1975 promotion pictures.

[bertlambshank]

Some crackers in this lot. http://www.flickr.com/photos/myoldscans/4058579337/in/photostream/

[pauliewalnuts]

I remember that day clear as anything. I was seven, not at the match, but in our garden in Hall Green. I vividly remember my dad coming out and gesturing 2 nil with his hands at the end of play.

To think, six years later, we won the league. If only that sort of thing could happen these days.

In fact, thinking about it, from 1972 to 1987, we went from the third division, back to the first, won the league cup twice, won the first division, were champions of Europe, and then went back to the second division.

That must be the most rollercoaster-like non-boring spell any football club has ever undergone.

Willl it ever be that exciting again?

[glasses]

I remember that day clear as anything. I was seven, not at the match, but in our garden in Hall Green. I vividly remember my dad coming out and gesturing 2 nil with his hands at the end of play.

To think, six years later, we won the league. If only that sort of thing could happen these days.

In fact, thinking about it, from 1972 to 1987, we went from the third division, back to the first, won the league cup twice, won the first division, were champions of Europe, and then went back to the second division.

That must be the most rollercoaster-like non-boring spell any football club has ever undergone.

Willl it ever be that exciting again?

Man City fans have gone from being relegated to the third tier to where they are now in 13 years, potentially on the verge of League and European Honours. About as close as you are going to get to that, but nowhere near as thrilling.

[The Laughing Policeman]

We were already promoted and if my memory serves me well the win over Sunderland meant that Norwich got third place. We then went to Carrow Road the following week and beat them 4-1.
Then on our first away game in the 1st Division off we went to Carrow Road and got beat 5-3.
And that pic of The Holte End with those AV floodlights is awesome.

[SteveD]

That was my first game in the Holte End, so with 57,000 there we had obviously failed to get a seat. I was too small to see anything, we were standing behind the left side floodlight and I must have moaned like hell, as my dad (not exactly tall himself) took me out at half time and we listened to the 2nd half on the car radio....

Great pics! If I had taken any that day, they would have been the back of people's knees.

[Gazza1982]

I was at that 4-1 game, and at the 5-3 game (wasnt that a midweek game) as I lived in East Anglia at the time, I think Ted McDougall got a hat-trick and Little scored a beauty. Somehow found myself in the opposite end with a claret and blue silk scarf round my wrist (!!!) surrounded by green and yellow, thank god we lost! I remember our end being packed and feeling very proud we took so many.

[olaftab]

I was in the Holte as usual. Sunderland had taken the Witton end and had another 5000 in Aston park. I think result was 2-1 to us after they took the lead thru Pop Robson. Ian Ross equalised with a pen and some one dragged in a second half winner.  Following Wednesday we went to Norwich and beat them 4-1. Great days.

[willywombat]

I'm 99.9% certain it was 2-0

[darren woolley]

Great pictures.

[Pat McMahon]

Another site I can't access in China but I remember the Sunderland game well. It was definitely 2-0 and I was a 12 year old in the Witton End with my dad in our usual spot, though there must have been 12-14 thousand Sunderland fans there. They were as good as gold - we stopped them getting promoted and although I went mental for each of our goals not a word or look was sent my way.

Oh for that optimism....

[Brend'Watkins]

I'm in that picture.  What agreat season it was.

[Dave Cooper please]

Have any of you flicked through the rest of those photos? Some fantastic old stuff in there.

[Bernie]

I'm 99.9% certain it was 2-0

WW, you'r right it was2-0. Also, Gazza1982, the 5-3 was a Saturday- the 3rd game back in Divsion 1 having lost 2-1 at home to Leeds and 2-0 away to Man City. We didn't win at all away that season.

[PeterWithesShin]

Have any of you flicked through the rest of those photos? Some fantastic old stuff in there.

I'm still going through them, as you say, some great stuff there. And there are the occasional Villa ones as well.

I like this one of the North Stand being built.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/myoldscans/5801401938/

And this one of the Trinty, which seems to be the last (or first) pic in the stream.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/myoldscans/5801725060/

[Flamingo Lane]

It was 2-0, I was there what a day.

I've looked at lots of the other photos you've made available to us on your link.  Great stuff.