Just been watching Arsenal v City, the 1976 season opener at Highbury after our promotion. Wow we played well and fully deserved the win, so many great performances that day, everybody played their part and Cheesley was awesome. That was such a good team. I was on the clock end with my dad, what a day. Great to see Les Bardsley smoking his pipe on the City bench. But still that feeling of Paul Cheesley, if only?????
Just watched it, the memories came flooding back, we were all packed in the opposite side to where the players exited the pitch, hot day, boiling, the football was great, Cheese, Whitehead, Tainton, in fact he whole bloody team performed magic, I will never forget it. Nice to see Brian Moore.
The happiest game for me I ever went to, on one of the supporters club coaches with a dozen friends......Beating Arsenal on their own patch and the Cheese scoring was the icing on the cake....great memories
Saw this a while ago when BT Sports showed it. I was with my family at Sandy Bay and that Saturday of the opening day of the season was going home day. It was too far away to get Radio Bristol, so we had to wait with a lot of anxiety for the football results on my Uncles car radio so see how many goals Arsenal had murdered us by. I was as chuffed as could be that we'd won at Highbury, and when you look back at the highlights we were the better team by far. Super Mac ? Ha ! We should also have won by more than 1 goal.
I was on the North Bank that day! A group of us had booked a holiday in Benidorm (!) and we were flying out from one of the London airports the following day. We arrived at the ground a bit late and got in via the first available entrance. Only when we were inside did we realise that we were in the middle of the Arsenal end. Obviously, we kept very quiet throughout the game but the feeling when Cheese scored was indescribable!! We went to the Hammersmith Palais that night and spent any sleeping hours in the Terminal before flying. Great week in fabulous weather and probably one of the best times of my life!! We only found out about the injury to Cheese towards the end of the week as the papers arrived 2/3 days after they had been printed in the UK!! No instant communication in those days. I have a City produced CD of the match from about 10/15 years ago which contains the ITV presentation and extended interviews with various players. If anyone is interested, I’ll see if I can copy it!!
I was on the Clock End, I think it was SuperMac's debut for Arsenal. He cost more than our entire team. A very very special day along with 9months later at Coventry.
