Getting rid of your best players while still getting parachute payments is hardly an achievement, any relegated club could do it if they had no intention of trying to go back up.
Maybe it's just me. Hawthorns and The Molineux are never an issue and St James's is fine just a ball ache to walk back to Small Heath to the train.
No wonder you get ball ache walking to St. James, it's in Newcastle, Molineux is Wolves, Birmingham is St Andrews and Villa Park is Aston Villa.
Wilby did indeed come into Cod one day before a match and was made welcome by all in there. As far as I remember at that time every City fan welcomed him and Lloyd. Nobody could have imagined the **** that would unfold soon after. Well everyone apart from you? You should have come over and shared your inside knowledge.
Ha! Yes my mistake! I live in stourbridge. The hawthorns and Small heath are on the same line as stourbridge junction so an easy away fixture for me to attend. Molineux is a 9mile drive. Sorry to be a pedant but Villa Park is in Aston not Aston Villa and it's a ****ing ****hole so it's not surprising that I seem to find arseholes whenever i go over. Villa fans are in my opinion worse than Leeds fans for dining out on former glories.
So the police were looking for a car thief and went undercover to infiltrate the Silver Cod Squad? You don’t half talk some ****e.
For supporting Steve Bruce and giving me some of my best days watching City. Like we all have I have watched so much **** over the years but for that brief period under the Allams and Bruce I felt proud to be a City fan.
Restructuring while still staying competitive is an achievement that a lot of clubs failed to do. See Bolton thread. We’re stoke more competitive than us last year for example?
You think what you like. An undercover cop being there, though he stuck out like a sore thumb to some of the lads, and earwigging is not infiltrating. That attempt would have been as hilarious as some coppers who came in my local trying to catch people smoking dope who thought that they would blend in with the long haired late sixties hippie types by wearing a cravat with with an open necked shirt would make them, with their short back and sides, blend in.
He wasn’t undercover, he was in plain clothes, our local football intelligence officer. Everybody knew him. And he certainly wasn’t there trying to earwig information about a car theft.
There was a plain clothes cop there. I knew one of the two lads to talk to who was involved in the car nicking episode. They were stood in the doorway having a great laugh about it,
Though Leeds seem to be getting a better return for their 77% though of course their turnover and crowds are far more than ours.
Would their turnover be more that season? I'm sure our parachute payments would have given us a higher turnover then most in the league
I didn’t have any inside knowledge. Didn’t realise how easily Wilby had led Lloyd, who was supposed to be a savvy businessman who was going to show the backward northerners how things were done, up the garden path either. A poster on here was the first to express doubts to me, though like everyone else he had initially being enthusiastic and thought it was a new dawn.