Old Avenue v City football programme

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Sell it me for a fiver

 

Depends how bad it is but a simple measure might be to piece up the pages
and laminate them or similar technique. It sounds like a rare piece of football
history worth restoring.

City won the game 1-0 crowd of 24,833 and O'Rourke got the goal.Being old
has it's advantages.....

 

In all fairness you have a valuable piece of history there and would be worth proffesional restoration could be costly but it has good value I have a collection of several thousand but none as old or as rare as that and have had a few (repaired)
It's always said never try tapeing up any tears as this takes away a big percentage of value
On the net there are plenty of programe restorers who would be able to help
Please post a pic on here would love to see it
Good Luck !!!!

 

Thanks for the pic
Good luck whatever you do with it
Deserves its own plastic sleeve tho

 

We need to play that 2-3-5 formation! We’ll be FA cup holders again!

 

I bet Fordy's great granddad said we would have scored more if yon Devine hadn't played at inside left.

 

Devine has been around longer than I thought

 

‘Half backs’

That formation is mental. Stuff of Gary Bowyer’s nightmares.

 

Goalkeeper Mellors was the last survivor of the cup winning
team and he lived a short distance from me in Garden Lane
in Heaton.

 

So did the "Yorkshire Ripper" .

 

Mellor Goalkeeper
Campbell Right full back, Left full back Boocock,
Right Half Hampton, Centre Half Torrance, Left half McDonald,
Left Wing Thompson, Inside Left Devine, Centre Forward O'Rourke, Inside Right Logan, Right Wing Bond,

In the day it was anything but mental, that's the way most teams lined up, until the likes of Don Revie introduced formations of 4-3-3 Sprake
Cooper, Charlton, Hunter, Reaney,
Gray Giles Bremner
Clarke Jones Lorimer

and Sir Alf Ramsey@s wingless wonders, 4-1-2-1-2.
Banks
Cohen J Charlton Moore Wilson
Stiles
Ball Peters
R Charlton
Hurst Hunt

 

I wonder if any manager would have the balls to play that formation now. I have been a City fan since 1974 when I met my wife who had followed City since 1967 (her uncle was Maurice Conroy, chief scout at the time).
From 1961 to 1971 I went to the Avenue with my dad, so I remember that formation well, until Sir Alf showed us another way.

 

As with most things football is a far different animal to what it was when I started watching, it would be interesting to see what a George Best would do in this day and age with the likes of coaching and the modern game, I'm not sure with a guy like Best what any coach could say apart from here's the ball lad do what you want with it.

 

Yes he did! Family moved to North Yorks in 65 so long before he became notorious.
I remember taking my wife to see where I used to live on Leylands Lane and where
I used to play football and cricket on slalom playing fields.

His house as it turned out was on the RH side of a row of about 8 1930's semi's.
If we had known that's where he lived that's just too close for comfort!

Mellors used to live on the other side of the road a bit further along.