It is a distant memory, but not a dream that at the end of the ’70s my dad took me to see City reserves at home. The memory was not the match, but the fact that my dad and I got into the changing rooms at the end of the game to meet Watson, Channon and Barnes. Aged 9 I was too shy to speak, but confident enough to stride out on the pitch afterwards to take air penalties which nestled into the goal at the North Stand End.