A evening with Rodney Marsh

jimharri said:
Yep. No "probably" about it. He definitely cost us the league. He even says so himself....

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I don’t know where they got the ‘replaced Wyn Davies’ from. Davies started in the first eight (out of nine) League matches for City after Marsh signed. It was Tony Towers who was initially replaced by Marsh.
 
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blueandy1mac said:
In truth he didn't cost us the league. We bought him, we tried unsuccessfully, to change our style to accommodate him, we failed. Was always a bit unsure why he got the blame.
Care to explain Malcolm?
What's that you can't cos your dead!
Fair enough.
We'll never know.
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I saw him play, pretty much from first to last. It is time to lay this myth that has had a ghoulish existence for decades to rest. One man does not cost you the league. If it were the case, it would be a pretty poor team around him. Such was not the case. Far from it.
 
Bill Walker said:
He did..
Probably.
He even admits it himself.
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Yes I've heard him say that in an interview.
Well, let's just say that sometimes people can be wrong. Even about themselves. Perhaps especially about themselves.

(It occurs to me, incidentally, that in a weird kind of way he may be bigging himself up by saying that. It's not implausible. The man had an ego commensurate with his talent.)
 
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We seemed to have some beef with Jimmy back in the day. Remember singing Jimmy Hills a bastard when motd came calling and he actually made comment during that evenings programme that his dad was very much alive and kicking thank you very much. Think it was more for a laugh than nasty well it was for me,very different from todays fuckwits likes of Spitty,Chuckle,Keys etc
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I saw him play, pretty much from first to last. It is time to lay this myth that has had a ghoulish existence for decades to rest. One man does not cost you the league. If it were the case, it would be a pretty poor team around him. Such was not the case. Far from it.
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Spot-on. Gordon Banks cost us the league with a miraculous display when we lost at home to Stoke. The other key moment in the run-in was a diabolical referee away at Ipswich where we also lost 2-1. We finished fourth but only one point behind the winners Derby County. I believe we had the best team that year but fell at the final hurdle. Rodney Marsh destroyed United at the swamp during that run-in but no one mentions that.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
His time at the club slightly predated my support of City so I never saw him live, but not overly impressed with what I’ve seen on camera. Looked cumbersome and slow to me. Great first touch though. And another big City character.

The way he was hounded out of broadcasting, because of one off-the-cuff, ill-judged comment was an absolute fucking disgrace.
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Without straying into the tedious “you can’t say anything with these snowflakes around these days” shite, often peddled by idiots, that joke just wasn’t particularly offensive. Unless you are David Beckham, who has probably faced a lot worse in his time.

It was a play on words and not denigrating about the tsunami or its victims.

Saying that, Marsh talked shite most of the time so he was no loss to broadcasting. That joke shouldn’t have caused his demise though.
 
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