CITY 2 STOKE CITY 0
Nationwide League Division 1
22nd March 1997
Attendance 28,497
scorers Atkinson(65, Lomas(68)
City Wright, Brightwell, Horlock, McGoldrick, Symons, Lomas, Brannan, Summerbee, Atkinson, Kinkladze, Rosler – subs Kavelashvili(74), Heaney(unused), Kernaghan(unused)
Stoke Muggleton, Pickering, Griffin, Sigurdsson, Whittle, Forsyth, McMahon, Beeston, Wallace, Sheron, Kavanagh – subs MacKenzie(66), Devlin(72), Worthington(unused)
THE GAME WAS DELAYED FOR AROUND 45 MINUTES DUE TO A SMALL FIRE IN THE NORTH STAND
A DEBUT GOAL FOR DALIAN ATKINSON
STEVE LOMAS SCORES CITY’S SECOND GOAL