Stuart Brennan. MEN.

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

Thanks for posting the entire article and I agree that if we slag the paper when we think it is in the wrong we should praise it when it does a good article...
This is not a good article it is an excellent article and well researched, i.e Channon himself joined three other top class forwards.

Channon 0 Mr. Brennan & Oakie 1

Amended for accuracy !!!!

In that case Oakie, you get some applause as well

 

[Blue Mist]

Thanks for posting the entire article and I agree that if we slag the paper when we think it is in the wrong we should praise it when it does a good article...
This is not a good article it is an excellent article and well researched, i.e Channon himself joined three other top class forwards.

Channon 0 Mr. Brennan & Oakie 1

Amended for accuracy !!!!

All hail the Oak.
All hail the Oak.

Mods can we have Serge removed from the top and Oakie put there instead unless he is an ugly bastard that is .................... so we are staying with Sergio, Ok fair do's.

 

[andyhinch]

Bump.

We need to praise as well as slag off - nice one Stu....

Mick Channon has described City as ‘spoilt kids’ buying up ‘all the candies in the shop’.

The former Blues striker was talking about the club’s acquisition of Wilfried Bony in an interview on national radio station Talksport.

And it seems Channon, now a successful racehorse trainer, has spent so many years up to his ears in horse muck that it has started to spill out of his mouth.

Asked about City’s purchase of Bony – for a £25m fee which could rise to £28m – Channon was scathing about his old club.

He said: “Football is getting a bit sad. He is not a bad player, Bony, but for God’s sake, £30m or whatever it was?

“They are like spoilt kids – they have got to have all the candies in the shop. They want all the players.

“The FA have got to say ‘Come on’. Once you have got your team together, I think it is ridiculous that these big clubs can go and spend, and bring Messi in and win the championship – big deal.

“Someone has got to stand up and say something about it one day. If you are a signed player, that is your team for a couple of years or until your contract runs out.”

Now, it may have escaped Mick’s notice, but the only way you compete at the top of the league is by bringing in the best players.

And the only way you win the league is with four strikers. City had none a fortnight ago.

It’s also strange that he did not mention City had already loaned out one of their ‘candies’ when Alvaro Negredo was allowed to leave for Valencia in the summer, meaning they were a striker down.

He also did not mention that, when he signed for City in 1978 for a £300,000 fee – not far off the British record at the time – and a lucrative six-year contract, that the Blues already had three top strikers in Joe Royle, Brian Kidd and Dennis Tueart.

They were all bought, and all England internationals, and he was drafted in as chairman Peter Swales was intent on making City’s position as the best team in Manchester into a permanent thing.

Not that the irony seemed to strike Mick when he had a pop at the current City owners.

It has been a recurring theme since Sheikh Mansour’s takeover, City fans mocking the claims with an ironic banner that reads ‘Ruining football since 2008’.

Channon fails to grasp that it was not City – or even Chelsea – who laid down the ground rules for the Premier League, which was born from greed and designed to make rich, successful clubs even richer and even more successful.

It was United, Liverpool, Everton, Tottenham and Arsenal who drove the formation of the league, appealing to the greed of their fellow clubs to push it through.

And when Roman Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour came along to disrupt their little party, the whining noises they have been making ever since have been enough to make your ears split.

Channon did not mention that Chelsea, United, Arsenal and Liverpool have also been digging in at the sweet shop. That is the nature of the Premier League.

To be fair, Channon did have a go at Liverpool, Arsenal and United in the summer, when they started buying up some of the best players at the club he loves, Southampton.

“There is a big pay packet on offer at a big club,” he said. “Everyone knows there is no loyalty any more in football.”

It would be interesting to hear his explanation of his motives for leaving homely Southampton for title-challenging City in 1977, when he upped his wages as a 29-year-old and was still an England regular.

