Rob Gretton

[borassic]

Have read plenty of interviews with him and know his allegiance to City but did anyone actually know him and attend games with him? Heard he was a nutter and a very funny man.

 

[cyclops]

Loads of personal memories and anecdotes on here mate.

http://www.1topclassmanager.co.uk/book/rob.php

 

[borassic]

Loads of personal memories and anecdotes on here mate.

http://www.1topclassmanager.co.uk/book/rob.php

cheers mate.

 

[shadygiz]

It’s not a well-known fact that Rob was a Wythenshawe Black and White minstrel.

He conducted TV interviews dressed in his karate suit (with black belt, no less) in the back garden in his armchair.

I met Rob hiding under a privet hedge in a front garden in Nottingham after being chased by Notts Forest skinheads. We lay flat on our stomachs staring eye level at a dozen pairs of well-polished Doc Marten boots, and he extended a hand and said, “Rob Gretton, Wythenshawe, pleased to meet you.”

He bought one of the first Audi Quattro cars in Britain, but couldn’t really drive, so I got to sit at the wheel of a flash new car. He particularly didn’t like motorways as he said they had 'long corners'.

Mike Pickering

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Saw him in the Gardeners Arms off Claremont Road after (I think) the Wycome game 1999, certainly it was one of the last 3 home games of the season.
Then before the play off final he had died....