Bert Trautmann at the COMS today...Picture

[Project]

He had tears on his eyes on the pitch - really moving

 

[the old abbey]

Bert Trautmann WAS a Nazi! Part of the Hitler Youth. He was also a very accomplished paratrooper, and was a serious threat to the English....then he got caught as a POW.

Then after the war he became English. The English invited him to his home to have tripe for Chirstmas dinner. He lived with an English family (St Helens) and then some officials from Man City came to see him whilst he had the flu, and was in bed. He signed for City only because he needed a p!ss and wanted to get rid of the guys from City so he could go to the bog. His first games for City were surrounded by hatred and abuse by a lot of City fans, let alone the Jewish contigent who hated him because he German.

After a few games, the boos turned into cheers. Cheers turned into adulation. A hero was born.

Then Bert was the goalkeeper for us in 1956. The rest, as they say, is history.

Bert Trautmann was a Nazi, part of the Hitler Youth, who killed Englishmen in World War Two. But he was doing a job, a job he had to do.

But he is also probably the best ever player we had, he played with a broken neck, he collected his FA Cup winners medal from the Queen. He healed so many wounds.

I hope that we give Bert the welcome he deserves on Sunday. This man is more than legend, he's part of our history, his dedication and love for City healed so many wounds after World War Two.

If we renamed COMS the Bert Trautmann Stadium, I doubt many would complain. The bridge from the station to Wembley had to be named something, and the FA held a competition, in the end it was called White Horse Way, but the third choice was Bert Trautmann Way.

BERT TRAUTMANN IS A LEGEND, SURPASSED BY NONE.

lagend yes,but no one would complain if we named the coms after him? think youre very wrong there cock

 

[bluevengence]

He had tears on his eyes on the pitch - really moving

A great moment in the history of this great club....WE LOVE YOU BERT