Pep to leave at the end of the season

[KingGeorge]

That video was hard to watch but also very well done. It was neat that he touched on the history of Manchester.

 

[Dodge]

I didn’t think I had any tears left!

Love that story. Good for you mate.

Cheers mate.

I just want to add, Mrs Dodge is 15 years my junior, so thinking about it, Peps probably the only reason she's stayed with this old fart.

Best pack my bags as well then.

Thanks for nothing Pep, fuck me.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

That video was hard to watch but also very well done. It was neat that he touched on the history of Manchester.

On a poignant date, too.

 

[waspish]

This era will be looked back at, in 20/50/100 years as that golden age when the worlds best manager Josep "Pep" Guardiola Sala managed our club..

It’s been a blast am just blessed I was here watching us make history.

 

[wolviedinho]

Well and truly buried the last title winners spotlight -:)

Thanks Pep.

 

[badbear69]

Missed most of the season because of my hip . Just had a hip replacement two weeks ago and going to miss his final game in charge ffs. Just would like to say greatest ever manager and will never forget Istanbul and the Trebles. Thank you Pep

 

[carlosthejackal]

Just had chance to watch the video and the tears have started, he got us , he got the City and the club . Thanks for everything.

 

[BlueRockape]

Forgive the ramblings of an over emotional 64 year old man, who should probably know better, but here goes.

Peps 10 years at the Club have pretty much been the soundtrack to my recent life. I met the current Mrs Dodge the Christmas before he joined. She was told early doors that the one thing that will never change will be me and City. 6 months later I dragged her up to the CFA to the Pep greeting and from that moment on she was hooked. Within a couple of years she had her seasoncard and we've travelled all over England and Europe ever since. Kharkiv twice, Belgrade, Madrid too many times, Leipzig, Dusseldwarf, Basel and many others. Along the way, met many a hardened Euro away Blue who have become the best of friends. At Porto, I met for the first time in 20-odd years my very best mate from my teenage/early 20's years. The guy who used to hitch-hike round the country with me, as City daft scallies, ducking and diving in the dark days. The guy who I'd have took a bullet for, who I fell out with over stupid argument. Pep, getting us to that CL Final, sorted out that friendship, which still flourishes to this day. I lost my old man to cancer the year before Pep came. After the Pep greet I took the new Mrs Dodge to Southern Cemetery to see him. She noticed that his grave was covered in white feathers, which we thought nothing of at the time. At Istanbul, at the final whistle, when we were all thinking of the people we'd lost who didn't get to see us make history, you can imagine our thoughts when Mrs Dodge noticed a white feather float down from the sky at the final whistle.

That's the point of my post really. The personal memories that that man has given us will live forever. It's not just a footballing legacy, it goes far beyond that. The man hasn't just changed Manchester City. He's changed people, families, friendships. Changed the worlds perception of Manchester. Changed everything for the better.

What an absolutely blinding legacy.

So again, 10 years on, I'll be dragging Mrs Dodge up on Monday to wish him a fond farewell, in the balmy Manchester sunshine (he's even changed the fucking weather), sink a few scoops with mates and raise a glass to Josep Guardiola Sala.

Salud Pep, nice one.

Add four years and you have put more eloquently than I could ever put it.
Thank you

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

On episode one now. This is going to be a lovely, reflective afternoon.

 

[havefaith]

I,d of died a happy man after the Aguero goal, everything that's followed has been a complete and unexpected bonus.

As for the future, we're owned and run by some of the most astute business people in the world not some stupid yanks with a few shopping malls.

Will there be a drop off ? for a time maybe but we,LL soon be back in the mix, why because we're Fucking MASSIVE :-)

 

[jimbobmanc]

A bit of good news from pep’s video though…he said oasis ARE back together…he didn’t say reunited for a one off run of concerts (or is that just me trying to take any positive out of today) ;-)

 

[mancboy]

Don't be sad that its over, be glad that it happened.

