Peter Swales

[bernabias home shirt]

Why did people circulate leaflets with his address on then?

I'm just saying he wasnt all bad,he did love city you know
Like others have said I think his obsession with the rags and toppling them was his downfall.

No it was our downfall.

I knew people at the time that were really serious about murdering him.

I think my old fella was one of them mate..

 

[twinkletoes]

I'm just saying he wasnt all bad,he did love city you know
Like others have said I think his obsession with the rags and toppling them was his downfall.

No it was our downfall.

I knew people at the time that were really serious about murdering him.

I think my old fella was one of them mate..

It's like what I say about Thatcher. If you werent there at the time then you dont know how bad it was.

 

[bernabias home shirt]

No it was our downfall.

I knew people at the time that were really serious about murdering him.

I think my old fella was one of them mate..

It's like what I say about Thatcher. If you werent there at the time then you dont know how bad it was.

I was for both
Just not as bitter towards swales i guess.

 

[twinkletoes]

I think my old fella was one of them mate..

It's like what I say about Thatcher. If you werent there at the time then you dont know how bad it was.

I was for both
Just not as bitter towards swales i guess.

All I will say is, Kevin Reeves & Steve Daley.

 

[mekonmcfc]

ianyone remember going to maine road and guessing the attendance, you'd say 30,000, mate says 39 and the guy next to you said 35, and the tanoy would, 16.000, cash at the gate them days were

this..........47.000 at the charlton promotion game in 1985,,,mmmm.don,t think so

how do you say dont think so ? the ground was packed and the capacity at the time was the attendance given ??

 

[bernabias home shirt]

It's like what I say about Thatcher. If you werent there at the time then you dont know how bad it was.

I was for both
Just not as bitter towards swales i guess.

All I will say is, Kevin Reeves & Steve Daley.

More so the latter..

 

[Gordyola]

"Loved City" Ah ah! The only thing he loved was himself. He was an incompetent chairman from start to finish running City to suit himself, only cronies were on the board and he never had a board meeting. He stole from the club to support his external failing business. This balony about being a City fan makes my blood boil, we were just unlucky he saw an oppotunity with the Joe Smith t/o and wormed his way in buying shares on the cheap supported for some reason by Boler. IF he loved City then why did he do so much to destoy any hope FHL had of running the club Have a read of Paul Lake's book to discover the real Swales who's penny pinching had a large part to play in Paul's lack of proper treatment The guy was a tw*t and if i saw his grave I would dance on it

 

[Gary James]

ianyone remember going to maine road and guessing the attendance, you'd say 30,000, mate says 39 and the guy next to you said 35, and the tanoy would, 16.000, cash at the gate them days were

this..........47.000 at the charlton promotion game in 1985,,,mmmm.don,t think so

how do you say dont think so ? the ground was packed and the capacity at the time was the attendance given ??

Maine Rd's capacity was officially about 52,500 at the time and the ground was overpacked. There were people sitting on the steps in the Main Stand and North Stand and the Kippax was uncomfortably packed. This was in the days of pack them in, no matter what: "Never mind, they'll never be a disaster at a football ground will there?"

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

He ran us like a corner shop, a personal cash machine every other Saturday at Maine Road.

It was jobs for the boys, a collection of scrap metal sharks, dodgy TV salesmen and wannabees.

A place to go to massage your ego, have a few drinks in the Blue Room and convince yourself you had made it in your own deluded kingdom.

And you know what, much as plenty won't have it, Bernard Halford was very much part of that equation.

Thousands can profess a love of City, but doesn't mean we would know the first thing about running a football club.

Swales sat at the top of a mahogany table in the trophy room, continuing to gaze and polish a silver galleon presented by Barcelona one year, deluded about where the club stood in the scheme of things.

I remember one occasion when he got egged and his missus was screaming, seemingly in concern for her beloved husband.

Nope, she had bought the suit the day previous and was gutted it would have to be dry-cleaned!

This is Swales and the club as we formerly once knew it to be.

Sit-com gold.

 

[philiph20]

Regarding Gary's comment about the Charlton game, does anyone remember the Palace and Bournemouth games in the promotion season in 1989 when the 'official' gates were given as 33000 and 30000 repectively, the Pink used to predict the crowds and the Palace one they said 39000, I was on the Kippax that day and i can say the 'official' figures given were an absolute joke.

Swales was an absolute disater for the club, i am dubious about him supposedly loving City, he was in love with the idea of being the Chairman of a football club and the F.A it did wonders for his ego, he was the original little man in a blazer.