The "Swales Out" Campaign

[Didsbury Dave]

I've always tried to keep in touch with the kids by watching the odd Youth Cup game every year. Back then I remember a Youth Cup game, can't remember who we were playing but there was a fair crowd in the Main Stand.

A gang of local young scallies, aged around 10, had got in and were maing a bit of a nuisence of themselves running around and generally being a pain. They were singing City songs in their high pitched voices and when we went a goal down were signing "WE're shit and we're sick of it", "You're not fit to wear the shirt" and "What the fuck is going on?" for the rest of the game.

They'd learnt it at the first team games and thought it was normal, they weren't even doing it for a laugh.

That's a true story.

 

[m27]

Boring these days, isn't it?

(I'm half serious with that too)

The Swales and Lee takeover era saw people fuming but looking back I remember it as containing some top comedy.

The bloke running on the pitch and dragging his family with him.
Brian Who (turned out to be a top bloke)
Alan Ball's World Cup Winner's medal
Lee milking it in the crowd
Geoff Thomas walking up the fucking moterwayHarry Bassett taking the piss and shitting himself at 6 in the morning.
Coppell
Phil Neal
Frank Clark
A bloke running on during a night game against Oxford (or could have been Port Vale) when we were getting pasted in the first half and giving Nigel Clough a piece of his mind.
Swales Out demos
Lomas in the corner.
Polllock's own goal
Frank Clark hearing he was sacked on the radio
Planes flying over with Swales Out/Forward With Franny banners.
Demos after that night game where Huddersfield won
'What the fuck is going on' chants
'We're shit and we're sick of it' chants.
That FA Cup Quater Final against Spurs with everyone convinced we had won the cup already.
And that's off the top of my head.

Might be to do with the fact that I was a teenager at the time of all that, but I definitely used to find it all exciting in a strange way.

Don't the forget the important bit JMA. He would have walked up the motorway on broken glass!!!
A quite ironic quote for the time as some of us who went home and away during all this felt like we were walking on broken glass all the time with the f'kin pain we endured.

Dean Saunders claimed to be a life long Blue and that he'd "swim to City" don't forget.

Not sure which waterway he had in mind but the thought was there.

 

[Dr Mick]

I remember bumping (quite literally) into Peter Swales in Alderly Edge one day some time after the Franny Lee take over. I said hello Peter and he said hello back. The person with me asked me who he was and said he didn't look very well.

Exactly a week to the day later he died.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The "Swales Out" Campaign

Don't the forget the important bit JMA. He would have walked up the motorway on broken glass!!!
A quite ironic quote for the time as some of us who went home and away during all this felt like we were walking on broken glass all the time with the f'kin pain we endured.

Dean Saunders claimed to be a life long Blue and that he'd "swim to City" don't forget.

Not sure which waterway he had in mind but the thought was there.

You've been missed mate

 

[pinkwheeltrim]

I remember bumping (quite literally) into Peter Swales in Alderly Edge one day some time after the Franny Lee take over. I said hello Peter and he said hello back. The person with me asked me who he was and said he didn't look very well.

Exactly a week to the day later he died.

Not much of a doctor then are you!

 

[1_barry_conlon]

Re: The

Dean Saunders claimed to be a life long Blue and that he'd "swim to City" don't forget.

Not sure which waterway he had in mind but the thought was there.

You've been pissed mate

Edited for accuracy.

 

[kismet]

i met PJ outside Highfield Rd in the early 80's, we had been hammered 4-0.

we had a good chat and he gave me his tie with the MCFC monichor as thanks for hitching to Cov and witnessing such a dire display...........

it was a bit of a kipper tie though

 

[Jim Tolmie's Underpants]

Peter Swales demonstrating exactly why he was such a disaster for City:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRg3jyOGs9M[/youtube]

Comparing sacking and appointing managers to buying a new TV....

 

[Swales lives]

One good thing I'll say about Peter Swales is, he sent me a nice letter when I applied for the manager's job after he sacked Mel Machin. As much as the latter years of his chairmansip were horrible, I always liked him for that letter. He still maintained a common touch.

 

[Longsight-memories]

Thats the spirit!

Didn't he own a record store in Altrincham?

Obviously not as much talent as Richard Branson. Richard's first business was Virgin Records and one of his first stores was in the Arndale centre.

I think you'll find it was on Lever St before it ever made it to the Arndale.

Think you will find he started out in Sheffield on the market..then had mixed shops records/clothing in Sheffield...(Branson i mean)