Pep about to break record for managing most City games

[WesthoughtonJohn]

Ironic he's facing Rosenior at the weekend who's dad once lasted 10 minutes in a managerial role at Torquay :D

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Too old to be him

So definitely not Teddie Lamb

 

[Oldtraffordblue1]

I was a right back

 

[mancboy]

I was a right back

So was i, usually right back in the pub

 

[manclad]

So was i, usually right back in the pub

I was a left back. ( In the dressing room).

 

[Gingers Dad]

He's no Stuart Pearce though.

Like Mercer and Allison or Clough and Taylor, there was Pearce and Beaney

 

[Oldtraffordblue1]

So was i, usually right back in the pub

Was going to add rb on the bench

 

[chesterbells]

I assume they don’t count the games he’s banned for!

 

[SamTheGuru]

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.

One of my mates bet me £20 he would be gone by Xmas. That was 9 and a half years ago.

 

[dickie davies]

Is Steve Coppell the least number of matches for a manager that wasn’t a caretaker?

 

[TinFoilHat]

I miss Alan Ball

The real football genius.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Is Steve Coppell the least number of matches for a manager that wasn’t a caretaker?

I think he was caught giving rather than taking...?

 

[johnny crossan]

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

here he is signing Gerry Baker - a US international who played 39 games for us scoring 14 goals 1961/2.

 

[SamTheGuru]

Is Steve Coppell the least number of matches for a manager that wasn’t a caretaker?

Which depressingly reminded me that we got relegated the season before.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Remember how close he was to tearing up his contract when he heard that Mourinho was moving to the rags!?!

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

And every one of those years I've heard plenty of rival fans say - he'll be gone by May

 

[.db.]

Remember how close he was to tearing up his contract when he heard that Mourinho was moving to the rags!?!

Or when Eddie Howe was going to ride him all Summer (whatever that meant?!).

 

[fitzy blue]

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.

When you see a middle aged man walking round sainsburys wearing the blue City shirt, he just looks cool and not out of place.
When you see a middle aged united fan walking round sainsburys wearing the red shirt he just looks like a nob.

 

[man on the moon]

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.

1967 for me, I knew we would be there or thereabouts come league, ( champions of course my 1st season of support)FA cup,but I never dreamt we would be this successful,at times I end up thinking about it and say to myself wow, anyway hope Pep goes on to smash the record not just beat it and stays for a long time to come

 

[No One Understands]

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”.

Top tune that