roger ringpiece, it really is time you took off your joe royle tinted glasses. yeah it wasn't a particularly good goal. neither was maradona's against england. terry fenwick and peter reid? yeah, rubbish goal!

Great player if it was only for a few years...what I always wondered was how the fuck we managed to get him in the first place....oh and he breeze into today's squad might not start much but coming off the bench what a player to have that would be

Pure joy to watch for anybody who enjoys watching football,we were shite at the time he was worth the season ticket money on his own.Remember talking with a United fan at the time(one of the more sane ones)he reckoned he'd have Gio in their team and i said who would you drop to get him the fact he said anybody said it all.

I remember more than the famous youtube clips the fact that in pretty much every game he would go through pretty much the entire opposing team on his own in the space of half a pitch. Often this was the only joy in the whole game as we were usually already 1 or 2 goals down. It's also worth saying that having run said half pitch, through at least seven opposing players who tripped themselves up while trying to run and watch Gio's feet at the same time, he would most of the time make a pigs-ear of the final ball /shot - in fairness he was looking to pass to Lee Bradbury rather than Aguero! Love him to bits, and watching those clips reminds me of the speed of movement and thought, as well as that rare ability to make it look like the ball was actually attached to his feet by an elastic thread. Asking how he would fair in the current squad is like having a Tyson vs. Ali conversation - the truth is we'll never know, but as soon as time travel becomes feasible I'll be expecting the sheik to stump up the cash and give Gio a couple of starts - even if it means leaving Silva on the bench to rest his ankle! I also remember the relief when he went to Ajex for (at the time) a decent fee of around £4mill if I remember rightly. We all knew he was going and it would have made the dark days darker if he would have ended up at the dippers or the scum.

Great player but definitely not good for the team.

It always seemed at the time(probably more down to Ball) that the gameplan was simply "give it to Kinky and hope for the best" you are asking for relegation doing that and that's what we got, twice in three years.

Yes the players around him were shit but there have been shitter teams than ours in 96 who have stayed up. We were pretty shit for the previous 5 or 6 years as well and still stayed up until Kinky came along and when you put so much emphasis on one player and virtually ignore the rest of the team there's only gonna be one outcome. Joe Royle saw through it straight away and immediately dropped him. Didn't work because it was too late by then. Compare him to a player like Benarbia who for me was much better for the team as he fitted into a system rather than just trying to do it all himself, there was a proper gameplan worked around him and the team benefitted from that.

Having said that he was an amazing player and it was a privilege to have seen him in the flesh. I have always believed MCFC would have been a lot better off without him but all the same we had a terrific talent there and even though they were shit times, it's still great to be able to look back and admire what a great footballer he was.

Keepy uppy tricksters at half time are incredibly skilful but not good footballers.

Gio was a bad signing for City because the whole team was built around him and we had some decent players at the time. Quinn, Rosler, Flitcroft, Lomas should not have gone down.

Used to spend hours waiting for a moment of magic, but often it would never come. He was the only thing worth watching at the time, that's true, but we'd still have been better off without him ior we should have had a better manager who would have insisted he play a certain role and not float all over looking for the ball

He looked in the future and learnt a thing or two from Jo...




You think im joking.

Never got to watch him in my lifetime but I still love him. He has a brilliant name, what's not to love.

Do what ??