Was Ian Bowyer The Edin Dzeko Of 1970?

[yerwot?]

before Ian Bowyer it was Billy Macadams,MR was not a good place to be if your face didn't fit or your hair was the wrong colour.

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

What was the problem?

The problem - then and now - was that we had an element in the fan base that were miserable moaning fuckers who got on players backs at the slightest mistake. Once Bowyer left, Joe Corrigan became the target and there's usually been one poor sod copping it in every squad as long as I've been watching City. Contrary to popular myth, they weren't all in the Maine Stand either, there were plenty in the Kippax.

Spot on! There was a section of the crowd at city in those days that were horrendous. Some actually booed our own players when their names were read out prior to the match and every time they touched the ball after. Poor Big Joe got stick no matter how he played, it took him years to win the boo boys over. I seem to remember the Main Stand being especially bad for this but it could have come from other areas too.

Regarding the Main Stand, not in the Mercer/Allison days, but certainly in the Poyser and McDowell days, do you remember the deathly slow hand clap that would emerge from there? It was usually the only noise, other than verbal criticism, that ever was heard, but what an ominous sound it was. I think the stand was pretty well famous for it.

 

[WhenProgrammesWereAShilling]

The problem - then and now - was that we had an element in the fan base that were miserable moaning fuckers who got on players backs at the slightest mistake. Once Bowyer left, Joe Corrigan became the target and there's usually been one poor sod copping it in every squad as long as I've been watching City. Contrary to popular myth, they weren't all in the Maine Stand either, there were plenty in the Kippax.

Spot on! There was a section of the crowd at city in those days that were horrendous. Some actually booed our own players when their names were read out prior to the match and every time they touched the ball after. Poor Big Joe got stick no matter how he played, it took him years to win the boo boys over. I seem to remember the Main Stand being especially bad for this but it could have come from other areas too.

Regarding the Main Stand, not in the Mercer/Allison days, but certainly in the Poyser and McDowell days, do you remember the deathly slow hand clap that would emerge from there? It was usually the only noise, other than verbal criticism, that ever was heard, but what an ominous sound it was. I think the stand was pretty well famous for it.

Your right and im having flashbacks now and they are not good. Thankfully i think things seemed to get better towards the end at Maine Road, alot of the old brigade had gone from the Main Stand by then and expectation level was more realistic.

 

[spacecadet]

What was the problem?

The problem - then and now - was that we had an element in the fan base that were miserable moaning fuckers who got on players backs at the slightest mistake. Once Bowyer left, Joe Corrigan became the target and there's usually been one poor sod copping it in every squad as long as I've been watching City. Contrary to popular myth, they weren't all in the Maine Stand either, there were plenty in the Kippax.

So true.

 

[therealsvenn]

I used to make my mother buy 'Bowyers' sausages cos he played for City. Dont think you can buy 'Dzeko' bangers?

 

[Vienna_70]

Spot on! There was a section of the crowd at city in those days that were horrendous. Some actually booed our own players when their names were read out prior to the match and every time they touched the ball after. Poor Big Joe got stick no matter how he played, it took him years to win the boo boys over. I seem to remember the Main Stand being especially bad for this but it could have come from other areas too.

Regarding the Main Stand, not in the Mercer/Allison days, but certainly in the Poyser and McDowell days, do you remember the deathly slow hand clap that would emerge from there? It was usually the only noise, other than verbal criticism, that ever was heard, but what an ominous sound it was. I think the stand was pretty well famous for it.

Your right and im having flashbacks now and they are not good. Thankfully i think things seemed to get better towards the end at Maine Road, alot of the old brigade had gone from the Main Stand by then and expectation level was more realistic.

So the abuse Richard Edghill received at Maine Road was a figment of my imagination, then?

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

God, the slow handclap used to send shivers down my spine when I was a kid in the Y Block in the Platt Lane. God knows how the players must have felt.

Thankfully not heard it since about 1983?? Funnily enough there were a few hand-clapping tunes the Kippax used to do. It's a bit hard to replicate them via a written medium but there was the one that end with fans chanting der der der der der der der der. There was another like a train setting off with fans shouting woo-hoo at the end of it as it got faster and faster. Wonder why they died out too?

 

[urmston]

Regarding the Main Stand, not in the Mercer/Allison days, but certainly in the Poyser and McDowell days, do you remember the deathly slow hand clap that would emerge from there? It was usually the only noise, other than verbal criticism, that ever was heard, but what an ominous sound it was. I think the stand was pretty well famous for it.

Your right and im having flashbacks now and they are not good. Thankfully i think things seemed to get better towards the end at Maine Road, alot of the old brigade had gone from the Main Stand by then and expectation level was more realistic.

So the abuse Richard Edghill received at Maine Road was a figment of my imagination, then?

Good point.

 

[the blue panther]

He wasn't anywhere near as good for us as Dzeko has been - on occasions.

He wasn't good enough to hold down a regular place - barely first division standard, and at a time when we had some world class players.

He disappeared to Notts Forest and emerged under Brian Clough a few years later as an excellent midfielder. Cloughie achieved some great things, but, turning Ian Bowyer into a consistent and very good midfielder was probably one of his finest achievements.

 

[Balti]

Main Stand Moaners

miserable old feckers