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Probably the most iconic image associated with Bradford City is the City Gent character introduced in 1966 at a time when English football clubs attempted to emulate the example of World Cup Willie and launched their own characters to present a more modern face to the sport. In the case of Bradford City, the City Gent was a cartoon of then chairman Stafford Heginbotham.
For the generation of supporters who followed the club between 1966 and 1974 the City Gent character had a great appeal and was THE choice of tattoo on the Valley Parade terraces for much of the seventies. There was a story that a certain tattooist on Manchester Road ‘did the best City Gent’ and certainly, as I recall from a fair number of dubious versions, not all tattooists could do justice to the original.
Since then it would appear that the club crest has assumed a comparable level of popularity, if not become the prime choice. Having never had a tattoo I won’t pretend to be an expert but my own choice would have been a City Gent on the forearm. In my view this would have been eminently preferable to resorting simply to B-C-F-C (although I recall a fair number of such examples on knuckles!).

John Dewhirst
Co-founder of The City Gent in 1984, former editor and author of club histories.

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march 27—b e r n

march 31—n e u c h â t e l

april 10—l o n d o n

april 16—m i l a n o

Today is like Christmas!

I just received my new Moskito liner (for single needle) by Baibar
And Hervé (HB tattoo machines) also came specially to fix and tune a Kalasha model of his with these fantastic new coils. This machine now works from single needle to 15, starting at 3 volts!

No wonder why people like Jondix, Rinzing, Filip leu only work with these guys’ machines. They are just… Perfect
(hey I don’t get paid for writing this!)

Come and celebrate SB5 in HARD HAT, Geneva, together with “Les Soirées fantastiques”, an exhibition by Frédéric Post.

Jäger shots & juices, from 6 to 9pm!

www.hard-hat.ch

Amazing medieval inspired collection by Alexander McQueen (photos from style.com)