City early 90s

leithblue said:
I remember a large proportion of the early 90s teams had the same nickname - or at least did on the Kippax

Wayne “f*cking” Clarke
Ricky “f*cking” Holden
Alan “f*cking” Harper
Gary “f*cking” Megson
Adrian “f*cking” Heath
David “f*cking” Brightwell

I’m glad that “FFS” Mahrez and “FFS” Jesus have continued this fine tradition
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Taxi for Megson
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
The football we played under Reid was terrible. Long ball stuff and at the time I remember people 'tolerating it' if we finished well. I think Sam Ellis was a figure in the background who was blamed for the way we played and I also remember that game on MOTD on Sunday afternoon when we played someone like Southampton which was a terrible game. You'd not seen us all year and it was the only real chance to see the players on the TV and we put a real horror show on! Haha!

As others have said, Curle and Phelan were very good players but £5m for the pair at the time was crackers money. We should've spent it elsewhere. I always liked Hendry and quite liked Vonk, but Vonk wasn't as good as Hendry. I might be getting mixed up with dates, but Heath was a terrible forward and needed replacing but he was Reid's mate from the Everton days. I vaguely remember our midfield was full of players like McMahon, Reid, Megson etc and every interview with Reid was about "hard work" and that's how we played - "hard work". And the fans watched "hard work" and it was "hard work" to watch at times.

However, we did well enough for Curle and White to get England call ups only for them to tank! White missed a chance in the first few minutes on his debut which knocked his confidence and Curle went to the Euros(?) and was played out of position which made him look awful. It just summed up what was going to happen next!

I remember Holden being phenomenal for Oldham. He could cross it - seriously - as well as Beckham could no problem. If football was played on paper, then his crosses should've seen Quinn and White getting 50 goals a season. Of course, he tanked for us big style. It was annoying as Earl Barrett, Paul Warhurst, Richard Jobson, Andy Goram, Mike Milligan, Dennis Irwin, Nicky Henry etc all went on to have fantastic careers and we picked the only player from Oldham who didn't - again that kind of summed up what was going to happen next!!

I think we rode on the back of Kendall's team really for a couple of seasons and we were a couple of players away from having a good side. We needed a few more to be genuine title contenders though as basically it was the start of Blackburn's millions and United coming through. Of course, the mismanagement of the club saw us slide down the table for years after.

I remember it getting VERY moody outside the ground with the anti-Swales campaign and "Forward With Franny" stuff. It was like a tinderbox after a poor display or defeat at times.

We have to thank Big Joe, The Goat and Andy Morrison for stopping the slide.

If it wasn't for these absolute LEGENDS there's not a chance we'd have been back in the PL in 2 seasons. Big Joe was the first manager in a while who left the club in a much better state than when he left it and made it possible to get KK in. Under Bernstein the club was very well run and he paved the next few steps for the Sheikh to take over, after the Thaksin shambles. Well, nothing we do is straightforward is it!!
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JGL07 said:
I didn’t see many City matches in this period with living and working in Edinburgh. I was in Manchester on business one time and saw a League Cup tie against Chelsea in September 1993. I was in a hotel near the Airport and had to drive through to Maine Road. By the time I had battled through the traffic, parked up and arrived at the stadium it was five minutes before the kick-off. I joined a queue outside the Kippax. This proved to be a long process and by the time I was on the terraces, it was twenty-five minutes into the match. It’s not like it was a massive crowd with 16,703 recorded as being there.

Once inside I was reminded why I had moved from the Kippax to the North Stand years before. The poor site lines and primitive facilities. City won 1-0 with a David White goal but it was to be two or three seasons before I went back to Maine Road.
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If you started in the in the Kippax from the early seventies you would have different outlook.
 
The club was mired in a heavy drinking culture at the time too. I guess if your face didn’t fit you didn’t play?
 
No1 was Colin bell said:
Great game. Always great atmosphere in away end there. Ooo vonky wonky
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Remember going to QPR in 99 2000 season. Found myself on a Irish pub near Shepherds Bush station, place full of Irish rags watching their game from Old Toilet. I fear their enjoyment of that game was somewhat spoiled by the place filling with blues drowning out the commentary by singing how Victoria Beckham dreamed of shaging Terry Cook among other City players and a particularly vile song about Duncan Edwards. The United support disapeared and the atmosphere grew ever more raucous. Think we drew 2 2 that day and was the last of my many trips to QPR but saw City play Fulham there a few years later
 
01282 said:
Even Allowing for inflation you can easily say Walker is 20 times better than Phelan ever was. I’m sure Palace and Wimbledon did a detail between then to force his price up.
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Pretty sure he was the worlds most expensive left back at the time. He was a good full back but never worth that money
 
leithblue said:
I remember a large proportion of the early 90s teams had the same nickname - or at least did on the Kippax

Wayne “f*cking” Clarke
Ricky “f*cking” Holden
Alan “f*cking” Harper
Gary “f*cking” Megson
Adrian “f*cking” Heath
David “f*cking” Brightwell

I’m glad that “FFS” Mahrez and “FFS” Jesus have continued this fine tradition
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Bloke near us used to scream at Megson for most of the game.

You didn't stand anywhere near the top of the tunnel on the right hand side of the Kippax by any chance?
 
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