Richard Edghill Autobiography 'Once A Blue Aways A Blue'

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I aways think of Edghill when some of our fans get comically sentimental about the putative recent decline in standards amongst our support. He was the outlet for much of the poisonous frustration amongst our support towards the end of the last century.

Hope he does as well as can be expected out if it.

Especially as for me it stemmed from Coventry at home and inho it was weavers fault for Bellamy goal not Richard's

I remember that goal well, it was near the start of the 2000/1 season, Bellamy scoring at the Platt Lane, but I think it's fair to say that Edghill's difficulties with the crowd significantly pre-dated that, mate.

 

[njmcfc1894]

I aways think of Edghill when some of our fans get comically sentimental about the putative recent decline in standards amongst our support. He was the outlet for much of the poisonous frustration amongst our support towards the end of the last century.

Hope he does as well as can be expected out if it.

Especially as for me it stemmed from Coventry at home and inho it was weavers fault for Bellamy goal not Richard's

I remember that goal well, it was near the start of the 2000/1 season, Bellamy scoring at the Platt Lane, but I think it's fair to say that Edghill's difficulties with the crowd significantly pre-dated that, mate.

I only remember him getting shit that year then the alleged racial abuse year after at Stockport away, he was injured through our crisis years.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I aways think of Edghill when some of our fans get comically sentimental about the putative recent decline in standards amongst our support. He was the outlet for much of the poisonous frustration amongst our support towards the end of the last century.

Hope he does as well as can be expected out if it.

Especially as for me it stemmed from Coventry at home and inho it was weavers fault for Bellamy goal not Richard's

I remember that goal well, it was near the start of the 2000/1 season, Bellamy scoring at the Platt Lane, but I think it's fair to say that Edghill's difficulties with the crowd significantly pre-dated that, mate.

It certainly did. It became a bonding thing amongst fans when we were shit to have players who everyone disliked, Brannan, summerbee, edgehill, symons were amongst them. You'd meet city fans on holiday, say hello and the first think they'd say to you would be "Edgehill, bloody hell, he's shit isn't he?" and then wince, and you'd laugh. It became part of our makeup. They were booed onto the field, never mind off it, and it was no surprise that our home form was awful. The last one who got it properly was Vassell.

That mentality is still there a little bit amongst some fans. I noticed it in Barcelona, far too many people were far too keen to tell you how shit demichelis was. There was even a song doing the rounds that might about how shit he was.

Edgehill was probably the most abused in my lifetime, though, and a lot of people feel guilty about that now it seems.

 

[njmcfc1894]

It certainly did. It became a bonding thing amongst fans when we were shit to have players who everyone disliked, Brannan, summerbee, edgehill, symons were amongst them. You'd meet city fans on holiday, say hello and the first think they'd say to you would be "Edgehill, bloody hell, he's shit isn't he?" and then wince, and you'd laugh. It became part of our makeup. They were booed onto the field, never mind off it, and it was no surprise that our home form was awful. The last one who got it properly was Vassell.

That mentality is still there a little bit amongst some fans. I noticed it in Barcelona, far too many people were far too keen to tell you how shit demichelis was. There was even a song doing the rounds that might about how shit he was.

Edgehill was probably the most abused in my lifetime, though, and a lot of people feel guilty about that now it seems.[/quote]

Remember Wigan at home in cup, the Toyota Yaris song, were a weird bunch , look at shit Garcia, Demi, Dzeko got, all key players when It came to handing out trophy and medals though.

 

[pottsy]

its that comparison book between City "then" and City "now" and aside from bernard halford or paul power doing a book and revealing all it's the closest we are gonna get to getting answers to some of the questions that have never been answered...

why did george weah leave ?
was steve coppell caught in the showers with frontzeck ?
how many times did alan ball bring his world cup medal down to platt lane ?

 

[remember arthur mann]

Great player, suffered along with Fozzy with some potty management tactics !

 

[Tbilisi]

Reading Morrisons at the moment,find these books so interesting as I have invested so much of my life into City and there are things that went on that you have no comprehension of,must be the same today.

Uwes next then will go onto Edgy......deserves to be recognised.

 

[Corky]

I wonder if Paul Lake would have got the same abuse if he came back from his injury not quite as good?

Both showed the same promise and got called up for England squads before having similar injuries.

One of City's best number 3s.

 

[Davs 19]

I wonder if Paul Lake would have got the same abuse if he came back from his injury not quite as good?

Both showed the same promise and got called up for England squads before having similar injuries.

One of City's best number 3s.

Number 3's ?

 

[Corky]

I wonder if Paul Lake would have got the same abuse if he came back from his injury not quite as good?

Both showed the same promise and got called up for England squads before having similar injuries.

One of City's best number 3s.

Number 3's ?

His squad number 3 as he was playing at left back when he first got it when they were introduced to the Football League.