CITY 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 1
League Division 1
15th May 1963
attendance 52,424
scorers
City Harley(8)
United Quixall(84 pen)
Ref G McCabe
City Dowd, Gray, Sear, Kennedy, Leivers, Oakes, Young, Harley, Dobing, Hayes, Wagstaffe
United Gaskell, Dunne, Crerand, Stiles, Foulkes, Quixall, Giles, Herd, Law, Cantwell, Charlton
AN EXCERPT FROM CATCH A FALLING STAR BY NEIL YOUNG…By the penultimate game of the season we were struggling, a 1-1 draw with United at Maine Road consigning us to second division football.
It was a game we had to win, we had led 1-0 and had a perfectly good goal disallowed. Confidence was not one of our strong points in that era however.
If we had been 2-0 up going into the interval we might just have hung on, as it was poor Waggy gave the ball away when he tried a suicidal back pass to our keeper Harry Dowd. A penalty was awarded when Denis Law dived in the box, Quixall scored and we were down.
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