NORWICH CITY 0 CITY 2
League Division 1
30th October 1976
attendance 22,861
Scorers Kidd(87), Royle(88)
Ref J Bent
City Corrigan, Clements, Donachie, Doyle, Watson, Owen, Power, Kidd, Royle, Hartford, Tueart – sub Conway(unused)
Norwich Keelan, Ryan, Sullivan, Steele, Jones, Powell, Neighbour, Gibbins, Boyer, Suggett, Peters – sub Machin
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RAY WILLIAMS WRITING IN THE DAILY EXPRESS 1ST NOVEMBER 1976
John Bond admitted that Manchester City thoroughly deserved their 2-0 win over his Norwich side, then made an interesting comment about the effect of Mike Doyle’s incredible penchant for passing back to his goalkeeper.
“Mike must have wasted four minutes of the game,” said Bond, “and both their goals came in the last three or four minutes didn’t they? I don’t want to take anything away from them, they deserved the victory, but it gets frustrating when they were passing back to Joe Corrigan all the time.”
Sometimes Manchester used a three man move to get the ball from the halfway line back to Corrigan.
But from the moment Brian Kidd had a brilliantly driven goal disallowed for Joe Royle’s offside position in the 54th minute, it was only a matter of time before Manchester took control.
Kidd was able to forget his disappointment three minutes from time when he headed in a Dennis Tueart corner, although the Norwich players claimed he helped it in with his hand.
Then to settle all arguments, a minute later Royle scored a splendid second.
Bond said: “I had a go at the lads after, they didn’t look as though they wanted to win at home. They were doing everything wrong.”