What was the most toxic period at City?

[NJMCFC184]

Wigan away 4 0 was pretty bad under Pearce but will always be Swales 93 for me.

 

[Mighty men]

I also did not like pearse

 

[TheGhost]

I think there are different types of toxicity:
Fans v club would probably be the Swales Out era. Lee was just as bad as a chairman but retained a lot of goodwill from his time a s a player. The Official Supporters Club sticking to their rules and not opposing Swales even though he was dragging the club down was a disgrace, but it never descended to blue v blue battles.
Blue v blue would be the Pearce era, culminating in the cup-tie at Blackburn where 7,000 argued amongst themselves as we went out the cup. Though Luton 83 had its moments with some wanting to proclaim their loyalty while others wanted to vent their anger. I was one of those venting anger; I'd already renewed for the following season.
Fans v team has been fairly rare though "you're not fit to wear the shirt" wasn't exactly unknown under Ball, Coppell, and Clarke. The treatment of Edghill was a disgrace. IIRC Nicky Summerbee and Nigel Clough also copped for a load of stick.

Nicky Summerbee and Nigel Clough deserved all they got. Edgehill less so. I think we can all put up with someone trying their best but not being good enough. Summerbee and Clough never looked as though were giving 100% and appeared to be living off the name of their parents

 

[East Level 2]

Nicky Summerbee and Nigel Clough deserved all they got. Edgehill less so. I think we can all put up with someone trying their best but not being good enough. Summerbee and Clough never looked as though were giving 100% and appeared to be living off the name of their parents

You could add Ian Bowyer who is alleged to have been forced out by the boo-boys. Then some bloke called Brian turned him into a European Cup winner.

 

[Abattoir Blue]

Nicky Summerbee and Nigel Clough deserved all they got. Edgehill less so. I think we can all put up with someone trying their best but not being good enough. Summerbee and Clough never looked as though were giving 100% and appeared to be living off the name of their parents

Disagree on Clough. Was a skilful and subtle player who was a bad fit at that time.

Summerbee was on a hiding to nothing at City and should have steered clear.

 

[1961_vintage]

For certain periods it was every home game. The only reason I ever left a game early was to get from the Kippax to the main stand for the Swales out demos/riots

This was the start of the Early Leavers condition that eventually became institutionalised. Those same said people still leave early to get to the front of the scrum at the players entrance, only to find that the demo's and the aggro is no longer occurring.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Disagree on Clough. Was a skilful and subtle player who was a bad fit at that time.

Summerbee was on a hiding to nothing at City and should have steered clear.

Summerbee N was a shifty rag **** who didn’t work hard and fired more tackles than a nifty fly half

 

[Abattoir Blue]

Summerbee N was a shifty rag **** who didn’t work hard and fired more tackles than a nifty fly half

He was a grade A shithouse.

But irrespective of that it was never gonna work at City based on his dad's status at the club.

 

[BringBackSwales]

He was a grade A shithouse.

But irrespective of that it was never gonna work at City based on his dad's status at the club.

Disagree - not that he was shithouse but that it was never going to work for him at City. Most Blues I know wanted him at City (I think he had a very good game for Swindon at Maine Road - probably cos he was a rag) and wanted him to do well. He didn’t do well simply because he was a lazy coward ****, in my opinion

 

[Abattoir Blue]

Disagree - not that he was shithouse but that it was never going to work for him at City. Most Blues I know wanted him at City (I think he had a very good game for Swindon at Maine Road - probably cos he was a rag) and wanted him to do well. He didn’t do well simply because he was a lazy coward ****, in my opinion

All about opinions!

Not defending Summerbee per se...just that I think he was often the first and easiest target. There's always a player first in the firing line. Doku, Sterling, Heath, Edghill, Morley, etc. For a variety of reasons, but once their status has been established they usually get the abuse before others even when they are not the worst on the pitch.

 

[Brendan110_0]

The Swales OUT protests were actually good fun, far better than the football. Found myself on the front pages of the M/c Evening News outside the Main Stand with a few thousand others. Then we had a game with the police called "dodging the charging horses"

Remember when the fans turned on Franny too, outside singing "dig him up" in reference to Swales who had passed away. That was a rough period.

 

[BringBackSwales]

All about opinions!

Not defending Summerbee per se...just that I think he was often the first and easiest target. There's always a player first in the firing line. Doku, Sterling, Heath, Edghill, Morley, etc. For a variety of reasons, but once their status has been established they usually get the abuse before others even when they are not the worst on the pitch.

I can honestly say that there is only one City player I have given shit to at the game and it’s Buzzers lad

 

[inthenextlife]

I remember hearing " we're shit and we're sick of it" at Maine Road and that hero running on the pitch and tearing his season ticket up in front of the Kippax. Bury. 1998?

 

[MCFC Wirral]

The treatment of Edghill was a disgrace. IIRC Nicky Summerbee and Nigel Clough also copped for a load of stick.

You’ve been going much longer than me but I’ve certainly never known a player receive as much abuse as Edghill did. The own goal v Coventry match was very, very bad.

 

[TonyM]

The most toxic period at City? That time when there was only a couple of days left and we had only signed a kid and a 30 year old freebie. Dark times.

 

[East Level 2]

It got fairly toxic in the away section at Oakwell when the dozy sods ran out of food at half time.

 

[A57 the snake]

Outside toilets on the old kippax things do not get more toxic than that.

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

I can honestly say that there is only one City player I have given shit to at the game and it’s Buzzers lad

Remember all the shit Joe Corrigan got in the early days when he replaced the much admired Harry Dowd. Could never have believed he would become a City legend. I preferred Healey as Dowds replacement but by the mid 70s was a huge fan of big Joe. Ashamed of the stick I used to give him

 

[Yankunian]

One that was toxic behind the scenes was the second half of Thaksin & Sven's tenure. I'm told they had a serious falling out over transfers, with Sven wanting to build on what he'd started and Thaksin either wanting someone more box office or we had no dosh. It got so heated that Thaksin apparently threw a vase at Sven, which fortunately missed.

Sven was then a dead man walking and that got through to the players. The second half of the season saw our form drop off a bit of a cliff. In addition the financial situation was getting difficult, with further debt being incurred and John Wardle having to lend us money to pay wages.

Garry Cook joined in May 2008 and virtually his first big task was to save us from administration because we couldn't find the money to pay the second instalment of £15m for the previous summer's transfers. He did that and the rest is history, with Sheikh Mansour arriving a couple of months later.

got a bit toxic in the away end in that 8-1 at Boro between City fans, some convinced that City and certain players had thrown that game in support of Sven

 

[Mifred]

It got fairly toxic in the away section at Oakwell when the dozy sods ran out of food at half time.

Was that when it kicked off with the police