John Bond 1932-2012

Re: John Bond

His first 9 months at the club were the time when my support hardened from relatively casual to obsessional. I went to maybe 6-8 games a season with my dad for a few seasons before that, wore the scarf and all that, but when he arrived we started going every week. The optimism which surged through the club was incredible at the time, after Allison had destroyed us. We started winning every week, crowds went right up, the atmosphere was superb. We went to the League Cup Semi and were robbed by Liverpool in two memorable, armospheric night matches. We beat United. The cup run was electrifying: back then the FA Cup was as big a competition as the League. We should have won the cup in that first game.

City appeared to be back. We weren't, of course. It all went tits up after that cup final replay and the club didn't recover until The Sheikh arrived.

Thanks for those memories Johnny Bond.
 
Re: John Bond

Shocked and saddened to hear of his passing away. Put together a good team under limited resources in double quick time. RIP.
 
Re: John Bond

We played some wonderful attacking football with JB at the helm and he bought us some stability and some great players.
Some of the finest wing play I`ve seen consistantly came from Tommy Hutchinson,with Gerry "cracks your ankles" Gow in excellent form.
RIP,JB and I for one will never get the brand of football you brought to Maine Road.
 
Re: John Bond

mancitymick said:
Up until recent years he gave me one of my greatest football moments the 81 cup final. Still also remember him that year breakin some bones after we beat Norwich 6-0 RIP
Click to expand...
watched that 6-0 game on espn last week and wondered if they would show that clip of him falling, they did.......rip mr john bond and thanks for all you did for the club and the fans...and for getting me to see city at wembley (twice) in 81 in my first city wembley visit.......
 
Seeing as September player of the month will be up soon, any chance that for us oldies would it be possible to have John Bond at the top for a while
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top
✖
  AdBlock Detected
Bluemoon relies on advertising to pay our hosting fees. Please support the site by disabling your ad blocking software to help keep the forum sustainable. Thanks.