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

[MeeBeeGeeBee]

Remember as a kid, Swales came into our shop (off licence) in Altrincham, as we were closing up for the night, drunk, demanding a bottle a whiskey.

When my mum refused to serve he and asked him to leave, he verbally abused her and tried to jump the counter. So my mum's partner at the time (a retired Army Sergeant) got him in a headlock and literally threw him out of the door.

He came back next day to apologise with a load of signed City posters and autograph headshots of the players.

 

[The_Maverick]

Not available in Australia, feckin BBC wankers

Same here in Canada VPN applied ;)

 

[LongsightM13]

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

Asa Hartford
That clip is from Granada TV’s documentary City!

 

[Dirty Harry]

Dave Watsons voice has always amazed me, as a kid I always imagined he’d have a real deep grufty tone and pitch.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Remember as a kid, Swales came into our shop (off licence) in Altrincham, as we were closing up for the night, drunk, demanding a bottle a whiskey.

When my mum refused to serve he and asked him to leave, he verbally abused her and tried to jump the counter. So my mum's partner at the time (a retired Army Sergeant) got him in a headlock and literally threw him out of the door.

He came back next day to apologise with a load of signed City posters and autograph headshots of the players.

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

 

[BringBackSwales]

Year after year trying to get rid of that ****. Put fuck all money into the club (£200k?) and wrecked us for decades. A thoroughly dislikable, arrogant, useless ****

 

[Bluesince1979]

Haha all brilliant. Those were the days eh!!!!

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

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

Think the player was Gary Owen

 

[waspish]

Notice the league cup behind him after winning it the year before all down hill after that!

Swales is heart was in the right place but he ruined our club set us back decades..

 

[Deleted member 77198]

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.