Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 12 Apr 2019
- Messages
- 20,408
- Team supported
- FC Zurich (and city of course)
How did he never get beaten up by one of the staff, players or managers?
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
It’s finally online-the Peter Swales video we’ve been waiting for P31
- Thread starter Gary James
- Start date
gordondaviesmoustache
Well-Known Member
Never knew he had a Nottingham accent until relatively recently. Always assumed he had a North East accent. He’s actually from a pretty anodyne Nottinghamshire town called Stapleford, locally known by the delightful name of ‘Stabbo’.Dave Watsons voice has always amazed me, as a kid I always imagined he’d have a real deep grufty tone and pitch.
gordondaviesmoustache
Well-Known Member
Can imagine him being a fucking horrible drunk. In vino veritas.Remember as a kid, Swales came into our shop (off licence) in Altrincham, as we were closing up for the night, drunk, demanding a bottle a whiskey.
When my mum refused to serve he and asked him to leave, he verbally abused her and tried to jump the counter. So my mum's partner at the time (a retired Army Sergeant) got him in a headlock and literally threw him out of the door.
He came back next day to apologise with a load of signed City posters and autograph headshots of the players.
come-on-barney
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 29 Aug 2007
- Messages
- 12,184
Those were the days,’Swales Out’, demos outside the main entrance. ‘We’re f***in shit’, ‘We’re f***in shit’
gordondaviesmoustache
Well-Known Member
His heart was not in the right place at all.Notice the league cup behind him after winning it the year before all down hill after that!
Swales is heart was in the right place but he ruined our club set us back decades..
He was a vain, arrogant, egotistical, stupid, insecure **** who completely lacked vision or judgement, possessed zero self-awareness or critical thinking skills and was completely oblivious to his own manifest and profound limitations.
Like many self made men, he made the mistake of thinking thst because he spotted a commercial opportunity at some point in time that gave him a level of commercial success, that it simply followed that he was a good businessman, rather than someone who was in the right place at the right time many years before.
This arrogance, delusion and lack of honest self-appraisal are not the hallmarks of someone whose heart was in the right place.
Dirty Harry
Well-Known Member
Yeah pretty much what I’d imagined mate.Never knew he had a Nottingham accent until relatively recently. Always assumed he had a North East accent. He’s actually from a pretty anodyne Nottinghamshire town called Stapleford, locally known by the delightful name of ‘Stabbo’.
Dirty Harry
Well-Known Member
Sounds like Simon Jordan’s mentor.His heart was not in the right place at all.
He was a vain, arrogant, egotistical, stupid, insecure **** who completely lacked vision or judgement, possessed zero self-awareness or critical thinking skills and was completely oblivious to his own manifest and profound limitations.
Like many self made men, he made the mistake of thinking thst because he spotted a commercial opportunity at some point in time that gave him a level of commercial success, that it simply followed that he was a good businessman, rather than someone who was in the right place at the right time many years before.
This arrogance, delusion and lack of honest self appraisal are not the hallmarks of someone whose heart was in the right place.
gordondaviesmoustache
Well-Known Member
In terms of diminishing City, Jordan talks the talk, but Swales absolutely walked the walk.Sounds like Simon Jordan’s mentor.
Aba452
Well-Known Member
Love the shot of him against a wooden wall, fluttering his eyelashes like he was Di asking Will Carling if he was good for a ruck.
All whilst a tiny picture of him got lost in the background.
Didn't realise PJS had record shops, what normal person would buy from him rather than Woolworths?
I suspect Steve Coogan is indebted to the ol' Brillo pad head!
All whilst a tiny picture of him got lost in the background.
Didn't realise PJS had record shops, what normal person would buy from him rather than Woolworths?
I suspect Steve Coogan is indebted to the ol' Brillo pad head!
The last person who alluded to someone’s membership of that gang cost Manchesters tax payers £3m in damages.Heard he was involved with the Quality Street gang!
(Anderton on Stalker’s friend, Kevin)
Brightwell’s left peg
Well-Known Member
I wonder which game was close to selling out 3 weeks out. Whichever it was, I expect the declared attendance was 23,000
Brightwell’s left peg
Well-Known Member
Download NordVPN?Not available in Australia, feckin BBC wankers
theinvisibleman
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 15 Apr 2009
- Messages
- 464
Was in business with Noel White as White and Swales who sold records, sheet music and instruments then moved into TV rentals. They ended up with 15 shops round South Manchester and Cheshire. Noel White became Chairman of Altrincham, then Liverpool and was a prime mover in the establishment of the Premier League. Both of them ended high up in the FA hierarchy. One big ego trip....Love the shot of him against a wooden wall, fluttering his eyelashes like he was Di asking Will Carling if he was good for a ruck.
All whilst a tiny picture of him got lost in the background.
Didn't realise PJS had record shops, what normal person would buy from him rather than Woolworths?
I suspect Steve Coogan is indebted to the ol' Brillo pad head!
BrianW
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 6 Mar 2006
- Messages
- 6,591
- Team supported
- There's Only One City
How amateur it all was, compared to today.
We laugh our socks off in retrospect, but most clubs must have been similar. Run by precious, pompous nonentities who thought they were someone. Bob Lord at Burnley springs to mind. None of them would last five minutes with the present City Board.
We laugh our socks off in retrospect, but most clubs must have been similar. Run by precious, pompous nonentities who thought they were someone. Bob Lord at Burnley springs to mind. None of them would last five minutes with the present City Board.
Aba452
Well-Known Member
That Granada making off doc from 80/81? was some of the most awkward telly ever. The board didn't exactly come out of it great.
Do remember one of his tv places in Cheadle, maybe late 70s.
It was a total ego trip for him, bet he loved picking England managers, had plenty of practice.....twat!
Do remember one of his tv places in Cheadle, maybe late 70s.
It was a total ego trip for him, bet he loved picking England managers, had plenty of practice.....twat!
DontLookBackInAnger
Well-Known Member
The very nicest thing I can think to say about Swales... is he didn't appoint Alan Ball, that's pretty much it.... Watching him at work at the club is painful, I can't help but watch this and not be shocked that industries like the automotive and motorcycle industries in the UK died with leadership like this(worth noting that the guy was also in high office within the FA so he didn't just impact City but football as a whole).
I wonder if he had his own gate?.I wonder which game was close to selling out 3 weeks out. Whichever it was, I expect the declared attendance was 23,000
Not sure if he was joking at the time but Paul Power told me he did.I wonder if he had his own gate?.