CITY 4 SWANSEA CITY 0
League Division 1
21st November 1981
attendance 34,744
scorers Tueart(40 pen & 85), Reeves(63 & 83)
ref George Courtney
City Corrigan, Ranson, McDonald, Reid, Bond, Caton, Tueart, Reeves, Francis, Hartford, Hutchison – sub used Hareide(57)
Swansea Davies, Hadziabdic, Stanley, Rajkovic, Irwin, Stevenson, Curtis, Robbie, James, Leighton-James, Mahoney, Latchford – sub used Giles(57)
KEVIN REEVES SCORES CITY’S 2ND AND 3RD GOALS
Swansea had been using an unusual 3-5-2 formation that teams had struggled to work out, however terrifying wing play from Dennis Tueart and Tommy Hutchison tore Swansea’s tactical blueprint apart. The performances of City’s wingers was underpinned by the mercurial Trevor Francis who bouyed the whole City team with his £1m pound display.
It was surprising that it took so long for City to open the scoring, a penalty from Tueart, after Stanley had handled a Kevin Bond header in the area five minutes before the interval.
After the interval Tommy Hutchison was on fire, and after hitting the bar, when perhaps he should have scored, just after the half hour his cross from the right was dispatched into the net by Kevin Reeves.
The immaculate Francis was the creator of the last two City goals, Reeves with a superb header from a Francis cross, then from a pass by the £1M man, Tueart drove the ball into the net despite Davies’ efforts to save.
The only downside was the tradgedy of losing Tommy Caton who left the field with a broken collar bone before the hour.
Watching this game now on Norwegian TV #Hareide
City- Swansey 1981. 4-0
Watched it yesterday on ITV4’s The Big Match Revisited (Granada TV)
Cracking City goals.
This was my first game. Turned away for the penalty, or was it Corrigan turned away? Too many beers since, but distinctly remember Francis running up the inside left channel.