CITY 2 ARSENAL 0
4th March 1972
League Division 1
attendance 44,213
scorers Lee(35 pen & 57)
Ref Dennis Turner
City Corrigan, Book, Donachie, Doyle, Hill, Oakes, Summerbee, Bell, Davies, Lee, Towers – sub Barrett(unused)
Arsenal Wilson, Rice, Nelson, Storey, McLintock, Simpson, Armstrong, Ball, George, Radford, Graham – sub Kennedy(unused)
FRANNY LEE SCORES HIS RECORD BREAKING 13TH PENALTY OF THE SEASON
ANOTHER GOAL FOR FRANNY
Top of the League City, without the injured Tommy Booth, faced the Champions from Highbury who were unbeaten in sixteen games, and looking to catch The Citizens in the chase for the Championship.
In possibly the best controlled performance of the season City defied The Gunners’ challenge and in fact Mike Doyle and Alan Oakes masterly kept Arsenal’s strikers at bay, to the extent that they had no significant effort on target all game.
The difference up front was Francis Lee who grabbed both goals in a fantastic display. The first came from a first half penalty after Pat Rice inexplicably handled in the box, it was a record breaking 13th penalty conversion of the season for Lee.
In the second half Lee struck again, starting the move in his own half, exchanging passes with Mike Summerbee and then tried to find Colin Bell, however the ball bounced back off a defender and Lee smashed the ball into the net to set up a great victory for The Blues.
My first visit to main rd
Can remember pat rice losing the flight of the ball and it landing on his arm
Lee gave bob wilson no chance with the penalty
My brother took me to the game but was too tight to buy me a program
My grown up children bought me the program last christmas
I hitched-hiked from north London to watch the game, I was 18 back then. I remember as an Arsenal supporter, City were far more in control and the result reflected the dominance of Francis Lee who played a great game. I came away facing a long overnight hitch hike back to London, which became far more eventful than the football when I met a young lady at the the M6 slip road heading south. A weekend I will never forget.