It's so great when a new piece of ancient Leicester City footage suddenly appears online - especially when it's as good as this clip, uploaded just a couple of weeks ago by 'The Free Football Library'.
I discovered it totally by accident. I was reading up about the Rock Against Racism concert at the De Montfort Hall on April 9th 1979 and in the Mercury that day was a report on Leicester City 1 Stoke City 1. This was in Jock Wallace's first season, when despite struggling near the bottom of Division Two, the fans were totally on his side as he'd thrown in a group of youngsters who were playing attractive, if not always winning football.
Bill Anderson was heaping on the praise in his match report, and described our goal like this: Goodwin sliced his way through from midfield, found Smith who then put Buchanan through to beat Jones magnificently.
It sounded like a really interesting game so I tried to find out more - and the first piece that came up in the archive search was 'ATV 2.25pm: Star Soccer. Leicester CIty v Stoke CIty'.
Wow - it was on telly. I thought I'd seen all the available match action from that season, and I couldn't remember this one. A quick youtube search revealed this footage - just uploaded, with only nine people having watched it so far. It deserves a much wider audience. That goal is even better than Bill Anderson described it.
We're knocking it around confidently like 1972 Leeds United, and then the Goodwin / Smith / Buchanan link up totally pulls the Stoke defence apart.
You might have noticed Geoff Scott in the Stoke defence. Jock brought him to Filbert Street the following season. But this wasn't his finest moment. He is utterly defeated by Bobby Smith' s movement in the build up to the goal. Smith is in a central striker's position, but as we build up the move, he comes deep. Scott is caught in the classic centre half dilemma - do I follow him or hold my ground? He decided to go with his man, but as Goodwin slices through, Scott leaves Smith and makes a forlorn attempt to tackle the Leicester midfielder. Scott's actions have left two things completely open - Bobby Smith, and the middle of the Stoke defence, in which there is now a massive hole.
It's like chess. All it requires now for a kill is for Goodwin to find Smith, and for Smith to find Buchanan, who is running into that vacated central position. Those two moves are executed perfectly, and so is the finish.
What a ****ing goal.
That was the verve that kept the fans right behind Jock despite the struggles, and which would take us to promotion the following season.
I discovered it totally by accident. I was reading up about the Rock Against Racism concert at the De Montfort Hall on April 9th 1979 and in the Mercury that day was a report on Leicester City 1 Stoke City 1. This was in Jock Wallace's first season, when despite struggling near the bottom of Division Two, the fans were totally on his side as he'd thrown in a group of youngsters who were playing attractive, if not always winning football.
Bill Anderson was heaping on the praise in his match report, and described our goal like this: Goodwin sliced his way through from midfield, found Smith who then put Buchanan through to beat Jones magnificently.
It sounded like a really interesting game so I tried to find out more - and the first piece that came up in the archive search was 'ATV 2.25pm: Star Soccer. Leicester CIty v Stoke CIty'.
Wow - it was on telly. I thought I'd seen all the available match action from that season, and I couldn't remember this one. A quick youtube search revealed this footage - just uploaded, with only nine people having watched it so far. It deserves a much wider audience. That goal is even better than Bill Anderson described it.
We're knocking it around confidently like 1972 Leeds United, and then the Goodwin / Smith / Buchanan link up totally pulls the Stoke defence apart.
You might have noticed Geoff Scott in the Stoke defence. Jock brought him to Filbert Street the following season. But this wasn't his finest moment. He is utterly defeated by Bobby Smith' s movement in the build up to the goal. Smith is in a central striker's position, but as we build up the move, he comes deep. Scott is caught in the classic centre half dilemma - do I follow him or hold my ground? He decided to go with his man, but as Goodwin slices through, Scott leaves Smith and makes a forlorn attempt to tackle the Leicester midfielder. Scott's actions have left two things completely open - Bobby Smith, and the middle of the Stoke defence, in which there is now a massive hole.
It's like chess. All it requires now for a kill is for Goodwin to find Smith, and for Smith to find Buchanan, who is running into that vacated central position. Those two moves are executed perfectly, and so is the finish.
What a ****ing goal.
That was the verve that kept the fans right behind Jock despite the struggles, and which would take us to promotion the following season.
