Brian Horton

[GoatersLeftShin]

I'll always remember the night he was appointed. I was in my early teens and we were on holiday in France and I was fully expecting George Graham or Dave Bassett to be named manager. We were definitely going to get someone in who was a Big Name. Of course, City did a "typical City" and went for someone under the radar...

I remember being glued to the radio when the reports came in that we were in talks with Oxford United about their manager. As you can imagine I was gutted!

However, although we struggled, the football we played under Horton was superb at times and with Walsh, Beagrie and Rosler we have some real entertainers.

In all fairness to him, I don't even think Pep could've done much with us in the 90s. We were a basket case but Brian Horton provided us with a lot of good memories.

Happy Birthday Brian, hope you have a good one!

 

[oakiecokie]

He attended our last Mid Cheshire Branch Meeting and was very funny and fair play to him he stayed until virtually kicking out time and had a few jars in the process.
Well worth a trip out to see him if he`s appearing at any other Branch Meetings.

 

[BlueRifles]

I thought BH was one of our best managers and formed a great team with the lickes of Lomas, Flitcroft, Beagrie, Summerbee, Walsh, Quinn, Rosler etc the 5-2 win over Spurs is still my all time best fixture as it was a game you didn’t want to end, with full entertainment for the whole 90 minutes against a very attacking Spurs side. Needless to say I was disappointed that he was sacrificed for Alan Ball.. happy birthday Brian.

 

[Bluesince1979]

See him a lot in the boozers round cheadle hulme. He still has a lot of time for City

happy birthday to a top guy

 

[manimanc]

Love Brian Horton, got treated like shit with how he got sacked but he still holds us in his heart.

 

[mrcakey]

It was a trippy time for me. My dad's Brian Houghton! (Also a lifelong City fan.)

 

[i went to rotherham]

Think Brian is a guest at the next meeting of Ramsbottom Supporters Club

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

I thought BH was one of our best managers and formed a great team with the lickes of Lomas, Flitcroft, Beagrie, Summerbee, Walsh, Quinn, Rosler etc the 5-2 win over Spurs is still my all time best fixture as it was a game you didn’t want to end, with full entertainment for the whole 90 minutes against a very attacking Spurs side. Needless to say I was disappointed that he was sacrificed for Alan Ball.. happy birthday Brian.

It's quite shocking to think we got rid of Horton to bring in Ball.

Other than Phil Neal, I think Ball was the most depressing manager we had. He was absolutely clueless and if he'd not had a World Cup winners medal I doubt he'd ever become a manager.

 

[jockblue]

We had him at Hale & Altrincham SC the other week - so he's obviously on a bit of a world tour!

 

[Katsunari Takayama]

One of the good guys is Brian and a part of City folklore