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Richardson has kept quiet for years, presumably as a result of these confidentiality clauses. It would be interesting to be able to unpick it all with the benefit of hindsight. I believe Richardson was by no means the only one who was responsible for the mess the club got into. Robinson and...

Depends what you want, I suppose. There are also some clubs in Bloomfield Road. The Central Club and No.1 Club are very near the ground, and the Bloomfield Road Club is a bit further up the road. The last one has cheap beer and a decent atmosphere when I've been there, although admittedly...

Is there anyone at all, on this forum or elsewhere, that has ever seriously believed that CCFC were going to build a new stadium? I don't know anyone who believed it 2-3 years ago, and following all the lies about sites and deadlines surely even the most rabid Sisu apologist hasn't believed it...

No more money available for the team, of course, but more thousands pissed away on fancy lawyers arguing a case they could never win. They will always be the winners as they would never turn down a brief, no matter how ridiculous, as long as there was enough money in it.

Number 11 that day was Kevin Gallagher. I was doubly delighted that day as I'd had a couple of quid on Borrows as first goalscorer as figured we may get a penalty. The first one was a penalty but he scored the second one as well.

You are correct. The score was shown in the middle in large numbers as you describe. The team names were letters slid into slots and illuminated from behind. There were ten smaller number squares on each side to indicate scorers, six on the top line and four below, plus another each side to...

Sadly, that isn't going to happen. We simply got out of the habit of going to every home game (after 50 years) when the Northampton fiasco happened, and missed it less than we thought we would. We did get season tickets on the return last season but it just wasn't the same, we ended up missing...

You cannot use the online system if you have a match package. It is hopeless, the only way to get the seats you want is to turn up at a ticket office. Otherwise you get random seats on the day. If they sort it so you can print tickets at home with these packages we will have them again next...

He did miss, and Terry Gibson suggested he may have been better using the other method! Incidentally, people have complained on this thread that Suarez was a foot inside the D when Messi took the penalty on Sunday. Tonight there were 5 Sporting Gijon players encroaching, plus one Barca. Did...

The one that really winds me up is when players throw themselves to the floor after the slightest contact that would not floor an excited toddler. Then players, managers and pundits justify it by saying that "He felt the contact so he was entitled to go down." Entitled? Football is a contact...

This so-called lack of quality outside the top teams is true of all top leagues, especially the Premier League. There is an incredible amount of rubbish touting their trade here every week. La Liga is streets ahead in terms of quality, and certainly in entertainment. And, yes, I've seen quite...

To suggest that Celta Vigo are a Dog & Duck team is certainly disrespectful. They are a very decent team and gave as good as they got for an hour. They are a top half team that won the return fixture 4-1 earlier in the season, so there was a score to settle. As for Neymar - do you really...

I see nothing wrong with what happened last night in principle. If a team wants to potentially waste a penalty, as Arsenal did in 2005, that's up to them. The only issue last night was that Suarez was in the D so it should have been retaken. Offside was not an issue as once Messi had passed...

This is the real point here. Most seasons there may as well have been a revolving door on the dressing room. We have been replacing ordinary players with more ordinary players for years, and scratching about in the loans market which is always a lottery. This season we have had one or two...

I think Mowbray has done well with his loan signings this season compared to some previous managers. He has been fortunate that a few have come off but players like Armstrong are simply not always available for loan. Loans are always a bit of a lottery so Mowbray can't get lucky every time, no...

Freudian slip? More of a cock up, I'd say. I'll get me coat......

This is true, and it sums up the way SISU have always wanted to do business. I shudder when I think back at some of SISU's people over the last few years. What is a bigger issue is what happened with the team though. They surrendered our Championship status without any sort of fight, so...

We've certainly had some real talent on these positions in the years I've been following City. I do agree that names like Stein, Martin, Keane, Gibson, Dublin, Hunt, Quinn and Ferguson deserve a mention. However, I was privileged to see City in the 60s, which clearly many posters weren't. So...

Like some others, I think it is impossible to leave Tommy Hutchison out of a greatest City XI. He is certainly the best player I have seen play for City in my 50-odd years watching them, so he is my vote without any hesitation. There are a few honourable mentions though. Ronnie Rees...

I certainly agree that refereeing has not kept pace with the speed and complexity of the modern game. It is also true that the standard in the third tier is pretty mediocre, and on some occasions utterly dire. The Elite group never get to do our level, except for the odd TV game, so we are far...