Players you played with

[ChicagoBlue]

Andy Goram, Steve Kinsey, Nicky Reid, David Fairclough, Norman Whiteside, Rodney Marsh, Ade Coker, Kaz Deyna and the entire Leeds first team squad from 1979 (Late Eddie Gray era). Nutmegged Bryan Stevenson (Welsh Intl full back) in a game and he spent the rest of the game trying to fuck me up! I was mates with Terry Connor, who is black fella who is Mick McCarthy's right hand man (he was a good striker) and shared the upstairs of a house with John Lukic (GK), who had a flash Capri that he used to drive us around in!

Also, I played in a Charity Match with my Dad at Moss Rose with some big names from yesteryear (most of whom I can't remember), but Bobby Charlton was the biggest draw, I think. Second time I ran into him...both times he was a twat! Gave me a mouthful for not tracking back!! ;-) He was a friend of my dear departed Dad, so I couldn't say anything!

Ah, the good old days of growing up playing in Manchester Schoolboys games and with a few pro clubs as a teenager. (City...very cliquey, just like England Schoolboys, Sunderland...brilliant, Leeds...Jimmy Armfield brought me from Sunderland with him..they already had 39 pros on the books when they asked me to sign pro so I chose to do my A levels, which is why it was easier to play locally for Oldham...small time, but excellent youth coaching, before coming to States to play).

Back in the late 70s - early 80s, the standard of local football was brilliant and loads of lads from the Gtr Manc schoolboys were getting trials everywhere. Sad to see so few Manc lads getting to the top these days. All part of the global catchment area, I guess, but it was always nice to recognize a familiar face running out onto a big stadium on a Saturday afternoon.

I often wonder if I played against lads from Bluemoon. Sounds like a few of you were pretty decent, so maybe. Oh to be 16 again, eh?!

 

[BL2blue]

Difficult to follow that post by Chicago Blue !

Played with : Trevor Sinclair (Chalky), Gary Neville, Matt Holland. Didn't rate any of them. Also quite a few others at utd who went on to play at lower level professional.


Played against : Garry Flitcroft. Best player I ever played against.

 

[i8manu9]

Few years older than me but as a kid lived on the same estate as Ishmael Miller, so often had kick abouts with him and other City academy lads that I can't name. Was so much bigger and stronger than the rest of us.

Also, one of my best friends is James Tarkowski, Brentford, former Oldham defender. Played with him almost every day for about 10 years. Wasn't anything special really, but goes to show what hard work can do.

 

[Chipmeister]

Played with a few, I was a guest of Coronation St allstars XL for a few seasons. They had some ex rags but the best of the lot was Frank Worthington, top guy and what a player even at his age unbelievable skill and left foot.

Played with John Bishop for a few seasons before he went into comedy, a great guy and few of the boys used to go watch what turned out to be his first ever gigs on his road to stardom.

 

[manimanc]

Difficult to follow that post by Chicago Blue !

Played with : Trevor Sinclair (Chalky), Gary Neville, Matt Holland. Didn't rate any of them. Also quite a few others at utd who went on to play at lower level professional.


Played against : Garry Flitcroft. Best player I ever played against.

Are you a Whitefield lad by any chance?
Just that with you calling Trevor Sinclair chalky, we used to call him that when we all hung about together on hillock estate...

 

[madden150]

Wes Orange for Fletcher Moss Rangers back in the day.

Yep same although I was on the opposing team. Used to play against Fletcher Moss regularly, they all seemed to be on the books at City and Rags.

God I miss my own Fletcher Moss days. Would have been a few years below Wes Browns team, his Uncle managed us 'Neil'. If I remember rightly Wes' dad was a big blue. A few of us got trials at Utd and Crewe but the only one to make it pro was Lewis Montrose, he was picked up by City (lucky bastard) and I think he's at Cheltenham now via Wigan. Fair play Lewis.

Played in another team with Lee Crofts brother, Stuart. Both were great lads and both fast as fook. Lee would have come to the odd City away match with us when he was in the academy. Stuart ended up in the states playing Uni soccer.

Luke Joyce was in Centre mid in my school team as well. He's had a decent career at Accrington Stanley after playing for Wigan. Great lad and I think it was his hard work more than anything that got him there, he just wanted that much more than everyone else.

 

[Dicko69]

Played with ste jagielka for a few years, there was a few lads better than him, he played for shrewsbury and sheff utd, when I was u/14's I helped train the u/9's ste's little bro phil played up front, he used to score 3or4 goals every game, was always best player by a mile

 

[Stretfordian_Blue]

Ravel Morrison - utter twat

 

[Blue Streak]

Ashley Westwood (not the Villa player) but the lad who came through United's youth set up and then played for Crewe, Bradford, Sheffield Wednesday amongst others was in the same college side as me. And he was a City fan as well.

 

[silverback]

Used to play with a lad called Roy, he was picked up by Melchester Rovers and I lost touch. Wonder what happened to him.