I think this weekend’s game with Blackpool is the first meeting between the teams since our 12/13 promotion season, so I believe this will be the first seven decades quiz about them. The first question is a toughee, but I like it and as it’s my quiz it’s goes in! I’ll post the answers on the weekend.
60s. What is the connection between St. John’s, Newfoundland, Clifden Connemara, a Stoke born defender, a winger/midfielder whose surname is a colour and a City v Blackpool match at Ninian Park on freezing February night during this decade?
70s. This defender shared his surname with another Blackpool player of around the same vintage who would be better known to City fans. He started off with his home town club at a canter and was their captain when Blackpool signed him as the sixties were ending. He played over two hundred times for his first club, but made more appearances for Blackpool – he scored for them in the one game he played as a striker, but, sadly, the most memorable goal he scored for Blackpool was probably the one he put into his own net to complete a Chelsea comeback from 3-0 down to 4-3 winners in a match at Stamford Bridge. He ended his days at a club which for a long time had sole ownership of an FA Cup Final record that they’ve recently had to share and managed them for a couple of years – he left the game after his sacking, but who is he?
80s. He played for City while on loan in a losing cause in a match against Blackpool during this decade which was decided by a goal late on by one of our former players, Since retiring, he has had two spells of caretaker manager at the club he was on loan to us from and another one at a current Championship club that has won its first two matches of this season – name him.
90s. Yells ease at Blackpool for a short while during this decade? (3,6)
00s.Another connections question – what is the connection between a song called Morning Sun and the 2006/07 Blackpool squad?
10s. He played for two of the three Welsh clubs currently in the EFL and managed the other one – he also played for nearly an hour in a Cardiff v Blackpool match during this decade when he replaced an injured goalkeeper, who am I describing?
20s. Spoof Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad?
Answers:
60s. Alcock and Brown. Terry Alcock and Bobby Brown were numbers six and seven on the Blackpool team sheet in their 1-0 defeat by City in February 1969. The destinations mentioned in the question were the take off and landing points in their first ever transatlantic flight in 1919.
70s. Former Bolton, Blackpool and Bury (who he also managed) man, Dave Hatton.
80s. David Kevan was a member of the City side beaten by a goal by Gordon Owen at Bloomfield Road in October 1989 – he was on loan from Notts County who he would later become caretaker manager of on two occasions in 2005 and he also had a month as temporary boss of Stoke in 2001.
90s. Les Sealey.
00s. Morning Sun was a hit for Robbie Williams and was, reportedly, originally written as a tribute to Michael Jackson. The Blackpool squad of 06/07 included a Robbie Williams and a Michael Jackson.
10s. Ex City and Swansea player and former Newport manager, Warren Feeney.
20.s Josh Bowler.