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Anybody know if the Norwich FA Cup white tights footage is available to buy anywhere? Barry Davies so BBC... any help appreciated.
 
No sound unfortunately, one of the greatest results
My dear old Dad used to tell me about this game from as early as I can remember. I have an original photograph somewhere of him and his mates waiting for the train to London. He always said it was the best City performance he ever saw. They were champions elect, we had no chance...
"Poor old Pompey" rang around Highbury, and in the surrounding streets to quote Dad, "Portsmouth rosettes the size of dinner plates" thrown away in disgust littered the pavements. Train home was a late one so they went to White City and watched the dogs. Happy memories for me also when finally years ago I managed to get a programme and the look on his face when I handed it to him. Be 20 years in July since we lost him, whenever I see footage of May 7th 2016 I say quietly "We did it Dad".
 
Don Revie scored 2 of our goals that day at Highbury against Pompey. But one week before the '49 Final he suffered a nasal haemorrhage from a burst blood vessel. It became life threatening and he missed the Cup Final at Wembley against Wolves. Revie left the following November after the departure of manager Johny Duncan.
15 years earlier in 1934 we had reached our first ever FA Cup Semi Final but lost 1-4 to Portsmouth at St.Andrews,Birmingham. In the league matches against Pompey either side of that defeat we had beaten them 5-3 away and 6-3 at home!
 
Don Revie scored 2 of our goals that day at Highbury against Pompey. But one week before the '49 Final he suffered a nasal haemorrhage from a burst blood vessel. It became life threatening and he missed the Cup Final at Wembley against Wolves. Revie left the following November after the departure of manager Johny Duncan.
15 years earlier in 1934 we had reached our first ever FA Cup Semi Final but lost 1-4 to Portsmouth at St.Andrews,Birmingham. In the league matches against Pompey either side of that defeat we had beaten them 5-3 away and 6-3 at home!
Yes, Dad always said things would have been different in the final had Revie not been injured in a league game prior to Wembley.
Also, an illustration that not everything in football back then was 'better' than nowadays, although my Dad and his mates were regulars they could not get hold of cup final tickets for love nor money - yet they were giving them away as Bingo prizes in town.
He also used to recount the 5-5 and 5-4 Luton games in that cup run - 19 goals in a cup tie was a record for many years I wonder if it still is...
 
Revie was at City from 1944-1949. Making his debut in the War time League. He chose us above Middlesbrough at the time because we had a strong reputation through non league Middlesbrough Swifts as a 'feeder' club. Much like later in the 'Sixties' when we scooped up a lot of Scottish young talent through junior club Johnstone Burgh.
Revie was "mentored" by Sep Smith at Leicester and encouraged to play inside forward or 'deep lying' centre forward. Sep Smith taught him not to try and dribble past an opponent but to take him out with a pass then move on quickly to take the return. It's always worked effectively in the right team with the right players to do it. Like Spurs double winning side under Bill Nicholson, Dutch "total football" and Man City doing it in tight spaces at the moment!
 
Sep Smith drummed into Revie "when not in position,get into position;never beat a man by dribbling if you can beat him more easily with a pass; it is not the man with the ball but the one running into position to take the pass who constitutes the danger;and the aim is to have a man spare in a passing move. Football then becomes easy"!
 
Sep Smith had two brothers already playing for Leicester,Thomas and Joe,when he was signed as a 16 year old in 1929.
In the 1934 FACup Semi Final he played against 2 more of his brothers,Jack and Bill,who both played for Portsmouth that day. What a footballing family that was!
He was Leicester's captain for 13 years of his career the longest stint ever for the club!
He was considered to replace Revie in the '49 Final but it was decided that would have been too big a tactical switch, to the detriment of star striker Jack Lee. He helped Duncan prepare tactics for the Final instead!
Sep Smith's final game for Leicester was the last league game of 1949 in the dramatic 1-1 draw at Cardiff that staved off relegation to the Third Division.
He coached under Johnny Duncan until that manager left but was released abruptly by new manager Norman Bullock!
 
Sep Smith had two brothers already playing for Leicester,Thomas and Joe,when he was signed as a 16 year old in 1929.
In the 1934 FACup Semi Final he played against 2 more of his brothers,Jack and Bill,who both played for Portsmouth that day. What a footballing family that was!
He was Leicester's captain for 13 years of his career the longest stint ever for the club!
He was considered to replace Revie in the '49 Final but it was decided that would have been too big a tactical switch, to the detriment of star striker Jack Lee. He helped Duncan prepare tactics for the Final instead!
Sep Smith's final game for Leicester was the last league game of 1949 in the dramatic 1-1 draw at Cardiff that staved off relegation to the Third Division.
He coached under Johnny Duncan until that manager left but was released abruptly by new manager Norman Bullock!
Not seen this before
 
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