colin bell

[colinbellsballboy]

This is my last word on this,Boxing Day 1977,Newcastle United 0-0 at Half Time,never heard Maine Road so loud......wel we all know the result,That's what Colin Bell means to me.

 

[berger10]

This is my last word on this,Boxing Day 1977,Newcastle United 0-0 at Half Time,never heard Maine Road so loud......wel we all know the result,That's what Colin Bell means to me.

I wish I had got to see him play, though I suppose us younger generation of fans have our own idols (who obviously don't match up to Bell)

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Colin Bell was one of the finest players ever seen not only at this Football Club but on the world stage. Who or what are you to call him a little man ?

I watched and enjoyed Colin Bell for many years, including at Bury. He was one of the finest players to wear the shirt but I have little respect for someone who bears a grudge for the rest of his life because he feels he was a bit harshly treated by someone. Who he was as a player makes it all the sadder in my opinion.

WTF ?
I watched Bell from Bury onward, I can hold a grudge if I feel badly done by and hold it for years if it suits so what ?
Bell lives his life by his values as you do yours but that does not allow you freedom to think your opinion is right and Bell wrong or to call him a "little man" allow another human being to act as he see's fit without your foolish comments or are you that much ego driven that your opinion is the only one that matters ?

It's my opinion, whether it's right or not. My values are that life is too short to hold grudges. There's lots of people I could hold a grudge against but I don't. About 30 years ago I was sacked from a job and one person couldn't hide his amusement. I met up with him a few years ago and could have just ignored him but didn't. I could have not gone to the occasion, knowing he would be there or could have gone and told him what a twat he was but in the end I was cooly polite and that was that.

In my opinion, the feud that Bell has with Lee just demeans a man who is usually a decent and modest man and a great player. What is wrong with saying that?.

 

[mrt4919]

Colin Bell was one of the finest players ever seen not only at this Football Club but on the world stage. Who or what are you to call him a little man ?

I watched and enjoyed Colin Bell for many years, including at Bury. He was one of the finest players to wear the shirt but I have little respect for someone who bears a grudge for the rest of his life because he feels he was a bit harshly treated by someone. Who he was as a player makes it all the sadder in my opinion.

I think colin and franny went there way years ago. They dont bring this up anymore? and we need to respect them for that.
Unless they bring it up again it really is non of our buisness. This is old news. Ive responded in this thread several times in defence of the king, but in hindsight shoudnt have as its fuelling a debate that has nothing anymore to do with us!!
We were blessed to have 2 fantastic players!!

Well said but calling Bell a "Little Man " is fighting talk, one of the finest footballers I have ever seen, I will never stand by and allow him to be insulted lets hope the Prestwich fool realises how loved Bell was and still is.

 

[joolsbikini]

This is my last word on this,Boxing Day 1977,Newcastle United 0-0 at Half Time,never heard Maine Road so loud......wel we all know the result,That's what Colin Bell means to me.

Very eloquently put, there's not much else to say.........

 

[berger10]

I watched and enjoyed Colin Bell for many years, including at Bury. He was one of the finest players to wear the shirt but I have little respect for someone who bears a grudge for the rest of his life because he feels he was a bit harshly treated by someone. Who he was as a player makes it all the sadder in my opinion.

I think colin and franny went there way years ago. They dont bring this up anymore? and we need to respect them for that.
Unless they bring it up again it really is non of our buisness. This is old news. Ive responded in this thread several times in defence of the king, but in hindsight shoudnt have as its fuelling a debate that has nothing anymore to do with us!!
We were blessed to have 2 fantastic players!!

Well said but calling Bell a "Little Man " is fighting talk, one of the finest footballers I have ever seen, I will never stand by and allow him to be insulted lets hope the Prestwich fool realises how loved Bell was and still is.

I don't get this. People keep saying he was called a "little man" when the statement said he was little man "IF" he didn't go to the final. Doesn't the fact he was there make this whole arguement invalid?

 

[joolsbikini]

..........apart from Prestwich_Cunt, nobody on here gives a flying fuck about your sacking from a job thirty years ago or how you managed to deal with it. Am I reading your post incorrectly or are you actually holding yourself up as an example of how Colin Bell should behave? You're digging an even bigger hole for yourself.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I watched and enjoyed Colin Bell for many years, including at Bury. He was one of the finest players to wear the shirt but I have little respect for someone who bears a grudge for the rest of his life because he feels he was a bit harshly treated by someone. Who he was as a player makes it all the sadder in my opinion.

I think colin and franny went there way years ago. They dont bring this up anymore? and we need to respect them for that.
Unless they bring it up again it really is non of our buisness. This is old news. Ive responded in this thread several times in defence of the king, but in hindsight shoudnt have as its fuelling a debate that has nothing anymore to do with us!!
We were blessed to have 2 fantastic players!!

Well said but calling Bell a "Little Man " is fighting talk, one of the finest footballers I have ever seen, I will never stand by and allow him to be insulted lets hope the Prestwich fool realises how loved Bell was and still is.

Idiotic post. I've watched City since 1964. Of course I realise how loved he was. Doesn't make his behaviour towards Lee right though any more than Franny Lee being a great player I adored excuses his behaviour to others.

Lee had a feud with Dennis Tueart because Tueart was Dave Makin's representative on the board. As a condition of selling his shares to Shinawatra, he insisted that Tueart was sacked. That's just as pathetic in my opinion.<br /><br />-- Sun May 29, 2011 1:02 am --<br /><br />

..........apart from Prestwich_Cunt, nobody on here gives a flying fuck about your sacking from a job thirty years ago or how you managed to deal with it. Am I reading your post incorrectly or are you actually holding yourself up as an example of how Colin Bell should behave? You're digging an even bigger hole for yourself.

I think calling me a twat and a **** in complete defiance of the Code of Conduct means that you're the one digging the hole mate.

I originally said that IF Bell hadn't gone to the final simply because Lee would be there, that would be pathetic. He did go so there's no argument.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

My favourite City player didn't turn up for the final for reasons that seem a little trivial, to be honest. But that changes nothing as far as I'm concerned as the club and the contribution that our truly great players make to it transcends any petty squabbles that go on between the individual's involved in them.

As far as im aware there hasnt been any petty squabbles - Colin did his 'petty squabbling' as you choose to call it many years ago when he was forced to take city (francis lee) to a tribunal. He won and has never brought the matter up since. FYI he was sacked and escorted off the premises all them years ago.

Where's your response to my later post? Are you just full of it, or what?

 

[spacecadet]

I have watched City since 72 and loved them both dearly since BUT Lee was the better player and won us more games tbh.