No Nathan Doyle on the list I see (although his main contribution would be his goal in the home game against Watford and subsequent cradle celebration). Danny Mills and Ray Parlour might be quite interesting as well (oh and Simon Walton for @originallambrettaman ).
I'm not looking forward to certain people speaking in favour of the name change. A couple of guesses as to who they might be. Wagstaff and Deano? I don't care how important in our history they are. They are soooo ****ing wrong.
You remember wrong... 'The City crowd will get behind their team and give them everything. They’ve always been well-supported and all we hear about in the last year is the club is changing its name. What’s that about? It’s so stupid. Steve Bruce has got enough to put up with'. - Ken Wagstaff 23/05/2015.
Sorry, Kempton, I've obviously not communicated this correctly. There will be no talk of the name change in the book at all. There is no mention of the Allams as things stand. The book will have a chapters on the club's history, the Waggy/Chillo era, the 70s, 80s and 90s, and then a season-by-season look at 2000 to 2010 (which is the main feature of the book). Of that list of people named earlier, not one person has come out boldly in favour of the name change to me that I can think of, but we haven't always discussed it. From memory, I don't think Waggy was in favour but it wasn't something we went into detail on. One of my aims for the book is for it to provide a little bit of an antidote to the current mood surrounding the club. Reliving such a wonderful spell (that came on the back of the ever-present malaise of the 1990s) will hopefully help remind a few people of why we do what we do, how good it can be and hopefully how good it could be again. Hence me stopping the book at the point I'm stopping it.
I have a contact for Nathan Doyle and will hopefully speak to him. He was on the pitch when we sealed our trip to Wembley and for the half-time team-talk at Manchester City, so he'll be interesting to hear from on both of those. Walton - no, Parlour - players of his stature tend to take a lot of effort to get, but if the opportunity arose... Mills - I don't know if I could lower myself. I get the impression he wasn't too popular in his mini-spell at City.
It certainly seems like you have most of the bases covered and I hope to get my hands on a copy once it's finished.
Apologies for that then. My memory fails me again, or it might well have just been someone on here being mischievous. It wouldn't be the first time.
I can't remember the player except the person who told me said he was a lanky twat. The person was Curtis Woodhouse's dad who had given my son a lift to City's school of excellence. As they were going in to the gym the coach asked one of the players coming out if he would like to have a word with these potential stars of the future. Without breaking stride he just said " No" and walked on. I would like him to be contacted and told that 2 of those players Curtis and Paul Robinson did better than him.
Of the lanky twats I've spoken to, I don't think any of them would potentially be that person given the timings. And I very much doubt that the lankiest twat of them all - Super Kevin Francis - would do that to anyone. Super Kev is everything you want him to be. Looking at their ages, I can't help but wonder if it's a certain useless lanky twat who made very few friends at the club in his time here. But that would be wild speculation.
Whenever I hear the words ‘lanky’ and ‘twat’ used about one of our former players, I immediately think Ian Ormondroyd.
Just a thought but couldn't you get in touch with the clubs they were at before City, or may be at, explaining why you want to contact them? Molby at Liverpool, Joyce is in Melbourne now, McShane at Reading, Whitney is the manager at Walsall I think, Gray Leeds, Neill Arsenal. Ken Houghton & Steve Wilson maybe try Jeff Barmby at ex Tigers?
It wouldn't be Kevin Francis as it was 1992 time. I couldn't imagine Big Kev acting like that anyway. I've looked at the City squads around that time and can't work out who. I am sure he said it was a forward.
My guess would have been Bamber. He didn't have the best reputation on a personal level, didn't enjoy his time at Hull from what I understand, and looking at the dates it would maybe work out (1990ish I think). For 1992, I can't think who it would possibly have been? Stuart Young?
