Best one of her singing that is when she stepped in at an awards ceremony at the last minute when Pavarotti, who was due to sing it, was taken ill. Unfortunately there is only a short clip of it. Same with her singing Precious Lord at Martin Luther King's funeral and Mahalia Jackson's even better rendition, only 1 minute 20 seconds of each seem to be available.
I don’t know Mark Dunn, but RIP his Dad, a City fan and member who has just died The club are honouring him by making him still pay for his seat for the next three months...
One of those players from a time when they had different priorities. As this article shows. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45246559
Part of their golden era of manager Harry Pots and chairman Bob Lord, many players came through their system not least Willy Morgan and Martin Dobson, there was the guy who had a worse hair cut than Bobby Charlton, can't be bothered to Google, and a centre forward of repute, Ray Pointer and a full back of the same calibre, Alec Elder. There are probably many more that I have forgotten about, and no doubt someone will enlighten me, but these players that I have mentioned are the ones that I have some old cig card pictures of, remember those cig cards? RIP Jimmy, another link with my past has now past away.
My first football hero was Ray Pointer, before he was replaced by Denis Law, down to a cigarette card. As a naive youngster I believed kicking was improved by having the opposite arm extended as you kicked the ball. Only twice applauded the opposition, David Silva after the best individual performance from an opposition player I have seen at a home game, and when the Burnley team of Colin Waldron, Leighton James etc gave us a football lesson, the 2-1 scoreline to them flattering us. Ralph Coates was the player with the unfortunate hairstyle. Good player though. Amazing how Burnley in a town of 80,000 with top clubs all around them produced so many good players whilst we, in a bigger city with no rivals around, produced so few. CityMan would no doubt put that down to the fact that and the fact they could attract over 30,000 regularly in a town of 80,000 was down to the fact there was nothing to do round there. First got interested in football 1957 time. In the next 5 seasons Burnley were Division 1 Champions, runners up, third and got to a Cup Final. Then came the abolition of tbe maximum wage... please log in to view this image
Good post Castro, yes Ralph Coates, think they also had a winger who thought he was another George Best when transferred to Man Utd, Willy Morgan? He wasn't George but he was still pretty good. But its odd looking back of which teams were top teams in their day but are also rans in the current era. Although Fulham are in the top flight they were masterful in the Johnny Haynes day, Blackpool, don't know how they doing today, but in Jimmy Armfield's day they were a class team, Portsmouth were a top flight team and despite all the obvious teams I remember Middlesbrough having a couple of England players in their line when they visited City back in the 60's.
Preferable to a lot of the present bunch who think they are as important as their husbands, like Rebecca Vardy, and lead them into incorrect professional and lifestyle choices.
As I said, got interested in football in 1957. The next five seasons saw Wolves win the title twice, and an FA Cup, Burnley win the league and get to a Cup Final, Ipswich win the league, Bolton and Forest win the Cup, Luton, Blackburn and Leicester get to finals. Then came the abolition of the maximum wage. The fans of a lot of teams from smaller cities and towns could look forward to the forthcoming season thinking this could be our year. They went to watch their local team. Now the TV companies and the plastics who have adopted teams they have no connection with and only see when sat on a sofa at home or in the pub are happy to see the domination by the same old big city clubs. This generation of "fans" sneer at the fans of the local team and ask who wants to see Burnley v Bournemoutj, Brighton v Watford etc, in fact any game not involving the big six. I know which era I prefer.
