City player you most disliked

[Barcon]

Jack Wiltshire (in case we sign the ****).

 

[Ardwick blue]

Siberiski .... A few years back before him would have been Gerry Crainey ....

 

[Citizen Green]

Astounded by the Dickov mentions, short memories for some.

 

[worsleyweb]

Eval bercavic - ****. Andy Cole - rag ****. Young summerbee - arrogant prick - Salford lover! Michael brown - arrogant. Fowler - fat scouser. McMahon - Scouser. McManaman, clough. Nasri, tony Vaughan - fat rag.

Dzecko - hands in pocket. Adrian Heath - gave vs to kippax.

Oh and Danny mills! Of course.

 

[Mike N]

Eval bercavic - ****. Andy Cole - rag ****. Young summerbee - arrogant prick - Salford lover! Michael brown - arrogant. Fowler - fat scouser. McMahon - Scouser. McManaman, clough. Nasri, tony Vaughan - fat rag.

Dzecko - hands in pocket. Adrian Heath - gave vs to kippax.

Oh and Danny mills! Of course.

Watching the NYC game the other day and catching a view of Adrian Heath reminded me how much I disliked him as a city player. I can still see him miss a sitter to win the derby at Maine Road. Open goal at the North Stand near the end of the game. How he missed it, I'll never know. Turd.

 

[john@staustell]

Eval bercavic - ****. Andy Cole - rag ****. Young summerbee - arrogant prick - Salford lover! Michael brown - arrogant. Fowler - fat scouser. McMahon - Scouser. McManaman, clough. Nasri, tony Vaughan - fat rag.

Dzecko - hands in pocket. Adrian Heath - gave vs to kippax.

Oh and Danny mills! Of course.

Young Summerbee too. Not so much for being an absolutely shit player - who can forget him and Clough running into each other, gifting the ball to Giggs, who Curle pointed to the top corner, where he duly put it, losing us the match - but for putting his Vs up to us in the Kippax. Not many people seem to remember this.

 

[citymad]

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.

I'm sorry but I couldn't disagree more and I'm surprised because you usually post some good view points. The truth is if we go on to win more and more trophies under this regime then surely you have to credit Dickovs goal as one of the catalysts to make it all happen. Yes he wasn't world class but he was decent and I certainly appreciated his efforts on the field. It wasnt his fault that he was chosen instead of the Wanchope (although I agree he may have been a better choice at the time), blame the manager for that one. To hate him above all the money grabbing dross we've had over the years is absolutely mindboggling. Besides he still has a soft spot for us and nearly always speaks well of thevtime he spent at the club.

 

[Shaelumstash]

I'm sorry but I couldn't disagree more and I'm surprised because you usually post some good view points. The truth is if we go on to win more and more trophies under this regime then surely you have to credit Dickovs goal as one of the catalysts to make it all happen. Yes he wasn't world class but he was decent and I certainly appreciated his efforts on the field. It wasnt his fault that he was chosen instead of the Wanchope (although I agree he may have been a better choice at the time), blame the manager for that one. To hate him above all the money grabbing dross we've had over the years is absolutely mindboggling. Besides he still has a soft spot for us and nearly always speaks well of thevtime he spent at the club.

Thanks for your post mate. Everyone has a different view, and I guess we can't always agree. I completely respect your opinion, and I can totally understand why you and others love Dickov. I will never forget that goal, I was at Wembley that day, and pre takeover it was by far my most treasured memory as a City fan.

However, my view on Dickov pre dates that goal. As we slid out of the Premier League and went from one disaster to another and eventually slipped further down to the third tier, I saw Dickov as a player of 3rd or 4th division standard, with a world class work rate. I understand people's view that it's hard to dislike someone who worked so hard, but this guy was getting paid 20k a week. I know people who work much harder than Dickov who don't earn 20k a year.

He was our main centre forward and he averaged 5 goals a season in the lower leagues. To me, that played a major role in us getting in to the predicament we did. It was great that he scored that goal, but in the interests of fairness and balance, I think it's important to remember that he was regular starter in the team that got relegated the season before. It's not fair to give him all the credit for the good things, and none of the criticism for the bad.

Dickov's goal scoring record at City was as follows:
5
9
12
5
4
0
0

35 goals in 140 games. Mainly played in the 2nd and 3rd Divisions, for the biggest club with the biggest budget in those divisions at the time. I appreciate he had a great work rate, but my view at the time, and one I still believe, is that if we'd had a centre forward with a slightly lower work rate but more ability, we wouldn't have fallen to such depths.

I appreciate Dickov has spoken well of the club, but let's not forget him celebrating wildly when scoring against us for Blackburn and Leicester. His love of the club wasn't too evident then. I couldn't see Micah RIchards celebrating like that against us, for example, and he genuinely loves the club.

 

[ScottSinclair]

How did we end up with George Weah anyway

 

[Sir peace frog]

Watching the NYC game the other day and catching a view of Adrian Heath reminded me how much I disliked him as a city player. I can still see him miss a sitter to win the derby at Maine Road. Open goal at the North Stand near the end of the game. How he missed it, I'll never know. Turd.

I was sat behind Adrian heath at the Blackburn 4-1 game :) he was sat in the end with the fans behind the goal