On this day (22nd February) in 1975 the Sky Blues, under ‘gaffer’ Gordon Milne saw off title challengers Ipswich Town 3-1 in a Division One fixture at Highfield Road.

The Sky Blues needed to gain revenge both for a decisive 4-0 league defeat (their worst of the season) at Portman Road in mid November as well as the Tractor Boys’ earlier 2-1 victory at Highfield Road in the Second Round of the League Cup in September!

Twenty seven fans short of 17,000 watched City’s victory on a heavy, sanded pitch as Larry Lloyd took over the captain’s armband from John Craven for the game.

Alan Green

Mick in the Sky Blue

The Sky Blues goals all came in the second half as the Tractor Boys held out until the last twenty minutes. The first was netted by tall centre forward Mick Ferguson (72 minutes) from an Alan Green cross. The coup-de-grace came from a brace from Alan himself within five minutes (84 & 89 mins.).

The diminutive inside man got his first with a tap in and then outpaced defenders before finishing clinically. In a hectic last ten minutes Allan Hunter also got the East Anglian team’s consolation three minutes from time. City got standing ovation at full time for a clinical dismantling of erstwhile championship contenders.