Lived just around the corner from me, member of Ashton Golf Club and scratch handicap at one time. Could be a prickly character but once if ge liked you he was very good company. Still loved his football, I remember him one Sunday lunch we were having a beer and he’d got up about 3am to watch a World Cup Qualifier, think it was Australia v Iran, something like that. I quite often park in the back streets of Ashton where the Church is that held his funeral, it was rammed that day with ex City players and Blues fans, a special man who unfortunately succumbed to a terrible addiction,
RIP still Mike, hope you were watching down on us.