It’s not quite a “with one bound they were free” situation, but City could dramatically reduce their fear of relegation with a win tonight against Peterborough as it would leave us twelve points clear of the drop zone with a big goal difference advant
age, albeit having played a game more than the Posh.
Here’s seven Peterborough related questions from every decade back to the sixties.
60s. Winning five caps for the country of his birth, he grew up in rugby league country and played a few games for former giants of the round ball game nearby, but getting on for ninety nine per cent of of his football league appearances came for Peterborough during an eight year stay at London Road. His last club were some Lilywhites whose biggest transfer fee received is for a one time City manager, but who is the player I’ve described and who is the former City boss?
70s. This possessor of a notorious name from this decade had a long career which saw him turn out for sheep, thieving birds, animals mentioned in the title of a Shakespeare play, recent opponents of ours and a phonetic equivalent of the band that released one of the nineties most controversial number ones as well as Peterborough. His experiences while representing Posh against City weren’t the happiest , but who am I describing?
80s. With a mixed record in his encounters with City as a Peterborough player, he really should have featured Northampton among the nine, mostly non league, sides he represented, but the closest he ever got to doing that, in terms of distance as well I would guess, was Rushden and Diamonds. Who is he?
90s. Midfielder avoids mines in successful career (5,6).
00s. There can’t have been many players born outside the UK who played more games in the Premier League and the EFL than this man who, apart from a short loan spell in the capital and a season in Manchester, spent all of his time in what could loosely be called the Midlands over a period of eighteen years. He was unbeaten in both of his games against us for Peterborough and his association with the club did not end once he stopped playing, but who is he?
10s. Experienced by unfortunate City fans in March 2013, October 2019, December 2020 and October 2021 by the sound of it!
20s. Kid champion?
Answers:
60s. Capped five times by the Republic of Ireland, winger Ollie Conmy moved from his native County Mayo to Dewsbury in Yorkshire before he was ten and played three times for Huddersfield before moving to Peterborough in 1964. Conmy played more than two hundred and fifty league matches for Peterborough before dropping into non league to play at Cambridge City (Neil Harris was transferred from that club to Millwall for a club record £100,000) for a couple of seasons.
70s. Jon Nixon representing Derby, Notts County, Shrewsbury, Barnsley and the Shaymen of Halifax plus Peterborough in a long career – he was in the Peterborough side beaten 5-2 in a Division Three top of the table clash at Ninian Park in December 1975 and in a 0-0 draw in the return fixture on Easter Monday 1976 as we closed in on promotion.
80s.Kevin Shoemake was in goal for Peterborough for their 2-1 home defeat by City in 86/87 and then for their win at Ninian Park a few months later – Rushden and Diamonds were owned by Max Griggs, who ran a shoe and boot manufacturing company, during their brief time as a Football League club.
90s.Simon Davies.
00s. David Oldfield, born in Perth, Western Australia, played sixty hundred and fifty five times in the Premier League/EFL between 1986 and 2004. In 01/02, he was in the Peterborough side for a 1-1 draw between the clubs at London Road and then for a 2-0 win over City at Ninian Park the weekend after over FA Cup win over Leeds – Oldfield also had spells as caretaker manager of Peterborough in 2011 and 2018.
10s. Jack Payne was in the Peterborough team which beat us 2-1 at London Road in March 2013, the other dates are the occasions of our three most recent defeats by Swansea.
20s. Josh Knight.