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Struggled to hold back tears when I called my dad just now with this awful news. I asked him to tell me about Colin, who he saw play over many years. He said he was the complete player, that he and David Silva are the best two he'd ever seen. But that Colin was the better... https://twitter.com/ManCity/status/1346535763404591106
... finisher, when I said if he was like De Bruyne. He compared him to Bryan Robson (interesting, also from the northeast) saying he was a real box-to-box midfielder. Energetic, intelligent. 'He could play in our team now,' he said. Such sad news.
Finally, dad said that he saw Colin's comeback game, two full years after he was badly injured in a derby. He came on at half-time, a Boxing Day game, and the sound... he said he'd never heard anything like it. A Mancunian roar of love and relief. RIP.
Exactly how dad described it:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/colin-bell-tackle-that-ended-glorious-1089072
"The second I came out of the tunnel and into view the crowd rose to their feet and made more noise than I've ever heard in my life," recalls Bell.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/colin-bell-tackle-that-ended-glorious-1089072
"The second I came out of the tunnel and into view the crowd rose to their feet and made more noise than I've ever heard in my life," recalls Bell.
"I am not an emotional person but I got a big lump in my throat hearing that ovation. It felt like it went on forever but I'm told it was about four minutes before the cheering stopped."
Great tributes here: https://www.mancity.com/news/mens/colin-bell-passes-away-63745431
Great tributes here: https://www.mancity.com/news/mens/colin-bell-passes-away-63745431
Last story. This adopted Manc stayed in the city and made his life here. His son, Jon, became a radiologist and he works at The Christie (the finest cancer hospital in Europe). https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-legend-colin-bells-17749978
