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

kev20971 said:
I thought it was Swales that sold it to the guy running the souvenir shop and thats why Franny Lee came up with the new Eagle Badge ?
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The impression was that the kit shop guy owned the copyright so the badge was changed under Lee when we moved from Umbro to Kappa in 1997. The kit shop guy denied he held the copyright according to popular hearsay several years later.

Umbro's last kit deal was £50k flat fee for 3 years, not each year, for all 3. That is why they were binned sharpish as soon as possible after an association for over 60 years, and when we went back to them they were just another Nike brand.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Talk is cheap. When that video was made City were one the best supported, biggest, most successful and wealthiest clubs in England.

Within a few years he had blown all that and ruined any chance of success for a generation.
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Spot on the guy was a bluffing, dreaming chancer. He took over a giant of English and European football ( Cup winner cup winners 1970 and semi finalists the next year) and by the time he left we were an almost bankrupt joke.
 
knuckles said:
Yet he wants to own everything with the City crest/badge? Seems that an awful lot of money never came into the club for many years
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Eddie Phillips who owned the souvenir shop paid the club a set fee each season to run the shop and beyond that outlay the rest was his.
Franny Lee came in and couldn't believe that the club received so little for club merchandise
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Eddie Phillips who owned the souvenir shop paid the club a set fee each season to run the shop and beyond that outlay the rest was his.
Franny Lee came in and couldn't believe that the club received so little for club merchandise
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You look back now it was insane. A tiny portacabin was our souvenir shop. The only good thing we had was our social club.
 
As @petrusha said, Swales’ lackeys, the enabling sycophant wankers like Niven, Rose, Boler, Halford etc should also have been called to account long before now
A bunch of small time chisellers, nobodies and cowardly, nodding dogs.
They are every bit as much to blame as Swales. Wankers one and all, to a man.
Later came arseholes like Freddie Pye and Tudor Thomas. Parasites who sought some weird form of reflected glory
The fact they had combovers and Mr Whippy hairdos even worse than the tonsorial nonsense of their patron and hero says it all.
Our boardroom looked like a Vic& Bob spoof, complete with comedy wigs
 
LongsightM13 said:
As @petrusha said, Swales’ lackeys, the enabling sycophant wankers like Niven, Rose, Boler, Halford etc should also have been called to account long before now
A bunch of small time chisellers, nobodies and cowardly, nodding dogs.
They are every bit as much to blame as Swales. Wankers one and all, to a man.
Later came arseholes like Freddie Pye and Tudor Thomas. Parasites who sought some weird form of reflected glory
The fact they had combovers and Mr Whippy hairdos even worse than the tonsorial nonsense of their patron and hero says it all.
Our boardroom looked like a Vic& Bob spoof, complete with comedy wigs
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Agreed all were complicit. Bernard really should have written a book to be published after his death, that would be some read. He became a sort of cult figure at City but most of us will remember him presiding over a shambles of a ticket office.
 
paulchapo said:
Agreed all were complicit. Bernard really should have written a book to be published after his death, that would be some read. He became a sort of cult figure at City but most of us will remember him presiding over a shambles of a ticket office.
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Yep he undeservedly became considered a City treasure in later years but he was basically Swales’ consiglieri through it all
 
paulchapo said:
Agreed all were complicit. Bernard really should have written a book to be published after his death, that would be some read. He became a sort of cult figure at City but most of us will remember him presiding over a shambles of a ticket office.
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Said this before and agree (about the book and the faux Mr Manchester tag) - however, he'd have been implicating himself with knowledge of gate fiddling and and any other fraud suspected of going on.
Halford after retirement was still Manchester County FA's rep on the FA Committee and enjoyed all the trappings that went along with it so no chance of him losing that gig for a book - so his secrets went with him to the grave
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Said this before and agree (about the book and the faux Mr Manchester tag) - however, he'd have been implicating himself with knowledge of gate fiddling and and any other fraud suspected of going on.
Halford after retirement was still Manchester County FA's rep on the FA Committee and all the trappings that went along with it so no chance of him losing that gig for a book - so his secrets went with him to the grave
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Yes he got away with it and didn't want his legacy tarnishing. All conjecture of course everything him, Swales and the rest did could have all been whiter than white. A bit like Halford running a well functioning ticket office.
 
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