Peter Doherty

[Radiohead1981]

I think the forgotten man and arguably our greatest player deserves a thread of his own.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Bit before my time , but my old elderly neighbours when I was a kid (took me to Wembley in 81 too) always said that, he must have been some player given they’d seen The King too, and they didn’t praise players lightly.

RIP George and Amy, two finer blues you couldn’t wish to meet !

 

[bluesmith]

My grandad was a red, born in the 1920s saw all their top players said Peter Doherty was the best player he ever saw.

 

[Snape]

My grandad was a red, born in the 1920s saw all their top players said Peter Doherty was the best player he ever saw.

My father is the same, he is now 91 and always talks about Doherty being the best ever.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Up the Bracket was a superb debut offering.

How he outlived Winehouse is confounding.

 

[Radiohead1981]

My grandad was a red, born in the 1920s saw all their top players said Peter Doherty was the best player he ever saw.

Did your grandad rate him higher than Pele, puskas, de stefano, cryuff, Maradona etc.

In otherwards did he think doherty was the greatest player of all time.

 

[bluesmith]

Did your grandad rate him higher than Pele, puskas, de stefano, cryuff, Maradona etc.

In otherwards did he think doherty was the greatest player of all time.

I can't remember to be on honest I think just in terms of Manchester, he was off the generation where you would watch City one week and United the next.

 

[Radiohead1981]

Bit before my time , but my old elderly neighbours when I was a kid (took me to Wembley in 81 too) always said that, he must have been some player given they’d seen The King too, and they didn’t praise players lightly.

RIP George and Amy, two finer blues you couldn’t wish to meet !

Did your neighbours think he was the best player they ever saw.

 

[Corky]

I don't know who is arguing about it, you would need to be 100 to appreciate him. Each generation has their greatest City player ever, and even within generations there is often no consensus.

 

[christened at st marks]

My Dad loved Colin but always said Peter D was better

 

[petrusha]

My paternal grandfather, who was born in 1909 and died in 1989, always said that Doherty was the best outfield player City had in his time watching us and Swift was our best 'keeper. As far as I've been able to ascertain, I think both of these views were reasonably commonly held among those who watched us in the thirties and were alive to see the successful sides of the fifties, sixties and seventies.

One thing my grandad did say was that, in the thirties when Doherty was at his peak, the old timers then used to say that he wasn't as good as the young Meredith. He saw Meredith when the Welshman came back to City at the end of his career when past his best, and thought in that incarnation he wasn't nearly as good as Doherty.

Please don't ask whether Doherty was the best he every saw. I really don't remember what he said about that. I was interested only in his memories of City back then.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Did your neighbours think he was the best player they ever saw.

Honestly couldn’t answer that mate, but given fans of a certain generation say Colin Bell, they witnessed both, and said Doherty, as an aside, they also rated Alan Oakes very very highly too.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Better in The Libertines than his solo stuff for me.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

My Dad’s Dad was born in 1906 (died in 1974 and I wasn’t born until 1982 so never met him)… he said Doherty is the best player City ever had.

 

[Radiohead1981]

My father is the same, he is now 91 and always talks about Doherty being the best ever.

Is your father a blue.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Same as a lot of others on here, grandad started watching city in a about 1907 & dad started going with him in the late 30s early 40s & they both said Peter Doherty was the best player they ever saw, Colin Bell was a very close second though.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Good as a manager too.

 

[Radiohead1981]

Same as a lot of others on here, grandad started watching city in a about 1907 & dad started going with him in the late 30s early 40s & they both said Peter Doherty was the best player they ever saw, Colin Bell was a very close second though.

Did they think doherty was better than best or finney.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Career curtailed by WW2 while he was approaching his peak.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Did they think doherty was better than best or finney.

To be honest I dont think Best was ever in the same conversation as Doherty, great player but Best got a lot more attention because of who he played for & weirdly enough I dont think he ever played that well against city?
Cant remember them talking about Finney?