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Post by Hobhead on Dec 3, 2020 22:23:34 GMT
I’m sure I’ve told this tale before but my first game was in (I think) ‘87 at home to Hull. I did one of those old ‘Bobby Charlton Soccer School’ courses are the end of which you got a free ticket to watch your local team - in this case City in the skinny Midland Rd stand. My fat mother knew that her brother went to City regularly and browbeat him into taking me. Unbeknownst to her, my uncle was a central figure in 80’s Ointment folklore (apparently he used to go to the match with an axe in his coat).
Anyway, she dropped us at his house on match day and it was packed to the rafters with rum chaps, one of whom gave me an air horn. We all went down town and I was introduced to various scumbags who all made a fantastic fuss of me but i wasn’t that daft that I didn’t realise these guys had the odd loose screw.
Full time rolls around (I think it was a draw) and I recognised a couple of the guys we’d gone with on the pitch and remember one of them literally ripping the shirt off of John Hendrie’s back. We bumped into him later and he’d somehow shoehorned it on despite it being a good two sizes too big. I thought this was fantastic.
My fat mother thought it was great we’d had a lovely time and got my uncle to take me a couple more times after that but I was hooked after the first time. Just going to be game with a mob of nutters as a young lad gave me the bug. I just loved the madness of it all. Football was a wild animal back then and I still miss it.
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Post by Pyongyang Bantam on Dec 3, 2020 23:35:51 GMT
DMac is a stratospheric twat, as any timeshare salesman is. But he's not wrong. And I wish we had a bit of a twat in charge. Richmond was a twat. We need that twattishness back. I'd take a competent twat over a clueless nice guy any day of the week. Can Sparks summon his inner twat? Imagine the scene... Sparks flies to Germany, wades into Rupp's office and slowly but firmly shuts the door behind him... telling the PA to 'excuse us for a moment' "A word.." he says softly while taking a seat with his eyes locked on to Rupp with a steely gaze. He then abruptly gets up and slams his hands on Rupp's desk, raising his voice "If this club goes down. We're finished. And its on you. You'll lose every fucking penny. Now cough up and bankroll this fucking club to back where it belongs. Or fuck off" Rupp looks back stunned before Ryan adds "Give me the fucking funding and i'll take care of it. I know what i'm doing. I've got the best fucking people in the industry waiting to come in. Academy, training ground, proper scouts, analyists, DoF, the whole bollocks... you name it i'll get things moving. We'll be back in the Premier League in 5years and you'll get you're fucking euros back with interest" "I'll get a proper head coach in. I'll tell Macca to fuck off upstairs, 'club ambassador' or some shit. He can do the half time hospitality or summat provided he doesn't fall off the fucking stage pissed" Rupp pauses for a moment, the room falls silent... ........ then he bursts out laughing. "Ha ha i Like you kid. Ha ha no has stood up to me like zat. Ha ha i respect that. Ze Julian was always a shiezenkuntzer kock zucker anyways yes? Leave it with me, i'll release ze funds. My accountants will be in touch. Danke!"
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Post by Pyongyang Bantam on Dec 3, 2020 23:59:39 GMT
I’m sure I’ve told this tale before but my first game was in (I think) ‘87 at home to Hull. I did one of those old ‘Bobby Charlton Soccer School’ courses are the end of which you got a free ticket to watch your local team - in this case City in the skinny Midland Rd stand. My fat mother knew that her brother went to City regularly and browbeat him into taking me. Unbeknownst to her, my uncle was a central figure in 80’s Ointment folklore (apparently he used to go to the match with an axe in his coat). Anyway, she dropped us at his house on match day and it was packed to the rafters with rum chaps, one of whom gave me an air horn. We all went down town and I was introduced to various scumbags who all made a fantastic fuss of me but i wasn’t that daft that I didn’t realise these guys had the odd loose screw. Full time rolls around (I think it was a draw) and I recognised a couple of the guys we’d gone with on the pitch and remember one of them literally ripping the shirt off of John Hendrie’s back. We bumped into him later and he’d somehow shoehorned it on despite it being a good two sizes too big. I thought this was fantastic. My fat mother thought it was great we’d had a lovely time and got my uncle to take me a couple more times after that but I was hooked after the first time. Just going to be game with a mob of nutters as a young lad gave me the bug. I just loved the madness of it all. Football was a wild animal back then and I still miss it. My fondest memories were the 96-99 championship years (nationwide league as it was then known) The packed out kop (the 'old' new covered terrace). We'd be at the top, then after we'd scored we'd somehow end up about 10 rows forward. Some right characters. 'Animal', 'Frogger', 'Gypo' to name a few. Some headcases too. I just like the edginess of those old football atmospheres. Probably more than the actual football. The feeling there was 'something in the air' or about to 'kick off' esp with some of the bigger away followings like Boro and Man C. You could sense the energy. In the PL i think we lost that a bit of that communal feel. The new all seater kop becames diluted with plastics and moaners. A lot of the old guard were scattered around. Just didn't seem as fun. It just felt a bit soulless except for maybe the bigger games like Leeds and Newcastle.
