City early 90s

[Maly]

Pretty sure he was the worlds most expensive left back at the time. He was a good full back but never worth that money

Great goal vs Tottenham tho. Thought that season was going to be my first trip to Wembley

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Well this is an interesting tweet that our ex-physio Roy Bailey has just posted. Wonder what has gone on here!

You can just imagine Swales telling Reid 'That glass of wine is coming out of your wages', then tax deducting it for 'hospitality fees'.

 

[franksinatra]

Great goal vs Tottenham tho. Thought that season was going to be my first trip to Wembley

Will never forget the noise and celebrations after Mike Sheron gave us the lead. Like a lot of that time we flattered to deceive.

 

[01282]

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?

I used to stand round there and was one of many who’d scream at him the whole game. Sarcastic comments like you talented bastard megson was some of the nicer things we said. Didn’t help his cause that Kendall sold bishop and felt megson was a better player. I remember him scoring on his debut at Oldham with a shit header that squirmed under John Keely.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I used to stand round there and was one of many who’d scream at him the whole game. Sarcastic comments like you talented bastard megson was some of the nicer things we said. Didn’t help his cause that Kendall sold bishop and felt megson was a better player. I remember him scoring on his debut at Oldham with a shit header that squirmed under John Keely.

Not sure what went on with Kendall and Bishop. Always an odd one Kendall.

I used to stand right above the tunnel with my dad. Pete the badge was always around and about there most games.

There was another guy nearby who claimed he was a Sunday League ref from Bury. Every other word out of his mouth was 'terrible'. To be fair, he wasn't wrong very often.

 

[Maly]

I used to stand round there and was one of many who’d scream at him the whole game. Sarcastic comments like you talented bastard megson was some of the nicer things we said. Didn’t help his cause that Kendall sold bishop and felt megson was a better player. I remember him scoring on his debut at Oldham with a shit header that squirmed under John Keely.

Always thought Megson had tripped over his own feet, fell forward & the ball just happened to hit his head & go in if I’m honest

 

[Blueboy73]

Not sure what went on with Kendall and Bishop. Always an odd one Kendall.

I used to stand right above the tunnel with my dad. Pete the badge was always around and about there most games.

There was another guy nearby who claimed he was a Sunday League ref from Bury. Every other word out of his mouth was 'terrible'. To be fair, he wasn't wrong very often.

He also sold Bishop to Bournemouth during his first stint at Everton and he also sold Hinchliffe twice, if Kendall didn't rate you that was that.

I used to stand in front of the tunnel nearest the North stand until the kippax was demolished, I can't imagine standing up for 2 hours at a match these days!
Moved to the main stand for a year and there used to be a bloke sat behind us that used to shout " bag of shite" at every home game.
I saw him in a pub near Selhurst Park when we lost 4 nil to Palace in the league cup that season and I walked up to him pissed up saying "bag of shite" and we laughed about it as we clearly were.

 

[Blueboy73]

Always thought Megson had tripped over his own feet, fell forward & the ball just happened to hit his head & go in if I’m honest

I didn't rate Megson either but Kendall pulled us out of the shit with him in the team, probably the Carlton Palmer of his era.
Was at Goodison for Kendall's first game in charge, Bishop was dropped for Megson and the stick Megson was getting from the away fans, including me, was unreal.
Graeme Sharpe headed against the post at our end from about a yard out and we drew nil nil but was seen by Mum live on TV laughing and giving Sharpe the wanker gesture and got a proper dressing down that night.
Can't believe that was over 30 years ago.

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

I know it's stating the f**kin obvious but when when you look back at that era - 1993-1999, our board were absolutely clueless. It's hard to state what a mess the club was in.

Managers like Reid were absolute dinosaurs playing football from the 1970s with "Big Lads" who got "stuck in". We sacked him and brought in Brian Horton who was a complete nobody. He did a good job, don't get me wrong, but he was the wrong manager. After than f**kin Ball, Coppell and Clark - absolutely no thought about football, vision, planning or anything. It literally was just picking up managers, giving them money and them failing. We paid absolutely no attention to how the PL was shaping up with the big money and continental managers coming in with fresh new ideas.

When you think from 1993-1999 how football changed so much. We were bringing in English managers who had managed English lads in the English league. The managers learnt their trade playing in the 1960s and 1970s. The day they stopped playing was the day they stopped learning about football.

The most obvious manager was Wenger who completely transformed English football. Players like Viera, Ljungberg, Petit, Anelka etc went there before the end of the 1990s. And they went there for not much more money than we paid for Curle, Kernaghan, Summerbee, Phelan and Bradbury. That list of players just sums up how bad the whole set up was.

I'm sure if Reid, Ball etc were in charge now they'd still be looking for someone to partner Andy Carroll up front.

 

[Blueboy73]

I know it's stating the f**kin obvious but when when you look back at that era - 1993-1999, our board were absolutely clueless. It's hard to state what a mess the club was in.

Managers like Reid were absolute dinosaurs playing football from the 1970s with "Big Lads" who got "stuck in". We sacked him and brought in Brian Horton who was a complete nobody. He did a good job, don't get me wrong, but he was the wrong manager. After than f**kin Ball, Coppell and Clark - absolutely no thought about football, vision, planning or anything. It literally was just picking up managers, giving them money and them failing. We paid absolutely no attention to how the PL was shaping up with the big money and continental managers coming in with fresh new ideas.

When you think from 1993-1999 how football changed so much. We were bringing in English managers who had managed English lads in the English league. The managers learnt their trade playing in the 1960s and 1970s. The day they stopped playing was the day they stopped learning about football.

The most obvious manager was Wenger who completely transformed English football. Players like Viera, Ljungberg, Petit, Anelka etc went there before the end of the 1990s. And they went there for not much more money than we paid for Curle, Kernaghan, Summerbee, Phelan and Bradbury. That list of players just sums up how bad the whole set up was.

I'm sure if Reid, Ball etc were in charge now they'd still be looking for someone to partner Andy Carroll up front.

When you look back it was awful and the highlight of the season would be getting to a cup quarter final or a home win against Liverpool, Spurs or Newcastle.
I remember being at work and basically a constant stream of shite from gloating Rags who either didn't go or started going in 1993 for years with nothing to hit back with.
I'm just glad I wasn't at school in the 90s and it's no wonder we lost virtually a whole generation of fans in that era.