Good stuff, love the banner! I wonder if we played a weakened team as we were playing Stoke a few days later...
It's a bit fuzzy and so is my memory but Gordon Lee, Jimmy Dugdale and Nigel Sims are in the line-up. What looks like Jimmy MacEwan too, and possibly Harry Burrows. No Gerry Hitchens who had probably not quite departed for Inter, I can't see Viv Crowe, Pat Saward or Peter McP either.
We also played what I think was Dynamo Kiev around that time. Joe Mercer later described the match as being between what was effectively the Soviet national team and our youth team. We won 1-0. Mercer said it as the proudest moment of his managerial career - this was after he had on cups with ManCity.
When did the rattle disappear from football grounds?
The early sixties, pretty much when chanting really took hold. The rosette lasted a little longer. I remember seeing them for sale at the 71 league cup final but they had long since disappeared from 'normal' games.