When you think of German athletes, you tend to think of big muscled, powerful strikers who can really hit a ball with such strength with either by head or foot. The same philosophy is also applied to the men. Footballers such as Oliver Beirhoff, Karle-Heinz Rumenigge, Lothar Matthaus and Jurgen Klinsmann gracing the German national [...]

Neil Young was the epitome of a footballer in the 1960’s. A local lad, born in Fallowfield in February 1944, Young not only achieved the schoolboy dream of playing for you club, but also scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup final at Wembley and achieved legendary status during his eleven years with the [...]

  If a credit crunch had existed in 1997, it would probably have saved City the club record £3m paid to Portsmouth for Lee Bradbury. Bradbury had been putting in some excellent performance for Portsmouth, scoring 15 goals from 54 appearances. His for had attracted the attentions of a number of clubs, but Frank Clarke’s [...]

Colin Bell was one of the greatest ever players to wear the sky blue of City. Signed by Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison in 1966, bell was to form the nucleus of the successful City side of the late 60’s and early 70’s and was part of the famous trio that included Francis Lee and [...]

OTBM’s newest feature takes a look at some of the greatest players ever to grace the blue and white of City. This week we look at the short career of Paul Lake, one of the best midfielders who never had the opportunity to fulfil his potential. Paul Lake, known as Lakey amongst the supporters was [...]