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Post by Pyongyang Bantam on Dec 4, 2020 17:56:27 GMT
I'm a 39 yr old, so i started following City in the early 90s. We were in the 3rd tier, although the late 80s 'nearly' team was still in recent memory. The 50yrs in the wilderness was before my time, so i never really regarded the 4th tier as our natural level. The 1996-2004 8yr stretch in the top 2 divisions coincided with my late teens/early 20s. I regarded the likes of Huddersfield, Barnsley etc as our natural rivals. The 2007 relegation was my first experience of 'the Khazie'. At the time it seemed a novelty to people of my generation. But the next 6 years proved a reality check, before we started to gain momentum in 2013. And now we're back in the Khazie and in serious danger of losing our league status. I worry because there is a new generation of fans who've never seen us in the championship or higher. Other than a few grainy youtube clips of the premier league years as the the only clue to better times. We'll lose a generation to Leeds/Huddersfield/Burnley as we fade into obscurity unless something drastic happens. Same for me, born in 1990 and my first proper season ended at Wembley and three years later being in the Premier League. At the end of this season it will be 17 years since we last graced the Championship. We've basically gone a full generation in the lower leagues and you could be (almost) a fully grown adult now and know nothing else. As you say, we will lose fans to Leeds/Town/Burnley and of course the plastic Mancs and Scousers. I've mentioned it before but in those 17 years the likes of Yeovil, Burton, Peterborough, Scunthorpe, Blackpool, Wycombe, Doncaster have all been in the Championship. Bloody hell, Luton were relegated from the Championship in 2007, fell all the way to Non-League spending 5 years there, and are now enjoying their second season back in the Championship. Rotherham and Barnsley have spent significant time within the past decade at that level. Huddersfield haven't been lower than the Championship since 2012. Leeds left League One in 2010 and we all know where they are now. Christ, Leeds spent 16 years outside the top flight and for *not a single one* of those seasons did we grace the same league. FFS. When will someone grab this club by its balls and do what it is *potentially* capable of. Why are we the also rans? I'd kill for someone like DMac to come buy us. I'm frankly bored of being shit. I'm bored of being embarrassed by clubs like Barrow, Newport, Harrogate. And thats not being dismissive of those clubs, they're likely much better run than us. But that's the point, we could and should be so much better. DMac isn't always the most likeable character, but he gets shit done and we would 100% not arsing around the wrong end of League Two. 100%. What pisses me off is how other basket case clubs like Bolton, Wigan Coventry always seem to land on their feet. Sure they might have conveniently timed admins and drop a division or 2, but they always seem to find a way back. They take the piss and play the system. We try to act prudent and virtuos yet somehow end up worse off. Y’know what? We might aswell go for it. And if we end up in admin so what? I’d rather us reform under new ownership rather than go down under the current regime. Being ‘sustainable’ seems a stupid strategy when the penalty for admin is just relegation and a clean slate under new ownership. Hardly an issue if you’re in the Championship or League 1, where you still have a buffer of a division or two before falling out of the league entirely. IMO the penalty for admin should be loss of league status regardless of what division you’re in. Then maybe ‘sustainability’ would become a viable strategy.
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Post by Bacon on Dec 4, 2020 21:51:19 GMT
Don't get me started on this again. I'm not joining the MacAnthony circle jerk.
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Post by Neshead on Dec 4, 2020 22:41:18 GMT
Don't get me started on this again. I'm not joining the MacAnthony circle jerk. Yeah we'll just stick with our plan of having no plan at all.
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Post by Bacon on Dec 5, 2020 2:17:37 GMT
Don't get me started on this again. I'm not joining the MacAnthony circle jerk. Yeah we'll just stick with our plan of having no plan at all. I'm keen for the plan not to include paying fat, smelly cunt, Barry Fry millions of quid, is that OK Mr Fucking Chairman?
