Media Thread 2020/21

[LongsightM13]

There was also the mysterious "5th column" Frank Clark referred to. Maybe they were really behind some of his signings.

Think that was referring to people like Freddie Pye and Tudor Thomas who were always floating round the periphery of the board

 

[Maly]

It's amazing how many of their own followers don't know this.
Those transfer fees and wages were eye watering at the time, particularly as this was a SECOND DIVISION club at the time.
Just like they're not aware of their roots founded by a wealthy Sugar Daddy who gave them a stadium and bank rolled a whole team.
Both the Rags and Dippers have been given huge financial leg ups by benefactors on at least two occasions and neither would even exist today without their help.
There are so many similarities that I'm beginning to think they're the same club

Another similarity is that both clubs were formed by something they despise.

United formed by a scouser & Liverpool by a Tory.

Again most of their own fans I’ve met either don’t know this, or call me a liar when I tell them :)

 

[LongsightM13]

Another similarity is that both clubs were formed by something they despise.

United formed by a scouser & Liverpool by a Tory.

Again most of their own fans I’ve met either don’t know this, or call me a liar when I tell them :)

A team in the north west, playing in red and managed by a Scotsman who proclaims socialist ideals while spending outlandish sums of money like a sailor on shore leave in Bangkok? Surely the Shankly model would never be repeated?....

 

[chesterbells]

Apparently Ashton’s father was a blue. His output suggests he has some serious Freudian daddy issues

I name Ashton a fair bit, and not always in a complimentary way, but tbf, all he’s guilty of is doing a decent job for his employer. Maybe we should have employed him instead (unless of course he specifically wanted to go to united).

 

[Maly]

A team in the north west, playing in red and managed by a Scotsman who proclaims socialist ideals while spending outlandish sums of money like a sailor on shore leave in Bangkok? Surely the Shankly model would never be repeated?....

2 cheeks of the same arse

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Anyone seen the daily Mail today, the rags haven’t even played Burnley yet and they are talking like they are already top and have won the game. Setting them up for a fall?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Hahaha is Hooters still going? Remember coming up the side road from the station one Saturday lunchtime and the manager had all the girls in the orange hotpants and crop tops lined up waiting outside, as soon as the City fans came into view he ordered them up onto the benches outside and had them hula hooping and dancing.
As a guerilla marketing strategy it certainly worked, everyone piled in there

It was open up to lockdown and actually went in there last February and bumped into a Mansfield Town nawty boy I knew back in the day called Jonathon Partmenter, who was widely known in Nottingham as 'Parmental', so they still attracted the same really high class of clientele as recently as that!

That unit has always done very well (they have been known to sell half a metric tonne of chicken wings in an evening!) and it's been there since the turn of the last century, with the same manager (who is a good lad, even though he's a rag) throughout, so I've never quite understood why they haven't rolled it out elsewhere with any discernible level of success. I think there was one in Brum and Cardiff both of which failed. I know they looked at a site in Newcastle but got knocked back on the licence. A Manchester site is also ringing a bell too. Odd that it's worked so well, and for so long, in a relatively small place, but not elsewhere, especially given how successful it is in the States. Very strange. Never been able to work that one out.

 

[Tanzeylee]

Why does history matter anyway? And I mean that however you define it.

Surely the present and the future are more important?

History matters to City fans we have it in spades and regale in it, the present and the future is tomorrows history.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

History matters to City fans we have it in spades and regale in it, the present and the future is tomorrows history.

I wouldn't swap our history for all the tea in China. It's as interesting as any club's and I'm not so crippled by crushing insecurity that it has to be solely rooted in the acquisition of trophies.

 

[dario2739]

That's how the club started in the first place, when John Houlding engineered the eviction of Everton from Anfield and bought a load of mainly Scottish players he called "Liverpool".

And United had not one but two sugar daddies, both of whom saved them from extinction.

Not sure if it's accurate (think Gary James has cast doubt) - but I heard years ago that the guy responsible for starting Newton Heath was a Scouser, over here working on the railways – whilst the Moores family were from Eccles way, and started out selling coupons outside Old Trafford...

So in a unique irony, Liverpool's success is ultimately down to Rags, and they in turn were started by a Scouser – no wonder they're equally detestable