pass2silva
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This is a lovely gesture from the Club. It shows that we have good people in whatever roles are involved in deciding upon these things that haven't forgotten the Clubs roots. I think this is really important.
I had the fortune and pleasure to meet Stan and his family when i was very young. My Old Fella and I used to travel to home games and occasionally stay over night at a hotel that The Gibsons would frequent on a Saturday night for a diner dance. We were introduced to Stan and he invited us to come down to Maine Road early before the next home game and he'd show us around the ground and introduce us to players. True to his word, a fortnight later, I was shown around Maine Road, allowed to wander across his hallowed turf and meet the players and management (I remember Brian Horton and Uwe Rosler, in particular, as being really nice blokes). The players used to arrive at the corner of the Kippax and Platt Lane end and walk around the pitch to enter down the tunnel. Tony Coton was late, I remember, and came jogging across the pitch as a short cut. Stan was not happy and shouted at him to get off his grass!
Through Stan, we also got to know Janice a little. And, to echo everything that has already been said, what a lovely lady. We bumped into her leaving Wembley after the League Cup final this year. We said hello, but I'm not convinced she remembered us.
People like Stan and Janice are the types of people that make a football club a club and not just a business or franchise. It's great that City have honoured Stan and not forgotten the contribution that he made to our history. I would really like to think that we still have characters like Stan and Janice around now, so that we maintain the "club" feel to our football club.
I had the fortune and pleasure to meet Stan and his family when i was very young. My Old Fella and I used to travel to home games and occasionally stay over night at a hotel that The Gibsons would frequent on a Saturday night for a diner dance. We were introduced to Stan and he invited us to come down to Maine Road early before the next home game and he'd show us around the ground and introduce us to players. True to his word, a fortnight later, I was shown around Maine Road, allowed to wander across his hallowed turf and meet the players and management (I remember Brian Horton and Uwe Rosler, in particular, as being really nice blokes). The players used to arrive at the corner of the Kippax and Platt Lane end and walk around the pitch to enter down the tunnel. Tony Coton was late, I remember, and came jogging across the pitch as a short cut. Stan was not happy and shouted at him to get off his grass!
Through Stan, we also got to know Janice a little. And, to echo everything that has already been said, what a lovely lady. We bumped into her leaving Wembley after the League Cup final this year. We said hello, but I'm not convinced she remembered us.
People like Stan and Janice are the types of people that make a football club a club and not just a business or franchise. It's great that City have honoured Stan and not forgotten the contribution that he made to our history. I would really like to think that we still have characters like Stan and Janice around now, so that we maintain the "club" feel to our football club.