Best City Player who was a City fan?

[Colins Bellend]

you've surprised me there buddy, they must be the extra wide seats then.
See even David White is jumping on the bandwagon

And he was at the OSC 60th anniversary do.

Free food then

 

[Dyed Petya]

Allison comment is incorrect - he did claim to be a City fan not just a follower (see earlier post from me about my indepth interview with him in 1992/3 for "Joe Mercer, OBE: Football With A Smile").

Of the others... George Weah comes into the category of 'it makes sense to say I'm a City fan because it may help when I arrive at Maine Road' and he was reported as saying he was a Blue, but I don't think any of us ever saw him on the Kippax.

Ian Brightwell/Paul Lake/Mark Lillis were definitely Maine Road attendees before they became City players.

Alan Oakes also attended Maine Road before he became a City player. When I interviewed him in 2004-05 he admitted that his football hero was Billy Wright (Wolves - so I took that as meaning he had a soft spot for Wolves) but also said that he used to stand on the Kippax as a fan before it had a roof. He also admitted watching United in European games and admitted to being keen to watch good quality football without prejudice as a boy. But this does mean he attended Maine Road games and supported City in those games.

George Weah?

what?

Weah did claim that he was a City fan when he signed. And though people are cynical, there was a basis for it. I lived in France when I was a student in 1989-90 and Weah was then an emerging young player at Monaco. He formed part of a pretty lethal front pair alongside a nippy little Algerian (I think) guy called something like Youssouf Fofana. I wrote to Howard Kendall - the only time I ever wrote to a City manager - telling him he should look at both of them, but definitely buy Weah because he was going to be a great player.

Anyway, we didn't, and Weah went to PSG quite soon after that for about a million quid. But I always took an extra interest in him as the only alumnus of the Dyed scouting programme, and he definitely gave an interview when he was at Milan saying he'd followed City as a boy in the late seventies. MotD was the only foreign football they saw there, and everyone picked a team. He apparently chose us because we were actually pretty good back then and he liked the colour of our shirts.

Obviously he wasn't a die-hard Blue in the way lots of people are on here, and he'd never been to Maine Road when he signed for us. But he didn't just make up an allegiance when we bought him and he started talking about being a fan as a kid. Or at least if he did make it up, he'd invented it at least five years previously with no apparent reason for him to do so.

 

[Mr Blue Stuff]

George Weah's son is apparently with City's kids along with Andy Cole's lad. I'm pretty sure Stevie Eyre trains them.

 

[Gary James]

Allison comment is incorrect - he did claim to be a City fan not just a follower (see earlier post from me about my indepth interview with him in 1992/3 for "Joe Mercer, OBE: Football With A Smile").

Of the others... George Weah comes into the category of 'it makes sense to say I'm a City fan because it may help when I arrive at Maine Road' and he was reported as saying he was a Blue, but I don't think any of us ever saw him on the Kippax.

Weah did claim that he was a City fan when he signed. And though people are cynical, there was a basis for it. I lived in France when I was a student in 1989-90 and Weah was then an emerging young player at Monaco. He formed part of a pretty lethal front pair alongside a nippy little Algerian (I think) guy called something like Youssouf Fofana. I wrote to Howard Kendall - the only time I ever wrote to a City manager - telling him he should look at both of them, but definitely buy Weah because he was going to be a great player.

Anyway, we didn't, and Weah went to PSG quite soon after that for about a million quid. But I always took an extra interest in him as the only alumnus of the Dyed scouting programme, and he definitely gave an interview when he was at Milan saying he'd followed City as a boy in the late seventies. MotD was the only foreign football they saw there, and everyone picked a team. He apparently chose us because we were actually pretty good back then and he liked the colour of our shirts.

Obviously he wasn't a die-hard Blue in the way lots of people are on here, and he'd never been to Maine Road when he signed for us. But he didn't just make up an allegiance when we bought him and he started talking about being a fan as a kid. Or at least if he did make it up, he'd invented it at least five years previously with no apparent reason for him to do so.

Excellent. Weah not really here!

Actually, this sort of thing probably happened a lot back then. I remember a Japanese guy (not a footballer) turning up at the museum one day. He'd never been to England before but had to come on business. While in England he decided he had to visit City because in the 70s we did a tour of Japan and that was enough to get him hooked on the Club. From that point on he tried to watch our games and so on. He argued that any team that bothered to send players to his country back in the 70s deserved supporting.

 

[The Silver Surfer]

Gary was a rag as a kid.

Bert Trautmann. He grew up a City fan as did a lot of the Hitler youth.

Wasn't the Pope in the Hitler youth? I'm pretty sure he's a City fan too.

I certainly am sir thats why I'm on here !

I wasn't into the Hitler Youth however, more like Sonic Youth :p

 

[Young_TomO]

sad really, i mean is that all they can do??? throw about some red paint<br /><br />-- Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:52 pm --<br /><br />woops wrong thread

 

[The Silver Surfer]

Trevor Sinclair was a rag!
I know a schoolmate of his and he told me just last week, it was all bluff

I went to school with him up to the 3rd year when he went to Lillyshaw school of ecxellence, honestly you call him tricky Trev but thats exactly how he was -completely untouchable on the football field, everyone knew he was going to be a star.

He even got me and the mrs some complementry tickets to a few games with passes into the players lounge (Joey Barton was a right cocky so and so).

When he scored against Utd we went mental then after the game he gave us his shirt.

Watched match of the day that night in THE shirt he scored against UTD !

Top, top fella, he loves the club do not doubt it.

 

[paul]

I remember Mark Lilliss phoning his dad after a call from Maine Road and saying they are going to make me captain.Instead he was told sign for villa or you,ll never play for City again.Awufl<br /><br />-- Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:25 pm --<br /><br />Oops mispelled there,sorry.

 

[GeorgeHeslop'sTackle.]

I think Robbie Savage is bringing his kids up as City fans isn't he? I recall somebody on here stating they saw him the other week. He also posted a picture on twitter last week of his son wearing a kit saying he won't take it off.

Savage is a big mate of Mancini's - Think they played together at Leicester City, a few years back.

 

[BluePurgatory]

Vaughan's a red.

The best in my lifetime surely has to be Lakey but I always had a soft spot for Andy May as well for some reason. It must have been his streaks.

Erm... I'm sure Vaughan's a blue,he certainly spent a lot of time saying he was when he played for us,not that it really matters as he was shite!

I am sure he is a blue but was born in Old Trafford.