City Fan
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5 at the back as well...brilliant!
If that thread proves one thing, it’s that we’re all feckin’ clueless.
The Jamie Vardy appreciation thread
- Thread starter Brown Nose
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If that thread proves one thing, it’s that we’re all feckin’ clueless.
mabrah
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I like that... the power of positive thinking.
Matt_B
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I'd still love to have somebody like Ulloa or even Okasaki here to come on late and offer something different. Maybe just me being an old sentimental bastard.
alex
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homer, not for the first time, comes off a bit wrong (ahem) in that thread. https://talkingballs.uk/threads/middlesbrough-a-3rd-august-2013.36432/
Amazing thread. Literally has it all. First game if the season, calls for managing being sacked, RL buffonery, inept first half performances, penalty appeals, followed by a fight back and win. The rollcoaster that is following
give_us_a_wave
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Jesus
That thread looks as if it's from some weird parallel universe. Reading it now & trying to reconcile it with how far we walked the league by that season, not to mention what followed, it's truly mind ****ing.
Still...Whitbread & St. Ledger? **** me you can excuse a bit of depression there can't you? I'd actually forgotten that Whitbread ever existed !!
Serves as a nice reminder though of what it's been like following this club for 90% of the time !
We all look like a bunch of blissful innocents in that thread. Completely unprepared for the unimaginable insanity that was about to descend on us. It's a thing of ****ing beauty if you ask me
That thread looks as if it's from some weird parallel universe. Reading it now & trying to reconcile it with how far we walked the league by that season, not to mention what followed, it's truly mind ****ing.
Still...Whitbread & St. Ledger? **** me you can excuse a bit of depression there can't you? I'd actually forgotten that Whitbread ever existed !!
Serves as a nice reminder though of what it's been like following this club for 90% of the time !
We all look like a bunch of blissful innocents in that thread. Completely unprepared for the unimaginable insanity that was about to descend on us. It's a thing of ****ing beauty if you ask me
camberwell fox
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I can honestly say, hand on heart that I have never heard of Whitbread.
mabrah
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Memory plays tricks on us all.
Feks me off when the misses asks me, when I'm looking for something, 'where is the last place you saw it'. Well obviously I've ****ing looked there. In fact, that's where I started looking. It's what happened after that that's the question.
FOX Franks
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I like "team completely one paced" as if Chris Wood would get anywhere near Vardy nowadays
bocadillo
Water Gypsy
Lanky, blond, American. Played for Millwall against us in League One before he came to us. Lanky streak of piss and played like one. Played about 10 or 15 games before pissing off to the Shaggers. They deserved each other. Thank the Lord!
bocadillo
Water Gypsy
What happened after that was the missus moved it. It's all part of the attrition women use to make us think we're losing our mind!
FOX Franks
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I’m right in thinking he also went to Norwich at some point, no?
camberwell fox
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I can remember virtually all players names that played for us even going back further than my lifetime, but still don’t recall his name.!
bocadillo
Water Gypsy
He did. He went from Millwall to Norwich and then to us. He started at Liverpool as a very young kid but only played for them in the League Cup and possibly a European game. Finished up at Shrewsbury IIRC. I don't think anybody has mentioned his first name. Possibly the only Zak to play for City.
The main question in mind now is why I remember so much of insignificance when camberwell has managed to erase it?
mabrah
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Odd thing is that I remember him exactly because he was a Zak. I remember nothing much else though. Ditto David Oldfield, I only remember the name (possibly because of Mike Oldfield). I have no recollection of him actually playing for us. Dave that is. Actually, truth told, nor Mike for that matter.
Some things you don't want to remember. Like that day back in school when... nah, another time perhaps.
Some things you don't want to remember. Like that day back in school when... nah, another time perhaps.
Brown Nose
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I wouldn't be surprised if this was the most Zak Whitbread has been discussed in his entire life.
bocadillo
Water Gypsy
Oldfield was much more of a fixture for us than was Whitbread.
Reminds me of the old Jade and Navy shirt that I saw one of our fans wearing at Luton some time after Oldfield had left us. Originally had OLDFIELD on it, but the FIELD has been roughly hacked off and replaced with the word SHIRT
Miles Away
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That was me. Silly bastard.
Championship
| P | Pld | Pts | |
| 1 | Leicester | 45 | 97 |
| 2 | Ipswich | 45 | 93 |
| 3 | Leeds Utd | 45 | 90 |
| 4 | Southampton | 45 | 84 |
| 5 | Norwich City | 45 | 73 |
| 6 | West Brom | 45 | 72 |
| 7 | Hull City | 45 | 70 |
| 8 | Middlesbro | 45 | 66 |
| 9 | Coventry City | 45 | 64 |
| 10 | Preston | 45 | 63 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 45 | 62 |
| 12 | Cardiff City | 45 | 62 |
| 13 | Swansea City | 45 | 57 |
| 14 | Watford | 45 | 56 |
| 15 | Sunderland | 45 | 56 |
| 16 | Millwall | 45 | 56 |
| 17 | QPR | 45 | 53 |
| 18 | Stoke City | 45 | 53 |
| 19 | Blackburn | 45 | 50 |
| 20 | Sheffield W | 45 | 50 |
| 21 | Plymouth | 45 | 48 |
| 22 | Birmingham | 45 | 47 |
| 23 | Huddersfield | 45 | 45 |
| 24 | Rotherham Utd | 45 | 24 |
