Who did you play with or against in school or youth football who made it big time and what were they like as youngsters

[Pablo123]

Didn’t Carl Valentine run off with a schoolgirl when he was at Oldham?

What day was that

 

[DelToro]

To be honest mate I have no idea if he did.

Might be doing him a disservice. There was an Oldham player called Groves who married a 16 year old and the education authorities tried to prosecute him because she left school before doing her o levels.

 

[Silva&Silva]

Not myself but my mate's older brother played in the same Inverness youth teams as Ryan Christie.

 

[Dogtanian]

Trevor Sinclair at Monica's fast as fuck and John Sharples at Woodhey, got took on by the rags but released and had a career lower leagues captaining York City

 

[Jack74]

Did you ever play with/against Colin Little? (went on to play for Crewe and Macclesfield in the EFL, now youth coach at United) if so you might have played with/against my uncle!

Top lad is Colin we had a good few nights out in the 90s with him his Wythenshawe mates

 

[Jack74]

I think I did, certainly know his name.

Has a City tattoo?

Yep he certainly has , he was at Stoke when we got relegated rang Dario in the morning and said he fallen down some stairs and couldn’t play

 

[pride in battle]

I played against his brother Gus. He obviously wasn't as good as Clive but he still was really decent and a good lad as well.

I played against Gus in the 80s, he was rapid, probably the fastest player I have ever played against.

 

[pride in battle]

Played with Andy Goram (GK) at Oldham and John Lukic (lived with him, too) and Terry Connor at Leeds. Trained with the First Team, too, which was packed with internationals of the day, but never played in a game with them.

Played with Steve Kinsey at City for a bit, but always thought he was a bit of a Twat. Didn’t really know him that well, tbf.

Played with Kaz Deyna & Ade Coker in San Diego (Sockers) and against Rodney Marsh when he was Player-Manager at Tampa Bay Rowdies.

There are others whose names escape me now, but that was all a lifetime ago! I turn 60 this year, so most of that was 40 yrs ago!!

Very impressive mate :)

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Karen Mallahue ?

That was an “L” not an “H” ;-)

And, she was a very good looker, as you know!

 

[Blackley_Blue]

Was at school with Ishmael Miller.

You'd never have known he played for City (or played football in general) as he wasn't allowed to play any in/for school.

He was unreal at basketball though. Probably the hardest lad I knew growing up too.