Trevor Francis RIP

I saw Trevor in a beach club in Estepona just a couple of summers ago.

Lightly tanned and as lean as a butchers dogs.

Chatted in passing about the ‘new’ City and he said “you just wouldn’t believe how things were at the ‘old’ City.

His debut at Stoke was one of those ‘you had to be there occasions’

It was down hill for many years after that.
 
petrusha said:
I remember that a building society opened a branch on Wilbraham Road in Chorlton in November 1981 and commemorated the occasion by having Trevor Francis make a personal appearance. Anyone who opened an account got a free photo taken with him, and I saved my dinner money for the day so that I could take advantage of the offer. He was extremely gracious to a nervous kid, so I always thought favourably of his character after that.

He was a truly wonderful player, too. We had some other fairly big names at the time, but the team really was markedly far worse during the third of our fixtures that Trevor missed through injury (plus one suspension after he was sent off at home to Everton). It disgusts me now as much as it did at the time that the utter **** Swales used Trevor Francis to advertise season tickets on Piccadilly Radio only to flog him off for a laughably cheap fee as soon as they stopped being on sale.

Francis's departure signalled the start of City ceasing to act like a proper big club, a stated of affairs that persisted for a distressingly long time. Still, even his spell with us didn't last long, it was a privilege to watch him in that season he spent with us. He was an absolute thoroughbred of a footballer and showed it pretty well whenever he took the field.
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Fully agree and him being sold to be replaced by David Cross and Chris Jones (who??) was such a kick in the teeth for us.
As others have said, best I’ve seen (including Franny) before Tevez and Sergio etc rocked up. We did have a good chance in my view with him to add to others in the squad(or signed early in the season) but injuries, old age and Bond’s insistence on buying his son did for us.
RIP though- really great player
 
spacecadet said:
Remember that rare win at that shithole. Had to watch Asa's disallowed goal three times to check my eyes weren't deceiving me. Hartford is in front of the scouse **** centre half. We have been being fucking cheated at the dump for decades.
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Cheating in plain sight....it’s gone on for decades !!
 
RIP - only the other day had that debut at stoke in my top 5 city moments. A sad day for the footballing world.
 
spacecadet said:
Remember that rare win at that shithole. Had to watch Asa's disallowed goal three times to check my eyes weren't deceiving me. Hartford is in front of the scouse **** centre half. We have been being fucking cheated at the dump for decades.
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Big Joe was bottled iirc
 
He was quality and my memory as a youngster was going along to Maine Road near Christmas time to see Wolves at home.

He was unbelievable - still talk about it to this day. On a totally different level to anyone I had ever seen in a blue shirt up until David Silva.
 
Trevor Francis, a player who left his mark on so many City fans in such a short period. He was an outstanding player who should have been at our Club for a very long time, but it wasn't to be. We all missed him when he left, a mega-star and legend, I was at Stoke for that debut, a day to remember, RIP TREVOR, you will always be remembered at City.
 
Was on strike so got to Stoke for his debut scored twice biggest away following I was ever in. RIP fella.
 
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