City's all time hardest 11

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Nicky Ried

Always remember the Reid family photo in a match programme and a couple of his family had Black eyes.

Gerry Gow walking to the station after the game at Peterborough,kicking off everywhere and he didn't give a flying.

Met Andy Morrison at a corporate at Huddersfield a few years ago for a pre season friendly,im 6 ft 2 and a big fcuker at 16st but he's one of the few men in my life who you l look at and think....hmmmm....hope I don't upset him.

That said,my Dad says Roy Paul was like Morrison when he lost his temper except Paul was like that all the time,there's a photo somewhere of him with Trautmann grabbed by the throat,you have to know you are a hard bastard when you can do that to a German Paratrooper.Re Bert,from what I recall he didn't serve on the Eastern front,might be wrong though.

Might be wrong but reading Mike Doyle's original autobiography he talked about a young lad in the City team getting some shit off Liverpools Tommy Smith and Derek Kevan then proceeding to threaten Smith if he did.Never saw Kevan play so might be wrong,if so will have a look in the book and re post.

He certainly did, he spent most of his war there, I think it was only after D-Day that he was posted to France, where he was eventually captured.

 

[Eggsy]

Mick McCarthy was a no nonsense centre half, I remember he gave Andy Gray a good hammering at Villa away late 80s

 

[Alex the Blue]

TONY COLEMAN

 

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TONY COLEMAN

See page 2. ;-)

 

[EricBrooksGhost]

Graham Baker. The only footballer whose hair was in better condition when he left the pitch than it was before he went on it.

My mate had a pathological hated of him; blamed him for every loss.

 

[SJC]

Could probably make a team of left backs, Neil Pointon added to the list too. That tackle on giggs was sweet.

 

[bammy blue]

How is Martin Petrov not in this list? Heart of a lion that lad has.......

In all seriousness though of the current lot I'm gona go for Zaba, he went through a month or so where he seemed to finish each game with a bandage around his head, he didn't wear a stupid head guard like sir pube head of swamplands did for ages!

Was it Ben Thatcher that left his studs in tranny's chest on derby day? Bit of a cunts trick when he nailed that lad from Portsmouth though.

 

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Bobby macdonald
Nigel de Jong
Barton
Tiatto
Mick Doyle
Frannie Lee - ask Norman (Bites Yer Legs Hardest Defender in England) Hunter.



I never really clocked Andy Morrison, kinda missed out on his era. Was he a real bastard then?

Where were you when we were shit?

 

[LongLang]

How is Martin Petrov not in this list? Heart of a lion that lad has.......

In all seriousness though of the current lot I'm gona go for Zaba, he went through a month or so where he seemed to finish each game with a bandage around his head, he didn't wear a stupid head guard like sir pube head of swamplands did for ages!

Was it Ben Thatcher that left his studs in tranny's chest on derby day? Bit of a cunts trick when he nailed that lad from Portsmouth though.

I thought it was michael ball that stamped on tranny, although im sure the hatcher must have give him a sly dig or 2.

 

[bammy blue]

Yep that was it, was Michael Ball not Thatcher.