REAL MADRID 5 CITY 2
Friendly
19th December 1979
Attendance ?
scorers
City Angel(10 og), Shinton(43)
Madrid Santillana(6), Juanito(25 & 36), Rincon(52), Hernandez(?)
ref Augusto Lamo Castillo
Madrid Angel, Sabido, Benito, Sol, Isidro, Angel, Del Bosque, Hernandez, Juanito, Santillana, Cunningham – sub Rincon(26)
AN ARTICLE BY SIMON CURTIS PUBLISHED IN THE CITY MAGAZINE JUNE 2004
Seeking a Christmas friendly in 1979, in order to get his misfiring team away for some bonding and a bit of sunshine, Malcolm Allison took his side to the Bernabeu to play Real. These were not the days of Zidane and wall—to—wall galacticos, however, and City came up against a calculating and, at times, vicious Spanish side. Although the Blues were well off the pace (trailing 3-1 at half time), it was the thuggery meted out to Steve Daley and his teammates that finally got the blue blood boiling. Daley would limp off after a knee high tackle by lsidoro and would not reappear after the break, by which time some of his team-mates were so
incensed that they had lost the plot. ~
Ray Ranson later admitted, “l had snapped. l was shaking with anger. Their number three (lsidoro) had committed three bad tackles and the last one had nearly taken my knee cap off”.
As a result the second half featured red cards for Ranson and Tommy Booth, who reacted poorly to being trampled on, and two more for Benito and the not—so—aptly named Angel, a cascade of bottles from the crowd and the excuse from Allison that his side had lost their composure because they thought three of Real’s five goals were offside. An Angel own goal and a rare glimpse of Bobby Shinton’s shooting boots were City’s replies.
