Rodgers, Gary Collier, Tom Ritchie, Paul Cheesley and Les Bardsley (physiotherapist). Front row, from left: Trevor Tainton, Brian Drysdale, Geoff Merrick, Alan Dicks (manager) Gerry Gow, Gerry Sweeney, and Jimmy Mann.
please log in to view this image Bristol City player/manager Joe Jordan apologises to floored Nottingham Forest keeper Steve Sutton after their clash in the Littlewood's Cup semi-final 1989 please log in to view this image Bolton Wanderers v Bristol City - Wembley 1986 please log in to view this image Crystal Palace v Bristol City 1998 Scott Murray please log in to view this image FA Cup - Round 5 - Bristol City v Cambridge United - Ashton Gate 1990 Bob Taylor please log in to view this image 1999 Bristol City's goalscorer Ade Akinbiyi celebrates please log in to view this image City v Portsmouth 1998 please log in to view this image 1998 City celebrate promotion to Division one after the game with Preston North End please log in to view this image 23-MAR-96 ... Bristol City v Wrexham. Brian Tinnion celebrates his goal for Bristol City with Darren Barnard please log in to view this image 1990 City manager Joe Jordan celebrates after his sides 3-1 victory over Chelsea in the fourth round of the FA Cup
I was in that crowd Massive. 30 thousand approx crammed into Ashton Gate. There certainly was a different kind of atmosphere then. It may be safer now but it definitely aint as good. Great pictures of the Leeds games that started it all in the 70s. Still the most memorable games i have seen in 38 years since..
I'm in the Dolman just to the side of Keith Fear's left ear as he lobbed Harvey for our goal. BRR; crowd 37,141 and for next round versus Liverpool, they managed to cram another 530 in. I was also at Elland Road for the replay. It was my late first wife's first ever football match and when Donnie Gillies scored she sat in her seat and uttered the immortal words "Has something important happened?" The 20 minutes that followed were the longest in our lives as we waited for the final whistle. Great day.
Funny how we remember such a match from all those years a go, but at the time Leeds were the best team in the world! If I remember the reply was played at a strange time as I ran home from primary school and my Dad had the radio on when we scored! A. D. did few but great signings, we have such a small squad so it was great when he added Donnie Gillies as it seemed to me in those days we only had a choice of 2 players for the number 12 shirt John Emanuel or Micky Brolly. This squad improved so much over the next 2 years and produced our promotion team, nowadays a premier league team would of snapped up our stars before the chance of going up. Those players in the 70's were 100% City, real legends.
I went to the Elland Rd replay with my Dad. When we scored he stood up and roared, and his false teeth fell out onto the hat of a bloke sitting below us. Your too right about the last 20 mins. When Johnny Giles hit the bar I thought I was going to have an accident. Then we watched in amazement as a large and disbelieving crowd left in tears. Finally my day was complete when we actually saw our heroes celebrating in a motorway service station on the way home. Gow was giving Merrick a piggy back around the foyer Fear's goal at Ashton Gate is still the most dramatic and beautiful thing I've seen at a football match -
The pass from Gerry Gow to set up Keith Fear was simply fantastic, Gerry had everything, the toughest tackler, a great passer and an eye for the goal
Remember both games, went to Elland Road, courtesy of our boss, who paid for the whole factory to go, it was an afternoon kick off, because of the power cuts at the time, no one could play floodlit football. Got headbutted on the way out by a skinhead, looked like a gorilla, but it was worth it, those were the days.
Dare i say, a world class performer. If we had a Gerry Gow at the club now we could look forward to the big time again. Sadly we do not, and as the only hope for this is our youth academy i guess we canresign ourselves to mediocrity
If we did have a Gerry Gow playing for us now I'm sure a club like Man City would snap him up....... Déjà vu
