Peter Barnes

edinburgh123 said:
Peter Barnes has good taste - drinks Guinness. Tommy Booth, not so good. They are always propping up the bar at the Ardwick (or at least they were up to a month or so ago before the whole world bloody changed!). Not sure if they are meant to be there in an official capacity, just seemed to be sat at the end of the bar, and good on them!
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Tommy B. continually takes the piss out of Barnesy during Q & A sessions at Branch Meetings.Joe Corrigan is as bad at the piss taking and we have seen them as a group and they are brilliant at bouncing things off one another.
Three great characters and if you get the opportunity of seeing them,then its well worth a good night out.
 
oakiecokie said:
Ah OK mate.But that game did put Spurs down though, IIRC ?
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Not sure, I just remember City were superb that day/season. My fave period of watching City, bar none. Big Mal utterly ruined a wonderful team. Ruined it.
On a different note, the Spurs game has always puzzled me on one issue: the attendance. We were still in with a great shout for the league but only mustered just shy of 40k for this game. Maybe the defeat to Derby put the proverbial spanner in that set of spokes and I've misremembered it. So many great memories of that season though: Kiddo getting 4, Watson's header v Ipswich. What a team.
 
oakiecokie said:
Tommy B. continually takes the piss out of Barnesy during Q & A sessions at Branch Meetings.Joe Corrigan is as bad at the piss taking and we have seen them as a group and they are brilliant at bouncing things off one another.
Three great characters and if you get the opportunity of seeing them,then its well worth a good night out.
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Seeing them from 2 metres please.
 
horlock_was_super said:
Wasn’t he on the ground staff before he started playing. I am sure he made his debut at vile along with Paul Power. I also remember him saying he was nytid fan. The BIFFO’s love him.
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Yes, although I'd forgotten that until your post. Tommy Booth used to be an apprentice at Mather & Platts before giving it up for football too from memory, different times I guess.
 
Centurions said:
Yes, although I'd forgotten that until your post. Tommy Booth used to be an apprentice at Mather & Platts before giving it up for football too from memory, different times I guess.
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I remember playing against Tommy's son at junior school. His lad went to St. Margaret's near Prestwich. Couldn't believe my eyes seeing Tommy watching. Put an extra 10% into my running (which meant I was only slightly behind everyone else, not the usual woefully behind).
 
Did Peter Barnes make his england debut on the same night as hoddle? If I remember it was against Bulgaria but hoddle got all the plaudits afterwards
 
john blue said:
Been taping anything " city" on sky and bt, found city in the 70s, on bt, spurs home and away late 70s, won 5-0 at home and 2-0 away, watching barnes is like watching sane, , forgot how good he was, got stuck in as well. well worth taping, on at all different times.
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I’m currently writing his authorised biography. The main aim is to remind everyone of how great he was and how brilliant that70s City team was. We’ve all focused on the failures of the 90s in recent years and so I’m hoping we can remind the world that City were a major power who suffered rather than a 3rd tier team that got lucky. If you’ve got memories of Barnes playing for any club, including England, then please email barnes@manchesterfootball.org Thanks.
 
A good pal of mine tells a funny story about chatting up Peter's sister in a Manchester club back in the day.
He'd just signed his first professional contract with York City and fancied himself as a bit of a ladies man. Anyway, he's grafting away laying it on thick that he's a professional footballer for the mighty York City blah, blah blah, only for her to tell him to "Fuck off cos my brother is Peter Barnes who plays for the proper City and England"
 
SB Blue said:
if you’re cheaper maybe let Peter Barnes know
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Cheaper - Peter's not paying me anything. It's a financially stretched world being a writer unfortunately. Most of us do it for the love hoping that one day we get a JK Rowling-esque winner but usually our books end up remaindered in the bargain section of one of those end of the line discount book shops. But it's what we choose to do and so we're happy. I happily earn less than the minimum wage to do something I love. There's nothing better than listening to former players, fans and others tell their stories and I've never regretted jacking in a well-paid career in 2002 to scrape a living because it's something I truly love. I am always grateful to those who buy my books. It means a lot. Thanks.
 
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