Stewart scored 3 front post headers in a row against us at Maine Rd for the 2 clubs in 1999 & 2000, one in the abandoned game though, and Royle made it very public what would happen to the players if he did it again in the rearranged game.
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City’s best performances between 1990 and 2008 (pre takeover)?
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franksinatra
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Yes, David Johnson was their main striker the year they challenged us for second place and then went up in the play-offs. He struggled in the Prem (as your comment about his quality in the second tier indicates) but they'd also bought Marcus Stewart just before they went up, and he scored a lot of goals for them in the top flight.
I was trying to remember their two midfielders who were good footballers at the time, Matt Holland and Jim Magilton. Think we were always linked with Matt Holland but a bit like Steed Malbranque it never quite happened
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Was the other club Huddersfield? I remember they had a decent side and then there was a fire sale. Think Steve Bruce was the boss.Stewart scored 3 front post headers in a row against us at Maine Rd for the 2 clubs in 1999 & 2000, one in the abandoned game though, and Royle made it very public what would happen to the players if he did it again in the rearranged game.
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Ipswich at home in 1999/2000 season, night match. Won 1-0.
Weaver had an absolute blinder
Weaver had an absolute blinder
Yeah it was a long range header from the corner of the box that looked impossible to score, only goal of the game.Was the other club Huddersfield? I remember they had a decent side and then there was a fire sale. Think Steve Bruce was the boss.
3-1 vs the rags in last derby at main road was fucking superb
Indeed it was! One of the best ever atmospheres at Maine Road. Just shows what 30,000 voices can do when they want to.
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A lot of it was fuelled by their then manager George Burley, who seemed to have a weird hatred of City and Joe Royle. He was forever running his mouth in the press about us supposedly being a lucky team who played hoofball.They had a weird chip on their shoulder about us from the season before that, when we pipped them to automatic promotion. On Blue View, which was then City's leading online message board, we had loads of Ipswich visitors banging on about how they played better football than us and so deserved promotion at our expense.
I think that quite a few Blues who were around at the time haven't forgotten the pleasure they took in our demise a year later. The 4-1 Cup win down there under Keegan was certainly poetic justice, as was the fact that we traded places with them a few months later and have never seen them again. Go fuck yourselves, you sad, six-fingered, sister-shagging yokel cunts!
He doesn’t appear to have been employed anywhere since 2012, the year we won our first Premier League title, which has a nice symmetry to it
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Always have fond memories of this derby in 2006. Obviously the 4-1 was the better result, and I have very fond memories of that game because it was my first derby, but we were battered for long periods of that game and had a lot of luck. United hit the post twice while basically gifting us soft goals at the other end. This one, though, under Pearce, was a genuinely belting performance and we deserved to win - we were dominant from the off, held them out for long periods, and then reduced Ronaldo to hacking around at our midfielders until he got sent off. Obviously we were shite under Pearce in the end, but this was a big high point.
In the early years of this century when United were at their best, we probably had the best record of any team in the country against them. We had improbable wins at home and gained unexpected points at OT. This really boiled Ferguson's piss as he never accepted us as rivals. A reverse situation now where we seem to lose to them in spite of having a much superior team