Ken Knighton

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My main memories of him were him collecting the ball out of the box and taking it with him through the heart of the opposition defence.
 
tubbylard said:
Oxford beat us 1-0 win a goal in the 89 min after we had battered them.
Ron Atkinson was playing for Oxford.
Big crowd, touching high 30,000 ( from memory)
Also from memory, we fell away a bit after the heroics at Bramall Lane.
Terry Neill got himself sent off at Luton, or was it QPR, anyhow it cost us the game and I think just about the only game we won after that was v Orient at home, 5-2. Not forgetting it was two points for a win in those days and a couple of defeats in a week left you trailing the front runners.
We finished a disappointing 5th, which was still our highest ever finish playing from Boothferry Park.
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26,672 at the Oxford game. As you said went downhill from there. Ended up with a crowd of 11,301 for the last game at home to Norwich.

Neill was sent off earlier in the season at QPR. Considering where we were our support there was laughable. There was our usual minibus but owing to some non regulars turning up there was a row over seats and myself, Whiff, Tony E and Mike F went on train. A handful of others, including a couple of Matelots who had just returned from the Caribbean and kept the four of us supplied with rum, meant there were about 30 City fans there.
To show the oddness of our support a few weeks later there was a football special to Luton. Not sure, but I think that game was the first time we wore a black andvredvstriped away kit as Terry Neill thought it made the platters look bigger than the usual change strip.

(Attendance figures thanks to .Chris Elton and not my memory).
 
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Castro's Coffin said:
26,672 at the Oxford game. As you said went downhill from there. Ended up with a crowd of 11,301 for the last game at home to Norwich.

Neill was sent off earlier in the season at QPR. Considering where we were our support there was laughable. There was our usual minibus but owing to some non regulars turning up there was a row over seats and myself, Whiff, Tony E and Mike F went on train. A handful of others, including a couple of Matelots who had just returned from the Caribbean and kept the four of us supplied with rum, meant there were about 30 City fans there.
To show the oddness of our support a few weeks later there was a football special to Luton. Not sure, but I think that game was the first time we wore a black andvredvstriped away kit as Terry Neill thought it made the platters look bigger than the usual change strip.

(Attendance figures thanks to .Chris Elton and not my memory).
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I doubt they looked bigger maybe the smoke got in your eyes...
 
Chazz Rheinhold said:
I doubt they looked bigger maybe the smoke got in your eyes...
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I didn't write they did. I wrote that Terry Neill thought they did. Best to respond to what was actually written.

Though to be honest few did comment on it, agreeing they did look bigger. Mind you, as someone said "Look like AC Milan. Unfortunately don't play like them" as we went down to a 3-1 defeat.
 
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