WEST BROMWICH ALBION 0 CITY 1

FA Cup 3rd Round Replay

11th January 1977

attendance 27,494

Scorer Royle(19)

Ref Pat Partridge

City Corrigan, Clements, Donachie, Doyle, Watson, Power, Owen, Kidd, Royle, Hartiord, Tueart – Sub Barnes(unused)

West Brom Osborne, Mulligan, Cantelow, Brown, Wile, Robertson, Martin, Treacy, Cross, Trewick, Johnston

JOE ROYLE SCORES THE GOAL THAT TAKES CITY INTO THE 4TH ROUND

FROM THE PRESS BOX

PETER GARDNER WRITING IN THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS 12TH JANUARY 1977
If one match epitomised Manchester City’s gritty new attitude towards away tests, it came in the superb 1-0 replay victory at West Bromwich last night.
The acute travel sickness of recent seasons is now nothing more than a nightmare memory in the wake of solid displays at League level outside the sanctuary of Maine Road.
That same consistency was revealed in the FA Cup, too, with the Blues brushing aside the Albion challenge to earn a 4th round visit to either Sheffield United or Newcastle. However, in the ultra-professional mood seen at The Hawthorns where City mastered a snow-covered pitch as well as frustrated uncompromising opponents, they need fear no one.
… West Brom did not look like scoring at any stage and, in fact, the only danger to City came from the threat of referee Pat Partridge abandoning the match as heavy snow began to fall at half-time.
… City were tidy and compact in midfield with Asa Hartford, reveling in his first ever senior match back at The Hawthorns, Paul Power and Gary Owen always in the driving seat.
… It was the quick thinking of Dennis Tueart that paved the way to the only goal of the game after 19 minutes. He took a sharp free kick to Clements who overlapped intelligently before driving across a wicked hard and low centre that John Osborne failed to hold.
The veteran Albion goalkeeper, whose failure to grasp a Royle header on Saturday threw City the replay lifeline, could only parry the ball to the feet of Royle who scored easily from close in.