It’s finally online-the Peter Swales video we’ve been waiting for P31

[BringBackSwales]

Swales was in it for himself. He was a greedy jumped up twat who nearly killed off a great football club. Franny got so many things wrong but if he hadn't wrestled the club out of that slimey bastards hands we would probably be Coventry City or far worse by now

Franny didnt do it, in my opinion , the fans did, although it took us 2 decades

 

[Shaggy]

I am far more enthralling and impressive than Peter Swales so it’s hardly a surprise. You just need to introduce a filter at the bottom end and you’ll be fine.

Patronising, condescending twat !

 

[BringBackSwales]

Patronising, condescending twat !

He is a really funny patronising and condescending twat though. And he has a butler

 

[Mancity1980]

Oversaw City going from one of the big clubs in the country to a shambles that eventuated in us plummeting to the third tier.

In the five years before Swales came to City, we’d won 5 trophies. That was the most in the country in those five years by any club (Leeds were second to us in those 5 years with 4 trophies, nobody else won more than 2).

In the 1970s, only four clubs managed to get two consecutive seasons averaging over 40,000 spectators: United, Liverpool, Everton and City.

We had the biggest football stadium in the north of England from 1923 to the 1980s. Through the 90s, we built a stand behind one end that was smaller than Stockport’s Cheadle End and knocked a stand down that held 22,000 (that at one time held 36,000) and replaced it with a stand that held 11,000.

To see where we ended up come the late 90s was down to his mismanagement of the club. I’m sure he never intended to cause such a downward spiral of such a great club, but he did.

And in the eyes of the rest of the football world, we aren’t seen as the once great club who had a few bad decades and are now back to being a great club again. We are seen as a club that was a shambles with no history and no fans who have got to a false position as a club that’s undeserved. And that’s down to what Swales did to this club.

That last paragraph is so true. Well put sir.

 

[nmc]

Brilliant, never seen that, any idea "who the fella we go" is referring to

I‘m guessing Ron Saunders - but the list is endless given the number of managers Serial Employer went through.

 

[Bluesince1979]

You must have a very low bar for what you deem to be fascinating. There’s fuck all fascinating about Swales, enduring or fleeting.

I partly agree. Cant stop looking at the fucker!!

 

[nmc]

Wearing red high heel boots.

PJS was always decked out in Cuban heels

 

[1961_vintage]

That's the agony of the conscious inadequate, the weight of knowing.

Wow - that's powerful!

 

[1961_vintage]

He told me that we could’ve had Clough at City as well (1983 it seems) but Swales said ‘problem with Cloughie is that he’d have wanted to run the whole thing… and that was my job.’

Utterly criminal.

 

[1961_vintage]

Those were the days,’Swales Out’, demos outside the main entrance. ‘We’re f***in shit’, ‘We’re f***in shit’

Some fantastic memories, angry crowds massed outside the mosaic entrance, the air thick with fags and booze and anarchy and tension. Utter chaos. Loved it.