29 years ago today...

[JGL07]

Wayne Rooney is this generation's Alan Ball

Alan Ball did get Portsmouth promoted to the Top Division. More that Rooney has ever managed.

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

Wasn’t this the first season of new pass back rule and the end of Dibble as a decent keeper? Thought Ball said Dibble would never play again for City after this game.

IIRC Andy Dibble had hold of the ball in one hand at Forest? When Howard Kendall was manager.

Someone came up behind him, nodded it out of his hand & scored. Kendal said on the big match or motd that "you can't do that" as a way of excusing Dibbles lack of concentration. Anyway I think he was history from that day and Tony Coton was signed who was an excellent keeper from Watford for £1m. We could have climbed the table and got some stability but Kendall buggered off back to Everton after about a year and the merry go round started again. Apologies for inaccurate memories.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Alan Ball did get Portsmouth promoted to the Top Division. More that Rooney has ever managed.

Got a World Cup winners medal as well. Not that he liked talking about it

 

[aka blue jambo]

Thankfully I missed this one but sadly witnessed an equally inept performance away v Burnley during that same pre season. I also ran into a load of Hearts fans 3 years later in Palma (they were playing Real Mallorca in the UEFA - I think) and they reminded me of the score.

Great trip that

 

[jockblue]

This
Couldn't resist

I was at that match - also at the 2014 game... strange watching two teams you know very well playing each other....

 

[Vienna_70]

Wasn’t this the first season of new pass back rule and the end of Dibble as a decent keeper? Thought Ball said Dibble would never play again for City after this game.

Dibble hadn’t been No. 1 since 1990, when Kendall bought Tony Coton. I can’t remember if he was still at the club by then.

 

[Vienna_70]

Ball...Alan fucking Ball.

I shuddered with disbelief and deep foreboding then, and I've just shuddered again at the memory of that incompetent, arrogant shithouse !!

OMG, the mere thought of disaster after disaster after catastrophe !!

The one bright, shining light was a certain little Georgian lad, Giorgi Kinkladze.

 

[Vienna_70]

Yet he ended coaching with England !

As has been discussed elsewhere, you don’t have to be a great player to be a great coach.

And conversely, great players don’t necessarily make great coaches.

 

[Vienna_70]

IIRC Andy Dibble had hold of the ball in one hand at Forest? When Howard Kendall was manager.

Someone came up behind him, nodded it out of his hand & scored. Kendal said on the big match or motd that "you can't do that" as a way of excusing Dibbles lack of concentration. Anyway I think he was history from that day and Tony Coton was signed who was an excellent keeper from Watford for £1m. We could have climbed the table and got some stability but Kendall buggered off back to Everton after about a year and the merry go round started again. Apologies for inaccurate memories.

A newspaper (maybe the MEN) ran the headline: Crafty Crosby sinks City.

 

[Vienna_70]

Got a World Cup winners medal as well. Not that he liked talking about it

And he was a maternal great uncle of John and James McAtee.