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City 1993 - only just over a generation ago
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salford blue 62
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Maybe it was beacause those Big Mal years coincided with my most pissed years of my life, late teens early twenties,but i liked Silkman.Silkman, Dragoslav Stepanovic, Daley to name but three...
Think Malcolm took him too Palace as well.
And he had more than quite a few digs at city and the fans after he leftKernaghan was a terrible, disastrous signing. Absolutely atrocious and weak as a kitten’s fart.
Uncle Wally One Ball
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We should never have sacked Brian Horton, he was great and he 'got us' as a club.I liked Brian Horton, always remember the 'Brian Who?' quote in the papers when he came which was snide but he got us playing some decent football and did a whole lot better than Alan Ball who replaced him.
What shocks me the most was Ian Darke getting excited when Sheron scored the equaliser against Oldham, couldn't belive my ears.
Stiff Little Wingers
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If ever there was a living example of one swallow doesn't make a summer, then it was that 40 yard lob v Leicester in the Cup at Maine Rd. Kernaghan was crapAnd he had more than quite a few digs at city and the fans after he left
Or indeed Ingebritsen's hat trick.
LongsightM13
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That entire game was the ultimate proof of the fact that even a broken clock tells the right time twice a dayIf ever there was a living example of one swallow doesn't make a summer, then it was that 40 yard lob v Leicester in the Cup at Maine Rd. Kernaghan was crap
Or indeed Ingebritsen's hat trick.
LongsightM13
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He was no Peter Barnes...Maybe it was beacause those Big Mal years coincided with my most pissed years of my life, late teens early twenties,but i liked Silkman.
Think Malcolm took him too Palace as well.
I remember Paul Power telling a story once about traiming sessions during Big Mal’s second coming being so mental that he decided one day that Silkman was ‘too upright’ when he ran.
His solution was to make Silkman train for a couple of days with sandbags on each shoulder to encourage him to be more crouched over when he took on his opposing full back.
The other players were secretly pissing themselves but Silkman earnestly went along with it. Apparently Big Mal never explained what possible advantage could be gained by running like a man with a bad back
Having seen his other performances in a city shirt I’m pretty sure that goal was a total flukeIf ever there was a living example of one swallow doesn't make a summer, then it was that 40 yard lob v Leicester in the Cup at Maine Rd. Kernaghan was crap
Or indeed Ingebritsen's hat trick.
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Great watch that ta for posting. Never took to kernaghan. Was in the away end at villa one year in the snow where someone shouted “Alan” and launched a snowball that hit him smack in the face. Harsh
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Great watch, thanks for posting and something I never watched at the time.
To be honest I was more than happy for Reid to go. From the Spurs cup fiasco onwards it was pretty clear the club was on the slide and his only response was to pursue an overweight, Injury prone, over the hill Paul Stewart and offer close on 2 million for the privilege of his signature. It was a continuation of his failed transfer strategy.
The following season the performances continued in that vein. The opening day we got an undeserved draw with Leeds who battered us sinilarly to how Dortmund played us off the park in the Champs lge and I can vividly remember a 2-0 defeat to Blackburn, stood on the Kippax, convinced we were going down. A modern day equivalent would be Newcastle, boring, negative football with little aspiration or future.
Brian Horton was a breath of fresh air. That March (transfer window??) when he brought in Walsh, Beagrie, Rosler was one of the best transfer windows ever. The club was reborn and finally football worth watching. The Newcastle home match in particular was sensational.
The one thing that struck me in the video was the arrogance of Maddocks. Only from memory can I remember how arrogant he was, due to his undermining of Reid when he stated ‘he was in charge’.
But on that video he came across like that in every question he answered. Particular in how he failed to understand the concept that if it was good enough for Swales to sack managers, because they failed, the fans had every right to judge the chairman to the same standards.
To be honest I was more than happy for Reid to go. From the Spurs cup fiasco onwards it was pretty clear the club was on the slide and his only response was to pursue an overweight, Injury prone, over the hill Paul Stewart and offer close on 2 million for the privilege of his signature. It was a continuation of his failed transfer strategy.
The following season the performances continued in that vein. The opening day we got an undeserved draw with Leeds who battered us sinilarly to how Dortmund played us off the park in the Champs lge and I can vividly remember a 2-0 defeat to Blackburn, stood on the Kippax, convinced we were going down. A modern day equivalent would be Newcastle, boring, negative football with little aspiration or future.
Brian Horton was a breath of fresh air. That March (transfer window??) when he brought in Walsh, Beagrie, Rosler was one of the best transfer windows ever. The club was reborn and finally football worth watching. The Newcastle home match in particular was sensational.
The one thing that struck me in the video was the arrogance of Maddocks. Only from memory can I remember how arrogant he was, due to his undermining of Reid when he stated ‘he was in charge’.
But on that video he came across like that in every question he answered. Particular in how he failed to understand the concept that if it was good enough for Swales to sack managers, because they failed, the fans had every right to judge the chairman to the same standards.