Link: Superbug fear over City star death.
THE family of a football coach who brought scores of Manchester City players through the ranks believe a hospital superbug has caused his death.
Dick Neilson, 89, was admitted to hospital with a dislocated shoulder after slipping and hitting it on a banister.
But he died weeks later at Manchester Royal Infirmary while doctors were waiting for the results of tests for MRSA.
Now his son Richard has submitted a formal complaint to the hospital and is considering taking legal action because he claims the hospital ward was dirty and that his father was put in an isolation room because of fears over the super bug.
Mr Neilson, who lived in Brocklebank Road, Fallowfield, was one of the unsung heroes of modern-day football, a former player for the club who later returned to help coach junior sides and continued until the early 1980s.
