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Love seeing Pete the badge get selfies and all sorts of attention around the ground and in Manchester. Lovely bloke.
 
typicalcity... said:
Love seeing Pete the badge get selfies and all sorts of attention around the ground and in Manchester. Lovely bloke.
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mancityvstoke said:
Loads of PSYCHOS from back in the day have done very well. Some not so well. Many of them I know went abroad and never returned. USA, Trinidad, Aussie, NZ and Sweden just some I know of.

Fred will probably remember B Skreeton too from that area. We all used to drink in the Mauldeth , Derby etc.
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I probably know you mate. I used to knock around with Fred in those days. Have to say I never saw him have a scrap with anybody that didn't ask for it.

I know Brian as well, not seen him for a few years. Great lad never failed to make me laugh.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Yes, I still see him on the train up from London regularly
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Sat next to him on the way back when City had beaten Chelsea 2-1. Frank Lampard missed a penalty towards the end. Pete and I were pretty much the only Blues on the train. Carriage after carriage of Chelsea. Horrible.
 
totallywired said:
Top girl was Debbie, had a brother called Tony. Used to go to all the games together, a big crew from Gorton and Ardwick. Everton away one year we were stood outside Lime st. after the game, when Eric Williams came walking up with a screwdriver stuck out of his back. He didn`t even know it was there!! Debbie moved to Hyde when her mam took over a pub there.
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Was that the Eric Williams who used to go to Abraham Moss? Blonde haired lad...was in same class as him at school
 
Probably the first time I’ve ever read a full thread from start to finish, and definitely the most enjoyable.

All I can offer is that I was in the same year as John Tague at Marple Ridge (pitch invader against Bury in 98).

Also the frozen chicken man (Neil Riley) lives in Whaley Bridge, as does the City fan who nicked Goater’s boots (Jamo) after the Friday night pitch invasion against Birmingham in 2000 (he got his 15 minutes of fame on Sky Sports when Goater pleaded for their return before the Blackburn game)


Out of curiosity, did anybody on this forum attend away games in the Poyser era?

Considering our low home attendances, I’d be amazed if we travelled in large numbers.
 
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Is this the same lad who was stuck in the midst of Leeds fans in a game at Elland Road in the 70s/early 80s? Not sure if it was the cup tie or the game where they were throwing bananas at Alex Williams, but this blue was in there with them. The stewards dragged him out and tried to escort him to the blues paddock but, to the amusement of our fans, he was trying his best to get back amongst the Leeds fans from where he'd just been ejected!
 
I'm no cynic but... said:
Is this the same lad who was stuck in the midst of Leeds fans in a game at Elland Road in the 70s/early 80s? Not sure if it was the cup tie or the game where they were throwing bananas at Alex Williams, but this blue was in there with them. The stewards dragged him out and tried to escort him to the blues paddock but, to the amusement of our fans, he was trying his best to get back amongst the Leeds fans from where he'd just been ejected!
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It probably wasn't the Alex Williams' game mate as I was in the Leeds Kop that day. I don't recall any Blues making themselves known in the Kop that day. I do remember an arsehole dressed as Adolf Hitler leading the racist chanting though.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
It probably wasn't the Alex Williams' game mate as I was in the Leeds Kop that day. I don't recall any Blues making themselves known in the Kop that day. I do remember an arsehole dressed as Adolf Hitler leading the racist chanting though.
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I remember that game for the Leeds fans pretending to applaud Williams as he walked towards the South Stand before launching en masse into a 1930s German style "Sieg Heil"
Spectacularly appalling, but as a sign of the times, I do remember some City fans around me laughing.
 
cleavers said:
I wasn't having a go at him, far from it, and I travel/sit with blues from the south every game.

He is probably a more loyal blue than 95% of those who live in Manchester.
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Would have thought he is seen him going back donkey's years,for me don't care where our fans come from,if we could get 55k locals in ground great if not i'll take fans from down south no problem.
 
cleavers said:
I regularly share a train with him.

It'll no doubt upset some but he gets on and off at Milton Keynes.
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I spoke to him a couple of seasons ago and he is retired now and living in Milton Keynes but said he was thinking of moving to Spain. I used to get the train with him when I lived down south in the eighties, we did it as a group booking with the London supporters club. He has worn all that gear everywhere even Millwall!
 
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