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1967–68 Manchester City F.C. season
The 1967–68 season was Manchester City F.C.'s seventy-sixth season of league football, and second consecutive season in the Football League First Division. In the third full season under the management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison, Manchester City were unfancied at the start of the season following a mid-table finish in 1966–67 Following the signing of forward Francis Lee, the club embarked on an unbeaten run that saw the club challenge at the top of the table. A televised victory against Tottenham Hotspur in snowy conditions proved particularly notable, becoming known as the ''Ballet on Ice''.
Going into the final match of the season, Manchester City led the table. A 4–3 win at Newcastle United clinched the club's second league title, winning the First Division by two clear points over club rivals Manchester United. The league championship was the first trophy of the most successful period in Manchester City's history. Under Mercer and Allison, the club won a further three trophies in the following two seasons.
==Background and pre-season==
The 1966–67 season had been Manchester City's first in the top flight after winning promotion from the Second Division in 1966. A fifteenth-place finish consolidated the club's place in the division. Club captain Johnny Crossan struggled with injuries in 1966–67, and was sold to Middlesbrough for £34,500 in the close season.〔Penney, ''Manchester City: The Mercer-Allison Years'', p. 37.〕 Tony Book succeeded him as captain. The club made no major signings before the start of the season, though Tony Coleman, a winger with a wild off-field reputation, had arrived from Doncaster Rovers at the tail-end of the 1966–67 season.〔Penney, ''Manchester City: The Mercer-Allison Years'', p. 33.〕 Mercer had reservations about signing Coleman, but Allison convinced Mercer that he could pacify a man he once described as "the nightmare of a delirious probation officer".〔Ward, ''The Manchester City Story'', p. 59.〕 City also attempted to sign England international goalkeeper Gordon Banks, but were outbid by Stoke City.〔Tossell, ''Big Mal'', p. 127.〕
The team travelled to Europe in pre-season, playing friendlies against Eintracht Braunschweig and Standard Liège.〔Goldstone & Saffer, ''Manchester City Champions 1967/68'', p. 11.〕 After returning to England they played Portsmouth at Fratton Park, winning 2–0, and finished their preparations with a resounding home win against Borussia Dortmund.〔 Between matches, the players followed a fitness plan created by former athlete Joe Lancaster, under instruction from Malcolm Allison.〔Tossell, ''Big Mal'', p. 133〕 The training regime was initially unpopular with the players; the severity of the first session caused some players to vomit.〔
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