Blast From The Past: On This Day 1993- City Throw Away A Last Day Win & Draw 3-3 With Leeds
Bobby at a recent Legends Day
On this day (8th May) in 1993 in their last game of the 1992-93 Premier League season the Sky Blues faced Leeds United at Highfield Road hoping to round off a fair to middling season with a win. They had lost their last three games against Manchester United (h) 0-1, Liverpool (a) 0-4 and Chelsea (a) 1-2! There were 19,571 fans at Highfield Road to watch the contest and they so very nearly saw a confidence boosting win. However, the Sky Blues threw the win away in last five minutes only drawing three goals each despite the fact that United’s Chris Whyte was sent off with ten minutes to go!! Chris would later have a brief loan spell with CCFC! The two teams had also drawn 2-2 in Leeds back in October.
Sky Blues Peter in the 1990s
The Yorkshire team’s hero was Rod Wallace who grabbed himself a hat-trick and the Sky Blues star on the day was their ‘Bulawayo Bullett’ Peter Ndlovu who turned in his finest performance of the season scoring one and making two. Liverpool’s boss Graeme Souness was rumoured to be contemplating a bid for Nuddy.
FTP in the Sky Blue
The scoring went like this. John Williams gave the Sky Blues an early boost netting a header from a Nuddy cross after five minutes but the advantage did not last long as Rod Wallace netted his first only a minute later. Six minutes before the break ‘Sumo’ Mick Quinn grabbed the lead for the Sky Blues, once more made by Peter, to make them 2-1 up at half-time. Nuddy then got his poacher’s goal 17 minutes from time and it looked all over for United and that a comfortable 3-1 home win would ensue.
Mick Quinn in the Sky Blue
Sadly Rod Wallace had other ideas and two quick goals on 89 and 90 minutes destroyed the Sky Blues final day jubilation as the game finished in a three all draw and a pitch invasion by delighted Leeds fans. Their final goal, deep into injury time, came from a disatrous back pass fumbled by the gaffer’s son!
It wasn’t only City’s match-day joy that was destroyed since, immediately after the game, workmen began to demolish the beloved Highfield Road Spion Kop so fans bade farewell to both Kop and season!
Thanks to CCFPA’s Dean Nelson you can watch highlights from the game by clicking on the image below. Commentary is by Stuart Linnell (a BBC CWR regular at the Sky Blues Ricoh home games today):-
The Sky Blues team that day, managed by CCFPA member and former Sky Blue sixties centre forward, Bobby Gould (including son Jonathan) comprised:-
Jonathan Gould; Brian Borrows; Phil Babb; Peter Atherton; Lloyd McGrath; David Rennie; Leigh Jenkinson (sub. Roy Wegerle); Lee Hurst; Mick Quinn; Peter Ndlovu and John Williams
Underlined players eventually went on to join this Association
CCFC 1992-93
The Sky Blues finished in a relatively (for them) comfortable 15th position five places and three points above the drop zone. Leeds failed to win away all season and finished 17th three places (but only two points) above the drop.
