STOCKPORT COUNTY 0 CITY 5

Friendly

13th October 1975

Attendance 7,120

Scorers Bell(28, 52 & 79), Leman(42), Barnes(55)

City Corrigan, Clements, Donachie, Doyle, Booth, Oakes, Keegan, Bell, Leman, Barrett, Barnes – Subs Pardoe, Lambert

Stockport Brown, Smith, McNab, Turner, Fogarty, Holsgrove, Price, Massey, Davies, Charlton, Buckley – subs Hopkinson, Cross, Bradley, Flanagan, Fogarty, Vernon

FROM THE PRESS BOX

COUNTY’S £4,000 HIDING

PETER GARDNER WRITING IN THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS 14TH OCTOBER 1975
Stockport doubled their normal attendance and finished £4,000 better off after Manchester City had given them a 5-0 goodwill hiding at Edgeley Park.
Said chairman Freddie Pye: “It was a magnificent gesture on City’s part. We appreciate it enormously. Several organisations have offered us help in our struggle for survival, but so far City are the only ones to put the money where their mouth is.”
Despite the Blues being unable to call on four internationals because of injury, City and Stockport fans answered the plea of Maine Road chairman Peter Swales in boosting the crowd at the fund-raising friendly.
And they got full value for money with City getting the goals flowing after a sluggish start.
Colin Bell scored a hat-trick, with Dennis Leman scoring before being carried off injured shortly after half-time, and Pter Barnes adding the other.
County had Bobby Charlton as a guest, and it was the ex-United man who gave them their best chance with a clever through pass from which Steve Massey shot over.