City named “most innovative team in global sports”

KS55 said:
Great innovations by City:
Brilliant new ways to run out of chips
First club to sell beer that tastes like shoe polish
First club to junk award winning website and replace it with dross
Unique non functional blue lights
Longest post match wait for a tram
Superb legal team gets club out of any bother
Smallest set of forwards ever
Innovative penalty taking technique
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Most number of records set without a player in Garth Crooks team of the week/year !
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
On a serious note.
I loved those floodlights. I was so proud of how far away you could see them from. Like four spires of a cathedral.
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Would those be the floodlights under which the rags played European games because their shithole of a stadium didn't have lights suitable for TV coverage?
Plenty of rags don't know about this.
 
East Level 2 said:
Would those be the floodlights under which the rags played European games because their shithole of a stadium didn't have lights suitable for TV coverage?
Plenty of rags don't know about this.
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I will admit that that's a snippet of history between the two clubs that had also escaped my notice. Was that for the first European Cup games, in the 50s?
I did know that we lent them Maine Rd after the war because OT had been bombed out by the Luftwaffe. Otherwise, they would have had nowhere to play, literally. I don't suppose there's a single overseas rag fan who knows that (and a good few in Manchester under the age of forty who are unaware of it).
 
KS55 said:
Great innovations by City:
Brilliant new ways to run out of chips
First club to sell beer that tastes like shoe polish
First club to junk award winning website and replace it with dross
Unique non functional blue lights
Longest post match wait for a tram
Superb legal team gets club out of any bother
Smallest set of forwards ever
Innovative penalty taking technique
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How the hell does one know what shoe polish tastes like ?
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I will admit that that's a snippet of history between the two clubs that had also escaped my notice. Was that for the first European Cup games, in the 50s?
I did know that we lent them Maine Rd after the war because OT had been bombed out by the Luftwaffe. Otherwise, they would have had nowhere to play, literally. I don't suppose there's a single overseas rag fan who knows that (and a good few in Manchester under the age of forty who are unaware of it).
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Yeah, late 50s. I think their record attendance for a "home" game was also at Maine Road when they borrowed our ground after the war.
 
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