by Colin the King » Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:14 am
My earliest City memories are of Whitey, although I was only about 5 when he left so they're a bit hazy. All happily brought back through old videos though! Moving on a few years, I idolised Rosler, Quinny and Beagrie in that 90s side and have always wondered how on earth a side as good as ours managed to get fucking relegated- throw in the likes of Curle, Kinky, Phelan, even Lomas and Brown- not saying we should have won the league but proper management and we would have been a fairly comfortable midtable side.
Speaking of Rosler, at one of my first games he missed a penalty only for some knobhead to start mouthing off with Nazi stuff. Pity the rest of the Kippax didn't agree- he got battered. But it's a testament to how popular he was with us that even now UWE! UWE! ROSLER is one of the only songs still belted out regularly at Eastlands.
For the teen years it's definitely Goater, no contest. When I played schoolboy footie I was a striker and was a bit shite but scored loads of goals, and teachers/parents used to always say 'who's your favourite player', they're expecting Ronaldo, Rivaldo, they always looked a bit baffled by my response- THE GOAT!