The Alan Ball era

[BringBackSwales]

Brian Horton was doing a decent job, why Lee fucked him off for the flat capped squeaker I’ll never know

 

[pride in battle]

It wasn't Alan Ball who caused the real mess.

It was the useless fucking clown Frank Clark.

The worst manager in our entire history.

A shit stain of a man, contempt for our club, played politics with everyone and left us an impossible shit sandwich.

A **** of the highest order, along with his odious assistant Alan Hill.

At least Ball cared, as did Phil Neal.

Clark and Hill had contempt for City.

I made sure Joe Royle got the job.

Tell us more :)

 

[KippaxKid69]

He never had a clue was without a doubt the worst manager in our history

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Tell us more :)

Clark dubbed me part of the Fifth Column.

Horrific manager, pretty much told him so to his face.

He was the reason we went into Div 2.

I put City and Joe together.

 

[abu13]

I don't like to disrespect the dead or call them useless cunts so I won't comment on this occasion.

 

[southamptonblue]

I went to that one and Im pretty sure it was 4-0 but remember those comments. If memory serves me correct we went back in the league 4 days later and got beat 6-0

Yep, went on the Sat, one of the guys had driven to the 4-0 from Poole (Dorset) saying it couldn't be any worse.......on the Monday morning he got a parking ticket through the post from Merseysides finest for the midweek game too lol.

 

[franksinatra]

Yep, went on the Sat, one of the guys had driven to the 4-0 from Poole (Dorset) saying it couldn't be any worse.......on the Monday morning he got a parking ticket through the post from Merseysides finest for the midweek game too lol.

A couple of years back I drove from Dorset to an Arsenal home match. Got a ticket and the window smashed and the Sat Nav stole. We did win though.

 

[Koniec]

Brian Horton was doing a decent job, why Lee fucked him off for the flat capped squeaker I’ll never know

Because he was seen as Swales man? We played nice stuff under Brian, proto Pep.

 

[El Gringo]

people will probably point to Pearce but for me this was the worst of times. A literally unbelievable appointment of a person with an average (at best) managerial eecord

What WAS Franny thinking???

Complete trousers

 

[LongsightM13]

He signed us Kinky though lol, that was the only positive though. Clark, Neal, Coppell all followed, god they were dire times

Franny Lee signed Kinkladze without any input from the manager, on the back of a masterclass for Georgia v Wales

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Had a disastrous start to the season before somehow winning MOTM IIRC. Walsh even though he was getting on a bit wouldve been better than Creaney. Signed Immel close to season starting as Coton injured and he didnt fancy Dibble or Margetson....then kept Immel in when Coton was fit leading to him joining the rags. Will always be remembered for holding the ball in the corner when we needed a goal to stay up.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Because he was seen as Swales man? We played nice stuff under Brian, proto Pep.

We did, the likes of Quinn, Rosler, Walsh, Beagrie played some great stuff. A standout memory was the 3 2 win at champions Blackburn, we played extremely well and the players seemed to me they were really playing for BH

 

[DontLookBackInAnger]

Am I making this up but doesn't Franz Beckenbauer fit into the story somewhere, didn't Lee fire Horton believing that he had tied down Beckenbauer to mange the club and we ended up with Ball instead?

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[East Level 2]

Even our bloody happy-clappies would have struggled defending Ball.

 

[LongsightM13]

It wasn't Alan Ball who caused the real mess.

It was the useless fucking clown Frank Clark.

The worst manager in our entire history.

A shit stain of a man, contempt for our club, played politics with everyone and left us an impossible shit sandwich.

A **** of the highest order, along with his odious assistant Alan Hill.

At least Ball cared, as did Phil Neal.

Clark and Hill had contempt for City.

I made sure Joe Royle got the job.

Never managed again did he? Had a nice time picking up easy money at the LMA instead

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

Jobs for your mates never felt more appropriate than this. Ball as a player by all accounts was very very good but his managerial experience and results before he rocked up at city were nothing short of diabolical. How did he ever get the job.

Time may be playing a part but was this around the time we thought we were getting George Graham or Dave Bassett and they both fucked it off.

Such a shit show back then. But at least we had some nice kits in those days.

And we had the genius of Gio

 

[Fordyboy46]

Franny Lee signed Kinkladze without any input from the manager, on the back of a masterclass for Georgia v Wales

Yeah he did, Bally probably thought another shit player was on the way. Our buys were fucking abysmal back in that era

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

It wasn't Alan Ball who caused the real mess.

It was the useless fucking clown Frank Clark.

The worst manager in our entire history.

A shit stain of a man, contempt for our club, played politics with everyone and left us an impossible shit sandwich.

A **** of the highest order, along with his odious assistant Alan Hill.

At least Ball cared, as did Phil Neal.

Clark and Hill had contempt for City.

I made sure Joe Royle got the job.

Can't disagree with you there but would say that by getting time Clark came, off the top of my head Curle, Quincy, Flitcroft, Walsh, Beagrie(?), Lomas etc were all gone.

 

[LongsightM13]

Can't disagree with you there but would say that by getting time Clark came, off the top of my head Curle, Quincy, Flitcroft, Walsh, Beagrie(?), Lomas etc were all gone.

And he blew the proceeds on Lee fucking Bradbury

 

[Aphex]

Absolute shite.
Gerry fuckin Creaney our Number 9.
Oh. My. Life.

To be fair he had 1 in 2 at Portsmouth..!