He was by far our best and most exciting young player but Reid sold him for peanuts and replaced him with the fucking useless Alfons Groenendijk.Agreed, he was a really good prospect and already held his own in the team.
Gareth Barry in the last decade, wonderful, class act.
I was about to say the same thing..... that run at the end of the season of 2012 no matter what Hart did(and this isn't a dig at him) the second person with the ball always seemed to be Barry either as an outlet ball from the back four or NDJ or from a tackle if we had lost the ball and pretty much no one mentions him in that run in at all.Gareth Barry in the last decade, wonderful, class act.
..........and the next time he touched the ball was for City(I think he ended up being our top scorer the following season, might be wrong on that).Gordon Smith.
Blues could only think about "...and Smith must score..." v the rags in the last minute of the FA Cup, when he didn't score, so had a downer on him.
Yet he was very stylish and cultured and was top scorer from midfield in the 84 / 85 promotion season
A great player, solid and dependable. My everlasting memory is when he went between the sticks when Bert was sent off against West Ham. Where have the years gone?Alan Oakes - never thought he got the credit he deserved, absolute monster of a player
Can you imagine him in a Pep side, what a playerTevez. I know he was rated but he is often left out of conversations about our best ever players (probably because of his off field antics). But, for 2 seasons he was unbelievable. For me, 2010/2011 Tevez is in the same bracket as Aguero/Silva/Toure.
Gerry Gow, certainly liked to 'get stuck in', probably be sent off almost every game now!, loved by City fans in the short time he was with us.Gerry Gow and Paul Power in the 81 cup team . Everton away and semi against Ipswich. Both did a great job.
Calmness is a stregnth dont forget young man.Not sure, he seems too calm to be a manager, which should be a strength, but how many calm managers have been successful?
Ancelotti off the top of my head.
Was it the miss or the fact you lost the money that upset you? At least we sold 500 billion shirts in china when we bought Sun.No no no.
I remember him missing an open goal by smashing the ball onto the crossbar in the last minute away at Doncaster in a cup match.
It was a ridiculous miss and fucked my bet of £135 coming in.
Think it was the game Nedhum accidentally broke their keepers leg, not to sure but i remember Sun's miss like it was yesterday
The truth often gets in the way of a good story.He left because he was out of contract, we had no manager and no chairman. We were an utter shambles.
Even I would have left City that summer in similar circumstances
Meanwhile James fucked off to the same club for double money, under the guise of spurious family reasons, and got a hero’s welcome from the South stand while Distin got a load of shit. Never understood that
I liked Michael Hughes, strange how he left and where he went to at the time.
Think it was not being able to beat Doncaster over 90 minutes which smartedWas it the miss or the fact you lost the money that upset you? At least we sold 500 billion shirts in china when we bought Sun.