Hi Old and Young fans (that’s George Old, Fosse goalie c1891 and Alexander Forbes Young, - Alan to you, who terrorized goalies in the early 1980’s)
I’m an Ibstock lad by birth but have lived in the Manchester / Stockport since the late 60's. I’ve been a Leicester fan since September 1949, having been taken by my dad, now deceased, but who was also a totally dedicated City fan, to watch a team in blue and white play somebody else, and I’ve been following the team in blue and white ever since.
As such, I feel honoured that a fraction of my extensive and varied collection of programmes and other memorabilia that I have amassed over the years, was recently featured in the Fans Gallery of the match programme v Hull.
My favourite player of all time is Davie Gibson – pure magic and with Mike Stringfellow, they must rank as the best City duo ever. Those fans who saw Derek Hogg play will tell you of the best left winger ever to play for City and to see the Arthur Rowley goal machine in action was pure poetry.
The 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were a goal-den era in City’s illustrious history.
Today, the game is so different. We have referees that can’t ref, we have rules that are potty, we have a team that can’t score, defenders that can’t defend, we’ve had managers that can’t manage and we follow a team where the only positive thing that you can predict about them is that they are totally unpredictable.
So this year, I’ve seen the games v Sunderland, Macclesfield, Burnley, Middlesbrough and Hull plus the ones on TV.
Otherwise, I’m on-line at home, in Portugal and once in downtown LA.
Like it seems a few others on this board, I also post on 606 and Bentley’s Roof Variety is the spice of life
I tune into the moan-in every Monday, ‘for better or for worse’, and have been on air a few times as ‘Peter from Stockport’.
My wife is from Ashington, N’land – Charlton / Milburn country and my sister-in-law was in the same class as Bobby in primary school.
But life and City move on and with different ‘owners’- actually the real owners are the fans, but you have to humour them, I’m looking forward to the next Sven-sational era in our Clubs history!
The future’s bright,
The future’s blue and white.