Matchday Memories: On This Day 1976 – Milne’s Men Topped By Terry’s Terrific Strike!
Terry Yorath fronts the programme
On this day (25th September) in 1976 Sky Blue manager Gordon Milne (now an Association member) chose a team to take on local rivals Birmingham City in the club’s seventh Division One game of the new season. Results had not been too much to write home about with only two league wins and a draw to show so far and the Sky Blue hoping to pull up from their place below mid table. Already buoyed by the return after a pre-season injury of Tommy Hutchison, they gained the ultimate fillip from today’s game in front of 26,371 patrons at Highfield Road gaining a late winner over the Boys in Blue.
Mick in the Sky Blue
Alan Green in the Sky Blue
In truth the visitors, fresh from a win at Villa Park, gave the Sky Blues a tough game. Home nerves were settled with 23 minutes gone when Mick Ferguson got the better of Brum’s Joe Gallagher to set up a goal for our diminutive forward Alan Green (both City players are CCFPA members now).
Terry in the Sky Blue
Athough the Blues’ gritty defender Kenny Burns managed to pull things level less than ten minutes later the visitors were eventually beaten in the second period with just four minutes left with a ‘special’ from Sky Blues captain Terry Yorath (also a CCFPA member). The Welsh international produced a thirty yard stunner which brought the house down!
Sky Blue Manager Gordon
Gordon Milne‘s Sky Blues (CCFPA members underlined):-
Barry in the Sky Blue
Birmingham City (managed by Willie Bell)
CCFC 1976-77
Thanks to CCFPA’s Mike Young (& Dean Nelson) for sourcing the images.
