CITY 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 1

League Division 1

15th May 1963

attendance 52,424

scorers
City Harley
United Quixall(pen)

City Dowd, Gray, Sear, Kennedy, Leivers, Oakes, Young, Harley, Dobing, Hayes, Wagstaffe

United Gaskell, Dunne, Crerand, Stiles, Foulkes, Quixall, Giles, Herd, Law, Cantwell, Charlton

NEIL YOUNG WRITING IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
…By the penultimate game of the season we were struggling, a 1-1 draw with United at Maine Road consigning us to second division football.
It was a game we had to win, we had led 1-0 and had a perfectly good goal disallowed. Confidence was not one of our strong points in that era however.
If we had been 2-0 up going into the interval we might just have hung on, as it was poor Waggy gave the ball away when he tried a suicidal back pass to our keeper Harry Dowd. A penalty was awarded when Denis Law dived in the box, Quixall scored and we were down.
AN EXCERPT FROM CATCH A FALLING STAR BY NEIL YOUNG, WITH DANTE FRIEND

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