Swales Out!

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Was just thinking (no idea why) about the number of times I and many other Blues made the ritual walk from the Kippax and round to the front of the Maine Stand to protest against Chairman Swales.

For many Blues of that era, it became a right of passage, and there was the old joke that young blues fans actually thought his name was Peter Swales-Out.

And that's what prompted this thread. Fans under the age of 25 will never have demonstrated against the club (with the exception of the polite demo aimed at keeping Sven as manager) and I can't really see a time when hundreds / thousands are outside the West Stand demanding Mansour's head!

In a way, I feel they are missing out on something (though certainly not missing out on trophies, like we did under Swales!!)

The best demo was after the Friday game against Coventry and Brian 'who' Horton had been announced as manager. The police horses tried to move fans along, who simply lay on the ground in front of the Main Stand and the police couldn't do a thing!

Anyone else got a Swales Out story?

 

[117 M34]

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I'm 26 and I remember the Swales out protest, just the back end though obviously, and the Franny out protests.
who remembers the time when it was rumoured Richard Branson was rumoured to be interested and fans were singing one richard branson outside the main entracne?

 

[Robbiejd]

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I remember being in the bar at in the kip pax at half time and the grand national had a false start and everyone started chanting Swales out .

 

[paulchapo]

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I shouted this on more than one occasion and with hindsight and looking back we should have ousted him a lot earlier than we did.

I will point out that it wasn't personal, i kind of liked Peter Swales.He was a City fan through and through he was just totally out of his depth running a club our size and would have been better off at Altrincham,which is where his business started and building them up into a lower league club.

Our demise started in a way with his appointement,i think it was 1973.He said,''If we haven't won a trophy in 3-5 years i will resign.'' Well we scraped it,we won the league cup in 1976 and came runner up to Liverpool in 1977.The rest apart from the 1981 centenary cup final we lost to the media darling Spurs,was pants.

The documentary they shot during those times was disturbing and showed just what a joke club we had become.

Mainly dark horrible depressing times to be a blue,though we look back at them with blue tinted spectacles now, in truth it was dismal.

When he was appointed chairman of the FA as well the chant changed to,''You've ruined City and England!''

R.I.P Peter and i hope you are enjoying what is happening now.

 

[SWSB]

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just read Paul Lake book on holiday.PJS doesnt come over too good unfortunately in it.Should never have been anywhere near our club.

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

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I remember being on the back of the M.E.N one monday

 

[Ray78]

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A very messy but necessary process of removing him from power. It has took nearly twenty years to get us sorted and looking like a successful club.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

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I shouted this on more than one occasion and with hindsight and looking back we should have ousted him a lot earlier than we did.

I will point out that it wasn't personal, i kind of liked Peter Swales.He was a City fan through and through he was just totally out of his depth running a club our size and would have been better off at Altrincham,which is where his business started and building them up into a lower league club.

Our demise started in a way with his appointement,i think it was 1973.He said,''If we haven't won a trophy in 3-5 years i will resign.'' Well we scraped it,we won the league cup in 1976 and came runner up to Liverpool in 1977.The rest apart from the 1981 centenary cup final we lost to the media darling Spurs,was pants.

The documentary they shot during those times was disturbing and showed just what a joke club we had become.

Mainly dark horrible depressing times to be a blue,though we look back at them with blue tinted spectacles now, in truth it was dismal.

When he was appointed chairman of the FA as well the chant changed to,''You've ruined City and England!''

R.I.P Peter and i hope you are enjoying what is happening now.

I think that was the crux of it. He wasn't just going to lose being Chairman of City, but the FA job carried a lot of kudos not to mention jollies and freebies!

 

[beehive_bob]

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Used to go to Gigg to watch Bury quite a lot when City weren't playing. Years after Swales was booted out as our Chairman Bury had a player called Chris Swailes. At one match the PA announced the sub as Chris Swailes, there was a slight pause, and then a lone voice at the back of the stand "Out!". Clearly I wasn't the only blue there!

 

[Oooh Curley Wurley]

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I joined the "Forward with Franny" group.
Remember the first meeting at Sacha's and then handing out candles and being on Sky.
Only joined cause I thought it was Forward with Fanny which really appealed and still does.....