This whole notion that it's the clubs that set PL policy is just nuts. The PL needs a management that sets strategy for the good of the league as a whole (and for that matter thexwhole pyramid). If four or five clubs don't like it, they can fuck off. A management with balls, not Masters. A principled CEO. Clubs want him sacked? Good luck finding a successor once the IR is in place.
End of April and we’re level on points with them, then came that calamitous last 25 minutes at a very poor Derby County, followed by a 1-1 away at Villa. I think they then beat Ipswich (who could have won the league as well, tbf) and then they beat the rags and, as you say, that was likely that. Still reckon had we beaten Everton at home we might have still won it…It was basically done with 4 games to play, and as you have pointed out they had a tricky finish to the season
Remember being stunned listening to Piccadilly as we lost 1-0 at Ashton Gate. We’d not lost a game in ages.Love your username, mate. Wonder how different things would have turned out if we’d won the league that season.
Knowing City we probably would have been relegated the following season!
Hart v DortmundI’d say no. His City career, in terms of him being imperious was about five years. So, not quite good enough.
exactly why it needs to be demolished and brought back under the EPL where the power is spread over all the leaguesWho set the PL up in the first place? Rags, dippers, Arsenal, Spurs and Everton plus they gave themselves 15 percent cut on the tv money whilst the likes of City, Ipswich, Chelsea etc got 10 percent. They loaded the dice in their favour a long time ago and clubs with less money and influence allowed it to happen. This at the time could have been influenced by our then chairman Peter Swales who was pretty influential in what happened at the FA.
As English football has got bigger those clubs barring Everton have solidified their power base but didn’t like it when overseas investment came in firstly at Chelsea and then at City. It upset the apple cart as their now wasn’t enough champions league spaces to keep them happy. They legislated against being openly able to spend when it wasn’t an issue when they were on top.
These clubs unfortunately hold the power with them choosing key positions of leadership in the Premier League and also the football league with an ex ceo of Liverpool running the shop. Hopefully when all of this is done and it’s revealed how the PL behaved and in who’s interest, the game is over for them.
Tueart. What a player.It might not tbf. No one knows how things might have panned out after, if we’d won that game (especially with two points for a win). Maybe we would have got ahead of ourselves. Who knows? The only thing we know is they won. And the rest is history, la.
We were a great team at that time. And Maine Road was so alive at this time too. Especially for the big games. That’s what got me hooked on City as a kid. When my old man took me to Old Trafford it was nothing by comparison to Maine Road, where his brother used to take me. Something about Maine Road made me immediately fall in love with it. The sights, the smells, the colour of the shirts that the home team were wearing. Dennis Tueart.
No history ffs.
Hart vs SpursHart v Dortmund
Corrigan v QPR
Two best goalkeeping performances I’ve seen
Tueart. What a player.
Ok then, a real leader would work with the regulator to get the voting rules changed, since the US owned clubs wouldn’t do that voluntarily.
There we're many other top performances from various goalkeeper's over your watching years but your eyes were often hazy.Hart v Dortmund
Corrigan v QPR
Two best goalkeeping performances I’ve seen
They were shut! You should never have let us start opening the tinnies on Prinny Parkway.There were many other top performances from various goalkeeper's over your watching years but your eyes were often hazy.
My father was a fan of Peter Doherty - who was voted the greatest Irish sportsman of the twentieth century - and he's certainly one of those players I would love to have seen but there are many other City players who might have made the present squad but I only saw Bobby Johnson. Some others are Billy Meredith, Jimmy McMullen, Eric Brook, Fred Tilson and Frank Swift, of course. Then there is my real hero, who I saw week in week out - the incomparable Bert Trautmann. Some great players for a club with no 'istry. And how good might Paul Lake have been.Think Watson is one of four former City players who would make the current squad, alongside Doherty, Bell (in his prime) and Francis (if fit).
Cocky as fuck then suddenly becomes a rabbit in the headlights.The Premier League really needs a more dynamic CEO.
Weaver v Ipswich?Hart v Dortmund
Corrigan v QPR
Two best goalkeeping performances I’ve seen
But what about Walker v Atalanta ?Hart v Dortmund
Corrigan v QPR
Two best goalkeeping performances I’ve seen
Hart v Dortmund
Corrigan v QPR
Two best goalkeeping performances I’ve seen
Beat me to the Weaver v Ipswich. Hart v Barca is up there. Schmeichel at Anfield. Arason v SpursHart vs Spurs
Weaver vs Ipswich
Good, but no Bobby McDonald cigar.But what about Walker v Atalanta ?
I remember Barnes being unplayable against Chelsea, think we won 6-2 , his wing play that day was unbelievable.Tueart on one side Barnes on the other, we haven't come close since. Asa ramming the ball down the oppositions throats in midfield too.