"What Are They Talking About?" Quiz - no. 22

[Merthyr Imp]

Nobody with the surname of either Kerr or Hone.

To narrow it down a bit - a midfield player.

 

[sedgleyimp]

Terry Fleming???

Again went to Grimsby so tears inevitable

 

[Merthyr Imp]

No player called Fleming.

 

[Merthyr Imp]

To narrow it down a bit more, the player concerned spent one part season and one full season with City and has a place of his own in City's history.

 

[Red Wimp]

Terry Hawkridge

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Not Hawkridge.

 

[Eweimps]

Big Keith after leading his team out at Cardiff for the first time in the playoffs along with me, or after beating Scunthorpe in the semis

 

[Chesterimp]

Mr Relegation, aka Simeon Hodson?

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Neither Hodson nor Keith Alexander.

 

[sedgleyimp]

Elliot Whitehouse??

fits the season and a half, midfielder and our ( to date ) only Wembley scorer

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Not Whitehouse.

 

[Merthyr Imp]

To narrow it down more, the player concerned played for four clubs in the Football League with City being his last.

Another claim to fame he had was scoring his first club's first ever goal in European football.

 

[57harry]

Dick Kryzwicki after the 3-2 defeat against Southport in 1975.

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Not Dick Krzywicki.

 

[sedgleyimp]

On a Dick theme ( ahem!!!)

Dick Neal who had a couple of spells with us plus played for Birmingham in the Fairs Cup in the early 60's??

Perhaps after his last game for us in his second spell

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Not Dick Neal or any player called Richard.

Otherwise you're on the right lines again.

 

[syimp]

I know of several who did just that after Raggett's goal at Burnley, but I don't think any of them made an Echo headline.

I did, in front of my tv

I just bawled.

 

[sedgleyimp]

Let's try Billy Cobb who scored for Forest in the early days of said Fairs Cup before coming to us

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Yes! The player concerned was Billy Cobb, although it was Mrs Ann Cobb who said "I am not ashamed to say it. I just burst into tears" when her husband received the letter saying he was being given a free transfer at the end of the 1967/68 season.

" I think he has been playing well, but of course I may be biased."