The Tragic Story of Colin Bell...

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Colin Bell, the "King of Kippax," a name that evokes memories of midfield mastery and unwavering loyalty to Manchester City. His elegant play and crucial goals made him a legend at Maine Road, but his journey was also marked by a devastating injury and personal struggles that tested his resilience.

[@donaldreynolds1694]

One of England’s and Manchester City’s Greats. R.I.P Colin Bell 🙏🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@Mancunianblue]

The City fan’s of that generation were fortunate to have witnessed THE greatest and most popular ever to have worn the blue shirt, some have come close but we’ll always “ drink a drink a drink to Colin the king, the king, the king. He’s the leader of our team, he’s the greatest inside forward that the world has ever seen” THREE CHEERS FOR COLIN, HIP HIP…HIP HIP…HIP HIP….🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲THANK YOU COLIN.

[@stevewright6988]

What crap! Colin Bell was signed from Hesleden school at 15 by my father to play for Horden CW Juniors. He spent 2 years in the local youth league before joining Bury as a 17yr old. As for 'fake' injury give yr head a shake🙄

[@paulw3765]

Was at the City v Utd game when he got injured never thought it would pretty much finish his career, was at the Newcastle game when he made his comeback the atmosphere that day was amazing I think pretty much everybody in the ground had a tear in their eye when he came on the pitch. Nobody mentions that Tueart scored a hat-trick that game. Probably now if he’d have had that injury he’d have been back playing 12 months later I think as would have Paul lake another player who’d have gone on to captain England although unsure he’d have stayed at City if he’d have stayed fit. I heard Liverpool were already looking at buying him. Still to this day I’d say it was the best atmosphere at Maine road when Colin ran in the pitch, maybe the Charlton 5-1 victory coming close..

[@garygriffingriffin8414]

The king of king a one of absolute legend ctid 😮

[@PopularIcons]

One of the england and Manchester city's greats RIP

[@exitthelemming145]

Many of these videos suffer from repetition i.e. we get identical audio and visual content repeated several minutes apart. Please also STOP with the clickbait titles thanks. That said, a decent tribute to someone who had a great career both domestically and internationally. Martin Buchan (you might at least have researched how to pronounce his surname properly) was reportedly in tears after the game once he realised how serious Bell's injury was. The broad consensus view is that it was a 50-50 ball with no malice on the part of either player i.e. an unfortunate accident. Even at 31 years old he would have anticipated another 3 or 4 years at the top level had this not happened.What might have been....?

[@onthekippaxsince75]

I agree with you on this. I was at the game when Colin got his injury, it was just one of those unfortunate incidents, Colin actually explains it himself. I don’t know about Buchan being in tears afterwards, but the only thing I will say is, I agree with Colin that in his belief no player goes out to deliberately hurt an opponent (except for Roy Keane ), but Buchan never contacted Colin or went to see him in hospital, he rather arrogantly said, his conscience was clear. At 29 and at the peak of fitness, I reckon Colin lost at least 5 years of his career. In 1976/77 City finished 2nd in the league, Colin’s regular 15 league goals in my opinion would have been the difference of winning the league that season. RIP great man.

[@PopularIcons]

I am also agree with that

[@DanDruff66]

@@onthekippaxsince75 Buchan never apologised or came to visit him in hospital. Read Colin's book. :) (City fan since 1961)

[@onthekippaxsince75]

@@DanDruff66 yes I’ve got his book and read it a couple of times, he does explain it. Colin Bell, Glyn Pardoe and Alf Inge Haaland all suffered career ending injuries at the hands of players from that filthy club.

[@TerrancePartington]

I was always of the unwavering opinion that Colin was the GOAT at City.... Until along came KDB.. now I'm not sure but Kev shades it for me..CITD

[@PopularIcons]

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[@DanDruff66]

Total nonsense. Colin never had a sports shop, or a pub. He had a share in a restaurant in Whitefield with Burnley's Colin Waldron... called the Bell-Waldron. What was a team picture of Wolverhampton Wanderers doing there, or of Rodney Marsh?. 6/10.

[@Bishoptutu-888]

Amazing player from Hesleden [near Hartlepool]