Peter Reid

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

In amongst the decades of shite, Peter Reid guided us to a 5th place finish, above the rags who finished 6th that season. Started as a player manager. Got Quinn & White playing really well together, and the highlight for me at the time was that we always seemed to do well against Liverpool (the MCFC of the day).

Sacked unfairly IMO after a few games of the following season.

If memory serves because Reid wanted to bring back Paul Stewert and Swales disagreed, only one loser!!

During the Kendal/Reid era didn't we finish 5th, 5th, and 9th. I might be wrong but it was summat like that.

 

[sh249]

Never thought he really 'got' City like Joe Royle or Billy McNeill, but he's never slagged us off either, so fair play on that score at least.

In a way, a managerial tenure that encapsulated everything about 'typical City'

A job spawned by a scandalous resignation, followed by the City Holy Trinity of expectation, infighting, followed by crushing disappointment, encapsulated in its entirety in that Cup Quarter Final v Spurs when the new Platt Lane (small-time) stand was unveiled, we were tipped to win the cup, but all that followed was a tonking and the campest pitch invasion in English football history.

We have one thing to eternally thank him for, however. His dismissal, and the comical way it was carried out, was the straw that broke the camel's back when it came to Peter Swales' ability to keep the natives on board. Cheers Peter!

Well always have Maddock.

:-)

 

[eastmanc]

I was never a great lover of the style in which Peter Reid had us playing but when he is interviewed he never ever slags City off and always complements the blues, which makes a change from some other former players.

 

[baildon blue]

Riedy was at my mates wedding and a he is a genuine good guy who i admire lots.


In his time time he got 1 thing wrong and 1 thing right


The wrong thing was he didnt trust Clive Allen

The right thing was he fucked off the useless Colin Hendry

He got few things wrong .
He should have got better assistant than Sam Ellis .
Never bought Rick Holden , Michel Vonk , Steve McMahon , Andy Hill , and That classy Norwegian Ingerbritsen .
And he let a good young player in Micheal Hughes go for peanuts .
In all he destroyed a lot of Howard Kendall good work .
Plus why did he freeze out Colin Hendry and Clive Allen

 

[Trautmannesque]

Anyone who can open a can of peas with his left foot can't be all bad.

A ludicrous statement that sticks in the memory. To this day, the name Gronendijk makes one immediately think of peas. it was surely the second most ridiculous statement ever by a City manager regarding a member of the playing staff.

Are you referring to what Keegan said about Christian Negouai?

Nope. I'd forgotten that one though! I may have to rejig the Top 3 order.

 

[Trautmannesque]

Anyone who can open a can of peas with his left foot can't be all bad.

A ludicrous statement that sticks in the memory. To this day, the name Gronendijk makes one immediately think of peas. it was surely the second most ridiculous statement ever by a City manager regarding a member of the playing staff.

I raise you Alan Ball proclaiming Buster Phillips would be the first £10 million footballer

Correctamundo. That's the one I was referring to. However, I'd forgotten Kevin Keegan describing Christian Negouai as 'the most exciting player he'd ever signed' We definitely have a top 3 then unless there are some equally mad ones that I've forgotten.

 

[pace89]

Whatever the reason was for freezing out Hendry and Allen it can’t have been down to their ability. Maybe the fact that they were decent players meant they didn’t buy into Ellis’s coaching and tactics so they had to go?

The standard of the top flight circa 89-93 was probably the poorest it had been in the history of the league. With the players we had available over that period we could have achieved a lot more. Half the goals we scored in that period came from sliced clearances, miss-hit shots, lucky rebounds and goal mouth scrambles. Players with even the slightest ability like Hendry, Allen, Lake and Bishop stood out a mile. Shame we flogged all of them barring Paul Lake who surely would have been sold on paltry terms at the first sign of interest.

 

[ifiwasarichfan]

I never had any time for the Football played under Reid and didn't shed any tears when he left although I thought the manner of his dismissal was a disgrace.

I wasn't that keen on Kendall either. All those Everton squad players just made me feel like I was supporting a second class side. It felt like I was supporting a team like Coventry.

 

[The Flash]

On a side note, Peter Reid's daughter is fucking fit.

She used to work at John Lewis in Cheadle when I did and Reidy used to drop her off sometimes.

How that cauliflower-faced goon ever produced such a stunning specimen of lovliness is beyond comprehension.

 

[Shaelumstash]

Kendall obviously did a great job, although he made some strange decisions like getting rid of Hinchcliffe. Maybe he knew all along he was going back to Everton.

Since the 80s City have very rarely punched our weight given the size and history of the club. Right now we are probably even better than any of us could have ever dreamed of, and this is the best period in our entire history.

For much of the 80s and 90s we chronically underachieved, going down to the third division for a club of our size was a scandal really. A big factor in that was the diabolical mismanagement of the club and first team.

That period under Kendall is the only one I can remember where we probably "punched our weight" as a club. Finishing 5th, with the possibility of one day we could win the league with a bit of luck, be competitive in the cups, along with Everton, Villa, Spurs, Leeds, that's the kind of level we should have been at every year.

City being City, Kendall left and it all went tits up, but if he'd stayed I think we could have gone on to be a solid top 5 club for the last 20 years. I wouldn't swap that for what we've ended up going through though!