City player you most disliked

Danny Mills without question was/is one of the very few players I had most dislike for as a blue.Not sure why people are going for Dickov, we have had so many players to choose from, I don't think he was overated because most fans thought he was an average Championship player. He scored several vital goals for us during the 98/99 season including the one at Springfield Park in the play off semi against Wigan.
 
Saying you hate Dickov is the ultimate in city hipsterism. It’s also revisionist nonsense. As others have pointed out he scored a number of important goals for us (not just Wembley) and also scored a respectable number of goals in the First Division. The combined workrate of Dickov and Goater made them a very difficult pairing to play against which was an important part of our success in 99/00.

There’s very few players that are worthy of hate. That said, Tal Ben Haim was terrible, earned a fortune and clearly didn’t give a shit.
 
I don't personally see why anyone would dislike poor players simply because they were bad - surely the fault lies with the person(s) as a result of whose judgement the bad player is in the team. And I don't see why people dislike a player because he's overrated; surely there, the fault lies with fans who are predisposed towards limited by hard-working players simply because they put in a shift.

No, there has to be something else for me to make a player dislikeable. Usually, it's been the players who came to us with a decent pedigree and who quite blatantly ended up just taking the money, putting in the minimum effort, Danny Mills being the most egregious example for me. I took against Ben Thatcher because his challenge on Pedro Mendes was the kind of thing I don't like to see any City player do (I don't care if players from other teams are guilty of equally reprehensible acts), and Joey Barton was similar.

However, while I don't hold being crap against a player, I do when they have Barry Silkman syndrome. He replaced Brian Kidd, a seasoned top class striker who was still only 30 and whose strike rate during a little under 3 seasons at City was better than a goal every two-and-a-quarter league games. Silkman wasn't fit to lace Kidd's boots, yet obviously saw himself as a Rodney Marsh-style entertainer and would swan around as if he owned the place.

I think even his detractors would concede that Marsh had considerable talent to back up such a claim. It used to infuriate me to see Silkman, surrounded by experienced top-class professionals, treating himself as the star turn, with embarrassingly poor returns. In enraged me even more when we sold off the star players over the summer of 1979 and that fucking clown continued in the senior side at the start of the next campaign.
 
East Level 2 said:
As a player or due to some of the crap he's come out with in the media.
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I was really hopeful when he signed for us but it didn't work for either party with injuries etc. But my impression of him is that he fucking hates us with a vengeance - even more so after we sacked his mate Mancini
 
pace89 said:
Saying you hate Dickov is the ultimate in city hipsterism. It’s also revisionist nonsense. As others have pointed out he scored a number of important goals for us (not just Wembley) and also scored a respectable number of goals in the First Division. The combined workrate of Dickov and Goater made them a very difficult pairing to play against which was an important part of our success in 99/00.

There’s very few players that are worthy of hate. That said, Tal Ben Haim was terrible, earned a fortune and clearly didn’t give a shit.
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Absolutely no Hipsterism or revisionism on my part. I went to pretty much every game home and away during our spells in the second and third division, and I hated him then. All the lads I went with hated him then. And we all still do.

Nothing personal against him at all, he's seems like a decent bloke. But at the time I resented the fact his work rate and effort got him in the team when there was more talented players on the bench. When Paulo Wanchope and former World Player of the Year George Weah got dropped for him it was the last straw.

People thought at the time we needed more Paul Dickov's and we'd be alright. I thought we needed more talented footballers. I think history has proven me right. The best modern day example I can give is who would you prefer in the team, Milner or Yaya? Navas or Silva?

Work rate alone only gets you so far in professional football, you need to have some talent if you want to be successful.
 
Eval bercavic - ****. Andy Cole - rag ****. Young summerbee - arrogant prick - Salford lover! Michael brown - arrogant. Fowler - fat scouser. McMahon - Scouser. McManaman, clough. Nasri, tony Vaughan - fat rag.

Dzecko - hands in pocket. Adrian Heath - gave vs to kippax.

Oh and Danny mills! Of course.
 
worsleyweb said:
Eval bercavic - ****. Andy Cole - rag ****. Young summerbee - arrogant prick - Salford lover! Michael brown - arrogant. Fowler - fat scouser. McMahon - Scouser. McManaman, clough. Nasri, tony Vaughan - fat rag.

Dzecko - hands in pocket. Adrian Heath - gave vs to kippax.

