Dave Watson for me at City. Quite majestic. There were other players in that first team I ever watched as well, of course, and I idolised all of them (the likes of Corrigan, Doyle, Donachie, Hartford, Tueart, Owen and Barnes, Kidd and Royle up front - great days) but from a personal point of view Watson was the clear favourite. As I've got older, I've never been able to feel quite the same bond for players as I did when I first started going and it was all new to me, so no one has really compared with him since in my affections.
The only other sport I've ever really had a passion for as opposed to an interest in has been cricket. My early cricketing idols were Ian Botham for England (made his Test debut in 1977, the first year I have a clear memory of any cricketing events) and Clive Lloyd at Lancashire. What those two had in common was the capacity to turn a game round in a very quick space of time, so if they were on your side, the position was never quite lost even if things looked bleak.
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