City launch legal action against the Premier League | Club & PL reach settlement | Proceedings dropped (p1147)

[blue b4 the moon]

In the early years of the Swales era, we were without doubt one of the biggest and rapidly becoming the biggest club in the country.

I remember the summer in the mid 70's when we signed Mick Channon for then a record fee of 300k, at the time he one one of the stars of the game and it was a huge signing.

This no history, small club narrative was and is absolute crap.

Those were the days of doing paper rounds to cover away travel/tickets.

Used to take advantage of reading every papers sports news on us.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Stefan on talksport in an hour at 10:30. Might be worth a listen & could shed some light on the situation.

Although going off his tweets yesterday maybe not as he was playing a city win in court, down.

Why would he know any more than the rest of us?

 

[Kinkybyname]

Those were the days of doing paper rounds to cover away travel/tickets.

Used to take advantage of reading every papers sports news on us.

no wonder my fuckin' paper was always late

 

[Keeper!]

Those were the days of doing paper rounds to cover away travel/tickets.

Used to take advantage of reading every papers sports news on us.

Swales at that time was very close to getting it right, the Tony Book/Bill Taylor combination had produced a quality side and was one or two players away from a title winning side, the decision to bring back Big Mal destroyed it all.

 

[SSL2]

Why would he know any more than the rest of us?

As I said yesterday, three extremely credible journalists put their name out there backing a 'significant city win', yet stefan came out straight away playing it down.

So you're right, he may not know more than the rest of us, but why would he come out & say that?

 

[BerkshireBlue]

As I said yesterday, three extremely credible journalists put their name out there backing a 'significant city win', yet stefan came out straight away playing it down.

So you're right, he may not know more than the rest of us, but why would he come out & say that?

Because it's the obvious thing to do. All that's happened is one rule wasn't put forward for discussion and that's it. It could mean something or it could mean nothing. The best approach is not jumping to conclusions that could leave you with egg on your face.

 

[hammocity]

It makes it look like what ever fan assumes that City were “invented”’by Mansour and maybe it’s time we did brag and personally I don’t laugh about the Swales era which nearly cost us our wonderful club

Totally agree, I was at a night match at Maine Road sat in the Main Stand during that era, it wasn't an attractive game and there were thousands of empty seats. I can't be sure but reckon the crowd was just around 25k or so. I thought at the time the Club was on a slippery slope to lower league football and we may never recover from it, the club was in a dire state. I think the annual turnover that season was £8m, early 90's, it was desperate.

 

[Grassland Blue]

Maybe we could ask the Premier League how they’re funding the case. See if they cooperate. If they didn’t have sufficient funds perhaps Masters fails the fit and proper test?

Now that would be soo funny....

 

[Kippaxpete]

It certainly has and I can say hand on heart it ain't been easy but I have loved every single minute

Sorry but I don't believe anyone 'loved every single minute'. Like you, I lived through it and remember times when I could literally have cried. What I do recall though is the 'fuck you' siege mentality that developed in those dark days. It's what United fans couldn't understand at the time (and never will) and what made our resurgence even sweeter. The expression 'what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger' was never more appropriate. In that sense, I wouldn't change a thing.

 

[manimanc]

Maybe we could ask the Premier League how they’re funding the case. See if they cooperate. If they didn’t have sufficient funds perhaps Masters fails the fit and proper test?

He'll pass a fat and pompous test with flying colours the fat fuckin ponce.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Swales at that time was very close to getting it right, the Tony Book/Bill Taylor combination had produced a quality side and was one or two players away from a title winning side, the decision to bring back Big Mal destroyed it all.

Sadly all correct.

 

[Gremlin]

68/69.

You forgot 70

 

[xgorton]

You forgot 70

I was on about the photo.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Swales at that time was very close to getting it right, the Tony Book/Bill Taylor combination had produced a quality side and was one or two players away from a title winning side, the decision to bring back Big Mal destroyed it all.

So so true.

Football vandalism.

 

[hammocity]

Those were the days of doing paper rounds to cover away travel/tickets.

Used to take advantage of reading every papers sports news on us.

I too had a paper round, about 73/74 when I was 14/15. I didn't bother reading the papers as I wanted to get home for my breakfast. However on a Wednesday one of the customers used to have a Playboy Magazine discreetly hidden inside the Daily Mail.

My normal 45 minutes round used to take about an hour on Wednesday's, my Mum asked me once why I was always late back on that particular day, she probably knew but i told her Wednesday was the day we had extra publication's to deliver.

It was difficult to read during the winter darkness so I had to find a street lamp to ponder the latest lovely lasses. One time I was so invested in it a girl from my school who I fancied like mad (and was also a "paper girl") walked past me and saw what I was reading. I never got the courage to ask her out after that.

 

[Kippaxpete]

Swales at that time was very close to getting it right, the Tony Book/Bill Taylor combination had produced a quality side and was one or two players away from a title winning side, the decision to bring back Big Mal destroyed it all.

So true. If I recall correctly, we were fifth in the table and playing well at the time Swales decided to axe him in favour of Malcolm. I'd argue that, like the Gillingham play-off match, it was a sliding doors moment, only in reverse, and one that might have seen us go on to greater success had that clown done the sensible thing and persevered with Book.

 

[richards30]

If Lawton was first to report it then it will be true imo.

 

[horlock_was_super]

I too had a paper round, about 73/74 when I was 14/15. I didn't bother reading the papers as I wanted to get home for my breakfast. However on a Wednesday one of the customers used to have a Playboy Magazine discreetly hidden inside the Daily Mail.

My normal 45 minutes round used to take about an hour on Wednesday's, my Mum asked me once why I was always late back on that particular day, she probably knew but i told her Wednesday was the day we had extra publication's to deliver.

It was difficult to read during the winter darkness so I had to find a street lamp to ponder the latest lovely lasses. One time I was so invested in it a girl from my school who I fancied like mad (and was also a "paper girl") walked past me and saw what I was reading. I never got the courage to ask her out after that.

READING!!!!!!
Fcuking pervert!

 

[Blue Mist]

I usually agree with most of your posts on here but I'm not convinced there's much mileage in raking up stuff from the 80s, for example IIRC under Swales, City were happy enough to support the removal of the 25% of gate receipts going to the visiting club.

Right now I think we should encourage any club or fanbase that's finally realising what's going on in the PL hierarchy.

To make your post factually correct, Swales was happy enough to support the removal of the 25% of DECLARED gate receipts. The money from 10k fans not shown on the attendance record was never split with the away team :-)

 

[spacecadet]

Am I in the Swales and paper round thread, by mistake? ;-)