R.I.P. Francis Lee

Rockabilly

Rockabilly

GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Rest in peace Franny.

Proper old school no nonsense footballer.
 
Lefkasman

Lefkasman

Ian Bowyer
Yeh, didn't go down the usual ex footballers route of buying a pub but became a successful business man with his toilet and kitchen paper factory and haulage business. Used to see loads of his wagons on the M6.
Never liked that side and I remember a near riot at the city ground one night when the ref was so biased someone ran on the pitch and twatted him. I think Terry Hennessy grabbed the culprit.
Still no hard feelings RIP Francis

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alabamared

alabamared

Stuart Pearce
Lefkasman said:
Yeh, didn't go down the usual ex footballers route of buying a pub but became a successful business man with his toilet and kitchen paper factory and haulage business. Used to see loads of his wagons on the M6.
Never liked that side and I remember a near riot at the city ground one night when the ref was so biased someone ran on the pitch and twatted him. I think Terry Hennessy grabbed the culprit.
Still no hard feelings RIP Francis

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I remember seeing him get sent off at the WFCG one night for Man City.
 
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virgo

Geoff Thomas
Lefkasman said:
Yeh, didn't go down the usual ex footballers route of buying a pub but became a successful business man with his toilet and kitchen paper factory and haulage business. Used to see loads of his wagons on the M6.
Never liked that side and I remember a near riot at the city ground one night when the ref was so biased someone ran on the pitch and twatted him. I think Terry Hennessy grabbed the culprit.
Still no hard feelings RIP Francis

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He actually started the business whilst he was still very much a footballer in 1966. His dad, Arthur, did much of the day-to-day running of the business.
He also owned race horses, and his wife ran a stud farm in Cheshire, which was also where he lived.
Very shrewd business man - way ahead of the curve .
 
I'm Red Till Dead

I'm Red Till Dead

Stuart Pearce
Franny played in my second game at the City Ground in 1971 (Bell and Summerbee too). I remember little of the game other than we lost 1-0 though. At that time City were a kind of second team for me, but I was gutted to lose to them.

As Otis said he was quite a character.

RIP Franny
 
valspoodle

valspoodle

Steve Chettle
Remember him well, but I was rather busy and distracted in the 60s/early 70s, so for him to have impinged on my consciousness, he must have been quite a character.

Thoughts are with his family.
 
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Cloughie1975

John Robertson
I'm Red Till Dead said:
Franny played in my second game at the City Ground in 1971 (Bell and Summerbee too). I remember little of the game other than we lost 1-0 though. At that time City were a kind of second team for me, but I was gutted to lose to them.

As Otis said he was quite a character.

RIP Franny
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That game was September 1970,IRTD (we drew 2-2 in 1971).
I have a vivid recollection of Tony Book (the City captain) raising his arms aloft at the final whistle.
 
I'm Red Till Dead

I'm Red Till Dead

Stuart Pearce
Cloughie1975 said:
That game was September 1970,IRTD (we drew 2-2 in 1971).
I have a vivid recollection of Tony Book (the City captain) raising his arms aloft at the final whistle.
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You're right Cloughie. I remembered it was the 1970-71 season and put the wrong year. Well spotted.

Sadly all I remember is a City fan walking through the Trent End before the game (we arrived early so the Trent End was mostly empty) and that there was some fighting outside the ground after the game which I was stupid enough to mention at home and got me banned for a while.
 
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