Favourite childhood City player?

Dennias Tueart for me.

Scored a hat-trick and got sent off in the first match I ever went to. We beat Hertlepool 6-0. Everything has been a disappointment since then.

Bobby Johnstone, but Wensdi could have told you that. Did you enjoy the bobby johnstone book Wensdi?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Johnstone

http://www.manchestercity-mad.co.uk/roll/ed51/bobby_johnstone_the_passing_of_an_age_breedon_books_by_john_leigh_347060/index.shtml

Booby Johnstone eh? Blimey, known only to me as our highest ever goalscorer

Neil young RIP Sorely missed, forever revered, Always felt because of the famous triumphverate a lot of his acheivements got overlooked to a certain degree.

Oops meant tommy Johnston. and it turns out he's not ever our leading ever scorer

The greatest goalkeeper ever - Bert Trautman.

Norfolk....it should have been the Johnstone final!!!!!!!!

Peter Barnes
Still the best winger I've seen in a city shirt

Although im 30 now niall quinn was my fav player. Remember gettin on 106 bus at peel hall rd wythenshawe with our kid think I was about 12 paying on the gate at our kippax street singin the old niall quinns disco pants are the best, they go up from his arse to his chest ha ha the good times at maine rd what a place.

Niall Quinn can still remeber his pen save

Has to be ......................... fill in the blank.

i liked dennis tueart, peter barnes and david white, though whitey was a cunt when i played a charity match against him. he was a fat bastard too.

Dennis Tueart King of all Geordies

Rodney Marsh was my first hero, then I moved on to Dennis Tueart.

Difficult to pick just one. But if I have to choose it always comes back to one player for me - Mike Doyle.
Not only a great servant to us but also a legendary hater of all things rag.
God bless ya Sir

Steve Redmond, most of my fav players are centre halfs, because that was my position for many years.

Probably Tueart, but it changed week to week. Always loved Big Dave Watson, Mick Channon was another and Kazzi Denya.

For some reason now unknown, me and my mate hated Paul Power, don't know why, i think we had something against taches?

didn't deyna pass away recently?

i thought we the business when we had a foreign player all those years back!

He died in a car crash in America, but it was quite a few years ago now.

Its a pity we didn't get him a few years previous, as he was nearing the end of his career with us and he was pure class, same with Bernabia.

I remember Deyna signing, also remember him in the 74 world cup. At the time, soviet block players weren't allowed out until they were 30, hence his age when we got him him.

I remember listening to the radio in school when wew played AC Milan in an afternoon game, and all the reports said how brilliant he was.

Lee - I remember wee Bobby very well and he was the type of player who, when he got the ball, produced that air of expectation in the crowd. Great player but not as good as Bert. I once met Bert Trautman when he visited the boys club I played for. He was brilliant - stayed longer than he had to just to talk to the lads. The only other player I remember meeting was Don Revie and he was a really genuine bloke. As you can see I am bit ancient!

Norfolk, the first player to score in 2 consecutive Manchester city owners of the FA cup (copyright) finals. ...Possibly the most naturally gifted drinker and footballer of the 20th century including that Irish bloke. He visited our school along with sandy wan and bert lister with the latics. Great bloke and liked talking about city as well as Oldham.

Thinking of where the team as been in the 30 odd years that I've supported them and som of the shit I've had to watch there are quite a few. So to help me out one from each area of the pitch.

GK - Englands number one, Englands, Englands number one - Tony Coton
DEF - Andy Hinchcliffe
MID - Paul Lake
ATT - Niall Quinn

It's quite suprising how many players I have liked down the years. The one who I always pretended to be on the playground was David White. I played the same position and just like David I was fkin fast and as the years have rolled on I also got fat.

The Goat.

There's fuckin' loads... Joe Corrigan, Colin Hendry(mainly because I met the guy once when City toured Ireland), Big Dunnie, Paul Power(how can any City fan not like him after his winner in the '81 semi tache or not), Ali Benarbia and little Dicky himself, Paul Dickov... Every bit as much a 100%er in his day as Tevez is now but with less quality than Tev obviously.

Paul Power always sticks in my mind as my fave childhood player....
Not really sure why... probably because i kept getting his sticker for
my Panini football league sticker book, with glossy silver
club badges too!!!.
I remember always getting that (I think) Polish player to with the wonky teeth,
can never remember his name.

