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M23 Citizen said:
Rinus Michels played for the old Ajax manager, Jack Reynolds. Reynolds was from Prestwich and was on City’s books as a youth player (his Brother played for City).

At Ajax’s old De Meer stadium, they had a stand named after Reynolds. There’s a hospitality suite at the Amsterdam Arena named after him now.

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Ajax and Total Football - The Jack Reynolds story — Ajax Daily

It is nearly impossible these days for anyone to remember Amsterdam as anything but a modern vibrant city where nearly anything goes. However in the years after the end of the Second World War, the Dutch capital was a very conservative and staid place. Writing in his 1955 book ‘The Fall,’ French...
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I’ve been trying for ages to recall that name. Thanks.
 
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Crooked_rain said:
Let's see!

Hopefully it is. I'm usually not one for players returning but he's a different case.

He definitely has another year or two in him.
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Even if for just the sentiment I’m absolutely fucking buzzing.

Ultimately football is just pointless, a load of millionaires kicking a ball around.

If you can’t get emotional and sentimental what’s the point.

Bring it on!!!
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
Even if for just the sentiment I’m absolutely fucking buzzing.

Ultimately football is just pointless, a load of millionaires kicking a ball around.

If you can’t get emotional and sentimental what’s the point.

Bring it on!!!
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Absolutely

That's what I say, you're meant to get carried away with football, that's the best way to enjoy it.
 
halfcenturyup said:
Yep. It's a great (and surprising to many) connection. And hardly anyone knows about it. Total football coming home indeed. I wonder if Guardiola knows the connection? It's one of the reasons "I would love it, just love it" if the legacy was continued at City for another generation beyond Guardiola.

This is the sort of thing that would be commercialised all over the place if it was United or Liverpool. The club does seem to often miss opportunities for self-promotion.
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There is another connection. Gustav Sebes was the coach of the magical Magyars who played a version of total football with a false 9. It was copied by Les McDowell as the Revie Plan. So Pepball is our second version of total football.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Let's see!

Hopefully it is. I'm usually not one for players returning but he's a different case.

He definitely has another year or two in him.
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Totally agree. This guy is different gravy. I always felt he had another couple of good years left in him and he is the sort of character who will help the squad on and off the pitch in what will be a long and hard season.
 
eastmanc said:
He's a massive personality in the changing room and the players love him. That's including Gundo. Remember them both hugging after the Champions League final in the changing room.
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Yeah

And I doubt the players care how many women he bones in his spare time. Like professional footballers would even bat an eyelid that fellow millionaire footballer bangs someone that isn't his wife. They probably know more who do than don't.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Absolutely

That's what I say, you're meant to get carried away with football, that's the best way to enjoy it.
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I’m not one of those guys who sit with a notebook and a calculator analysing every movement and detail. I’ve for the F1 for that haha.

I watch the footy for exactly this kind of silly sentiment and emotion. Because I’m an otherwise very sensible bloke with a serious job and life, and for a few hours a week the footy makes me feel like a silly kid again.

Couldn’t care one bit if Gundo isn’t at the top of his game anymore. I just want to see him in a blue shirt again and for the giddy stadium announcer bloke to scream his name at the top of his lungs and for the crowd to go mental.

That’s why I watch football.
 
KS55 said:
Do they want a fee for him?
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He went on a free, IF he returns it should be on the same basis.

These skint and debt laden bastards are behind on their stage payments for Torres who may shortly be sold on.

They don't have many debt free assets having forward sold anything of value to basically keep afloat.

There maybe an interesting day of reckoning soon if a creditor calls in the loan/debt.

The flimsy pack of cards could start to fall.

Manchester thanks you Sheikh Mansour.

DELICIOUS !!
 
Crooked_rain said:
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And I doubt the players care how many women he bones in his spare time. Like professional footballers would even bat an eyelid that fellow millionaire footballer bangs someone that isn't his wife. They probably know more who do than don't.
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Definitely. If you go back to when Bert Tratmann was at City, it was going on even then, Bert was apparently a proper ladies man, allegedly. Didn't he have a daughter that he didn't know about who contacted him years later.
 
Gone for a Burton said:
He went on a free, IF he returns it should be on the same basis.

These skint and debt laden bastards are behind on their stage payments for Torres who may shortly be sold on.

They don't have many debt free assets having forward sold anything of value to basically keep afloat.

There maybe an interesting day of reckoning soon if a creditor calls in the loan/debt.

The flimsy pack of cards could start to fall.

Manchester thanks you Sheikh Mansour.

DELICIOUS !!
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The Catalan banks will always prop them up.
 
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