Manchester City v Torquay United 1983/84 Milk Cup 2nd Round 2nd Leg

 torquay home 1983 to 84 prog

CITY 6 TORQUAY UNITED 0

Milk Cup 2nd Round 2nd Leg

25th October 1983

attendance 14,021

Scorers Tolmie(43 pen & 48), Parlane(46, 57 & 74), , Hoyland(85)

Referee Trelford Mills

City Williams, Ranson, May, Walsh, Power, Caton, McNab, Davidson, Parlane, Baker, Tolmie – sub Hoyland(75)

Torquay Turner, Pugh, Holmes, Impey, Little, Carr, Barnes, Sheridan, Anderson, Sims, Cooper – used sub Hughes

 The ‘SIX’ Goalscorerstorquay home 1983 to 84 scorers

FROM AN ARTICLE WRITTEN BY JOHN MADDOCKS PUBLISHED IN THE CITY PROGRAMME 29TH OCTOBER 1988
The highspot of the week was the 6-0 trouncing of Torquay in the Milk Cup and again it was Parlane and Tolmie who were the main scourges of the Devonians.
It took City until the 43rd minute to open the scoring, Tolrnie whacking in a penalty for a Holmes push on Davidson. After that, it was virtually one-way traffic for the Blues. Power was the architect behind the second, his centre met comfortably by Parlane a minute into the second half, then Tolmie scored his second of the night two minutes later. The goal flood had started and Parlane made it
4-0 soon after, and the Scot went on to complete his hat-trick with another header with a quarter of an hour left-again thanks to Power, before he was replaced by Jamie Hoyland, making his senior debut. The youngster celebrated by scoring from close in after Turner in United’s goal had made a pig’s ear of saving Power’s effort.

Jamie Hoyland scores

torquay home 1983 to 84 hoyland goal

and is congratulated on his debut goal

torquay home 1983 to 84 hoyland congratulated on his debut goal

FROM AN ARTICLE IN THE CITY PROGRAMME 12TH NOVEMBER 1983
There was something quite unique about the magical moment when 17 year old Jamie Hoyland crowned his brief introduction to City’s first team by scoring a debut goal late last month. Watching excitedly from the main stand was his Dad, Tommy Hoyland . . . who, back in February 1950, made his first team debut (for Sheffield United) also as a 17 year old. And, like a dream, scored a
goal!
lt’s an unusual, very remarkable, family double act that a check through the record books suggests has not been achieved at any other time in the game.
“Funnily enough” recalled 51 year old Tommy, “We were driving Jamie over from Sheffield to report as 12th man for the match against Torquay and chatting about the possibility of his getting a run-out. l teased him, ‘l don’t think you’ll repeat my performance. l scored in my debut’ l said. Blow me. he went and did the same.
“My wife (Connie) and our eldest son (Andrew) had been speculating whether Jamie would appear and with City doing so well and scoring goals quite comfortably it looked the right opportunity. He’d been off the sub’s bench running up and down the touch-line a few times and we were absorbed in talk about whether his moment had arrived. It really was quite exciting when he did get on (a 75th minute replacement for Derek Parlane). But when Jamie scored about 10 minutes later l don’t think we said a word. Silence, total silence. We just stared out at him celebrating. And believe me. Jamie was just as stunned when we met up with him in the Players Lounge afterwards” added Tommy.
… Jamie’s first involvement was a rash foul tackle on Torquay defender Dave Carr. The referee told me to steady on and settle down. Then Carr clipped me a few minutes later. The kind of thing you know is likely to happen if you’ve annoyed an experienced player” rued Jamie.
Then, the magic moment. The 85th minute goal which clinched City’s comfortable 6-0 win in the Milk Cup 2nd round (2nd leg) tie. “l’d have loved it to have been a little different but l truthfully didn’t know much about the goal.” he said quite candidly. “l remember Paul Power shooting for goal. l recall the ball hitting the Torquay ‘keeper as he advanced. Then the ball more or less hit me as l went for the rebound. l was shocked to see it go in the net. l hope l’ll score many better goals, but it’s one l’ll never forget.
“Everyone congratulated me afterwards and l felt really high. But l also felt knackered. Steve Kinsey said he’d felt that way with his first game. l‘d only been on 15 minutes but l was exhausted. Nervous tension l suppose”…

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