Who Was Your Favourite City Player As A Kid?

[rick1894citizen]

Quinn when i was really young but first proper idol (as didn't start going till 98) was the likes of Goater, Weaver, Horlock,Morrison and Cooke whilst we were in 2nd and then Berkovich, Benarbia and Kennedy.

Now would be the likes of Beller's, Tevez, Superman and SWP.

[Bear60]

Colin Bell, Franny Lee, Mike Summerbee and Rodney Marsh.

[Beefymcfc]

I always fancied myself as a 'keeper and Joe Corrigan was my idol.

I had a green goalie top and got my mum to sew a strip of fabric on the back as a number 1. I would then ask anybody and everybody to take shots on me in the back garden using the swing frame as a goal.

In my memory Big Joe was invincible and at least 8 foot tall!

Same here mate. Got to meet Joe at Droylsden Supports Club when I was a Bin Lid and if I remember right, he was actually 9 ft 2. And then, I was lucky enough to have a full on man-to-man conversation with him this year where we talked about all things City and our life stories (where you been, what you donesort of thing). Still very much in awe of him, and he said that of me.

And yes, he has shrunk a bit over the years but is still about 8 ft 11..........................I think ;-)

[Dipstick]

Loved Bert Trautmann but David Wagstaffe was my favourite as a kid - he moved from the reserve team to the first team at about the same time mum started to let us go to first team matches as well as reserve matches. He was a tricky winger and thought to be a great prospect. Unfortunately he was seen as our best asset and had to go when the debts starting piling up after we didn't immediately bounce up again after relegation.

After he left it was Neil Young ('cos he lived just around the corner), until Colin Bell arrived. After that Marsh, Tueart, Kinkladze, Benarbia and Goater have challenged my allegiance but Colin is the King.

[tony macaroni]

70's Franny lee

I was gutted when he was sold to Derby and pissed off when he won the league with them.

80s was trevor francis,

but he was not there for long. Special mention for Imre Varadi.

90s Georgi Kinklazde

Was there anyone else. Special mention for Jamie Pollock best own goal of all time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAc8JooS3MY

2000s Shaun Goater

Yes he was there in the late 90s, but he scored his 100th and helped us beat the rags for the first time for years in 2000s

2010 Carlos Tevez (I hope)

work in progress

[Kladze]

Wagstaffe was my idol too - was heartbroken when he was sold.

Rodney Marsh was the one though, the one I tried to model my own game on. And, in retrospect, he seems perfect for the kind of player I was - talented, creative, but bone idle :-D

[Original Dub]

Quinn.

Have a couple of photos with him now as well after i met him at a charity bash. Fooooookin seriously tal in the flesh and it wasn't the biggest confidence builder standing next to him, but what really nice bloke. Very polite and more than willing to chat away on all things football.

I asked him what he thought of the takeover and he just said "Well the thing I always loved the best about City was the fact that it is the ultimate people's club. A real family club and I'd hate to see its soul taken because of the money".

Oh, BTW - that was after the Takshin takeover!!

[bobadji]

Rosler. Always prefered him to Quinn for no real reason.

[Wonderwall]

Tommy caton when I was very young, then Jim Tolmie and Paul Stewart. Of course Kinky however........... all time fave is between Kinky, Ali B, SWP and Dunne overall

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

70's Franny lee

I was gutted when he was sold to Derby and pissed off when he won the league with them.

80s was trevor francis,

but he was not there for long. Special mention for Imre Varadi.

90s Georgi Kinklazde

Was there anyone else. Special mention for Jamie Pollock best own goal of all time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAc8JooS3MY

2000s Shaun Goater

Yes he was there in the late 90s, but he scored his 100th and helped us beat the rags for the first time for years in 2000s

2010 Carlos Tevez (I hope)

work in progress

Some people never grow up.

[Original Dub]

70's Franny lee

I was gutted when he was sold to Derby and pissed off when he won the league with them.

80s was trevor francis,

but he was not there for long. Special mention for Imre Varadi.

90s Georgi Kinklazde

Was there anyone else. Special mention for Jamie Pollock best own goal of all time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAc8JooS3MY

2000s Shaun Goater

Yes he was there in the late 90s, but he scored his 100th and helped us beat the rags for the first time for years in 2000s

2010 Carlos Tevez (I hope)

work in progress

Some people never grow up.

Haha brilliant.

[The Foggy Blue]

Quininho

It simply has to be him. Number 1 reason that I started supporting City as a young lad so for that I will be eternally grateful. Honourable mentions to Uwe Rosler, Paul Walsh (!) and Kinky.

[Tokyo Blue]

As a kid my big favourite was Dave Watson. I was absolutely gutted when he went to Werder (was it? - I blotted it out, y'see).

But many of the late 70s team would have been on a similar footing for me. Peter Barnes, Asa Hartford, Willie Donachie, Dennis Tueart, yeah. Trevor Francis was a bit special.

I also loved any youth team player making the first team, with lads like Dave Bennett, Paul Power, Tommy Caton and Clive Wilson being slightly later heroes of mine.

[bluesbrother]

Colin Bell. He would have walked into any City team

[mcfc/wire]

Tommy Caton ( r.i.p) and Steve McKenzie . Loved T.C. gutted when he went to the Arse .

[Blue in the face]

Franny Lee. Don't remember why apart from the goals probably. Why didn't you ask this question 40 years ago?

[lythamblue]

Franny Lee ..... no contest.

Worshiped the geyser ...... poster all over the bedroom.

After him Rodney Marsh and then Dennis Tueart 'King of all Geordies'.

In fact, I even bought the 'Dennis Tueart Bar' sign at the Main Rd closing down auction ...... just for old times sake.

[mr_nool]

Quinn for me.

[ruralblue]

David White and Paul Stewart. Then Lakey, Kinky, The Goat and now Bellers and Tevez float my boat. I don't intend on ever growing up.

[BobbyJ1956]

It was Bobby Johnstone, the little inside-forward in the mid 1950s. I noticed him in a match under floodlights against Blackpool at Maine Road at a time when the only City player whose name I knew was Bert Trautmann. But your eye went to Johnstone because he had both skill and speed. He dazzled you. After I saw him a couple of times I started reading newspaper reports of football matches and there were two players in Manchester then for whom the reporters had a kind of awe, Duncan Edwards of United (you didn't write it with **** in the middle in those days) and Bobby Johnstone. Eric Todd of the Manchester Guardian and a reporter called Don Davies who used the name "Old International" (I think he died in the Munich disaster) were especially good on Johnstone, almost poetic in their prose at times, or perhaps I mean rhapsodic. He played more games for both Hibernian and for Oldham than he did for MCFC, but while he was in sky blue he became the first man to score in two consecutive Cup Finals and I've only seen a couple of City players since who could do what he could do on a football field.
(Hey,I posted this once and it doesn't let you write the word u - n - i- t - e- d out in full, it put the asterisks in. Sod that,if I want to write the word in full I should be able to.) Anyway, Bobby Johnstone was the best City player I ever saw, though Duncan Edwards was even better.