SHREWSBURY TOWN 1 CITY 0
Canon League Division 2
13th October, 1984
Attendance 8,563
Scorer Stevens(59)
Ref G Napthine
City Williams, May, Power, Reid, McCarthy, Phillips, Smith, Baker, Cunningham, Wilson, Parlane – sub McNab(70)
Shrewsbury Green, Williams, Johnson, Maclaren, Griffin, Cross, McNally, Petts, Stevens, Robinson, Hackett – sub Bates
FROM AN ARTICLE BY JOHN MADDOCKS, PUBLISHED IN THE CITY PROGRAMME 22ND OCTOBER 1989
… The first stumble on the promotion trail was at Shrewsbury where the home team won 1-0 to gain revenge for their defeat at Gay Meadow the previous season.
It was not a connoisseur’s game. City missed the injured Kinsey and the front runners had a very disappointing day. Billy McNeill was less than complimentary in his post-match comments.
Phillips and Baker were exempt from criticism and May would have have joined them had he not provided the opportunity which gave the Shrews the winning and only goal. He carelessly gave the ball to McNally who sparked off a move to include Cross and Hackett before Stevens blasted a shot past Williams. It put Stevens at the top of the Canon League scorers’ charts but did nothing for City’s hopes. The same player almost got a second 6 minutes from the end but was denied by Williams. The Blues frantically tried for an equaliser, forcing three corners in the last 60 seconds, but the nearest to a goal was a McCarthy header that Green saved.
I think the goal scorer was Gary Stevens