Thanks pep and while most will rightly talk about your achievements what many will miss is that you just fucking got it, it takes a special breed to support gods own club, you have to be a bit mad and you don't choose this football club it chooses you and by god it chose you, you started off a barca fan and you left a blue, you said at the end it was your Manchester city and every single one of us knew what you meant because this is our city.

 

[OldhamBlue94]

Thankyou for absolutely everything you bald fraud! Golden era of our amazing football club! Will forever hold the key to our city for me. Legend

 

[middle-englandblue]

Just watched the video and whilst it's very sad it makes me even more proud of this club and Pep, he just gets it and us

Thanks for everything Pep it's been an amazing 10 years

Can't wait to be there Sunday but dreading it at the same time

 

[Lee won pen]

Fucks sake
Pep's been broken by Carrick!

You just know that, somewhere, there are some rags crying into their brew - “why didn’t we wait half an hour, we could have got Pep!”

 

[Protein Junkie]

Scoffing millions of ferrero rocher.

Looks more like the old Milk Tray man does Pep. Maybe that’s his new global role?

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Don't be sad that its over, be glad that it happened.

Thanks pep and while most will rightly talk about your achievements what many will miss is that you just fucking got it, it takes a special breed to support gods own club, you have to be a bit mad and you don't choose this football club it chooses you and by god it chose you, you started off a barca fan and you left a blue, you said at the end it was your Manchester city and every single one of us knew what you meant because this is our city.

Bloody hell, I was nearly as misty eyed reading that post than Peps video :)

 

[Tbilisi]

Don't be sad that its over, be glad that it happened.

Thanks pep and while most will rightly talk about your achievements what many will miss is that you just fucking got it, it takes a special breed to support gods own club, you have to be a bit mad and you don't choose this football club it chooses you and by god it chose you, you started off a barca fan and you left a blue, you said at the end it was your Manchester city and every single one of us knew what you meant because this is our city.

Great post. Couldn't have put it any better.

 

[threespires]

Loves the club, time on his hands, doesn't need paying...surely nailed on to become a mod on here??

(Sorting out the shit show that is the match thread would dwarf all his other achievements)

 

[BringBackSwales]

Forgive the ramblings of an over emotional 64 year old man, who should probably know better, but here goes.

Peps 10 years at the Club have pretty much been the soundtrack to my recent life. I met the current Mrs Dodge the Christmas before he joined. She was told early doors that the one thing that will never change will be me and City. 6 months later I dragged her up to the CFA to the Pep greeting and from that moment on she was hooked. Within a couple of years she had her seasoncard and we've travelled all over England and Europe ever since. Kharkiv twice, Belgrade, Madrid too many times, Leipzig, Dusseldwarf, Basel and many others. Along the way, met many a hardened Euro away Blue who have become the best of friends. At Porto, I met for the first time in 20-odd years my very best mate from my teenage/early 20's years. The guy who used to hitch-hike round the country with me, as City daft scallies, ducking and diving in the dark days. The guy who I'd have took a bullet for, who I fell out with over stupid argument. Pep, getting us to that CL Final, sorted out that friendship, which still flourishes to this day. I lost my old man to cancer the year before Pep came. After the Pep greet I took the new Mrs Dodge to Southern Cemetery to see him. She noticed that his grave was covered in white feathers, which we thought nothing of at the time. At Istanbul, at the final whistle, when we were all thinking of the people we'd lost who didn't get to see us make history, you can imagine our thoughts when Mrs Dodge noticed a white feather float down from the sky at the final whistle.

That's the point of my post really. The personal memories that that man has given us will live forever. It's not just a footballing legacy, it goes far beyond that. The man hasn't just changed Manchester City. He's changed people, families, friendships. Changed the worlds perception of Manchester. Changed everything for the better.

What an absolutely blinding legacy.

So again, 10 years on, I'll be dragging Mrs Dodge up on Monday to wish him a fond farewell, in the balmy Manchester sunshine (he's even changed the fucking weather), sink a few scoops with mates and raise a glass to Josep Guardiola Sala.

Salud Pep, nice one.

Wonderful post from a top Blue, nice one