Was it Kenn Dodd?

right initials Wensdi

Kenny Dogleash?
Kerry Dixon?
Kevin Dreeves?

He died in San Diego in 89

Kaziu Deyna... He also 'starred' in Escape To Victory... Genius me I tell ya!

thanks guys n gals, glad i got that bit of chicken from between my teeth.
got more details about him from wiki...

Full name Kazimierz Deyna
Date of birth October 23, 1947
Place of birth Starogard Gdański, Poland
Date of death September 1, 1989 (aged 41)
Place of death San Diego,
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Midfielder

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Deyna

this forum is so much better. the freedom to paiste details without the worry if a mod bot banning your post because it found the foriegn players name offensive to others...... unlike the 606..

i meant "paste" btw peeps for all those literate do gooders lol

Hey mashipx, as a literate ne'er do well you can spell it any way you want. As long as we understand it who gives a toss! Having thought long and hard about my favourite City player - it's still Bert Trautman!

Norfolk - having just read Trautmann's Journey - I understand why!! Great read - and a very sincere guy who gave his all not just for City but the other clubs he played for and managed.

Didn't support City as a child as I was born the other side of the pennines - but raised two boys in Manchester - and obviously I too became a follower. I think Dennis Tueart and Shaun Goater are two of my personal favourites.

What did you think of the bobby johnstone book Wensdi, did you enjoy it or not?

Hi Wensdi - I think like you I found it very difficult to pick just one player but Bert was one of nature's gentlemen. I used to like Joe Hart - he could run like a gazelle and sometimes he even took the ball with him. I swear they based the road runner cartoons on Joe, he was that fast.

Sorry Lee - I meant to tell you that "The Passing of an Age" was a good read too. I can see that due to Trautmann's heroics of playing on - in that famous Cup Final, 'Nicker's' achievements have largely been overlooked. Instead of being known for the 'Johnstone final" - it was remembered more for Bert's trauma - and his resilience.

Norfolk - did you mean Joe Hart? Joe Corrigan?

Wensdi, i don't think Joe Corrigan could run at all, never mind like a gazelle. I think Norfolk is confused.com.

He made some good saves tho' Boy, watched him last night make a couple in a re-run of Cup classics against Ipswich and QPR. Thought maybe Norfolk saw him run like a gazelle at some point which I missed when I went into the kitchen.

i had to make a choice between paul power or big joe corrigan and i choose paul power in the end and its nowt to do with his name

David White

Stop picking on me! The bloke I was thinking of was Joe Hayes - used to play inside right and was really fast. Unfortunately not always with the ball. Great players in that era - if my memory is now working correctly the 1955 team which lost to bloody Newcastle was:

1 Bert Trautmann
2 Jimmy Meadows
3 Roy Little
4 Ken Barnes
5 Dave Ewing
6 Roy Paul (c)
7 Billy Spurdle
8 Joe Hayes
9 Don Revie
10 Bobby Johnstone
11 Paddy Fagan

I was in hospital having my tonsils out and saw the match on an old black & white TV which had been lent to the Manchester Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital (in All Saints at the time) just for the cup final.

Bloody hell Norfolk - are you still alive? The Queen will be sending something soon!!!

Blueboy, I was wondering about my state of health but your avatar convinced me I was still going strong! Those things remind me of something - if I ever remember what it is..........!

if they don't get it working again....there's no hope fella!!

I remember in the Forces there was a picture very similar to that avatar in the hospital. It had pride of place over the beds in the recovery ward and had a message - it said "If this turns you on - congratulations - you're still alive!" I guess I'm still alive.

There are only a few of those I remember Norfolk,
Bobby Johnson of course, Spurdle,Barnes and Fagan. For some reason my brain refuses to acknowledge that Revie played for us but that could have something to do with later Leeds games....OK ye and Bert as well, he didnt do badly in the Johnstone final.

Lee, you're a terrible fella - but I like you! Brings it home to me that I must be old since I can remember watching that team play but missed out on the glory years in the 60s because I was away in the RAF. What I like now about the present day team is the air of anticipation and the sense of adventure. Loving every minute of it - especially when we get all those jealous comments from other teams' fans.