Better than the good old days

[Stretford Born Blue]

I miss getting the 53 bus from Urmston/Stretford to the Princess Pub on Princess Road (near where the away fans coaches were parked), and walking the mile ish to Maine Road behind them, giving them shit as a 14/15 year old. Then on the return trip, getting surrounded by cops at the bus stop near their coaches, if it went off.

 

[mancityvstoke]

I miss getting the 53 bus from Urmston/Stretford to the Princess Pub on Princess Road (near where the away fans coaches were parked), and walking the mile ish to Maine Road behind them, giving them shit as a 14/15 year old. Then on the return trip, getting surrounded by cops at the bus stop near their coaches, if it went off.

remember that little walkway with steps up to Princess Parkway? other side of the road to where the coaches parked . Ambush central

 

[Bbc spokesman]

Haha. Me too. As someone said earlier, we'd been in a pub until near kick off and then stagger in, up those strange steps and be at the top of the Kippax looking down on a sea of noise and colour. Someone would get the pints at half-time as I was skinning up. After the match [we never left early], into town until some ridiculous time, then up and playing footy on Sunday Morning.

No, thinking about it, youth is overrated. We had culture back then but fuck all else. The quality of both life and football is much better now. The 80s were the worst of all. Up North in Thatcher's Britain. Now we are [apparently] THE Northern Powerhouse and have, of course, the most magnificent football club on the planet. The good old days, my arse.

I am persuaded your right!! I must take my own mustard in future.

 

[ianw16]

 

[mancityvstoke]

Fuck its still there .......

F

ahhhh The Parkside

 

[ianw16]

Watching cigarette lighters and matches twinkling like fireflies at night games. The aroma of Old Holborn and Embassy No. 6 drifting up the stand. Can't replace that!

 

[coleridge]

Watching cigarette lighters and matches twinkling like fireflies at night games. The aroma of Old Holborn and Embassy No. 6 drifting up the stand. Can't replace that!

I think that it was my Moroccan Black that you could smell and that's why you enjoyed it.

 

[Nascent Blues]

Yep. It's no coincidence that the chief executives of both the leagues and the individual clubs in Germany and Spain have been railing against the Premier League for the last 12/18 months. The money over here is sucking all the quality from their leagues and it's making it harder and harder for them to keep their best players.

People used to talk about a European Super League. There will come a time where the Premier League will be exactly that. The only thing missing is one of Messi, Ronaldo, Bale, or Suarez. A truly global footballing superstar. Bringing Pep to City will I expect remedy that situation.

I would say that if Suarez and Bale are in that category, then Aguero and Kevin De Bruyne should be too: it's only because of injury that Aguero is under the radar at the moment. For argument's sake, if Aguero and Kev turned up at Real Madrid next season (and I know that's not going to happen) they would be immediately elevated to that status by simply doing what they are doing (or historically have done in Aguero's case) at City at this present moment.

Messi and Ronaldo are something different because they have been consistently brilliant for many years now, but those two aside, we do have players who fall into the category below. Unfortunately some people, not you necessarily, are blinded by Barca and Real and believe that the true testament of a player's 'world class status' depends on whether they play for the two big Spanish clubs, and if they don't, their exclusion from or rejection by the 'Big Two' precludes them from being on that list.

I think one thing is pretty certain, if we do happen to buy or find a player of a generation then we are the one club who have the greatest chance of keeping the Spanish wolves at bay.

 

[Hoghead]

It's more inclusive for women, kids, grownups, visitors etc. Great facilities and experience. A lot better football.
Previously it was exclusive for 16 to 35 men to get drunk, fight, abuse others and basically make it a shit match day if you weren't part of their cult.
Oh! and racism and sexism is being dealt with.
Nuff said

 

[bluefish]

remember that little walkway with steps up to Princess Parkway? other side of the road to where the coaches parked . Ambush central

Is that just at the top of the hill before the petrol station and shops?
If so I used to live in the first house on the left at the bottom of the steps! Used to be at the back of a cinema( 'scala' I think) before it became the petrol station. Good times.