I'm not quite old enough to remember either Harry or Ken. My City memories date only from 1975/6.
However, I do recall that Malcolm Allison used to tell the story of City going in for Gordon Banks when Leicester put him up for sale in 1967, having decided to put their promising youth teamer Peter Shilton in the senior side to enable them to cash in on the England 'keeper. Allison said that he and Joe Mercer decided to make a bid for Banks, but Mal was frustrated by Mercer trying to haggle the asking price down.
He claimed that Joe offered GBP 40K, and we ended up losing out on the player, who went to Stoke for just over GBP 50K, then a British record for a goalkeeper. Instead, we ended up getting Mulhearn. IIRC, we paid around GBP 30K for him (including Ogley's value when he went to County in the swap deal), and Ken only played around 50 league games for us before moving on. He saw out the rest of his career at Shrewsbury and Crewe.
It always struck me as a great shame that we lost out on Banks. I know that the extra GBP 20K or so we'd have had to pay to land Banks rather than Mulhearn wasn't an insignificant sum in the footballing climate of that time. Surely, though, it would have been worth finding the money from somewhere for the guy who was then arguably the best keeper in the world?
Anyway, not much we can do about it now. One of those 'what ifs', though.
