Most unlikeable City squad before the takeover.

The 67/68 bunch. What a motley collection of chancers, has beens, never were's, and general ne'er do wells. And as for the manager. What a horrible, spiteful, selfish, "me me me" merchant.
 
None of them. A thread that seems to forget the dire situations we've been in.
Feel the same regards threads about our "worst" players - it happened through circumstances.
(McPointy and his enormously fat scouse mate were really pushing the limits though)
 
WesthoughtonJohn said:
None of them. A thread that seems to forget the dire situations we've been in.
Feel the same regards threads about our "worst" players - it happened through circumstances.
(McPointy and his enormously fat scouse mate were really pushing the limits though)
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Do think our squads in the early days of the COMS/Etihad, before Sven came in, contained some thoroughly unlikeable characters who were either a) journeymen using our reputation as a "sleeping giant" (and desperation to become a "top six club") to line their pockets, b) "young stars" who turned up for a payday and couldn't give a fuck about the club, c) just utterly mediocre players who were hungry for nothing. And also Joey Barton.

Barton, Mills, McManaman, Cole, Samaras, the returning Dickov, Fowler, Corradi, Trabelsi, Hamann. Players who you looked at and felt nothing. By the end of Pearce's reign it wasn't even anger anymore, it was just numbness. There were players worth turning up for, of course, and in retrospect Pearce probably did make the right decision by making us play turgid negative football in a bid to keep us up, but that 06/07 season was utterly miserable.
 
youngbob said:
There were players worth turning up for, of course, and in retrospect Pearce probably did make the right decision by making us play turgid negative football in a bid to keep us up, but that 06/07 season was utterly miserable.
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Lots on here were traumatised by that season. God almighty, did it really happen? Or was it a Bobby Ewing "all a dream" scenario?
 
youngbob said:
Do think our squads in the early days of the COMS/Etihad, before Sven came in, contained some thoroughly unlikeable characters who were either a) journeymen using our reputation as a "sleeping giant" (and desperation to become a "top six club") to line their pockets, b) "young stars" who turned up for a payday and couldn't give a fuck about the club, c) just utterly mediocre players who were hungry for nothing. And also Joey Barton.

Barton, Mills, McManaman, Cole, Samaras, the returning Dickov, Fowler, Corradi, Trabelsi, Hamann. Players who you looked at and felt nothing. By the end of Pearce's reign it wasn't even anger anymore, it was just numbness. There were players worth turning up for, of course, and in retrospect Pearce probably did make the right decision by making us play turgid negative football in a bid to keep us up, but that 06/07 season was utterly miserable.
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It was the worst football I've ever seen from a City squad, even when compared to our relegation seasons... It was THAT bad! :-/
 
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