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GollyGTFC
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Went to see Colin Bell (+Franny Lee & Mike Summerbee) around 1968. They were my favorite non-town players. As a 14 year old I caught the train to Manchester, found a bus to the ground by locating MC scarfs at a bus stop. Watched the match (Can not remember who against) sitting on wooden benches behind one of the goals. City scored 4 (Franny Lee got 2) and won, got bus and train back to Grimsby, all without my parents knowing! They thought I was going to Hull with a friends and his mother to buy a new coat. Before the match I had popped into C&A and bought a coat (wrong size - but I did grow into it).
As much as I enjoyed the experience, I lost interest in other clubs/players except Grimsby Town.

RIP Colin


12th October 1968
Football League First Division
Maine Road (Attendance: 38,119)

Manchester City 4-0 Tottenham Hotspur
(Coleman 5, Lee 9, 60(pen) & Connor 71)

Manchester City
1 - Harry Dowd
2 - Dave Connor
3 - Glyn Pardoe
4 - Mike Doyle
5 - Tommy Booth
6 - Alan Oakes
7 - Franny Lee
8 - Colin Bell
9 - Mike Summerbee
10 - Neil Young
11 - Tony Coleman

12 - Stan Bowles (unused sub)

Manager - Joe Mercer

Tottenham Hotspur
1 - Pat Jennings
2 - Joe Kinnear
3 - Tony Want
4 - Alan Mullery
5 - Mike England (off 53 mins)
6 - Phil Beal
7 - Jimmy Robertson
8 - Jimmy Greaves
9 - Jimmy Pearce
10 - Terry Venables
11 - Alan Gilzean

12 - Cyril Knowles (on 53 mins)

Manager - Bill Nicholson

[img]https://www.citytilidie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tottenham-home-1968-to-69-lee-goal-1024x716.jpg[/img]
Franny Lee scoring his first goal.

[img]https://www.citytilidie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tottenham-home-1968-to-69-action-1024x690.jpg[/img]
The ball running through to Tottenham goalkeeper Pat Jennings.

Where do you start with those 2 teams?

Obviously Lee, Bell & Summerbee for City. Also a young Stan Bowles was an usused sub. Joe Mercer was manager with Malcolm Allison his assistant. And Tottenham had the legendary Bill Nicholson as manager and their team featured Jennings, Greaves & Gilzean. But also appearing were a future England manager (Venables), a future England captain (Mullery),a future Wales manager (England) and some bloke who Mike Ashley would befriend in a casino (Kinnear).
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Lee (2, 1 pen)

The customary Man City scoreline summary.


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Worthy winners tonight, seeing ‘Buzzer‘ Summerbee with a tear in his eye was quite moving 😥

Manchester is Blue 💙




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Nothing ever really swayed me from being a Mariner once I'd seen us play, but I have to confess I was a MODT City "fan" when I was a kid

It all started when they pipped United to the title in '68 and my favourite player from that side was Colin Bell

I always tried to emulate his game whenever I played... came nowhere near of course but he was my inspiration

RIP.... a legend lost  
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