Pep about to break record for managing most City games

[Bluster]

If we beat Southampton in the cup we’ll play another 10 matches this season and Pep will have managed City for 593 games, one more than the current record holder, Les McDowall.

List of Manchester City F.C. managers - Wikipedia

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Apologies if this is posted elsewhere, but it’s worth repeating.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

What did they say....he'll never last.

Similarish to Anelka who played more games for us than any other club which always amazes me.

 

[the blue panther]

I need to pinch myself sometimes! After our wilderness years, how lucky are we?

All those choices we made back in the day - 1966 in my case; thank God I chose blue and didn't turn to the dark side.

 

[manclad]

I need to pinch myself sometimes! After our wilderness years, how lucky are we?

All those choices we made back in the day - 1966 in my case; thank God I chose blue and didn't turn to the dark side.

Same as me pal, March 1966.
It's been a rollercoaster ride since then.
Although these last 15 years have been almost exclusively on the up side.

 

[manclad]

What did they say....he'll never last.

Similarish to Anelka who played more games for us than any other club which always amazes me.

Tikka takka football will never work in the Premier League.

 

[Gazza]

What did they say....he'll never last.

Similarish to Anelka who played more games for us than any other club which always amazes me.

No, players have only played a lot of games for us once they've been arrested and are in the news.

 

[smevchenko]

What did they say....he'll never last.

Similarish to Anelka who played more games for us than any other club which always amazes me.

Except he played more games for Chelsea

 

[Stoned Rose]

Yeah but his style will never work in England.

 

[RiversideBlue]

He's no Stuart Pearce though.

 

[johnevans]

What did they say....he'll never last.

Similarish to Anelka who played more games for us than any other club which always amazes me.

Said it from the off, he's a Nine-Day-Wonder Fly-By-Night, he won't last more than five minutes with us (!!)

The greatest coach/manager/mentor of players, individually as well as collectively, that the game has EVER seen.. and he's been all ours, staying with us few, we happy few for a decade of total joy and the greatest football ever seen in this country..

 

[.db.]

On Les McDowall… a proper City man who never gets talked about with other legends of this club.

Centre back for City before and after WW2, playing 129 games between 1937-1939 and 1946-1948, and then City manager of 592 games from 1950 to 1963 (taking him above Alan Oakes’ 680 appearances to 721 games he was involved in as player+manager at the club). Built up a decent side that gained promotion and went on to reach two consecutive FA Cup finals, winning the 1956 final.

He brought arguably our greatest legend, Bert, to the club and put together a side that had Ken Barnes, Dave Ewing, Bill Leivers, Roy Paul, Roy Clarke, great City goalscorer Joe Hayes (152 goals in 363 games), football legend Bobby Johnstone and created a way of playing around Don Revie in midfield.

That team attracted attendances at Maine Road that we never surpassed since:
74,723 v United in 1955
63,925 v Blackpool 1955
76,129 v Everton 1956
70,640 v Liverpool 1956
63,872 v United 1957

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Yeah but his style will never work in England.

My Facebook memories from the day he was announced comes around each January. There’s a rag who posted what you just said, and that it will all end in tears.

The stupid bitch was half right. It fucking well will end in tears - of sadness when he leaves!

 

[woody1968]

I need to pinch myself sometimes! After our wilderness years, how lucky are we?

All those choices we made back in the day - 1966 in my case; thank God I chose blue and didn't turn to the dark side.

All the crap we took in the 90s/00s stood us in good stead - it made men of us, slightly damaged I must admit. It’s a bit like The Boy Named Sue theory - for those who can remember Johnny Cash. I spent most of the bad old days metaphorically “kicking and a gouging in the mud the blood and the beer”.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

What did they say....he'll never last.

Similarish to Anelka who played more games for us than any other club which always amazes me.

Chelsea?

I know because I used to support them before Manchester City started winning.

 

[Oldtraffordblue1]

I need to pinch myself sometimes! After our wilderness years, how lucky are we?

All those choices we made back in the day - 1966 in my case; thank God I chose blue and didn't turn to the dark side.

Being from Old Trafford (old school now Lidl) I can only thank my mother for introducing me to City (although she wasn't a City or even a football fan just had a couple of friends who were) when now asked why I am not a red I say I didn't want to be a sheep!

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I need to pinch myself sometimes! After our wilderness years, how lucky are we?

All those choices we made back in the day - 1966 in my case; thank God I chose blue and didn't turn to the dark side.

I don’t remember having a choice!!

All I know is I have never liked the colour red. At primary school, before I was into football, I was put in the blue team for sports day,, that was that I guess.

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

I miss Alan Ball

 

[Goodlove]

Tikka takka football will never work in the Premier League.

I had a Barney with a blue in 93:20 at half time of the Everton game at the start of his second season. He wanted that fraud out of our club. I think about him a lot

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Being from Old Trafford (old school now Lidl) I can only thank my mother for introducing me to City (although she wasn't a City or even a football fan just had a couple of friends who were) when now asked why I am not a red I say I didn't want to be a sheep!

Are you Juma Bah?

 

[Oldtraffordblue1]

Are you Juma Bah?

Too old to be him