Gingers Dad
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As I remember it the tight bastard didn't want the club to pay for the operation and was persuaded by Peter Reid.
51 years ago today - Swales became chairman
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1961_vintage
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Perhaps one of Frank Sidebottom? He always struck me as being a bit of a Swales' looky-likey.
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Paper mache head probably had a better business sense than Swales..and a better haircut!
spacecadet
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Am I imagining things or did the flour and eggs fly onto Swales in the directors box at Maine Road, in the late 80s? Might have been v Forest?
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Incredible stuff, ffsIt was 51 years ago today and was to change our club forever! I’ve posted the memorable video profile Swales did here in the 70s
51 Years Ago: Peter Swales Becomes Chairman
On this day (5 October) in 1973 Peter Swales became Manchester City’s chairman. There was an initial positive blip but after that it was more or less downhill all the way for City. Bad times! In 19…gjfootballarchive.com
JRockBlues
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Perhaps if you'd have suggested a cantilever roof for the stadium it would've taken off a bit more.
GaudinoMotors
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The Swales Over!
Gary James
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Boler wasn’t there when the 1970 takeover happened or when Swales became chairman.
Gordyola
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No he came later out of nowhere don’t know who he bought his shares of but he backed Swales
A little bit of info on City shares
WHILE Manchester City fans lament their club's dire performance, two of its biggest shareholders are rubbing their hands in glee.
Investors Stephen Boler and John Wardle are set to profit to the tune of pounds 2 million each - all because of City's slide into the Second Division.
The club's shares, listed on the Ofex market for small unlisted securities, were trading at 90p last week. But Slicker hears that the pair will be allowed to snap up millions more at just 10p, to the anger of fans.
The go-ahead was dependent on a crucial clause - that City failed to make the Premiership by the millennium.
City's end-of-season relegation makes that impossible. But for Boler and JD Sports tycoon Wardle the option is on.
One Maine Road insider told Slicker: "I can confirm the way is now clear for Mr Boler and Mr Wardle to buy 2.5 million shares each at 10p."
That means the pair will pay pounds 250,000 for shares that today have a market value of pounds 2.25 million.
It is understood that Boler, who made over pounds 60 million when he floated his Limelight Kitchens business, is keen to sell part of his 29 per cent holding in the club. But that is unlikely to stop him cashing in on the new 10p shares.
If, as expected at the beginning of last season, City had been promoted, the new shares would have been open only to longer-standing investors.
Our insider said: "We all thought the club would go straight back to the Premiership. When they slid instead, we were gobsmacked."
Somebody fuck up big time or did they, 10p a share because we were relegated to league 2
CITY SLICKERS: MANCHESTER CITY .. 0 SHAREHOLDERS .. pounds 4m; Fury as pair set to make killing from football failures. - Free Online Library
Free Online Library: CITY SLICKERS: MANCHESTER CITY .. 0 SHAREHOLDERS .. pounds 4m; Fury as pair set to make killing from football failures.(Features) by "The Mirror (London, England)"; General interest
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