He had been at Southampton for 12 years, and supported the club, but wants ‘loyalty’ from Bony, who has been at Swansea for 18 months. Bizarre

I enjoyed that Stuart, thanks.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

It must be the dream of every football reporter that Channon has a go at your team. Channon's abilities have always been firmly sited in his feet and I remember ITV employing him as a pundit on their tele panel, presumably in the belief that his comments would ensure that anything any of the other panellists said would sound intelligent in comparison. And it worked! What he said about City and Bony is of such insignificance that it takes an intellectual of Channon's stature to articulate it. We all realise that horse racing is a sport in which money is of no importance whatsoever, that race horses are never sold and that Channon's career in football means that his utterances on this matter are not tainted in the slightest by the whiff of hypocrisy, but, really, it is pathetic stuff and Stuart is more than capable of showing Channon up as the brainless nostalgic, with a love for a golden past which never existed, he is.

 

[blue order]

Channon, clearly no mug in his own specialist field which was never football always talks the stuff his stable hands shovel daily.

This is the baffoon who when invited onto a WC panel (86 or 90?) advocated playing "Looiin i keerrrr" ( known better to none Worzels as Lineker one of the best English out and out CF box poachers) out wide on the wing.

The other panelists looked at him in bemused astonishment.

 

[coleridge]

Channon has, for some time, been a few candles short of a candelabra.

Most players of his generation also seem jealous of the modern money. Get over it, gentlemen, please.

So, good effort Mr Brennan, save for stealing my ending. Bizarre.

 

[paulchapo]

The season after we finished runners up to the dippers we went out and bought Channon and they bought Dalglish and the rest is history. Channon never really settled here,he wasn't well liked and he wasn't a success. A true bitter if ever there was one!

 

[mad4city]

Bump.

We need to praise as well as slag off - nice one Stu....

Mick Channon has described City as ‘spoilt kids’ buying up ‘all the candies in the shop’.

The former Blues striker was talking about the club’s acquisition of Wilfried Bony in an interview on national radio station Talksport.

And it seems Channon, now a successful racehorse trainer, has spent so many years up to his ears in horse muck that it has started to spill out of his mouth.

Asked about City’s purchase of Bony – for a £25m fee which could rise to £28m – Channon was scathing about his old club.

He said: “Football is getting a bit sad. He is not a bad player, Bony, but for God’s sake, £30m or whatever it was?

“They are like spoilt kids – they have got to have all the candies in the shop. They want all the players.

“The FA have got to say ‘Come on’. Once you have got your team together, I think it is ridiculous that these big clubs can go and spend, and bring Messi in and win the championship – big deal.

“Someone has got to stand up and say something about it one day. If you are a signed player, that is your team for a couple of years or until your contract runs out.”

Now, it may have escaped Mick’s notice, but the only way you compete at the top of the league is by bringing in the best players.

And the only way you win the league is with four strikers. City had none a fortnight ago.

It’s also strange that he did not mention City had already loaned out one of their ‘candies’ when Alvaro Negredo was allowed to leave for Valencia in the summer, meaning they were a striker down.

He also did not mention that, when he signed for City in 1978 for a £300,000 fee – not far off the British record at the time – and a lucrative six-year contract, that the Blues already had three top strikers in Joe Royle, Brian Kidd and Dennis Tueart.

They were all bought, and all England internationals, and he was drafted in as chairman Peter Swales was intent on making City’s position as the best team in Manchester into a permanent thing.

Not that the irony seemed to strike Mick when he had a pop at the current City owners.

It has been a recurring theme since Sheikh Mansour’s takeover, City fans mocking the claims with an ironic banner that reads ‘Ruining football since 2008’.

Channon fails to grasp that it was not City – or even Chelsea – who laid down the ground rules for the Premier League, which was born from greed and designed to make rich, successful clubs even richer and even more successful.

It was United, Liverpool, Everton, Tottenham and Arsenal who drove the formation of the league, appealing to the greed of their fellow clubs to push it through.

And when Roman Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour came along to disrupt their little party, the whining noises they have been making ever since have been enough to make your ears split.

Channon did not mention that Chelsea, United, Arsenal and Liverpool have also been digging in at the sweet shop. That is the nature of the Premier League.

To be fair, Channon did have a go at Liverpool, Arsenal and United in the summer, when they started buying up some of the best players at the club he loves, Southampton.

“There is a big pay packet on offer at a big club,” he said. “Everyone knows there is no loyalty any more in football.”