Oh and Danny mills! Of course.
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Watching the NYC game the other day and catching a view of Adrian Heath reminded me how much I disliked him as a city player. I can still see him miss a sitter to win the derby at Maine Road. Open goal at the North Stand near the end of the game. How he missed it, I'll never know. Turd.
 
worsleyweb said:
Eval bercavic - ****. Andy Cole - rag ****. Young summerbee - arrogant prick - Salford lover! Michael brown - arrogant. Fowler - fat scouser. McMahon - Scouser. McManaman, clough. Nasri, tony Vaughan - fat rag.

Dzecko - hands in pocket. Adrian Heath - gave vs to kippax.

Oh and Danny mills! Of course.
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Young Summerbee too. Not so much for being an absolutely shit player - who can forget him and Clough running into each other, gifting the ball to Giggs, who Curle pointed to the top corner, where he duly put it, losing us the match - but for putting his Vs up to us in the Kippax. Not many people seem to remember this.
 
Shaelumstash said:
Absolutely no Hipsterism or revisionism on my part. I went to pretty much every game home and away during our spells in the second and third division, and I hated him then. All the lads I went with hated him then. And we all still do.

Nothing personal against him at all, he's seems like a decent bloke. But at the time I resented the fact his work rate and effort got him in the team when there was more talented players on the bench. When Paulo Wanchope and former World Player of the Year George Weah got dropped for him it was the last straw.

People thought at the time we needed more Paul Dickov's and we'd be alright. I thought we needed more talented footballers. I think history has proven me right. The best modern day example I can give is who would you prefer in the team, Milner or Yaya? Navas or Silva?

Work rate alone only gets you so far in professional football, you need to have some talent if you want to be successful.
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I'm sorry but I couldn't disagree more and I'm surprised because you usually post some good view points. The truth is if we go on to win more and more trophies under this regime then surely you have to credit Dickovs goal as one of the catalysts to make it all happen. Yes he wasn't world class but he was decent and I certainly appreciated his efforts on the field. It wasnt his fault that he was chosen instead of the Wanchope (although I agree he may have been a better choice at the time), blame the manager for that one. To hate him above all the money grabbing dross we've had over the years is absolutely mindboggling. Besides he still has a soft spot for us and nearly always speaks well of thevtime he spent at the club.
 
citymad said:
I'm sorry but I couldn't disagree more and I'm surprised because you usually post some good view points. The truth is if we go on to win more and more trophies under this regime then surely you have to credit Dickovs goal as one of the catalysts to make it all happen. Yes he wasn't world class but he was decent and I certainly appreciated his efforts on the field. It wasnt his fault that he was chosen instead of the Wanchope (although I agree he may have been a better choice at the time), blame the manager for that one. To hate him above all the money grabbing dross we've had over the years is absolutely mindboggling. Besides he still has a soft spot for us and nearly always speaks well of thevtime he spent at the club.
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Thanks for your post mate. Everyone has a different view, and I guess we can't always agree. I completely respect your opinion, and I can totally understand why you and others love Dickov. I will never forget that goal, I was at Wembley that day, and pre takeover it was by far my most treasured memory as a City fan.

However, my view on Dickov pre dates that goal. As we slid out of the Premier League and went from one disaster to another and eventually slipped further down to the third tier, I saw Dickov as a player of 3rd or 4th division standard, with a world class work rate. I understand people's view that it's hard to dislike someone who worked so hard, but this guy was getting paid 20k a week. I know people who work much harder than Dickov who don't earn 20k a year.

He was our main centre forward and he averaged 5 goals a season in the lower leagues. To me, that played a major role in us getting in to the predicament we did. It was great that he scored that goal, but in the interests of fairness and balance, I think it's important to remember that he was regular starter in the team that got relegated the season before. It's not fair to give him all the credit for the good things, and none of the criticism for the bad.

Dickov's goal scoring record at City was as follows:
5
9
12
5
4
0
0

35 goals in 140 games. Mainly played in the 2nd and 3rd Divisions, for the biggest club with the biggest budget in those divisions at the time. I appreciate he had a great work rate, but my view at the time, and one I still believe, is that if we'd had a centre forward with a slightly lower work rate but more ability, we wouldn't have fallen to such depths.

I appreciate Dickov has spoken well of the club, but let's not forget him celebrating wildly when scoring against us for Blackburn and Leicester. His love of the club wasn't too evident then. I couldn't see Micah RIchards celebrating like that against us, for example, and he genuinely loves the club.
 
Mike N said:
Watching the NYC game the other day and catching a view of Adrian Heath reminded me how much I disliked him as a city player. I can still see him miss a sitter to win the derby at Maine Road. Open goal at the North Stand near the end of the game. How he missed it, I'll never know. Turd.
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I was sat behind Adrian heath at the Blackburn 4-1 game :) he was sat in the end with the fans behind the goal
 
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