Your Worst City Manager Since You Became A Blue ?

[The Colonel]

I can't forget Billy McNeil going to Spain for his summer hols and coming back with the sweeper system after a conversation with John Toshack over there. Why would you do that? It bored us to the bottom of the league and got him the sack.
He had ablsolutely nothing to work with though.

didn't he go Villa and took them down with us

Actually you're right he wasn't sacked he walked out and took Villa down below us. I remember him coming back to Maine Road and we kicked his arse (3-1 I think minus the sweeper) singing a songs about what he looks like in a hat and where to stcik his sweeper.

 

[Des]

Alan Ball without doubt.

I recall David Beckham helping out with his funeral arrangements as he is a ................dead ball specialist.

 

[brooklandsblue2.0]

Sven-self serving, greedy chancer.

 

[paul_blue]

Alan Ball, Steve Coppell, Phil Neal as in 1st 2nd and 3rd

 

[tommyducks]

Coppell

 

[kippax_blueboy]

Frank Clark

His style of football was the worst

Away a Tranmere the team just hoofed the long ball for 90 minutes

Game ended 0-0

 

[lorez]

john benson and alan ball

 

[AustinBlue]

Big Mal's second turn for me. The beginning of the "Dark Ages" as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Abe Frohman]

Steve Coppell

 

[Chris in London]

I'm gonna put my head above the parapet and say it was Big Mal, not for the early 70s glory days but for the disastrous comeback in 79 (sorry if anyone's done this already but CBA reading thru 11 pages on this thread)

Swales said if he gave Allison the right amount of money City would be champions.

Big Mistake.

Peter Barnes out?
Gary Owen Out?
Dave Watson out?

Steve Daley in? Steve MacKenzie in? (750K in 1979? WTF?) Bobby Shintoe in?

Mal turned us from being a regular UEFA cup side (which required a top 5 finish) into relegation candidates.

Love Big Mal with a passion for being 20 years ahead of the game with some of his views, and can't be prouder of what we achieved between 67 and 72 but the slide that finished with us being a mid-table team in the old 3rd division started IMO with Big Mal.

Even then, he only just shades it over Ball.