Charlie Oataway

Who remembers him from his City days ? Didn't he go to prison whilst with us ? Can anyone remember what it was for again.

when i started watching city when i was a kid he was with us. i only seem to remember him coming off the bench and not starting. can't remember his prison sentance.

He was done for affray/AbH,I think, and it was before he came to us .(I may be making this all up!)He is down in Brighton now doing some community work for the football club

I remember him, i can recall him in a game and he was involved in a horrific crunching tackle and was taken off on a stretcher i was convinced he had broken his leg..... Several minutes later he came back on an scored a screamer from distance.....

He was done for affray/AbH,I think, and it was before he came to us .(I may be making this all up!)He is down in Brighton now doing some community work for the football club

I think he's on the management team at Brighton now I may be wrong though.

I remember him, i can recall him in a game and he was involved in a horrific crunching tackle and was taken off on a stretcher i was convinced he had broken his leg..... Several minutes later he came back on an scored a screamer from distance.....

He was a tough cookie that was for sure.

he was a big QPR fan, his full name is the first name of the entire 1970's QPR team. He was a right hard knock but he was really small but a good player

Absolute nutter, in a nice way.

Can't remember the "true" story but he more or less turned up with his boots asking for a trial, whoever was manager at the time, said fine go get the ball, he did, he impressed and got a contract. These were the days when they trained on the "dog shit pitch" not too far away from Sam Hamam stadium. As I recall his father named him after some shit football team so he got lumbered with around twelve or fourteen christian names.

Good thing the arabs are crap at football, they have that naming system.........Can you imagine the confusion on CCMB developing a non rascal song..

And I'll be bolloxed to sing "there's only one Abduall bin abdallah bin mustafa bin abir bin amal bin bhajia bin, etc, etc etc"

By the time we've got to "do the ayatolah" it'll be the middle of next week

Absolute nutter, in a nice way.

Can't remember the "true" story but he more or less turned up with his boots asking for a trial, whoever was manager at the time, said fine go get the ball, he did, he impressed and got a contract. These were the days when they trained on the "dog shit pitch" not too far away from Sam Hamam stadium. As I recall his father named him after some shit football team so he got lumbered with around twelve or fourteen christian names.

Good thing the arabs are crap at football, they have that naming system.........Can you imagine the confusion on CCMB developing a non rascal song..

And I'll be bolloxed to sing "there's only one Abduall bin abdallah bin mustafa bin abir bin amal bin bhajia bin, etc, etc etc"

By the time we've got to "do the ayatolah" it'll be the middle of next week

Kenny Hibbit was manager at the time,real nice down to earth guy charlie was

Cheers MG,

I'll check out the book, always liked Charlie's attitude, never met him wouldn't recognise him if he walked passed me. During our dark days he was a like breathe of fresh air.

Absolute nutter, in a nice way.

Can't remember the "true" story but he more or less turned up with his boots asking for a trial, whoever was manager at the time, said fine go get the ball, he did, he impressed and got a contract. These were the days when they trained on the "dog shit pitch" not too far away from Sam Hamam stadium. As I recall his father named him after some shit football team so he got lumbered with around twelve or fourteen christian names.

Good thing the arabs are crap at football, they have that naming system.........Can you imagine the confusion on CCMB developing a non rascal song..

And I'll be bolloxed to sing "there's only one Abduall bin abdallah bin mustafa bin abir bin amal bin bhajia bin, etc, etc etc"

By the time we've got to "do the ayatolah" it'll be the middle of next week

Kenny Hibbit was manager at the time,real nice down to earth guy charlie was

Sorry but Eddie May brought Charlie Oatway to the club and they also worked together at Torquay, Brentford and an Irish team as previous mentioned by myself

not sure who brought him to club but im sure KH was manager as i spoke to charlie during a friendly in ponty,may have been his last season with us

He scored a cracking goal in my first ever City game, a 1-0 win against Torquay in the League Cup.

I actually won his team shirt in the old "Win the shirt of his Back" competition! It was when we were sponsored by Sports Cafe and our kit was made by Xara. It has his number 8 on the back and the Nationwide league arm patches. Got presented to me by Charlie at half time in the next game at Ninian Park.

I actually won his team shirt in the old "Win the shirt of his Back" competition! It was when we were sponsored by Sports Cafe and our kit was made by Xara. It has his number 8 on the back and the Nationwide league arm patches. Got presented to me by Charlie at half time in the next game at Ninian Park.

Did it fit you though ?

He followed Eddie May many times during his career with us, Torquay, Brentford and even through it doesn't say it on his wikipedia page he also played under Eddie May for an Irish league team.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Oatway

You would never have seen him play

You were following merthyr then.

Brighton 1st team coach, drinks in the same pub as me, great lad great on the piss
Loved his time at city.. his book is 100 pages 1.99 good read..

I actually won his team shirt in the old "Win the shirt of his Back" competition! It was when we were sponsored by Sports Cafe and our kit was made by Xara. It has his number 8 on the back and the Nationwide league arm patches. Got presented to me by Charlie at half time in the next game at Ninian Park.

You sure you're not getting mixed up with Richard Carpenter who also went on to play for Brighton? I think Oatway was here '95-ish, that shirt (the one with the white arms and the Sports Cafe sponsorship) we wore in the promotion season '98-99.

Anyway, thought Charlie was a solid little midfielder who always did a full shift, the sort of player City fans always appreciated. Good player, gutted when he left.

I actually won his team shirt in the old "Win the shirt of his Back" competition! It was when we were sponsored by Sports Cafe and our kit was made by Xara. It has his number 8 on the back and the Nationwide league arm patches. Got presented to me by Charlie at half time in the next game at Ninian Park.

You sure you're not getting mixed up with Richard Carpenter who also went on to play for Brighton? I think Oatway was here '95-ish, that shirt (the one with the white arms and the Sports Cafe sponsorship) we wore in the promotion season '98-99.

Anyway, thought Charlie was a solid little midfielder who always did a full shift, the sort of player City fans always appreciated. Good player, gutted when he left.

Carpenter , what a tough player he was. Didn't he get sued for breaking the leg of a Reading player once ? think so although as memory serves it wasn't a nasty intentional challenge.

Charlie Oatway arrived from Yeading at the start of the 94 -95 season he was a regular in the midfield up until he got jailed in Feb 95

he was not scared to get stuck in and scored a superb goal against Torquay in the league cup, fell out of favour when Hibbitt arrived and moved to Torquay in Feb 96. Eddie May took him there and took him to Brentford as well.