NortonSkyBlue
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Dyson and Gillespie were a fine partnership
Dion visits Coventry (4 Viewers)
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clint van damme
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hated Dublin when he left. Now feel a bit silly about that.
Was a great player for us and deserved a move to a bigger club, think he chose wrong going to Villa.
Was a great player for us and deserved a move to a bigger club, think he chose wrong going to Villa.
covcity4life
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I know people that refuse to watch it today cos its dublin
Feel sorry 4 them. When i think of dion dublin and cov it only brings back great memories
BornSlippySkyBlue
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Anyone that went to Luton that night he refused to play had good reason to be peed off! That has to rate as one of the worst away games I’ve ever been to.
And yes, I hated him at the time, but have zero animosity towards him now. Was a great player for us and a nice bloke.
Villa tho...
And yes, I hated him at the time, but have zero animosity towards him now. Was a great player for us and a nice bloke.
Villa tho...
NortonSkyBlue
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Serious question: why Villa though?
BornSlippySkyBlue
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What, why was it particularly galling he went to villa?
hill83
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Went to that game.
Got to say though. Never hated him or any player. Don’t really understand that mentality.
Edit: Just remembered Bellamy.
hill83
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Just to the left at the top of the stairs going up to the bedrooms.
Liquid Gold
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I adore Dion. My favourite player ever, was just unplayable. When I was a mascot as a kit I had his name on my shirt and he was amazing with me. Think what he’d be with in today’s market.
NortonSkyBlue
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Yes. It made no difference if he had joined any of the teams in the top flight. He was looking after his family and future.
We basically pushed Dennis Mortimer to Villa Park against his wishes, bought Ray Graydon and had Steve Hunt so it was not as though trading between the clubs was unheard of.
Tommo1993
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BornSlippySkyBlue
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Oh I fully agree that rationally it made no difference, and from his own personal perspective it was a great move — bigger club (sorry!), more money, more chance of winning stuff etc etc.
But at that particular time villa were the team most hated by most of our fans. We hadn’t been playing Leicester, the dog heads or any of the other local teams consistently as they’d all been in lower divisions and it just felt particularly painful to think that our talisman was going to our main rivals. Surprised it needs explaining tbf!
seriously ? any that does that needs to have a word with themselves LOL
Ring Of Steel
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He didn’t have to uproot his family as he lives in Stratford
RegTheDonk
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Yeah same, didn't go to Luton but it was the way the move seemed to have instigated presumably by his agent and you had Gregory smarming all in the press and TV about the price of baked beans, and Dion going on about he wants to win things (a fair comment I guess but it really riled me). I laughed my head off the following year when they lost at Wembley and he flung the ball in anger when the conceded a goal.
Unlike some Sunderland fans, can't carry a grude for that long - all water under the bridge, we've grown up and can now look back now at what a good player he was. Think it was a midweek cup game Vs Blues at St.Andrews when Daish got sent off, Dion had to play at the back and had a blinder, must have been his first time as we all were going WTF?
Just seen the football focus item, he seemed to genuinely like coming back to the Lodge and it was a nice piece on us. Lucky there wasn't any stairs in sight.
the rumpo kid
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I've just watched this ,recorded, did any body else notice the bloke taking a piss at the back of the lads sprinting ?
Genuinely , if you have it recorded watching back , there's a guy pissing on the blue sight screening at the back.
Genuinely , if you have it recorded watching back , there's a guy pissing on the blue sight screening at the back.
BornSlippySkyBlue
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I’d pushed all memories of Gregory out of my mind, but yes — it certainly didn’t help to have that nauseating prick gloating about it.
Didn’t he have a £5m release clause or similar resulting in a bid of £5,000,000.5p or something. Or did I imagine that?
Terry Gibson's perm
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I may be wrong on this but was Richardson trying to move him out of the club?
clint van damme
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I definitely think there's a strong chance that the blame the player narrative fed to the support wasn't entirely accurate!
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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Dion Dublin back in Cov, don't tell Shay Given, haha.
Great memories.
Great memories.
Danceswithhorses
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Wasn't that the jailbait scumbag that is Lee Hughes...fee was £5,000,001 ?
BornSlippySkyBlue
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Ooh, maybe. Thought we basically ordered the taxi ourselves for Bellamy though!
covcity4life
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Nice segment albeit short
rob9872
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And defender!
My all time favourite player and simply the best player I've ever seen pull on a city shirt. Yeah it was Villa, but a purely financial decision for him fair play. We bought off 2m, had great service and sold for 6m, what's not to like? If only it always worked like that.
Ring Of Steel
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I think John Gregory had his comeuppance- got sacked, failed at Derby, reputation shot to pieces with talk of dodgy deals & backhanders and sort of faded into the background. A tainted manager.
The thing with Dublin was that he’d been on the same emotional rollercoaster as us- the last day wins & the survival struggles & the chest beating- we saw him as one of us. But the way he left was a very timely reminder that although some players do care for the club they’re at, the second a better offer comes in they’ll leave and show the same emotional attachment to the new club as they did their old club, leaving the former club- ie us- feeling like the jilted ex.
It’s different for them, they’re not fans, and even though we know it, it still hurts when ‘one of us’ moves on.
That’s why I think it hurt- not because it was Villa but because it was a very harsh reminder that none of the players genuinely care like we do, and at any time any one of them could & probably would leave if something better came along.
When he left the whole club seemed to go into shock, it was a huge jolt and that Luton game was one of the worst away showings I ever saw, they all looked like they were lost.
You couldn’t say he was the best attacker we ever had- he wasn’t, he wasn’t the best defender either, but he was without doubt one of the biggest presences & stabilising influences we’ve ever had on the pitch, he was immense and the players clearly respected him massively, he was our rock- they looked like kids without him.
The thing with Dublin was that he’d been on the same emotional rollercoaster as us- the last day wins & the survival struggles & the chest beating- we saw him as one of us. But the way he left was a very timely reminder that although some players do care for the club they’re at, the second a better offer comes in they’ll leave and show the same emotional attachment to the new club as they did their old club, leaving the former club- ie us- feeling like the jilted ex.
It’s different for them, they’re not fans, and even though we know it, it still hurts when ‘one of us’ moves on.
That’s why I think it hurt- not because it was Villa but because it was a very harsh reminder that none of the players genuinely care like we do, and at any time any one of them could & probably would leave if something better came along.
When he left the whole club seemed to go into shock, it was a huge jolt and that Luton game was one of the worst away showings I ever saw, they all looked like they were lost.
You couldn’t say he was the best attacker we ever had- he wasn’t, he wasn’t the best defender either, but he was without doubt one of the biggest presences & stabilising influences we’ve ever had on the pitch, he was immense and the players clearly respected him massively, he was our rock- they looked like kids without him.
rob9872
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People should also consider the impact when slaughtering one of our own too when they moan at players for leaving. I know Shippers wants to spend his entire career with us if possible unless the unlikely event Liverpool come in for him, but I also know how hurt and upset he was when Facebook put a poll up last season of if he was the worst ever to play for us and it received approx 400 likes. Completely and rightly distraught as a young lad giving his all and no matter how many times you say it's just trolls who rarely if ever go to games, it's only human to feel some anger back.