John Wardle, how important was he to where we are now?

[BlueKingEll]

Had the balls to go on the Radio and slate off Lee and his chairmanship when we were only heading down resulting in Bernstein coming in. And I'm pretty sure Bernstein was referring to him when he said he'd just seen one of the directors skipping across the pitch at one of the old end of season pitch invasions. The only thing you can fault him for is running the club from the heart as any fan would. PS think where we'd be if Swales, Bowler, Franny etc... was asked to stump up the cash Wardle put in at short notice

That was Makin. No respect for him particularly as he slagged of Franny but then sat in the background and didn't show that he could do better. Wardle at least ook the chairmanship on, even if he was the wrong person for the job.

My Mistake
To be fair Franny was getting a lot of abuse at the time, some deserved some undeserved, and mainly from City Fans. I cant remember there being anything in that phone in that was under the belt tho

 

[halfcenturyup]

Just out of interest, how close was the club to going under when Thaksin had his fling with football?

 

[Shaelumstash]

Without John Wardle there may well off been no more Manchester City. That in itself speaks volumes for what he did

Lol. Why do people constantly say things like this? It is such utter nonsense. The biggest professional club to fold in the last 50 years is probably Chester who averaged around 2000 fans. How could a club that averages 23 times that possibly go out of business?!

We may have gone in to administration and had some dark times, and Wardle deserves great credit for that. But to suggest City have ever been anything close to just packing it in and ceasing to exist in the last 50 years is absolute and utter nonsense.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Just out of interest, how close was the club to going under when Thaksin had his fling with football?

Very. There was a team of accountants in looking at options but the main one unless funds were secured, was administration. Scudamore was desparately trying to get someone to come in and rescue the club but no one was daft enough to pay £20m when the likelihood seemed to be administration, when the club could probably have been bought for a fraction of that.

Having said that, it would certainly have been bought as I know at least one person who would have put up the money.

 

[mancitymick]

Without John Wardle there may well off been no more Manchester City. That in itself speaks volumes for what he did

Lol. Why do people constantly say things like this? It is such utter nonsense. The biggest professional club to fold in the last 50 years is probably Chester who averaged around 2000 fans. How could a club that averages 23 times that possibly go out of business?!

We may have gone in to administration and had some dark times, and Wardle deserves great credit for that. But to suggest City have ever been anything close to just packing it in and ceasing to exist in the last 50 years is absolute and utter nonsense.

Suppose you missed the bit where i said MAY well....

 

[Shaelumstash]

Without John Wardle there may well off been no more Manchester City. That in itself speaks volumes for what he did

Lol. Why do people constantly say things like this? It is such utter nonsense. The biggest professional club to fold in the last 50 years is probably Chester who averaged around 2000 fans. How could a club that averages 23 times that possibly go out of business?!

We may have gone in to administration and had some dark times, and Wardle deserves great credit for that. But to suggest City have ever been anything close to just packing it in and ceasing to exist in the last 50 years is absolute and utter nonsense.

Suppose you missed the bit where i said MAY well....

"May well" infers that it was fairly likely, which is clearly wasn't. My comments weren't just directed at you to be honest, there's been at least 3 other posters on this thread who've said the same thing. It's the same people that say Dickov's goal against Gillingham saved City from extinction. Nonsense.

 

[Evil Roy Slade]

Seems to be some confusion here.

Wardle undermines Bernstein
Bernstein leaves
Wardle becomes Chairman
Wardle invests
Wardle sells to Thaksin
Thanksin invests
Thanksin sells
City rise
Thaksin is the devil
Wardle is god

Doesn't work out for me.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Seems to be some confusion here.

Wardle undermines Bernstein
Bernstein leaves
Wardle becomes Chairman
Wardle invests
Wardle sells to Thaksin
Thanksin invests
Thanksin sells
City rise
Thaksin is the devil
Wardle is god

Doesn't work out for me.

Thaksin didn't invest. Not one single solitary penny. He just got us into more debt that nearly wiped us out.

 

[Evil Roy Slade]

Thought he invested - Robinho etc

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Seems to be some confusion here.

Wardle undermines Bernstein
Bernstein leaves
Wardle becomes Chairman
Wardle invests
Wardle sells to Thaksin
Thanksin invests
Thanksin sells
City rise
Thaksin is the devil
Wardle is god

Doesn't work out for me.

Thaksin didn't invest. Not one single solitary penny. He just got us into more debt that nearly wiped us out.

Not only did Shin-a-drain-pipe not invest, he made £10m on the sale! ****.
He used the club to raise his own image and fans fell for him because he gave free noodles out at the town hall.
Once he started putting up Happy Birthday messages to the King of Thailand on the scoreboard - about 7 weeks before his birthday - I stopped going until after he'd left.