Like Asa Hartford's curly boots.
I was in the kippax and could not believe how bad a miss that was. More like a rugby conversion. Then in the days after in the press..."well how does everyone think Adrian feels?" Ggrrrrrr!!Absolutely. I can still see Heath missing an open goal in the derby. Jesus wept!
Port Vale away in the cup, 1991, Quinn put us ahead then the second division side equalised through former blue Darren Beckford.
Us City fans in the freezing, open away end behind the goal were baying for Allen to replace the hapless Heath.
We got a corner and Reid finally relented and made the most obvious change in the history of substitutions.
The rest is history. Cue limbs…
Wimbledon...sponsored by MCFC.5 million with Phelan (and a left back). Yes to me it was putting his dislike for Allen over the interests of the club.
Haha was a top day, I was at uni in Bristol at the time and me and a mate got the train up. Didn’t have a clue where to go when we arrived and a sweet looking elderly couple who were Stoke fans spotted us as blues, and gave us a lift all the way to Vale’s ground in Burslem.'One Clive Allen....' Fun with the stewards afterwards too.....'Number 4 is Jesus'.... all light hearted though
No value in the market clearly.Edit: Hoekman is Dutch but was a bazaar transfer.
We signed him from France didn’t we?Remember Clive Allen getting involved with a Manchester and Salford school’s initiative to promote learning a language - his was French. Went into schools and ex-wife (MFL teacher in Salford at the time) said he was brilliant and even impressed the Kids that supported the Rags.
Adrian Heath struggled to speak English….and score goals.