I was sooooh excited ,as a teenager when John Bond signed Tommy Hutch!!! It was like wow..we ve got thst crazy 'old' cov left winger!! Brilliant!! Peter Barnes had bin my idol.....Then God sent me Tommy Hutchinson.brilliant player.even at 34 years of age.gave his all for City..and was a loyal long standing servant at Coventry ...supplying Ian Wallace and Big Mck Ferguson.....
When John Bond announced the signings of Hutch and Bobby McDonald..who i didn't know very much about..i went mental!! And when Gerry Gow came to toughen us u..Wow! Just Wow!! As an out of town Blue.....i could just feel the vibe..... i just knew we were gonna do somat....if not for cheating ref alf grey and livarpool.....(surprise suprise...) that 1980/1981 could have ended up as one of the top seasons in our history...with just a bit of luck in the Fa cup final.........
United were doing next to the square root of fuck all...jt was all City City City....Bond was effective for just a short time really...but what a ride.
Funny because at the time (I was about 15) I thought all three were really uninspiring signings, how wrong was I, three of the most influential signings the club have ever made imo, and it was quire a simple strategy really, good solid pro's, experience in every department, you're right, it was short, but a fantastic ride whilst it lasted.
He was being touted as a candidate for England at one point, but was totally shot after a mistake or two for City.
I met him at the City Circle do a few years ago. Everyone was taking pictures with Andy Morrison & Peter Barnes, whilst Edghill stood back & watched. Me & the youngest went across to get a picture, & he seemed really surprised.
I seriously felt bad for what we did to him. My boy didn't have a clue who any of them were, so I bigged them all up as proper City Legends, Edghill especially.
I've told this story before, and I'll tell it again, because Edgy deserves that, and it shows just much he loved this club despite the totally unwarranted shit he took, but a friend of mine was out in town one night stood at the bar, turns round and Edgy is stood next to him, now my mate is a HUGE blue, but with a bit of a weird sense of humour, so goes "Aight Richard, you still playing for that shit team" ? Edgy was having none of it and was ready to take his coat off then and there, luckily my friend managed to get in quickly that he was a blue himself and just having a laugh and the whole thing took a different direction.
As fans, I always think we let this lad down, like we did with other players, players like Paul Power, Clive Wilson and Dave Bennett, lads who would have run through brick walls for the club, imagine as fans getting the chance they did, a dream come true playing for the club you supported, and making a mistake and your own fans turning on you to such an extent it actually left you psychologically damaged, always been a sense of shame for me this one, and no coincidence the above 3 went on to win major honours or have very good careers with other clubs.
