HALIFAX TOWN 1 CITY 0

FA Cup 3rd Round

5th January 1980

attendance 12,599

scorer Hendrie(75)

Ref M Lowe

City Corrigan, Ranson, Power, Caton, Bennett, Henry, Reid, Daley, Robinon, Viljoen, Shinton – sub Lee(unused)

Halifax Kilner, Dunleavy, Hutt, Evans, Harris, Hendrie, Firth, Kennedy, Mountford, Smith, Stafford – sub Goodman

FROM “NIGHTMARE AT THE SHAY” AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE CITY PROGRAMME 13TH NOVEMBER 1998
Paul Power clearly remembers the last time City met Halifax in the FA Cup, he almost ended up in a punch-up that night!
Paul,.. played in the infamous 1-0 third round defeat at The Shay on January 5, 1980, in front of 12,599 jam packed spectators.
It was a real giant-killing in true FA Cup tradition with the Malcolm Allison-coached Blues at the time in the old First Division and Halifax in the old Fourth Division.
Paul… recalls that the Blues should have won comfortably but came unstuck on a gluepot pitch.
”The weather had been terrible and the game should not really have been played,” he said. “It was a real bog of a pitch and I
remember Bobby Shinton being denied a tap-in by the conditions.
“It would have been a simple chance but the ball stuck in a puddle before it got to him!”
Halifax midfielder Paul Hendrie scored the only goal, beating Joe Corrigan after 75 minutes.
“It was a cracking goal as well, the one moment of brilliance in the whole game,” Paul went on.
”It really was a bad day at the office,
But if the defeat at The Shay wasn’t bad enough, Paul and some of his team-mates that day really had to face the music when they got back to Manchester.
“On the way home from Halifax I went to a pub in Sale with a couple of the other City players, Tony Henry and Steve Daley,” he said.
“Unfortunately some rugby players were in there and started having a go at Steve Daley and his £1m price tag. It got pretty heated with one individual but things calmed down before blows were exchanged and his mates apologised for him and ended up buying us a pint!…