GaudinoMotors
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Glad you've not included my favourite.
Mad Eye Horton?
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Stuart Pearce
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Mad Eye Horton?
Pep would have done no better with that team. He might be a twat now but he played his part in keeping the club up at a time when it could have dropped out of the PL again, with potentially existential consequences.
So you think that Pep would not have improved each player and come up with a tactical plan to win more games or score more goals? Yeah ok.
01cravend
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One of my "top 5 highs as a city fan" was when this **** got binned. 06/07 was grim, thankyou Thaksin
gordondaviesmoustache
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I’m pretty sure @pride in battle was referring to Phil Neale the cricketer as a piss take, mate.Phil Neal? I remember he really wanted the job unlike Coppell and a few others....Asa in an interview after the Charlton game saying he does not fancy it.
Just a shame Sir Joe didnt come earlier.
Magicpole
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A lot of the time clubs just don’t have the players, or money to buy them to be successful. Billy did well with us but it’s sometimes other factors that contribute to failure.A list showing desperation if ever there was one. But weren't Benson and Neal caretaker managers, and Coppell might as well have been.
I wasn't sure about Billy McNeill until I remembered he helped take two teams down in 86-87. @Magicpole may have other views.
So you think that Pep would not have improved each player and come up with a tactical plan to win more games or score more goals? Yeah ok.
You think he’d have gotten Beasley, Vassell and Samaras winning more games?? Pearce’s team had lost Anelka, Wright-Phillips and even Andy Cole - the only goals in the team. He focused on the defence as it was the only quality in the squad during his time here.
Much better squads than we had were relegated from the PL in that era - Leeds and West Ham notably. You don’t have to like Pearce but he definitely served his purpose and provided a platform the the 2008 reformation of the club.
You think he’d have gotten Beasley, Vassell and Samaras winning more games?? Pearce’s team had lost Anelka, Wright-Phillips and even Andy Cole - the only goals in the team. He focused on the defence as it was the only quality in the squad during his time here.
Much better squads than we had were relegated from the PL in that era - Leeds and West Ham notably. You don’t have to like Pearce but he definitely served his purpose and provided a platform the the 2008 reformation of the club.
I absolutely believe Pep would have got more out of those players and I have zero respect for Pearce. None.
Stevieatlasblue
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you’re right in this one although he didn’t get a tune out of Wilf Boney so he gave gave him a chance and very quickly just sold him on. Pep is legendary.So you think that Pep would not have improved each player and come up with a tactical plan to win more games or score more goals? Yeah ok.
jimharri
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I omitted him for a reason. He wasn't bad at all. He was in charge when the club was a shitshow. And his team was bloody fun to watch (compare to Pearce!).Glad you've not included my favourite.
Mad Eye Horton?
GOULDYBOBS
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My dad quit his season ticket thanks to him. Said it was painful
Stevieatlasblue
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Alan Ball at platt lane training ground shouted through a traffic cone on the touch line ; what are you on son; tis true I was there.. also I spoke to Phil Neal once and suggested to him that we sign Markus Stuart who was doing very well at Huddersfield at that time. His reply was go and have a look at Phil Neil’s greatest goals. Lol.. I also caught up with Brain Horton who was an absolute pleasure to speak to . I mentioned it to him and he was full of admiration for Marcus and said he wanted to sign him back then
Spot on, how the fuck does he get work, must have a good agent, absolute tosser as a manager, tosser as a pundit, and is the most boring fucker on talk sport ( apart from that welsh me me me ex utd dean saunders, or DEANO as they call him fucking deano, how old is he. utter shite, going down the nick talk sport, as is sky .He comes across as being absolutely dense. He's boring as fuck also. Absolutely bobbins as a manager and pundit.
Apart from that, I like him though!
M18CTID
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I missed those West Ham goals too as I was on holiday in Tunisia so like you I only saw 8!10 goals at home in the league, missed the 2 against West Ham as i was wankered and needed to keep going for a piss so i saw 8.
After Everton at home in Jan till the end of the season we scored zero, he was shite!
jimharri
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I omitted him for a reason. He wasn't bad at all. He was in charge when the club was a shitshow. And his team was bloody fun to watch (compare to Pearce!).
Plus, Horton never seems to have a bad word to say about us. And I'm guessing he had to deal with a lot of shite behind the scenes.
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Mpenza kept us up that seasonI guess he still kept us up that season.
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He was doing selfies with blues outside the south stand a few weeks before the end of the season.
I took one for that Brummy Scot blue in a kilt...(most know him)
Plenty getting one.
I took one for that Brummy Scot blue in a kilt...(most know him)
Plenty getting one.
Cheadle_hulmeBlue
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I get the football wasn’t great, but it wasn’t that bad. We’ve had much worse seasons. We stayed up and we’d lost a lot of decent players previous to that season.
Seeing some of the posts on here you’d think it was the worst position we’d ever been in as a club.
Seeing some of the posts on here you’d think it was the worst position we’d ever been in as a club.
He kept us up and we would not have won the UCL without him.I get the football wasn’t great, but it wasn’t that bad. We’ve had much worse seasons. We stayed up and we’d lost a lot of decent players previous to that season.
Seeing some of the posts on here you’d think it was the worst position we’d ever been in as a club.
I know that is conjecture but I don't get why fans celebrate mediocre past players linking them to a UCL win and not a manager who had little resources. At least he isn't trying to cash in on City's recent success like players who got us relegated are.
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To be fair Stevie, Lennon and McCartney couldn't of got a tune out of Bony.you’re right in this one although he didn’t get a tune out of Wilf Boney so he gave gave him a chance and very quickly just sold him on. Pep is legendary.
Bluesince1979
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Who are you referring to?He kept us up and we would not have won the UCL without him.
I know that is conjecture but I don't get why fans celebrate mediocre past players linking them to a UCL win and not a manager who had little resources. At least he isn't trying to cash in on City's recent success like players who got us relegated are.