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English footballer (born 1942)

Michael George SummerbeeOBE (born 15 December 1942) is an English former footballer, who played as a forward in the successful Manchester City side of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

A star of the Manchester City team of the swinging 60s, Mike Summerbee was admired for his wing play and feared for his hard-man tackling.

Club career

Summerbee was born in Preston, Lancashire, and raised in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He attended Naunton Park Secondary Modern School where he was influenced by sports teacher, Arnold Wills, with whom he was publicly reunited 50 years later when Summerbee was Guest of Honour at the 150th anniversary celebrations of Cheltenham YMCA, to which both had belonged in their youth.

Summerbee made his league debut playing for Swindon Town in 1959 at the age of 16. He made more than 200 appearances for the Wiltshire club, scoring 38 goals.

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Mike Summerbee.

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One of football's true cult heroes, Mike Summerbee, one of Manchester City's attacking trinity — with Colin Bell and Francis Lee — inspired the club to four.

In 1965 Manchester City manager Joe Mercer signed Summerbee for a fee of £35,000. In his first Manchester City season, Summerbee started every match, the only Manchester City player to do so that season.

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