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

Nicky Reid at Chorlton High School. Remember in a lesson talking about our future job prospects he would always say he would be playing for City. Smashing lad and very down to earth. Also there was Mike Barnes, younger brother of Peter who was also a cracking player and on City’s books. No idea what happened to him though.
 
The best I played with was George Clegg for Woodhouse Park in the early 90s at under 12 and under 13. He was a level above anyone in our team and the league as a whole and regularly played in higher age groups. He is a big City fan but got scouted by united. He went on loan to Royal Antwerp and Gillingham before transferring to Bury.
 
blue44 said:
Steve Wrigley.
early 1970's him and his mates played
with me and my dad in King Georges playing fields Ashton.

He was 1 year older than me,he was an absolute amazing dribbler,ran rings around all of us,he joind Palaces youth team/set up,they had a big reputation i was told as a kid.

he ended up at Forest when Cloughie was there but a bit part player if i remember correctly, ended up on the coaching staff at City too under Pearce
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Wigley!

Knew him, too, and went out with a girl I knew. ;-)
 
tony coleman said:
Nicky Reid at Chorlton High School. Remember in a lesson talking about our future job prospects he would always say he would be playing for City. Smashing lad and very down to earth. Also there was Mike Barnes, younger brother of Peter who was also a cracking player and on City’s books. No idea what happened to him though.
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Played against Nicky at the representative schoolboy level. U-16s IIRC. I was at Sunderland at the time and he was already at City.
 
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!!
 
Played for Chadderton Colts as a kid in the early 70's, we played on the pitches just next to Boundary Park Oldham and got free admission after our games
i was always substituted for a younger kid called Carl Halford who was the son of Bernard, the City secretary for a lot of years
He was signed by City but ended up with a career outside the First Div with Bury and Stockport
I met him at a party when he was playing for Bury and they had been drawn against Liverpool ( McDermott, Dalglish, Kennedy et al) in the League Cup and he was telling me how he fansied their chances as Liverpool wouldn't be up for it on a wet Tuesday at Gigg Lane, wonder how that went?
Nice kid but a cheeky twat, - so long ago, like a parallel universe
 
Ronnie Healey who played in goal for City for a short while in the very early seventies went to my school Newall Green. He was a few years older than me though. Every year they used to have a teacher's v the final years football team game. Mr Roberts the games teacher brought Ronnie along one year. I'm sure he did some minutes in one of the team's goals for a while but my memory may be playing tricks on me it was a bloody long time ago now lol.
 
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