CITY 1 SUNDERLAND 0
League Division 1
12th April 1969
attendance 22,842
scorer Young(88)
Ref D Lyden
City Dowd, Book, Pardoe, Doyle, Heslop, Oakes, Summerbee, Bell, Lee, Young, Coleman – used sub Owen(70)
Sunderland Montgomery, Harvey, Ashurst, Heslop, Pitt, Todd, Harris, Porterfield, Lowry, Suggett, Tueart – sub Hughes(45)
Manchester City succeeded without really trying in a game of tip-tap with Sunderland on Saturday. Their lowest crowd at Maine Road for 20 months saw two teams who seemed neither to know nor to care what entertainment means.
Neil Young scored the only goal two minutes from the end and the partisans who found voice enough to cheer deserved congratulations. Extreme boredom usually sends people to sleep.
EXTRACT FROM PAUL WILCOX’S MATCH REPORT IN THE GUARDIAN 14TH APRIL 1969