Gary James
Well-Known Member
SWSB said:
I take it you mean with only 3 letters in their surname (otherwise it'd be a bit easy). Without looking it up... probably not. Sorry, I've failed!
You're right about the Dustbinmen, and it was full of City references (including scenes outside Maine Road and at Wembley).
With Corrie, they sometimes forget their footballing history and so some characters tend to swap teams. I'm pretty certain this happened with the McDonald brothers. I think Andy was the Blue and Steve the Red (remember one had the 5-1 newspaper cutting up and the other had a Utd poster and they chose opposite teams to show how different they were). More recently Steve has tended to make occasional comments about City (possibly because the actor lives near Summerbee).
Nick Tilsley's character is supposed to be a red - years ago Martin told him he should support Utd because his real dad had been a red.
Jack Duckworth's character as at times been a Blue but the actor is a red.
Les Battersby was supposed to be a Red when he arrived in the prog (and he had that drawing on his wall of Busby and Utd heroes) but over time he tended to say more positive stuff about City (because of Bruce Jones the actor I guess).
Liam was a Blue (they sang Blue Moon on his stag do as well) but the actor was an Evertonian.
Interesting snippet.... the father of actor Roy Barraclough (Alec Gilroy) was Fleetwood's goalkeeper and was replaced by Frank Swift before Swift joined City.