never got a look in.
I started going to watch City in the last days of David Pleat. Why I went again is anyone's guess
but I did.
What seeing Leicester being absolute garbage did for me was made me appreciate the Little and O'Neill years. A thought which strikes me is how some of the players which hardly made the pitch would've been our star players at any other times.
So, on a sunny day when we should all be outside, but what we are really doing is scanning the web for City news, here's a chance to wander down memory lane for your favourite players who never really got a look in.
I'll start with...
Arnar Gunnlaugsson.
I remember O'Neill saying that if you should be ahead in a game but you are just struggling to get a goal then you should put a different kind of striker on. Unfortunately for Arnar...he was that different kind of striker.
With his bald head there were similarities with former cult hero, Kevin Russell. I sat (stood in front of my seat) in the Kop at this time and I remember some people tried to resurrect the 'Rooster' call. However Arnar deserved his own chant, and he got one, Arnie, Arnie, Arnie!
He made himself popular by coming on for the last 20 minutes and almost always scoring a goal. He was not an out and out striker but probably more like Paul Gallagher. He liked to pick the ball up deep and run at goal. He had excellent control and trickery and a fair bit of pace.
I'm not going to bore myself or anyone else by checking the stats but it did not seem he was at the club for long. He got frustrated by his lack of starts and moved on all too soon to first team football. I can't remember where unfortunately.
Anyone else care to share a chunk of nostalgia on yet another slow City news day?
I started going to watch City in the last days of David Pleat. Why I went again is anyone's guess
but I did. What seeing Leicester being absolute garbage did for me was made me appreciate the Little and O'Neill years. A thought which strikes me is how some of the players which hardly made the pitch would've been our star players at any other times.
So, on a sunny day when we should all be outside, but what we are really doing is scanning the web for City news, here's a chance to wander down memory lane for your favourite players who never really got a look in.
I'll start with...
Arnar Gunnlaugsson.
I remember O'Neill saying that if you should be ahead in a game but you are just struggling to get a goal then you should put a different kind of striker on. Unfortunately for Arnar...he was that different kind of striker.
With his bald head there were similarities with former cult hero, Kevin Russell. I sat (stood in front of my seat) in the Kop at this time and I remember some people tried to resurrect the 'Rooster' call. However Arnar deserved his own chant, and he got one, Arnie, Arnie, Arnie!
He made himself popular by coming on for the last 20 minutes and almost always scoring a goal. He was not an out and out striker but probably more like Paul Gallagher. He liked to pick the ball up deep and run at goal. He had excellent control and trickery and a fair bit of pace.
I'm not going to bore myself or anyone else by checking the stats but it did not seem he was at the club for long. He got frustrated by his lack of starts and moved on all too soon to first team football. I can't remember where unfortunately.
Anyone else care to share a chunk of nostalgia on yet another slow City news day?
me and my mates bought his dad a drink just before he scored an own goal in the FA Cup Semi final against Spurs in 1872 or something like that 
