City player you most disliked

Danny Mills without question was/is one of the very few players I had most dislike for as a blue.Not sure why people are going for Dickov, we have had so many players to choose from, I don't think he was overated because most fans thought he was an average Championship player. He scored several vital goals for us during the 98/99 season including the one at Springfield Park in the play off semi against Wigan.
 
Saying you hate Dickov is the ultimate in city hipsterism. It’s also revisionist nonsense. As others have pointed out he scored a number of important goals for us (not just Wembley) and also scored a respectable number of goals in the First Division. The combined workrate of Dickov and Goater made them a very difficult pairing to play against which was an important part of our success in 99/00.

There’s very few players that are worthy of hate. That said, Tal Ben Haim was terrible, earned a fortune and clearly didn’t give a shit.
 
I don't personally see why anyone would dislike poor players simply because they were bad - surely the fault lies with the person(s) as a result of whose judgement the bad player is in the team. And I don't see why people dislike a player because he's overrated; surely there, the fault lies with fans who are predisposed towards limited by hard-working players simply because they put in a shift.

No, there has to be something else for me to make a player dislikeable. Usually, it's been the players who came to us with a decent pedigree and who quite blatantly ended up just taking the money, putting in the minimum effort, Danny Mills being the most egregious example for me. I took against Ben Thatcher because his challenge on Pedro Mendes was the kind of thing I don't like to see any City player do (I don't care if players from other teams are guilty of equally reprehensible acts), and Joey Barton was similar.

However, while I don't hold being crap against a player, I do when they have Barry Silkman syndrome. He replaced Brian Kidd, a seasoned top class striker who was still only 30 and whose strike rate during a little under 3 seasons at City was better than a goal every two-and-a-quarter league games. Silkman wasn't fit to lace Kidd's boots, yet obviously saw himself as a Rodney Marsh-style entertainer and would swan around as if he owned the place.

I think even his detractors would concede that Marsh had considerable talent to back up such a claim. It used to infuriate me to see Silkman, surrounded by experienced top-class professionals, treating himself as the star turn, with embarrassingly poor returns. In enraged me even more when we sold off the star players over the summer of 1979 and that fucking clown continued in the senior side at the start of the next campaign.
 
East Level 2 said:
As a player or due to some of the crap he's come out with in the media.
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I was really hopeful when he signed for us but it didn't work for either party with injuries etc. But my impression of him is that he fucking hates us with a vengeance - even more so after we sacked his mate Mancini
 
pace89 said:
Saying you hate Dickov is the ultimate in city hipsterism. It’s also revisionist nonsense. As others have pointed out he scored a number of important goals for us (not just Wembley) and also scored a respectable number of goals in the First Division. The combined workrate of Dickov and Goater made them a very difficult pairing to play against which was an important part of our success in 99/00.

There’s very few players that are worthy of hate. That said, Tal Ben Haim was terrible, earned a fortune and clearly didn’t give a shit.
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Absolutely no Hipsterism or revisionism on my part. I went to pretty much every game home and away during our spells in the second and third division, and I hated him then. All the lads I went with hated him then. And we all still do.

Nothing personal against him at all, he's seems like a decent bloke. But at the time I resented the fact his work rate and effort got him in the team when there was more talented players on the bench. When Paulo Wanchope and former World Player of the Year George Weah got dropped for him it was the last straw.

People thought at the time we needed more Paul Dickov's and we'd be alright. I thought we needed more talented footballers. I think history has proven me right. The best modern day example I can give is who would you prefer in the team, Milner or Yaya? Navas or Silva?

Work rate alone only gets you so far in professional football, you need to have some talent if you want to be successful.
 
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