Forward With Franny

[lancs blue]

certainly a lot of support for franny on this thread, but we never went to the old division 3 under swales.

the sacking of Horton was unjust and the appointment of ball was mind boggling.

my fading memory of lee's tenure was one mediocre signing followed by another.

also the sale of flitcroft at the most pivotal time of the season played a huge part in city going down, and not recovering ever during lee's stay in charge.

If Swales had stayed in charge there wouldn't have been a club to get relegated to Div 3! I had a few shares at that time and the published accounts were bad enough, fuck knows what was hidden underneath.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

When Franny came on the pitch after taking over, I headed off to the bar behind the Kippax with my brother and a mate. We got a couple of pints each and didn't return for the second half. Somehow we knew the toilet paper magnate was full of sh1t.

I had joined in some of the Swales out protests for the buzz on the Maine Road forecourt. However, when the Forward with Franny crew wouldn't condemn the bullying of Swales' elderly mum then I couldn't be bothered with it any more.

How lucky we are with Sheik Mansour.

 

[baildon blue]

Franny Lee will always be a legend at Man City.Yes he was a cr** chairman.But a lot of the damage had been done by Peter Swales.Who ever took over after Swales was on a losing ticket.Biggest mistake Franny made was sacking Brian Horton and appointing Alan Ball.

 

[goatinho]

i was on the front page of evening news when it was kicking off outside the main entrance....still got the evening news....i think it was after we got beat against oxford at home?

 

[TGR]

Franny Lee will always be a legend at Man City.Yes he was a cr** chairman.But a lot of the damage had been done by Peter Swales.Who ever took over after Swales was on a losing ticket.Biggest mistake Franny made was sacking Brian Horton and appointing Alan Ball.

Horton put together a good team and we played some great football under him!
Was he the manager when we got beat by Spurs in the FA cup quarter final and we had the infamous pitch invasion?
I'll never forget the Manchester Evening News published the pictures of all the people who invaded the pitch so they could be caught and they had one picture of a bloke dressed in head to foot in a clown suit and big floppy clown shoes complete with clown make up and a big red nose! Fucking hilarious it really was!

 

[lancs blue]

However, when the Forward with Franny crew wouldn't condemn the bullying of Swales' elderly mum then I couldn't be bothered with it any more.

I thought that story was a load of shit fabricated by the media? How could they condemn something that didn't happen?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Who ever took over after Swales was on a losing ticket.

Im afraid you bought his hype. He was good at that, passing the buck like a Tory prime minister. What what you've said above couldn't be further from the truth.

At the time franny came in (93?)everyone wanted a piece of the clubs involved In the brand new premier league. Everyone knew that money was about to flood into the game, so people like the Edwards positioned themselves to be made for life. That's what franny wanted. Money and fame. He might have tried to make out this was altruistic but of course it wasn't.

Swales had run us bang into the red but we were bringing through good kids and didn't have a bad side. If franny had not made such awful decisions he could have made himself £10m in a few years and city would not have slid down the divisions. Some of those decisions? The appointment of ball was a bad one but what about the sale of flitcroft in the middle of a crucial- incredibly crucial given sky- relegation battles? He even managed to raise some cash from a rights issue and let frank Clark spunk the lot. The reason no one wanted to manage city when we were really shit was that franny put them off the job. He's always been full of himself and people could read that. He thought he knew more than the managers.

I don't mind franny looking for his slice of pie. It's business and that's what everyone does. I don't doubt he believed he could deliver and also tried his best. But his dictatorial nature caused ructions. Remember David makin's gmr rant? Said it all. And it toppled franny in the end.

 

[andyhinch]

Who ever took over after Swales was on a losing ticket.

Im afraid you bought his hype. He was good at that, passing the buck like a Tory prime minister. What what you've said above couldn't be further from the truth.

At the time franny came in (93?)everyone wanted a piece of the clubs involved In the brand new premier league. Everyone knew that money was about to flood into the game, so people like the Edwards positioned themselves to be made for life. That's what franny wanted. Money and fame. He might have tried to make out this was altruistic but of course it wasn't.

Swales had run us bang into the red but we were bringing through good kids and didn't have a bad side. If franny had not made such awful decisions he could have made himself £10m in a few years and city would not have slid down the divisions. Some of those decisions? The appointment of ball was a bad one but what about the sale of flitcroft in the middle of a crucial- incredibly crucial given sky- relegation battles? He even managed to raise some cash from a rights issue and let frank Clark spunk the lot. The reason no one wanted to manage city when we were really shit was that franny put them off the job. He's always been full of himself and people could read that. He thought he knew more than the managers.

I don't mind franny looking for his slice of pie. It's business and that's what everyone does. I don't doubt he believed he could deliver and also tried his best. But his dictatorial nature caused ructions. Remember David makin's gmr rant? Said it all. And it toppled franny in the end.

I think there was a big anything but Swales mind set at the time, which my of clouded people's minds.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

However, when the Forward with Franny crew wouldn't condemn the bullying of Swales' elderly mum then I couldn't be bothered with it any more.

I thought that story was a load of shit fabricated by the media? How could they condemn something that didn't happen?

It's ever been officially confirmed or denied. But things were nasty.

What definitely happened were leaflets given out around the south Manchester pubs with a map, an arrow and an address. And Swales ended up under police protection, his house under surveillance, 24 hour guards, the lot. Brenda Swales did a very revealing interview about 10 years ago.

The idiot should have walked long before of course.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Who ever took over after Swales was on a losing ticket.

Im afraid you bought his hype. He was good at that, passing the buck like a Tory prime minister. What what you've said above couldn't be further from the truth.

At the time franny came in (93?)everyone wanted a piece of the clubs involved In the brand new premier league. Everyone knew that money was about to flood into the game, so people like the Edwards positioned themselves to be made for life. That's what franny wanted. Money and fame. He might have tried to make out this was altruistic but of course it wasn't.

Swales had run us bang into the red but we were bringing through good kids and didn't have a bad side. If franny had not made such awful decisions he could have made himself £10m in a few years and city would not have slid down the divisions. Some of those decisions? The appointment of ball was a bad one but what about the sale of flitcroft in the middle of a crucial- incredibly crucial given sky- relegation battles? He even managed to raise some cash from a rights issue and let frank Clark spunk the lot. The reason no one wanted to manage city when we were really shit was that franny put them off the job. He's always been full of himself and people could read that. He thought he knew more than the managers.

I don't mind franny looking for his slice of pie. It's business and that's what everyone does. I don't doubt he believed he could deliver and also tried his best. But his dictatorial nature caused ructions. Remember David makin's gmr rant? Said it all. And it toppled franny in the end.

I think there was a big anything but Swales mind set at the time, which my of clouded people's minds.

There certainly was, and that included me.

The only blue who I knew who wasn't euphoric about him was my Dad, who played with him at Bolton. Said immediately he was an arrogant bastard. But for the rest of us it was as exciting as when The Sheikh first arrived.