Tommy Muir RIP : Funeral details P15

So sad to hear of the passing of this lovely fella. My thoughts and condolences to Lyn and family. I've not seen Tommy for a while, I last saw him about 2 years ago at the match and had a pint and a good chat with him. I'd just like to share a couple of memories of him if I may. I have known Tommy for forty years. I first met Tommy and Lyn at their Pub the Ardwick Empire and as one of the posts above suggested, it was quite common to follow a landlord and landlady from pub to pub in those days, especially when they were as good as Tommy and Lyn . He started and played for our football team at the Ardwick Empire, I used to look forward so much to Sundays. He was as you would expect a decent and uncompromising full back. After they left the Ardwick Empire they went to the Mad Hatter and us regulars would split our time between pubs now. After that they went to the Kenilworth and so did we every Sunday. The George and Dragon was their next stop and it became a regular haunt for us particularly on a Sunday and I ended up turning out for that football team too. I would never have travelled these distances for a pint if it wasn't for Tommy. The Ardwick Empire, the football team and the away days from the Dragon are some of the best memories I have of Tommy. It was about the trip the beer and the banter. Tommy was in his element when organising away trips, supporter meetings, or team fixtures.
So nice to see so many tributes to Tommy on here. He was one of those people you were always genuinely pleased to see and to be in the company of.
I remember him once asking me did I want to pop up and see his memorabilia collection at the George as he said he might not put it all out on display again. Understandable considering how much there was. I spent a long time upstairs at the George that night looking at it all, It was like Santas Grotto up there for a blue, and Tommy had a back story for every piece of memorabilia on display. Tommy always had a story.
I will post a picture below of the Ardwick Empire football team which I would estimate was taken somewhere between 1984/1986 maybe a touch earlier. Tommy is stood extreme left sporting an 80"s tash and leather jacket. Some of you may recognise yourselves in this photo.
I consider myself, as I'm sure all of you do, very fortunate to have known Tommy.

Rest in peace Tommy,
 
Devestated many a time on the way to away games we would pull in at the George and Dragon and sometimes on the way back as well .When I was over for games I used to see him in the Hare and Hounds in Sudehill for a pint and a chat
He didn't look well though last time I saw him against Newcastle but that was Tommy nothing would stop him going to watch City RIP Tommy you will be rembered fondly
Don Price & on behalf P&W Blues
 
I never met him, but I recognise his face after often going in the Kenny and George. Cheadle in particular has such a big old school city presence and he seemed a big part of that.

Rest in peace.
 
Didn't know the bloke, but he followed City through all the barren years and at least he got to see us put that 'not in my lifetime' shite to bed, win the Treble, win the domestic Treble and hit the 100 points.
 
Pointed out to me as one of the TOP City guys many years ago and saw him at many an away game. RIP Tommy
 
Met Tommy years ago and he helped me with tickets down through the years and we shared a few pints and laughs. I'm from Coleraine originally and told him my story how I started going to city late 70s and early 80s travelling overnight on ferry, attend game and straight home again after game on Saturday overnight ferry. Quite a few years ago he gave me this plaque which he'd rescued from Maine Road and is something I'll always treasure RIP blue
 

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Didn't know Tommy to talk to but knew his face from our City travels.
Last time we saw him was the day after our Champions league win, we were all celebrating dancing and singing outside the bars in the sultanahmet area of Istambul.
Among us all was Tommy in his wheelchair with a big smile on his face as he was being pushed around to the music. Glad he lived long enough to see us win it.
R.I.P Tommy.
 
Billy B. RIP Tommy. 50 years of being a mate. From the post with his sidekick, Pete Roger’s to the Hat and Feathers - Newton St branch - Clive Wilson our player guest - Journalist Patrick Barclay hanging out at the pub. 80’s promotion parties at the Post Office Social club. Away games on a coach from Longwynd Shropshire cos Manchester coach firms would’nt touch the branch with a barge pole.Home games at Maine Road in the Albert, City Social Club and the Clarence. Main Stand, Block HC just behind the Directors box in the Swales years. At the Etihad, Colin Bell stand top tier, Gate 326 - at the bar for a half time pint and catch up. Links with the Langley Lads - Win, Duggie Corlett, Tony Valente and Mick Akin. The pub years, Ardwck Empire, Mad Hatter, Kenilworth( all those tv screens) and the George - with the kinkladze room! European nights in Santander, Munich and Celtic. Look out for a sky blue star in the sky tonight - shine on you crazy diamond!! Happy Trails !!
 
Tommy was a good man, always willing to help out a Blue and he along with Piano Pete helped make Cheadle Blues a fantastic supporters club.

He had a brilliant sense of humour, i remember when the Rags lost away to Southampton playing in that gray kit that they claimed made it difficult to make out their team mates, Tommy ordered his staff at the George in Cheadle to ignore any rags wearing that shirt on the grounds they were invisible :)

I worked in the pub just down the road from the George and one night the rags were playing Fiorintina and i had got our barmaids Fiorintina shirts as we used to get the rags in that wouldnt watch in Tommys pub, Tommy came down for a pint and a laugh at what we had done, big smile on his face, he said "love it Russ, thats brilliant"

He will be greatly missed by all of us at Cheadle Blues as well as in the wider City family, he was a truly great man and he is a legend.
 
Known Tommy since the 80s through OSC (use to let him beat me at darts keep on his good side :-) top blue even when ill with that shitty disease travelled to Euro aways. Sure I bumped into him at Old Trafford recently when we'd give them another football lesson, said how you doing Tommy. Fucked was his reply but not in a moaning way. Rest in Peace fella.
 
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