It would be interesting to hear his explanation of his motives for leaving homely Southampton for title-challenging City in 1977, when he upped his wages as a 29-year-old and was still an England regular.

He had been at Southampton for 12 years, and supported the club, but wants ‘loyalty’ from Bony, who has been at Swansea for 18 months. Bizarre

Full marks to Mr. B on this one. Credit where credit is due. It's about time somebody publicly exposed one of these vitriolic hypocrites for what they are.

 

[cleavers]

Excellent piece that, if I had a minor criticism, and its very minor, I'd have been asking Mr Channon about his current trade, and just how much he earns from it, not just the racing, but the breeding side, I bet he's not on the bread line either.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Bump.

We need to praise as well as slag off - nice one Stu....

Mick Channon has described City as ‘spoilt kids’ buying up ‘all the candies in the shop’.

The former Blues striker was talking about the club’s acquisition of Wilfried Bony in an interview on national radio station Talksport.

And it seems Channon, now a successful racehorse trainer, has spent so many years up to his ears in horse muck that it has started to spill out of his mouth.

Asked about City’s purchase of Bony – for a £25m fee which could rise to £28m – Channon was scathing about his old club.

He said: “Football is getting a bit sad. He is not a bad player, Bony, but for God’s sake, £30m or whatever it was?

“They are like spoilt kids – they have got to have all the candies in the shop. They want all the players.

“The FA have got to say ‘Come on’. Once you have got your team together, I think it is ridiculous that these big clubs can go and spend, and bring Messi in and win the championship – big deal.

“Someone has got to stand up and say something about it one day. If you are a signed player, that is your team for a couple of years or until your contract runs out.”

Now, it may have escaped Mick’s notice, but the only way you compete at the top of the league is by bringing in the best players.

And the only way you win the league is with four strikers. City had none a fortnight ago.

It’s also strange that he did not mention City had already loaned out one of their ‘candies’ when Alvaro Negredo was allowed to leave for Valencia in the summer, meaning they were a striker down.

He also did not mention that, when he signed for City in 1978 for a £300,000 fee – not far off the British record at the time – and a lucrative six-year contract, that the Blues already had three top strikers in Joe Royle, Brian Kidd and Dennis Tueart.

They were all bought, and all England internationals, and he was drafted in as chairman Peter Swales was intent on making City’s position as the best team in Manchester into a permanent thing.

Not that the irony seemed to strike Mick when he had a pop at the current City owners.

It has been a recurring theme since Sheikh Mansour’s takeover, City fans mocking the claims with an ironic banner that reads ‘Ruining football since 2008’.

Channon fails to grasp that it was not City – or even Chelsea – who laid down the ground rules for the Premier League, which was born from greed and designed to make rich, successful clubs even richer and even more successful.

It was United, Liverpool, Everton, Tottenham and Arsenal who drove the formation of the league, appealing to the greed of their fellow clubs to push it through.

And when Roman Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour came along to disrupt their little party, the whining noises they have been making ever since have been enough to make your ears split.

Channon did not mention that Chelsea, United, Arsenal and Liverpool have also been digging in at the sweet shop. That is the nature of the Premier League.

To be fair, Channon did have a go at Liverpool, Arsenal and United in the summer, when they started buying up some of the best players at the club he loves, Southampton.

“There is a big pay packet on offer at a big club,” he said. “Everyone knows there is no loyalty any more in football.”

It would be interesting to hear his explanation of his motives for leaving homely Southampton for title-challenging City in 1977, when he upped his wages as a 29-year-old and was still an England regular.

He had been at Southampton for 12 years, and supported the club, but wants ‘loyalty’ from Bony, who has been at Swansea for 18 months. Bizarre

Full marks to Mr. B on this one. Credit where credit is due. It's about time somebody publicly exposed one of these vitriolic hypocrites for what they are.

One wonders how he came to be giving an interview to Talkshite. I've never heard him on there before talking about City (although I have heard him once or twice talking about horses), so I can only assume that someone at the station had gotten wind of his vitriolic sentiment and ever anxious to have someone on the programme slagging us off, invited him on pronto. C*nts, one and all!