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Jamie Pollock was a terrace hero at Manchester City during the club's darkest days in the late 90s.

His full-blooded commitment, crowd-revving antics and one particularly comical own-goal all contributed to one of the most colourful characters Maine Road witnessed down the years.

Now he is behind a new £1.5m football centre in the north east.

Once fully up and running, the floodlit complex will feature six five-a-side pitches and an indoor pitch, a full size all-weather pitch plus changing rooms, a reception, club room, bar, cafe and nursery. The full size pitch is already in use, however - and it’s attracting rave reviews from the junior players using it. But that’s maybe not surprising as it’s the same sort of FIFA 1 standard surface installed on four training pitches by Real Madrid’s academy.

Check out the gallery below for pictures of Pollock at the new centre plus classic action shots from his days at Maine Road, including one of him giving Roy Keane a rollicking.

Watch the video below to see Pollock talking to our sister paper the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough about the new facility: