Alan Ball / Wonderwall song

[carlosthejackal]

First time I remember hearing it was away at Coventry, no idea which season , lot of water under the bridge since then .

 

[flapjack]

First time I remember hearing it was away at Coventry, no idea which season , lot of water under the bridge since then .

It was Coventry away in the FA Cup January 1996 drew 2-2.....also I remember it going:

"There are many things that Nigel Clough can do to you....but we don't know how"

 

[cashmereundies]

The Alan Ball era - what a joke. The days when I was lucky enough to commentate on City for BBC Radio Manchester. After we lost 6-0 at Liverpool - we had lost 4-0 there three days earlier in the cup - Bally walked into the press room at Anfield and declared ‘I loved that’ before struggling unconvincingly to explain how much he admired Liverpool. Not what the angry City fans heading home down the East Lancs wanted to hear. Terry Phelan was my summariser that day and said ‘if we can get one back’ after the sixth went in!

Pity when he said that Buster Philips would be the 1st £10 million player he didn't sell him and buy some decent players.

 

[AJ71]

The Alan Ball era - what a joke. The days when I was lucky enough to commentate on City for BBC Radio Manchester. After we lost 6-0 at Liverpool - we had lost 4-0 there three days earlier in the cup - Bally walked into the press room at Anfield and declared ‘I loved that’ before struggling unconvincingly to explain how much he admired Liverpool. Not what the angry City fans heading home down the East Lancs wanted to hear. Terry Phelan was my summariser that day and said ‘if we can get one back’ after the sixth went in!

Isn't that the game where the Alan Ball is a football genius chant started?

 

[Tolmie scores]

Isn't that the game where the Alan Ball is a football genius chant started?

Mad isn't it, Intelligent player by all accounts but a clueless manager. I played in the US for a bit with Ronnie Jepson, who came over for the summer - did his pre season playing for us! He was playing under Bally at Exeter. He said he could ring bally and with his recommendation I could probably get a game at Exeter!...When he moved to City he took 'Buster' with him.....if Buster could get a game for us...so could I (and probably most of us on here!)..... so by this logic...I was a mere couple of steps away from playing at Maine Road alongside Steve Lomas and 'Kinky' lol

 

[Karl8]

We used to sing, “ and maybe,..we should’ve got Richard Madley”

 

[urban genie]

Lyrics as mentioned in other posts, but I only ever used the fuck off Alan Ball last verse as I didn't like the short arsed squeeky **** from the start

 

[Time will pass me by]

I just found the last few lines now...

And all the runs that Kinky makes are winding
And all the goals that City score are blinding
There are many times that we would like to score again
But we don't know how
'Cos maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me
And after all
You're my Alan Ball

Is your addition lines 2 & 3 please?

Maybe we should have got Liam Brady.
But after all
We got Alan Ball.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Does anyone remember the game away to Stewk at the Victoria Ground when all of the crowd (both sets of fans) sang "Alan Ball's a Wanker" ?
Not sure if the next verse was "He wears a Wanker's Hat", as he always wore a flat cap when at City.
Although he was the City manager, he had previously managed Stewk.
I was in with the Stewk fans as couldn't get an away ticket, but it must have been humiliating for The World Cup Winner...

I was there. A really really nasty atmosphere all game.
Poison.
I actually thought both sets of fans sung " Fuck off Alan Ball,say Fuck off off Alan Ball "...or have I just made that up ?
It started in the away end,but quickly spread to the whole ground.
I quickly scrubbed f'ootball manager ' off my jobs I wanted to do list that day.
The atmosphere was pure evil.
And it didn't get any better at the train station ...
I was saved from a kicking by one of my longest Blue mates from Blackley..

Then....The Manchester train drew into the station ...but I wasn't going to Manchester,I wanted the Derby train...all me mates got on advising me to get on the train..some senior police officer on a horse came up to me on the station said get on the train for your own safety
We cannot guarantee your safety.....stoke were waiting in the background....
I refused.
Point blank..I was so pissed off at how Shit City were. I sat on the platform seat and would not move an inch.loads of Blues hanging out the window ..imploring me to get on their train.....not happening.
One of my best Blue mates then stepped back off the Manchester train
And stayed with me till my train came.
That's Loyalty.
That's following Blues back in the day.( (I had a party to go to sat nite ,no way was I going to Manchester,lol)

But that was a bad bad day.start to finish.end off.
Pure evil.as I remember it.

 

[Coljj]

Anyone remember singing it at OT in the FA Cup 1996? The rags for some strange reason decided to play it over the P.A. system just before the teams walked out on the pitch. We had the entire stand behind the goal all singing it and it was truly a goose bumps moment.