Reply to: Sven Joins Man Citeh

[Moscow Mule]

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[Let-Me-In]

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[Moscow Mule]

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[Let-Me-In]

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[Moscow Mule]

A bloke I know has 5 kidneys. I nearly pissed myself when he told me. I didn't realise they don't take the knackered ones out.

Best wishes to her.

Best of luck to City - they will need it...

[BoredBloke]

"More importantly, how's the Mrs?"

Doing well. The 'new' kidney seems to be doing it's job. Her kidney function is now approaching the levels they would expect of somebody with normal kidneys. The anti rejection drugs are a nightmare as she has to take quite a few and will have to for the rest of her life. I'm looking to start making my first appearances back on site next week after a prolonged bout of working from home.

I say 'new' as the kidney was her mums and so was 62 years old!

[Alf W]

You wait until Sven persuades Beckham, Owen & Gerrard to come to City and we're in Europe the following year.

Welcome Sven to the only top flight team in Manchester (not Stretford, which is a seperate town outside Manchester that shares the M postcode before we start that argument again).

Actually, I expect the usual "we're going down" conversations to start around the end of September.

[wendigo100]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Poached manager... I feel hungry already....


Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

I remember some journos being interviewed on the plane going over to the Italy world cup in 1990, and they said they were going to "roast Bobby Robson" (sic).

[wendigo100]

They have been unlucky in recent years to miss out on the playoffs. The trouble is, as soon as they get up they would end up right back down again. Rochdale hold the record for having to reapply for entry back in to the league. i.e. what used to happen when you finished bottom of the old 4th div.

They were also the first 'professional' team I saw and even now remember them as being truly awful. I have not been back since.

Awful perhaps, but if you're going to a game, it's cheaper and it's real footy, rather than the handful of overpaid, eclectic international sides that dominate the Premiership.

I saw Rochdale last season and they were good, should have beaten us. They were the second best team I saw, after Blackpool. They were about five from bottom at the time (just before Christmas) but had just got a new coach and climbed up to the edge of the play-offs.

I thought Hartlepool held that record for re-elections?

More importantly, how's the Mrs?

[BoredBloke]

"Hi Tony, got your Rochdale fixture list yet?

They've got a good chance of going up I reckon."

They have been unlucky in recent years to miss out on the playoffs. The trouble is, as soon as they get up they would end up right back down again. Rochdale hold the record for having to reapply for entry back in to the league. i.e. what used to happen when you finished bottom of the old 4th div.

They were also the first 'professional' team I saw and even now remember them as being truly awful. I have not been back since.

[wendigo100]

Hi Tony, got your Rochdale fixture list yet?

They've got a good chance of going up I reckon.

BTW they are playing in barcodes next season. They are doing an Arse.

[BoredBloke]

"Man City will always be a tragic club."

Couldn't agree more Marc - but then I am biased.

[wendigo100]

Man City will always be a tragic club.

I remember when Francis Lee bought Man City to end the hopeless reign of Peter Swales, to cheers and dancing in the streets at Maine Road. The good times would roll back!

A year later Lee proudly announced that he had managed to poach a magnificent new manager - the serial relegator Alan Ball. The dancing stopped immediately in stunned silence.

I was on holiday that week and got chatting to a bunch of sad City fans in a pub, who I'd found staring silently into their pints. They could not believe it.

Bally lived up to their expectations and took City down within a year and, for anyone who remembers it, in farcical manner!

[Mr Crosby]

Taken over by Shiniwatra and Eriksson as manager, I bet the red side are pissing themselves.

[XTC]

I stand corrected. I should have said "England's most unpopular manager ever". Better?

I thought that was Glen Hoddle