David Bernstein Q&A for KOTK

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Our former chairman turned 80 four weeks ago and has kindly agreed to do a Q&A for King of the Kippax. Me and Dave are putting a few questions together for him but has anyone on here got anything they want to ask? I very much doubt he's going to slag anyone off but if anyone has any insightful questions then we'll include them if we can.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Our former chairman turned 80 four weeks ago and has kindly agreed to do a Q&A for King of the Kippax. Me and Dave are putting a few questions together for him but has anyone on here got anything they want to ask? I very much doubt he's going to slag anyone off but if anyone has any insightful questions then we'll include them if we can.
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Does he think the premier league charges against us are because of pressure from other clubs?
 
What really happened behind the scenes with the club and Mancini on FA Cup Final Day. And what are his thoughts on the sorry saga that ruined the FA Cup Final Day for Mancini, the players, the fans, and ultimately cost the club the FA Cup after a 0-1 loss to Wigan. (as much as he can say and is prepared to go into)
 
The Lone Whalley Ranger said:
Why does he think he “lost the confidence” of the board? Never made a lot of sense to me, as he seemed to have done a great job…
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I know the answer to that as he told me a few years ago. It was all about Robbie Fowler. Keegan wanted to buy him but Bernstein wasn't happy for various reasons and wanted to reduce any perceived risk, due to Fowler's injury record mainly, plus he was suspicious that Fowler was just using us as a stepping stone to go back to Liverpool.

Although Bernstein was chairman, and pretty well executive chairman, John Wardle was the major shareholder. KK went to Wardle, who backed him over Bernstein. So Bernstein resigned as he felt his position was then untenable.

Wardle is a lovely man who i've had the pleasure to meet on a couple of occasions and he put his money into the club at some risk. But he was, in my opinion, a poor chairman and his action over Fowler was just one manifestation of that. He was probably too nice to say no to Keegan and wasn't hard enough on Mackintosh once he became CEO.
 
jrb said:
What really happened behind the scenes with the club and Mancini on FA Cup Final Day. And what are his thoughts on the sorry saga that ruined the FA Cup Final Day for Mancini, the players, the fans, and ultimately cost the club the FA Cup after a 0-1 loss to Wigan. (as much as he can say and is prepared to go into)
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He wasn't at the club then so I'm not sure he's in the know on that but I do know that story.

Mancini had burnt his bridges with the club some time before, over his refusal to work with a Director of Football and his incessant financial demands, plus the breakdown of relations with just about every player. In hindsight, we should have let him go in 2012, right after the title win.

But make no mistake, he was 100% going at the end of the 2012/13 season and that decision had been pretty well made by March. It was rubber-stamped at a board meeting on the 4th April.

Obviously we needed a new manager and had targeted Pellegrini. However so had Barcelona and there was no love lost between us and them at the time. My understanding is that they leaked the news just before that Wigan game and that left City with little choice but to bring forward the sacking by a couple of weeks.
 
I'm particularly interested in his views on football governance, as he expressed some trenchant views a couple of years ago. He highlighted the income disparity so I'd like to understand how he thinks football should be governed and whether he has any conflicts as a City fan and a commenter on income disparity, over City's current ownership, and the money they've invested.
 
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