Duncan Forbes

Great idea and a fine gesture for a City legend.

 

I wish I could get there, big Dunc is a true legend!

 

I'm going, my annual trip to the carra, so will pay my respect

 

A splendid gesture for the big man'

I watched him play many times against us in the old farm derbies and he always gave everything for the yellow and green!

A fitting tribute to big Dunc and well done to all those who made this happen.

 

What a great idea. A true club legend that bled yellow and green. If this cause does not motivate the current lot to get a win on Saturday they will forever be a disgrace to the shirt in my opinion.

 

Great to see this is happening. I'm involved, in a very small way, in helping to advise carers how to help and show respect to dementia sufferers, but it just scratches the surface of a still little understood illness.

With all the comments about players who could care less about the club (most of 'em these days), show your support, if at all possible, for a true legend who really does care; Mr Duncan ("get your retaliation in early") Forbes.

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It's a bit of a cliche, but the phrase, 'They don't make 'em like that anymore' certainly applies to Big Dunc, gave everything to the Budgie cause, proper hardman defender, good to see this happening for him.

 

Top man and a great gesture. I recall the League Cup final against Tottenham where he and Kevin Keelan gave their all in a final that was one way traffic but Dunc stood tall throughout. He played with a damaged lung and was City through and through - it puts some of the modern day players into the shade.

 

While we are on the subject of ex players what's Kevin Keelan up to these days?

He was another iconic player from that era when I first started watching football.

 

The last I heard was years ago and I thought he was running a boutique of some sort! Must have retired though by now surely. he would probably be in my all time X1 JWM

 

I'm too young to remember Duncan Forbes, although I've heard a lot about him, However the fact that Welly and JWM are on here talking about him (almost) fondly speaks volumes. I'm sure they hated him at the time but it shows how much he's respected.

 

You missed a treat, Big Dunc was an old-fashioned hard as nails, take no prisoners centre-half! He was a mountain!

 

Big Dunc also loved his golf and through that I got to know him quite well over many years. He took his competitiveness from the football pitch to the golf course. If he was your partner in a tournament you wouldn't dare miss a 3 foot putt - if he was your opponent you didn't look at his face in the same situation or you would be afraid to sink it. When he had to give up golf I, to my shame, lost touch but others at the club kept in touch with him and his family. We heard last year that he had gone into a specialist care home which is, of course, quite expensive. I made enquiries this morning and, as feared, the situation is not good - medically or financially.
Dunc was never reluctant to talk about his playing days and was the first to admit that he was short of skill and natural talent and had to make up for it by effort, fitness and all other means at his disposal. Ron Saunders, who Dunc would have run through a brick wall for, was one of the first managers to see the value of fitness and Dunc had already realised that as a player. Dunc always claimed he was the fitter of the two but always conceded that if we had been the same age ' the boss would have whipped my ass'. When running up a steep hill at Mousehold with a cement bag on your back was introduced to training Saunders showed them how it could be done. Dunc did it 4 secs quicker and was the only player who could do it first time.
Hard player - yes. Rule breaker - constantly. Protector of younger or smaller players in his team - always. Nasty or malicious player - never. As he always said quite openly - if the player he was marking was a lot quicker than him ' I couldn't speed up so I had to slow him down. It's surprising how the speed advantage disappears after a knee in the balls or the player taking a 20 yard detour to avoid you '. He never badly injured anybody though. He couldn't play today - even in his day he desrved the comment that he should be booked in the dressing room to save time later. He was not guilty of late tackles - he put players up in the air before the ball arrived. I just hope Saturday goes well.

 

Kevin Keelan moved to the States many years ago and still lives there.

 

Love the programme idea, really good. I can still remember buying them when they had that cover, all them years back

 

Here's an interview with his wife, Janet and Chris Goreham!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01tg94t