Danny Hoekman
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What a very strange interview that was.
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heslops barnet
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It happens as you get older: the past bears down on you more and more until sometimes you spend more time living there than in the present…..
gray740
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Thought he was going to explode or burst into tears .
heslops barnet
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Supports the bin dippers…..enough said
Unless he was referring to the rag and dipper Indians.
StillBluessinceHydeRoad
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Jonathan Wilson's rewriting of history portrays the rags of 1999 as plucky underdogs that excited the nation, in contrast to the City robots of 2023 who are edging inevitably to fulfil their state controlled destiny. I remember things in 1999 rather differently and see today very differently.
The rags did not recruit GPC in 1986 because they thought he was a downgrade on Ron Atkinson and he outspent the four biggest spenders in English football every year between 1986 and 1993 to buy two teams before the expensive imports after Euro '92 plus a French lunatic won the PL title but flopped in Europe. His policy of youth recruitment amounted to club reps waiting in cars outside grounds waving cheque books at prospective recruits. In this way they acquired some promising players and inculcated sound family values. But they didn't excite anyone outside the swamp. I have been friends with people in the west midlands for many years and one WBA fan told me when the rags appointed Mourinho that he didn't like him but he liked him more than Ferguson - "Inever liked that loud mouthed bully at all." Villa fans resented Racham's in Birmingham selling more United shirts than those of midland clubs. These fans admire City and Pep greatly now! Bile towards City is restricted to the board and hard core fans of those who see themselves as our rivals. They, and certain reporters, need reminding that GPC's "rebuilding" of the rags between 1986 and 93 would have broken the FFP rules they believe in so fervently now every year for seven years. Now they hide their accounts in a tax haven! The world is nothing like Jonathan Wilson believes it to be.
The rags did not recruit GPC in 1986 because they thought he was a downgrade on Ron Atkinson and he outspent the four biggest spenders in English football every year between 1986 and 1993 to buy two teams before the expensive imports after Euro '92 plus a French lunatic won the PL title but flopped in Europe. His policy of youth recruitment amounted to club reps waiting in cars outside grounds waving cheque books at prospective recruits. In this way they acquired some promising players and inculcated sound family values. But they didn't excite anyone outside the swamp. I have been friends with people in the west midlands for many years and one WBA fan told me when the rags appointed Mourinho that he didn't like him but he liked him more than Ferguson - "Inever liked that loud mouthed bully at all." Villa fans resented Racham's in Birmingham selling more United shirts than those of midland clubs. These fans admire City and Pep greatly now! Bile towards City is restricted to the board and hard core fans of those who see themselves as our rivals. They, and certain reporters, need reminding that GPC's "rebuilding" of the rags between 1986 and 93 would have broken the FFP rules they believe in so fervently now every year for seven years. Now they hide their accounts in a tax haven! The world is nothing like Jonathan Wilson believes it to be.
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It was Burnley and Leicester in 2019!
Here I go again on my own….
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Love that stat.
If word of that gets out, the media and the masses may have to start banging a different drum.
foggy1974
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It is the end of competitive football if you're a rag/dipper/tarquin, this isn't what they signed up for.
It's also an end to the many so called sports journalists who ditched their clubs in the '90s to jump on the rags gravy train.
Instead of writing puff piece articles in the newspapers on them & coining it in through book sales, they have to watch City playing the beautiful game while the rags throw their toys out of the pram.
If only they hadn't thought we were going to be a blip, win it once like money bags Blackburn & then fade away.
What makes it even more galling for the clickbait brigade is that once utds day in the sun was fading then lfc, in their eyes, are like a phoenix rising from the ashes, only for City to stop lfc winning 5 in a row & life returning to the '80s.
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