Continuing on with the theme set by the manager's thread, what is old Peter's worst move whilst he was at City.
Has to be the way he treated Joe Mercer for me.
Taking the job!
Continuing on with the theme set by the manager's thread, what is old Peter's worst move whilst he was at City.
Has to be the way he treated Joe Mercer for me.
Yeah but half our older fanbase yearn for when we were shit :)I love threads like this. You get to see the posters who know their stuff when a thread like this is up and running.
I was born in 82 so never lived the Swales era but certainly felt the effect throughout the 90’s of his reign.
Any supporters in their 20’s now should read this thread, pick up any books and watch any documentaries about the club during his time as chairman. It’ll make you appreciate what we’ve got going for us right now 1000 times more than you already do.
Scrolling back I just realised this post was started in 2010!!
Looking back I remember as a kid we won everything playing great football with Bell, Lee, Young and Summerbee and we should have won the title again in 1972 but slipped up near the end allowing Derby to win it. Swales was appointed chairman in 1973 and in spite of winning the league cup in 1976 and coming runners up to Liverpool for the title the following year the rest was pretty dismal. The only bright spot being the 1981 cup final.which we lost.
I felt sorry for Swales as he was a blue through and through ( Although we were so bad that there were rumours he was a rag plant! ) but things just didn't work out for him or us. I actually have two hand written replies from him after I wrote to him in the eighties and his passion for the club came through. About a week before he died I bumped into him in Altrincham and said hello but he looked guarded and haunted so I left it at that. I wanted to chat to him but left him in peace.
People may say our dark times were character building and all that which they were but for a club of our size to have won nothing for 35 years was a disgrace really.
I stumbled on this short piece written just after he died which gives younger fan's s brief insight into his life and period here.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/people/peter-swales-obituary-1346086.html?amp