Kevin Keegan

NPBlue said:
The first season when he was our manager in the old second division will live with me forever. It was some of the most free flowing, attacking football I can remember, and was an absolute joy to watch.

There must have been a great team spirit that year, because I lost count of the games we finished with ten men, but it didn't seem to matter as the goals continued to flow. I think the final tally was 108.

It's one of my favourite seasons, and it gave us hope things were finally on the up after years of dogshit.

It didn't work out over the next few years for various reasons, but that's another story.

Nothing will take those memories away.
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One reasons it went a bit flat was that Ali B faded, he was getting on a bit.
I did like Anelka for us, though.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Remember when we twatted Ipswich town in the fa cup on a Sunday evening live on BBC 1 when they were a division above us.
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Just eight months or so after the infamous ‘YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK GOODBYE’ banner when they relegated us.

I hope we twat the fuckers about 0-6 when we go there in January.
 
Nebuchadnezzar said:
His first season was great. Really good stuff to watch and we took the piss in the Championship. Near enough all the games on a dodgy ITV Digital box. I went to one match that year and it was the one where Tiatto had a meltdown v Norwich and Berkovic scored a quality goal.
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That Norwich game was electric. Remember the Norwich player involved in the Tiatto incident approaching the family stand to take a corner and mimicking an elbow and getting hammered.

Amazing goal from Berkovic.

 
NPBlue said:
The first season when he was our manager in the old second division will live with me forever. It was some of the most free flowing, attacking football I can remember, and was an absolute joy to watch.

There must have been a great team spirit that year, because I lost count of the games we finished with ten men, but it didn't seem to matter as the goals continued to flow. I think the final tally was 108.

It's one of my favourite seasons, and it gave us hope things were finally on the up after years of dogshit.

It didn't work out over the next few years for various reasons, but that's another story.

Nothing will take those memories away.
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never thought in a million years we would have a better season than what we did that year
 
NPBlue said:
The first season when he was our manager in the old second division will live with me forever. It was some of the most free flowing, attacking football I can remember, and was an absolute joy to watch.

There must have been a great team spirit that year, because I lost count of the games we finished with ten men, but it didn't seem to matter as the goals continued to flow. I think the final tally was 108.

It's one of my favourite seasons, and it gave us hope things were finally on the up after years of dogshit.

It didn't work out over the next few years for various reasons, but that's another story.

Nothing will take those memories away.
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I'd argue the first two seasons were just as good as each other for different reasons.

Winning the Championship with free-flowing attacking football is one thing and a great achievement, but finishing 9th in the Premier League straight away while keeping that free-flowing attacking football central to the team's identity was another thing entirely.

Getting 4 points off United and winning the Maine Road derby, winning at Anfield and White Hart Lane, beating Newcastle and Leeds at home (bigger teams at the time), qualifying for the UEFA Cup/Europa League, and all as a newly promoted side, was absolutely huge.

Birmingham and West Brom came up with us in 2002 - Birmingham just about escaped relegation with a couple of games to spare and West Brom went straight back down in 19th. For us to finish so high up and secure European football for the first time in a generation was a major step forward for the future of the club.

It went sideways under Keegan basically as soon as we moved to the Etihad - we lost Foe (RIP), Schmeichel, Jensen, Howey, Horlock, Benarbia, Berkovic, Huckerby, and Goater in one summer and things were never really the same again. Once he had to rebuild the side - with almost no money - we suddenly went very stodgy.

But fair play to him, because that run from 2002 to 2005 was the first time we'd had proper top flight stability at City for about 10 years, probably 20 years, at that point. It obviously got a bit nervy during 03-04, especially at the end, but we stayed above the surface thanks to his buys (David James especially).

I think Keegan's just too human and too honest for football, ultimately. He cares a lot and it clearly gets to him, and his judgements get clouded by emotion sometimes. He doesn't know how to hide his feelings. But he lives and breathes the game and you could always tell. Whichever club he managed, he took them to his heart and absorbed as much as he could.

Got a lot of time for him.
 
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