Manchester City v Manchester United FA Cup 4th Rd 1954/55

 CITY 2 MANCHESTER UNITED 0 FA Cup 4th Round 29th January 1955 Attendance 74,723 Scorers Hayes(60), Revie(88) Ref E Oxley

City Trautmann, Meadows, Little, Barnes, Ewing, Paul, Fagan, Hayes, Revie, Hart, Clarke United Wood, Foulkes, Byrne, Gibson, Chilton, Edwards, Berry, Blanchflower, Taylor, Viollet, Rowley

  JOE HAYES OPENS THE SCORING FOR CITY

The fourth round draw saw The blues first out of the bag against arch rivals Manchester United. A Maine Road Derby in the FA Cup, a tie to fire the imagination and a massive crowd of 74,723 turned up to see it: "It was the kind of game you dream of playing in as a professional footballer: a cup derby against United in a stadium so packed you couldn't hear yourself think. Bloody marvelous, we were on the up and up and they were supposed to be the best side in the country. ...It was unbelievable. Funnily enough the thing I remember most about the Cup game, was that their centre half, Allenby Chilton, got sent off. They get sent off for anything nowadays of course, but back then it was still a rarity. You usually had to have a corpse, or at least the chalk outline of where the corpse had been, to see a sending off. I don't remember the tackle being anything that you didn't see week in and week out back then. In fact I was close by as it happened and I told the referee not to send him off. Allenby Chilton was a fine player. He might have been coming towards the end of his career, but he wasn't just a stopper, he could play a bit as well. We won 2-0, Joe and Don with the goals, it was a terrific day for us.  Taken from THIS SIMPLE GAME THE FOOTBALLING LIFE OF KEN BARNES as told by Jimmy Wagg

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