Brian Horton

[Colin Bells Boots]

Met him at a mutual friend's house, when he was working at Southend with Phil brown.

A thoroughly likeable and friendly guy who spent a long time discussing his time at City.

He some good and entertaining football to the club before being wrongly replaced by the fuckwit Alan Ball.

 

[purplenose]

Met him once at a referees do of all things. He did a talk that was bloody good and very funny. He assured the audience that footballers at the top level were just as thick as the ones playing Sunday League. As many have said very approachable, clearly loves football and was happy to talk to anyone about the game. Top bloke.

 

[Abattoir Blue]

Agreed.

Francis Lee,was then, is now, and forever will be a complete and total wanker.

City was his vanity project that he tried to do on the cheap.

Worse, much worse, than Swales.

Bit harsh! Playing career surely gets him some credit??!

He clearly had a massive ego though. In the programme for the last Kippax game it had printed lyrics to City chants that were gonna be played by a Caribbean steel drum band (!). One of the chants was "Chairman Lee's blue and white army". Seriously. When did we ever sing that? Even at 14 I knew that looked weird...and vaguely communist!

He clearly was also deluded about how much money it would take to make City a challenger. If he'd have taken over in 1990 he might have been ok (we had better squad, transfers pre Prem inflation).

 

[Withnail]

Good Manager, who played entertaining football. 2 fine strikers leading the attack in Uwe and Paul Walsh.

 

[nmc]

We played some very good stuff, the 4-0 at home to Everton at the start of the season was a particular highlight

He may not have been the best manager in the world but he managed to keep it together with all the ‘Swales Out’ stuff and then basically new he was getting the boot half way through this last season

Coton
Curle
Phelan
Lomas
Flitcroft
Rosler
Walsh
Begrie
Quinn

That was a decent base and should never, ever have gone down the following season.

You are right but swap Coton for Immel and swap Walsh for ‘Fat lump’ Creaney and you can see how the rot set in....

 

[Blue Hefner]

You are right but swap Coton for Immel and swap Walsh for ‘Fat lump’ Creaney and you can see how the rot set in....

We also sold Flitcroft and had Kit Symons at the back. Kit was a nice bloke but not a Premier League standard defender

 

[franksinatra]

We also sold Flitcroft and had Kit Symons at the back. Kit was a nice bloke but not a Premier League standard defender

In fairness Kit symons was decent in 96 the year we went down but became a complete liability the following seasons.

If memory serves me correct beagrie was also out with a long term injury and Lee sold Flitcroft in March in the middle of the relegation battle. Suicidal decision.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Always liked Brian he is a good bloke

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Top guy had us playing above our level & attacking football.

 

[dublinblue12]

A likeable bloke, played some nice football compared to under reid but finished 16th and 17th witha decent team, including biggest hammering vs rags in my time as a City fan, after 2 top 5 finishes and one top 10 under Reid, he had to go, Ball was the wrong man to come in though