Former Players Club: Once a Blue Project to Give Every City Player a Number Relative to Their Debut

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'Once A Blue' the former players' club have been working on an exciting new project. The legacy project. All 1021 who have made a senior appearance for the club have been allocated a legacy number according to when they made their debut. The former players were delighted to be able to invite the oldest living former player Bill Leivers to the Newcastle game and that he was able to join them in Legends Lounge. Bill became the first ever recipient of his legacy number shirt. Bill played 282 times for the club including in the winning 1956 FA cup final. Bill is often seen on pictures helping Bert Trautmann off the pitch.
Bill is also the oldest surviving FA cup winner.

Great idea and maybe it could be extended to add the number of the current players on their shirtsIMG_0738.jpegIMG_0737.jpeg
 
Gordyola said:
'Once A Blue' the former players' club have been working on an exciting new project. The legacy project. All 1021 who have made a senior appearance for the club have been allocated a legacy number according to when they made their debut. The former players were delighted to be able to invite the oldest living former player Bill Leivers to the Newcastle game and that he was able to join them in Legends Lounge. Bill became the first ever recipient of his legacy number shirt. Bill played 282 times for the club including in the winning 1956 FA cup final. Bill is often seen on pictures helping Bert Trautmann off the pitch.
Bill is also the oldest surviving FA cup winner.

Great idea and maybe it could be extended to add the number of the current players on their shirtsView attachment 149048View attachment 149049
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It was on the News this not long ago.


I also heard an interview on the radio with David White, saying how long and painstaking it’s been getting all the numbers correct.

Rugby league teams do this as well, you’ll often see a number under or above the team badge.

For example, Stefan Rarchford here for Warrington, with ‘1097’ above the badge as he was the 1,097th player to play for the Wire.

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A nice touch. New signings may learn a bit more about the history of the club and former players if they see their number and how many have gone before them.
 
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I only entered this thread to try and make sense of the title, I'm not sure it helped.
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The Former Players’ Association at City have come up with the idea to create something called the Legacy Project Number Allocation.

David White and Ian Brightwell (with help from others), have gone through the history books and compiled a list from our first ever signing in 1894 to whatever number Nico Gonzalez is, and allocated them a number.

Bill Lievers, in the OP, is number 430, meaning he was the 430th player to play for City.
 
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