A rare victory from 78-79 season

[forbzy]

I think we only won 4 or 5 games in an awful season 78-79 but the few good days were very memorable. Bolton at home when we came back from 3-0 down in the last 15 or so mins to win 4-3 is of course legendary. Haven't seen a clip of that but I remember this one on match of the day at the time. A 3-2 win over Citeh at Maine Rd.


Includes possibly Ossie's last goal for Chelsea in his second stint with us. Not to mention a fine breakaway goal from Flash.

 

[jim hamilton]

I think we only won 4 or 5 games in an awful season 78-79 but the few good days were very memorable. Bolton at home when we came back from 3-0 down in the last 15 or so mins to win 4-3 is of course legendary. Haven't seen a clip of that but I remember this one on match of the day at the time. A 3-2 win over Citeh at Maine Rd.

Thanks for posting...i remember seeing this..in fact this was the 1st kit my parents bought me.

Cheers Jim

 

[Star]

Cheers for that Forzby, was at that game with my dad, like Jim said, had that kit as well, one of our away classics !

 

[Backbiter]

I think we only won 4 or 5 games in an awful season 78-79 but the few good days were very memorable. Bolton at home when we came back from 3-0 down in the last 15 or so mins to win 4-3 is of course legendary. Haven't seen a clip of that

I have seen the highlights from that, but not for many years. They must be around somewhere, but they've never been put on YouTube AFAIK. They weren't great quality - on a par with the footage from the 3-3 game at Cardiff.

 

[SilverPolish]

This is great! I was at that game, which took place on my birthday. There was quite a few of us who went in those days, and everyone bought me a pint. I think I drank between ten and twelve pints of Guiness before the game. Anyway, I got as far as Langley's goal - 1-3 - then passed out! One of the greatest comebacks in our history I was out sparko in the West Stand as everyone went nuts around me.

So I learned an imporant lesson that day. Don't get so drunk pre-match that you pass out before the game is over because you mght miss something!

 

[erskblue]

That winter 1978/79 was a really bad one with lots of games off every week due to ice and snow.

Maine Road had a decent covering that January day too.