City's 1960s team

[DontLookBackInAnger]

small time huckster

you have just insulted the whole world's huckster community with your post...

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Arsenal won the double in 71 which was a rariety back then.

They were only the second team to do it in the twentieth century.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I do think that the boardroom wranglings did us a lot of harm with the demise of the Mercer/Allison partnership being the watershed.

Absolutely this.

 

[sir baconface]

Yes there were no run away winners in the 60's. Great days but even then the scum were always there trying to steal or overshadow our glory. That's what makes these Pep years so special seeing those tw&ts in our rear view mirror eating our dust.

Ha yes. And the most extreme disparity, of course, was in 1999 when those cnuts won the treble whilst we almost disappeared into oblivion in the third tier. They beat Bayern, we beat Gillingham.

Even so, who would swap it? Our history makes the last 10 years even more delicious.

 

[Prater70]

On a lighter note could you ever imagine this happening with our chairman Khaldoon. When we beat Everton in a nail biting semi at Villa Park in 69 our dear old chairman Albert Alexander walked into the dressing room as the players and management were joyfully celebrating and said " Well done lads now we are at Wembley we will make some money and we can buy some decent players". Classic.

 

[spiny]

you have just insulted the whole world's huckster community with your post...

Apologies. I am no expert and bow to your superior knowlwdge. I tried and failed at selling Encyclopedias door to door and never made the grade as a snake oil salesman.

 

[sir baconface]

The European cup was for champions only, not like the shite competition they have now.

Yes. I couldn’t remember when it changed. First to two, then to four, whilst having the audacity to call it the Champions League.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

We won all four domestic trophies and a European pot in a glorious three year spell, the first side to win all domestics in consecutive seasons and the first side to win a domestic and European in the same season but it was a very talented team. The trophy years for that team ended in 1970 though and that is really difficult to explain. 1970-1 the team ravaged by injuries and thought the league and had gone by then this cost us dear in the cup winners cup. I also felt that the efforts made in the high altitude world cup in Mexico spilt over into that season - a very limited Arsenal side with very little input into the world cup did the double. The 1971-2 season saw us lose the "Rodney Marsh title" where City managed to come fourth in a two horse race after seemingly having had to title signed and sealed. But the Mercer-Alisson partnership was shattered by the end of the season and that really was the end of the glory years. The atmosphere at the club must have been toxic.

 

[spiny]

On a lighter note could you ever imagine this happening with our chairman Khaldoon. When we beat Everton in a nail biting semi at Villa Park in 69 our dear old chairman Albert Alexander walked into the dressing room as the players and management were joyfully celebrating and said " Well done lads now we are at Wembley we will make some money and we can buy some decent players". Classic.

Typical of the time.
Still plenty of clubs run like this.

 

[sir baconface]

Joe Mercer had brought wisdom and integrity. Malcolm Allison a vision and recipe for success. Neither were valued with players treated as pawns, all secondary to the interests and whims of those who ran City. It was a prewar mentality in a postwar age. Players and staff were expected to know their place. This took precedence over results on the field.

I went to a public talk given by Joe Mercer, probably around 1970. He was very witty and entertaining; also a gentleman.

I recall Malcolm Allison had a daughter, Dawn, who was extremely tasty. I know that’s got fcuk all to do with the price of fish but please excuse me for reminiscing.