I’ll begin with mentioning something I should have a week or two ago. It may be that there are some City fans who’ve wondered about the name Holt appearing among our substitutes in our last two matches. Charlie Holt is a seventeen year old midfielder who BBM confirmed yesterday was released by Manchester City during the summer https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/u21-charlie-holt-joins-bluebirds Our manager also said that Holt’s presence on the bench was down to two things - our very small senior squad and the good impression Holt has made while training.with the first team since he joined us. With Yousef Salech possibly available for tomorrow’s tough trip to Middlesbrough and Krystian Bielik’s suspension completed, it may well be that Holt will not retain his place on the substitute’s bench. Therefore, the first chance that City fans will get to see him in action will be in our next home under 21 game against Coventry, although there is a trip to Charlton next week before that. As for tomorrow’s game, well, with a Stoke fan saying that Boro were the best opposing team he’d seen his side face in years after Middlesbrough’s 3-2 win there on Tuesday, it’s hard to see beyond a fifth straight away defeat for City. Here’s the quiz - the answers will be published on here on Sunday 60s. A Scot who never played for a club from that country, he was a loyal sort if his surname is to be believed and, after signing from a club that may have made use of a stitching pony, he set a Middlesbrough record, which has since been broken, for most consecutive appearances for the club. He moved on, not too far, to a team of tremblers and managed them for a couple of years after retiring. Who is he? 70s. You may think I’m mad, but I’ve always thought that the Middlesbrough side of the early 70s had a nucleus of players whose surnames somehow summed up the character of the team, especially under Jack Charlton, e.g. Platt, Craggs, Spraggon, Boam. However, this locally produced forward possessed a bland surname that could have placed him anywhere in the country. He did have a spectacular introduction to first team football though with the goals which helped win a derby game 2-1 and played a part in a promotion. He then became one of the casualties of the step up in standards as he was loaned out to a couple of teams starting with the letter “B”, before signing permanently for another B team after a further loan spell in America. A desire to move closer to home saw him ending his time with a spell at a club without an e in it. Can you name him? 80s. Advent of trope as per forward who liked wearing red (5,9). 90s. Six and five combine with Brazilian midfielder to get an English full back! 00s. Half of combo who had a hit with Michelle getting jealous! 10s. Which former City and Middlesbrough player gained his only international cap in a qualifying game against Malta for the 2012 Euros? 20s. Sounds like a North Wales based follow up to film starring Jack Nicholson and Oliver Reed! Answers to follow: |
