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Who was your childhood hero @ City?

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Probably partly depends on where you played yourself. Centre Mid, I had the engine and commitment but not the legs, strength or skill. Now I have none of the above!

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As a young kid, Martin Peters (cos we had a player that had scored a goal at a world cup final - you cant get better than that)

In my teens and early 20s it was Flecky

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[quote user="Lord Archibald of Henville "]Jon Newsome[/quote]

 

Mine too!! Although afte he went Darren Eadie stepped into those shoes.

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As a kid it would be Kevin Keelan or Kenny Foggo. Later on Mark Bowen or Gossy (what a great era that was), then Iwan after that. I have always held Shacks in high regard as living where I do you don''t very often see other City fans let alone one of the players. He was a school mate of my sons and I first met him when he was about 13/14. A couple of years ago I was in hospital over Christmas and wasn''t feeling wonderful. Via my son and a mutual friend, Shacks organised a signed City shirt for me. It cheered me up no end and now has pride of place on my wall. Top man that Shacks.

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Tommy Bryceland

Quite agree, and Terry ALCOCK for me.....won''t be many on here who recall them though!!

Great players in a great city team.

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Initially David Cross and Graham Paddon for me.Met Paddon once when i was a kid and what a nice guy he was.Cross a no nonsense centre forward which i liked.

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Anyway, my hero was always Gunny. His ill-advised stint as Captain of the Titanic last season has obviously tarnished his status, but he was the beating heart of the best sides ever to play for City, in 89 and 92-3. Our current coaches would be up there too. Culverhouse was fantastic - how he never played for England in an era when Lee Dixon was in almost permanent possession of the No2 shirt is beyond me. And football was a better game when there was enough time and space for people like Crooky to sit in the centre circle, fag only just extinguished, and spray passes around.

But, possibly because he was closest to the crowd, Gunn was the man. Conducting the singing, heading the crossbar, his heroics the week his daughter died, taking that free-kick from the penalty spot when that awful ref overturned Ipswich''s last minute penalty, and finally, winding up Lothar Matthaus - for all this, I feel one day I will forgive him for thinking Chris Killen would keep us up.

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Yes Yes Yes Johnny Gavin. So happy someone is still alive who remembers him.

The best ever in my adult life Hucks. What a star what a man.

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1.  Every man of the 1958-59 & 1959-60 team. Indivisible. The foundation block of the modern Norwich City.Their style won the hearts of a nation.

2.  Kevin Keelan. Simply the best. What a keeper, what a showman.

3.  Duncan Forbes. Like a limpet mine - stick close, contact made, crunch.......!

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