City fan' letter in "Radio Times"

This is all very surprising! The lovely Colin, aka PrestwichBlue, alerted me to this on Twitter yesterday and I thought, well, I'll swoop in and say hi to everyone.

This is me. Okay, it's not exactly me, it is my dad. He does not have a smartphone or a computer. No interest in technology at all! So when he's annoyed about something and wants to write a letter in, it's muggins here who has to be dictated to like a secretary :-D

I think he was quite shocked to see it printed tbh! He's had a million letters printed in his life, all over the place (NME in the 70s, Mojo and Uncut in recent decades) but he didn't think the RT would fancy it. He was thrilled it went in and is deeply tickled by the existence of this thread, which I told him about yesterday, just after I explained what a message board/forum is!

Anyway, we are, obviously, blues going back a LONG time. I'm 45 and went to my first match in 1988. He's 71 (won't thank me for mentioning it!) and went to his first match in 1960. His dad, Eli, went to THE first match at Maine Road in 1923 (Eli was born here, but his fam were not; we're Eastern European Jews, on both sides). So we have had blues in our family for almost 100 years. Which is mad! Dad had a season ticket from 1977-95, also (he couldn't before then, he had a Sat job at Burtons on Deansgate, if any of you are old enough to remember that).

I moved to London 22 years ago nearly, so I see all the away games (when I can get tix, which tbh is irritatingly not often these days). We go to one home match per year, he likes to just do one now. I'm also sometimes on the great Ste Tudor's 93.20 podcast if you wish to seek that out!

Lots of love to all the blues
CTID

Liz
great stuff
 
As this thread has already been derailed enough by some right wrong uns....
I have always been told it was Jewish Blues who told Catholic/Protestant mancs that he should be accepted. By the sound of it, that's not the case !
I think Colin Schindler's book described how the Chief Rabbi of Manchester made a plea for Bert's acceptance.
(yes, i know Schindler said some daft things later about the new & successful City but I thought his comments on Bert were reliable.)
 
I think Colin Schindler's book described how the Chief Rabbi of Manchester made a plea for Bert's acceptance.
(yes, i know Schindler said some daft things later about the new & successful City but I thought his comments on Bert were reliable.)
Yup. The rabbi’s open letter published in MEN is on line somewhere.
 
I think Colin Schindler's book described how the Chief Rabbi of Manchester made a plea for Bert's acceptance.
(yes, i know Schindler said some daft things later about the new & successful City but I thought his comments on Bert were reliable.)
Cheers, that's what I thought but KS55 seemed to say different anyway

Back when I was Guatemala....or was it Guantanamo Bay, always get them mixed up.
 

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