Tenuous connections to Manchester City players old and new.

[johnnytapia]

I 'assisted' NIcholas Summerbee & Geoff Whitley with a court process.

Fraud by false representation?

 

[Stephen230]

Darren and Jason went to Burnage didn’t they? Lived a few streets away from their house on Clitheroe Rd in Longsight.
The Bennett brothers lived on a street in between, Montgomery Rd, directly opposite my primary school. Often use to see Paul Power etc dropping them off after training when we were on afternoon playtime

Yes, Burnage. Darren was same year as me and Jason I think was two years behind. No idea where they lived though. Never knocked about with him out of school.

 

[horlock_was_super]

Fraud by false representation?

Good but, not quite right. *





* With respect to the late Roy Walker.

 

[city tony]

I got to know Neil Young in the last years of his life.

In 2016, I wrote about him.

That's classy .

 

[LongsightM13]

Yes, Burnage. Darren was same year as me and Jason I think was two years behind. No idea where they lived though. Never knocked about with him out of school.

Yeah loads of kids from our end of Longsight went to Burnage, even though Central was miles nearer. Think it depended where your primary school was

 

[Blue Theatre]

Who was your Dad Blue Theatre if you don’t mind me asking? I was at school with Roger at Wilbraham, played in the same school team as him, the Nixon’s lived up the road from me in Withington and Alex Williams is Hon President of our supporters club. Your Dad quite possibly taught me.

Ah, small world ! My Dad was Mr Johnson who taught Physics & Maths at Wilbraham for many years, became Deputy Head then acting Head.

He's a really lovely man & been a fantastic Dad, but by his own admission probably came over as rather strict (borderline fierce) as a teacher, with the younger kids ! Discipline & all that.

Wilbraham was a great school for creating / nurturing footballers in those days & had really successful teams, I believe, so you must have been pretty good ?

 

[ysmsa]

Got a lift of Clive Allen on the way to Maine Rd.

Traffic problems on the Parkway so we got off the bus and started to walk.

Blue Nissan Bluebird pulls up, offers a lift.

Questions about what fans thought of him, I was pleased so was complimentary.

Clive scored his first goal for the Club and we won our first game I think, was it QPR?

 

[Paladin]

Ha ha, he did the same to me. I was cycling past his house in Romiley and I stared too long at him. He thought I was being rude but I was just a starstruck kid.

I was driving down a side street in Manchester, near to where his shirt shop or offices were. He drove towards me, the wrong way down a one way street. When he stuck two fingers up at me, I panicked, thinking I was the one going the wrong way. I quickly turned onto another street thinking I was about to get arrested. I then realised he was in the wrong. He was one of my heroes though, so I forgave him. Must have been around 1986.

 

[Bay Area Blue 93]

I'll be the first with American Blues connections.

I went to university a few years ahead of Claudio Reyna at Virginia. Watched him play many times and met him at a party once. Then, got to see him play in the World Cup in Korea against Mexico.

I lived in Detroit for one year and went to watch their indoor professional team play. Demarcus Beasley's brother Jamar was playing and I saw his parents in the crowd. I went over and introduced myself as a City fan (Demarcus was playing for City at the time). They were surprised to know that there was a City fan in Detroit in 2007.

 

[cheekybids]

Mid 90s I had a 30 second chat to Dickov’s sister in law in a street in the Dominican Republic.

I’d never thought about it since until I read through some of these.