The "Eric Nixon" Final

[TinFoilHat]

Will ITV invite him and Mark Bright?

 

[doots]

Handy lad him

 

[ROBSH34]

Will ITV invite him and Mark Bright?

Well done
Where the hell did that recording come from

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Well done
Where the hell did that recording come from

A camera.

 

[Postman Pep]

Will ITV invite him and Mark Bright?

Do a phoenix from the flames but this time Eric really means it.

 

[Norbert D]

Will ITV invite him and Mark Bright?

Remember that game like it was yesterday. There was a mini riot at full time and got told the ref had his head split open by a flying object. Palace were always snidey.

 

[Blumooniac]

Proper Withington lad.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

More men should be called Eric. Proper name.

Remember the match well

 

[simon23]

I was at that game...12 years old sat on a wall at the north stand end of the Kippax with my dad and Grandad.....remember it was bloody freezing!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Remember that game like it was yesterday. There was a mini riot at full time and got told the ref had his head split open by a flying object. Palace were always snidey.

Palace were a right set of dirty cunts that day, especially Wright & Bright.

 

[NJMCFC184]

I was there that day, crowd so toxic. Wright and Bright were at it all game, targeting Nixon on every corner

 

[Gaz in Zurich]

Handy lad him

In my class at school. An absolute unit at 14

 

[Mike N]

It’s funny how fans remember things differently. For me Nixon got suckered into getting sent off. He threw away the game because they’d got under his skin. He didn’t have the intelligence to rise above the battering they clearly gave him.

He went right down in my estimation that day and Palace went into the ‘hated teams’ section.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

I certainly took a dislike to Wright,Bright and Palace that day.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

It’s funny how fans remember things differently. For me Nixon got suckered into getting sent off. He threw away the game because they’d got under his skin. He didn’t have the intelligence to rise above the battering they clearly gave him.

He went right down in my estimation that day and Palace went into the ‘hated teams’ section.

The referee is there to protect players. He was targeted. Yes he should not have lashed out but again the ref shouldn’t have let the wind up get that far. Bright was running right at him at pace. He’d have got clattered into.

 

[Mike N]

The referee is there to protect players. He was targeted. Yes he should not have lashed out but again the ref shouldn’t have let the wind up get that far. Bright was running right at him at pace. He’d have got clattered into.

Instead of raising his arm, because he did, I saw it from the Kippax, he could have gone to ground. He didn’t because they’d succeeded in winding him up and he was angry.

He lost us the game that day.

 

[Mike N]

I certainly took a dislike to Wright,Bright and Palace that day.

Absolutely. Wright is particularly unlikeable.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Instead of raising his arm, because he did, I saw it from the Kippax, he could have gone to ground. He didn’t because they’d succeeded in winding him up and he was angry.

He lost us the game that day.

“Gone to ground”? You mean stand there and wait for a fully grown adult to run at pace into him?
Again, I’m not saying what he did was OK but neither would I expect him to stand there and be ran at. The ref should have stopped the nastiness before it reached that point.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I was a 10 year old watching that game in the North stand with my old man. Nixon was my hero at the time and Bright and Wrights actions gave me an unhealthy hatred of those cunts from Croydon

I seem to recall a flashing yellow light going off on top of one of the dugouts at one point as well?

 

[invisibleandalone]

New Eric very well, lived round the corner from him in Withington, played in the same Sunday League team with him (before City came along) , been on a lads holiday with him. You wouldn't want to be on the opposite side in a punch up. Proper character.