Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from Ball

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Re: Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from

Brian (who?) Horton was a very decent manager, who was a football man through and through, plus is a nice guy into the bargain...(Very rare these days of dog eat dog)

In fact I would go so far as to say he is my favourite City manager, along with Genial Joe Mercer and Pellers.

Agreed, but let's not forget Bobby Manc.

Well yes, I was going to include Bobby, I really liked the guy, but he just didn't quite make it into my top tier because (by all accounts) sometimes he was rather distant to the players.........

 

[FanchesterCity]

Re: Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from

I think by the time we had Brian Horton, we'd come to realise we weren't going to be getting top name managers any more.
We'd already started to settle for far less that top class managers (but kidded ourselves some of the names were big names!).

I can remember thinking 'Brian Horton??? it's come to this???'... but he actually appeared to be genuinely rooting for us! He was down to earth, and emotional, wore iffy suits (tweed at one point I think), generally had that 'I don't know how I got this job, but I'm gonna give it everything I can' - and he did (imo).

City fans love a trier, and he tried. Plenty of managers seemed to be using us as a name on their CV. He wasn't like that.

I can't help but have a lot of affection for him.

I'd never want to go back to those days, but in terms of being 'made from the right stuff' - he was great.

 

[deedee]

Re: Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from

Agree with the above. I thought Big Mal was pretty clueless as a manager.
But then the 80s came along
and the 90s

 

[baildon blue]

Re: Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from

1) Malcolm Allison , The 2nd time . Thanks to him we sold all are best players in the late 70s for nothing . Plus we spent big on crap players .
2) Peter Reid . He pi**** a lot of money down the drain buying Terry Phelan and Keith Curle . We helped Wimbledon more than we did are selves .
3) Frank Clark . He was really poor . Lets look who we lost to under him Stockport and Bury . Says it all really crap .
4) John Benson . No way should he have let us go down in 1983 . Swales should have appointed Tony Book instead of Benson in 1983 .
5) Steve Coppell . No way should we have appointed this guy in 1996 . This was another crap move by are chairmen Lee at the time .
6) Mark Hughes . In the same way Coppell was appointed . This was the wrong move in 2008 . Pi**** a lot of money down the drain .
7) Allan Ball . What were we doing in 1995 appointing him . I would rather have stuck with Brian Horton .
8) John Bond . Never forgive him for leaving a sinking ship in 1983 . If he had stayed we wouldn't have gone down .
9) Howard Kendall . Why join us and then leave not even a year later . To this day I can`t believe he did that .
10) Jimmy Frizzell . We didn't win an away game under this guy . Nuff said .

I don't count the likes of Phil Neal he was only a caretaker .

 

[MeatHunterrr]

Re: Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from

Mark Hughes if not the most clueless but certainly up there. Wasted about £200 million on shit & average players excluding Tevez, Kompany & Zabaleta.

 

[uweuweuwe]

Re: Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from

Brian (who?) Horton was a very decent manager, who was a football man through and through, plus is a nice guy into the bargain...(Very rare these days of dog eat dog)

In fact I would go so far as to say he is my favourite City manager, along with Genial Joe Mercer and Pellers.

Agree with all tgat plus people seem to forget as he was manager whilst in the background and internal war was taking place in the boardroom and he conducted himself with dignity every week whilst bomarded with questions about lee swales and his job. Thought he was treated badly by the club in the end.

 

[1961_vintage]

Re: Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from

1) Malcolm Allinson , The 2nd time . Thanks to him we sold all are best players in the late 70s for nothing .

Have to agree. Swalesey should of told him we'd of been a better team with nowt taken out.

 

[baildon blue]

Re: Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from

1) Malcolm Allinson , The 2nd time . Thanks to him we sold all are best players in the late 70s for nothing .

Have to agree. Swalesey should of told him we'd of been a better team with nowt taken out.

I look back on Malcolm Allison 2nd coming with total dread . We were shambles in the 80s thanks to him . Billy McNeill said we couldn't afford a fish supper in the 80s .

 

[Pam]

Re: Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from

Mark Hughes

 

[CITYBOY1000]

Re: Who was the most clueless City manager ever? Apart from

Brian (who?) Horton was a very decent manager, who was a football man through and through, plus is a nice guy into the bargain...(Very rare these days of dog eat dog)

In fact I would go so far as to say he is my favourite City manager, along with Genial Joe Mercer and Pellers.

Agree with all tgat plus people seem to forget as he was manager whilst in the background and internal war was taking place in the boardroom and he conducted himself with dignity every week whilst bomarded with questions about lee swales and his job. Thought he was treated badly by the club in the end.

Brian Horton doesn't deserve to be mentioned on this thread.

The guy was so unlucky with injuries and I don't just mean outfield players. His replacement for the replacement, replacement, replacement right-back was only part of the story. He lost Coton and had to use Dibble. That was really his downfall.

He brought us Walsh and Rosler and even that back-flip, flip-flap merchant Peter Beagrie.

I was shocked when we sacked him and brought in Ball.