Which player from the 1968 championship winning side........

[Feed-The-Goat]

Im sorry but why are we talking about this?

we have no istree remember?

 

[TonyBook]

Colin Bell was James Milner and David Silva rolled into one! With touch of Puskas if he needed it!

I thought he was better than that!

Amazing he's never included in any of the football "greats", when players such as Captain Fantastic are. Bell was a far better player.

He was! Comparing him to others never does the guy justice. I've said it before and it won't be the last time - Whenever he was playing I thought we couldn't lose!

I can't disagree with that.

 

[Ding Dong]

Just the one.............KING COLIN BELL..........no question.

 

[Vienna_70]

Bell without a doubt. I'm sure I remember reading that he was put through a series of tests by Manchester Uni. back in the day. Turned out he had a very low resting heart rate, something like 40 bpm, which is typical of great middle distance athletes. He wouldn't have struggled with the fitness. Could score goals from inside and outside the box, could head a ball, ran with the ball and off it, wasn't greedy and covered bloody miles every game. Best value signing City ever made, I reckon, about £60 000 from Bury.

£45, 000 actually.

Does anyone remember the BBC video, Lee, Bell, Summerbee?

At the end of Big Mal's story about how he used to put other coaches and managers off by criticising The King at Gigg Lane, he said that in his first game, Colin was absolutely awful and Sir Joe asked him,"What did we we pay £45000 for him for? He's rubbish!"

 

[Palerider]

sorry boys , watched the blues since 1966, all mentioned players fantastic but not a patch on todays pace and tactical play , sorry

But if those players were around today, they would have the training and fitness regimes to bring out the best in them.

Also they wouldn't be playing on mud heaps every week.

And I'm not even sure you're right about the tactical play, as Big Mal was 20 years ahead of his time in that respect.

I agree with Vienna, with today's training regimes, diets and health care the players from earlier times would improve no end. Tactics have changed of course but that can be learned. Bell and Lee played in a very good England side at the 1970 World Cup where it was agreed that England were the next best side behind the great Pele inspired Brazilians. So basically by any reckoning they were world class. I'm pretty certain Bell would have been brilliant in any era and Lee, Summerbee, Doyle, Oakes and Book would all have been more than good enough.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqvDxnHiTpQ[/youtube]

 

[Targetblue]

Great vid Jockstrap. Wasn't that part of the Nationwide documentary back in the late 70's/early 80's?
On another note, I'm old enough to have been privileged to see Colin Bell play and he was awesome. He would be the only one to make today's team for me.
I wonder how many posters on here actually saw him play.

 

[TROUSERS]

it is nonsense to say they do not compare to now. If you are realistic and take into account their talent and commitment and put all that into todays methods etc etc then you have to say many would make the team, cos they won the league in stylish fashion.
Bell would wipe the floor with Bale! Worth millions!
Fans now would hero worship Doyle more than Zabba. He was harder than Zabba and De Jong put together and would kill for the team.
Lee was the Sergio of his day. Etc etc
Most were internationals!
And all were committed to the club!
Great team, great football.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

sorry boys , watched the blues since 1966, all mentioned players fantastic but not a patch on todays pace and tactical play , sorry

Well Im only two years behind you and I can say that your wrong, Colin Bell was no Usain Bolt granted but the extra space he would get these days and the quality of the playing surface would more than compensate for any percieved lack of pace.... These are not CB tinted specs I wear... The Great Man was good enough,, End of

Seconded mate.
Bell would plough up and down a mud bath of a pitch for 90 mins.
It would have been intresting if they had the same technology to see how much he covered in a match.
I think only Milner could come near him for stamina in todays team.

think you will find that barry covers the most ground of any city player.

 

[Balti]

Big Mike Doyle

But he might get sent off a bit