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There was no transgression as far as I'm aware. Cantwell is the manager who guided us to our highest ever league position and the only one to take us into Europe. It was indeed a huge job to take on and his achievement in keeping us up was immense at the time. To push on and qualify for Europe...

I'm pretty sure there was absolutely nothing for Noel Cantwell. It was very controversial at the time and frankly shamed the club that his passing was ignored. It was as if nobody who was running CCFC had ever heard of him.

He did make Butcher look good, but not in the way you mean, I suspect. Butcher arrived at City without a clue about management, he just didn't know what to do. He had no idea, for instance, how he would go about signing a player. Don Howe bailed him out, so I guess they figured they could do...

In fairness to him, he replaced the appalling Terry Butcher and didn't have much to work with in the quest for survival other than a decent defence. He at least kept us up which was important since we then became members of the new Premier League where the money was. Sad to see another...

That's true. I have a match package and so cannot buy online. The ticket offices are a complete joke. I tried the BPA one last time and the scale of the operation would shame a non-league outfit. I dread to think what would happen should we get to the play-offs and they have to distribute...

The best central defender I've seen for City in over 50 years is Roy Barry. What an inspired signing he was. There are a few possibilities for the second name but on balance it would have to be Trevor Peake. We have certainly had a few decent ones over those decades, notable others being...

It could be worse! Someone suggested Marcus Hall, FFS.

We have 6-match packages now but have bought tickets for Oldham because of the offer. At £10 for wife and £5 for me it doesn't pay to use the package vouchers. So it's an extra game for us. I think it will be a decent crowd on what is traditionally a day for lower crowds on the Saturday...

We've had some decent options over the years at LB. Pearce was a superb player but we only had him for 50 games or so and he became a top player at Forest. So for me, based on CCFC performances, Chris Cattlin is the only possible choice. 60s, by the way.

Here is the exact text of what Gallagher said on SSN this morning: "This is one I can't defend. It's a red card for a few reasons. Intensity, speed he's come at the player, his foot's high and he's scissor tackled him. When you watch that it's hard to defend anything other than a red...

I agree. This ref has been piss-weak in my view. Very lenient with some of their fouls. Typical Sheff U team though, plenty of big blokes, rough up any team that looks like they might be able to play a bit. The last thing you need in a game like this is a weak referee!

Managers are no different from players really. It's not about loyalty, their club is no more than their current employer. If they get an offer that they see as a career progression they will take it. They are not like fans. I sincerely hope Mowbray stays for at least this season. But...

Just returned from a night at an Indian restaurant near Burton. Jimmy Floyd and some of the players were there too, a party of about 10 of them, and it looked rather like a farewell do to us. Have to say they were all impeccably behaved, even though the Cobra had been in evidence throughout...

People do have short memories. That last game at Aston Villa made no difference to our relegation in 2001. We were 2-0 up that day. Had we actually hung on and won, we would still have been relegated at the end of that game, defeat made no difference. Villa fans might love to say they sent...

Good shout. Last goal of his first spell was March 1981, next one was March 1988. A few days over 7 years.

The first time I saw George Best play was at Highfield Road in March 1968. We won 2-0 and Best was marked out of the game by Chris Cattlin on his debut. There were over 47000 in the ground that day, even though the main stand had just burned down. The last time I saw Best play was in...

I've followed City for 53 years and, even after all that suffering, have never felt the need to smoke, or to drink at the match. My point is that the concourses are so rammed that there is likely to be a safety issue, given that there is no stewarding or crowd control, it would seem. I have...

I agree. But Mowbray has shown far more ability in the market than any previous manager, so we have some reason for optimism on that score. I was saying yesterday that it was funny the Gillingham fans had got so arsey about us having decent loan players. Nobody said a word when we had all...

The way we are playing at the moment, we look like automatic promotion material. But we all know that things can change very quickly when it's all going well. It would take a big decline for us not to even get into the top 6 though. One reason I hope we get into the top 2 is that I dread to...

I find it amazing that we, a third division club, are hated by a premier league club's fans for something that was their own fault and that happened nearly 40 years ago before most of them were born. What sad, insignificant lives they must have in their appalling little town. I regard...