WestGorton
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I said the same. Skip was on a downer but the glamorous chase got a hold of the club and we got Mal back. The sale of Barnes and Owen was a criminal act when you look back. Sickening.
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1978-79 | The self-implosion of Manchester City
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Scandalous decision, even worse is what we then spent. Essentially pissed the wealth we had built in our then most successful era, down the drain in 18 months. As I said it’s almost criminal negligence.I said the same. Skip was on a downer but the glamorous chase got a hold of the club and we got Mal back. The sale of Barnes and Owen was a criminal act when you look back. Sickening.
Imagine if Swales actually had a clue, the caliber of manager we could of got in 1979, with a decent pot of money to spend over 4/5 years whilst building around Barnes, Owen etc.
melrose40yarder
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Criminal that we replaced that team with,Silkman,Shinton ,Robinson,Daley et al.Mackenzie should have been added to the existing team.Scandalous decision, even worse is what we then spent. Essentially pissed the wealth we had built in our then most successful era, down the drain in 18 months. As I said it’s almost criminal negligence.
Imagine if Swales actually had a clue, the caliber of manager we could of got in 1979, with a decent pot of money to spend over 4/5 years whilst building around Barnes, Owen etc.
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Think I remember reading at the time that Gary was in tears leaving the club.I said the same. Skip was on a downer but the glamorous chase got a hold of the club and we got Mal back. The sale of Barnes and Owen was a criminal act when you look back. Sickening.
WestGorton
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He was. He was devastated. Ask him now he will say the same. Only City create this real drama. Maybe that is why we are still here. It's not boring.Think I remember reading at the time that Gary was in tears leaving the club.
jimharri
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You can take the boy out of Citeh, but you can't take Citeh out of the boy.He was. He was devastated. Ask him now he will say the same. Only City create this real drama. Maybe that is why we are still here. It's not boring.
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I went to school from the mid 80s to the late 90s, and there were a fair few United fans at school where their Dad or even both parents were City fans; “my old man said be a City fan, and I said bollocks you’re a ****” doesn’t come from nowhere!How many fans did we lose during those turbulent years? Mansour’s ownership has brought us back to the top. All clubs have downturns in fortune at some stage. Unfortunately for city, those lost years together with the sky money coming in set us back.
Interesting read @Citizen Green thx for posting.
Other kids of City supporting parents had no interest in football, whereäs, had we not become the club we did, they might have had an interest. And the kids whose parents had little interest in football were mostly United fans.
We lost a generation of fans. We have a proper lack of 30-40 year old supporters… we have bloody loads of older fans, a good number of younger fans, but there’s a noticeable gap when it comes to that 30-40 year old bracket.
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That championship season under KK is up there alongside the best stuff we've played since the dirty oil money came in. Yes, it was at a lower level than the company we're mixing in now. But don't forget, WE were at a lower level back then.The yo yo years were quite fun. The worse thing for a club is long periods of mid table mediocrity and at least we were spared. The sacking of skip was a terrible decision, but Lee's takeover and the appointment of Ball made a bad situation much worse. Enjoyed the Bernstein years our best chairman since Albert Alexander, great times under Royle and Keegan. So there were good times before the money, Charlton 85, Bradford a couple of years later, Gillingham 99 and Blackburn 2000. Pretty much that whole amazing season under Keegan when we ripped the championship up for arse paper . Good times, bad times but it felt more like our club then
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I’ve always thought had Keegan not spunked around £15/20m on the likes of Macken, Vouso, Fowler etc and instead invested it more carefully to the team just promoted, we could of been a very good Prem sideThat championship season under KK is up there alongside the best stuff we've played since the dirty oil money came in. Yes, it was at a lower level than the company we're mixing in now. But don't forget, WE were at a lower level back then.
That’s what I remember too. My Dad was very wary of Malcs return to put it mildly. I was quite excited by his bluster.From what I can remember the fans were split on Malc or Tony with older fans wanting skip in charge and the younger fanbase favouring Malcolm.