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Sparks is a cunt Bantam
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Post by moshi on Dec 5, 2020 3:18:15 GMT
Used to like the podcast but sick of him going on about COVID and “business”. Smug twat.
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Post by Hobhead on Dec 5, 2020 6:50:36 GMT
Yeah we'll just stick with our plan of having no plan at all. I'm keen for the plan not to include paying fat, smelly cunt, Barry Fry millions of quid, is that OK Mr Fucking Chairman? Barry Fry looks like a man who has eye-wateringly bad breath.
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Post by Neshead on Dec 5, 2020 7:17:05 GMT
Yeah we'll just stick with our plan of having no plan at all. I'm keen for the plan not to include paying fat, smelly cunt, Barry Fry millions of quid, is that OK Mr Fucking Chairman? U OK hun?
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Post by Bacon on Dec 5, 2020 9:14:44 GMT
I'm keen for the plan not to include paying fat, smelly cunt, Barry Fry millions of quid, is that OK Mr Fucking Chairman? U OK hun? No.
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Post by Neshead on Dec 5, 2020 9:25:25 GMT
I'd give you a hug but Covid and the courts restraining order have put a temporary block on.
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Post by tetchyarse on Dec 5, 2020 11:07:40 GMT
DMac is a stratospheric twat, as any timeshare salesman is. But he's not wrong. And I wish we had a bit of a twat in charge. Richmond was a twat. We need that twattishness back. I'd take a competent twat over a clueless nice guy any day of the weĺek. I still think DMac is a greasy timeshare salesman and if you search his name and "fraud" it causes Google to explode. I just want a bit of a twat in charge again. Not George Reynolds levels of twatdom. But someone who isn't a complete wet blanket of a man. It's why I don't believe the rumours that Rhodes stiffed Gibb, I don't think the man is capable of being that cunning and ruthless.
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Dec 5, 2020 12:20:48 GMT
I'd take a competent twat over a clueless nice guy any day of the weĺek. I still think DMac is a greasy timeshare salesman and if you search his name and "fraud" it causes Google to explode. I just want a bit of a twat in charge again. Not George Reynolds levels of twatdom. But someone who isn't a complete wet blanket of a man. It's why I don't believe the rumours that Rhodes stiffed Gibb, I don't think the man is capable of being that cunning and ruthless. I see and speak to Reynolds on a regular basis, how he was allowed anywhere near a football club is a disgrace. He's also the spitting image of a walking corpse now, as though his body has already started decomposing.
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Post by Neshead on Dec 5, 2020 12:47:07 GMT
I still think DMac is a greasy timeshare salesman and if you search his name and "fraud" it causes Google to explode. I just want a bit of a twat in charge again. Not George Reynolds levels of twatdom. But someone who isn't a complete wet blanket of a man. It's why I don't believe the rumours that Rhodes stiffed Gibb, I don't think the man is capable of being that cunning and ruthless. I see and speak to Reynolds on a regular basis, how he was allowed anywhere near a football club is a disgrace. He's also the spitting image of a walking corpse now, as though his body has already started decomposing. Remember this? Like a crazier version of Richmond.
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Post by tetchyarse on Dec 5, 2020 13:14:27 GMT
I still think DMac is a greasy timeshare salesman and if you search his name and "fraud" it causes Google to explode. I just want a bit of a twat in charge again. Not George Reynolds levels of twatdom. But someone who isn't a complete wet blanket of a man. It's why I don't believe the rumours that Rhodes stiffed Gibb, I don't think the man is capable of being that cunning and ruthless. I see and speak to Reynolds on a regular basis, how he was allowed anywhere near a football club is a disgrace. He's also the spitting image of a walking corpse now, as though his body has already started decomposing. He looked like that when he owned Darlington too. Sending the heavies round to threaten the editor of the Northern Echo was probably his finest moment. But what do you expect from a bank robber. Nice ground he built them, though. Shame it's now owned by a rugby union side who get 3-figure crowds.
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Post by Lethal Jizzle on Dec 5, 2020 13:15:16 GMT
I see and speak to Reynolds on a regular basis, how he was allowed anywhere near a football club is a disgrace. He's also the spitting image of a walking corpse now, as though his body has already started decomposing. Remember this? Like a crazier version of Richmond. I didn't realise how big if a crook he was before Darlington, he's the dodgiest fucker I've met. Even in his 80s he's obsessed with making money any way he can
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