Sven Giving Man City Fans the Blues
By: Daryl | June 23rd, 2007
Man City fans will be cursing their seemingly never-ending bad luck again this week after being heavily linked with a certain Sven Goran-Eriksson. City’s a club with great support and history. They famously won the FA Cup in 1956, with German keeper Bert Trautmann playing on after breaking his neck. Legend. Then there was the famous midfield of Colin Bell, Francis Lee and Mike Summerbee in the late ’60s early ’70s, which brought a league title in 1967/8 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1970 (I miss that tournament.) But it’s been mostly downhill and ill fortune since then.
There was a lot of money wasted in the ’70s (this means you Steve Daley, sorry) and relegation to the old Second Division twice in the ’80s. Then a brief resurgence in the early ’90s gave way to absolute disaster. They were relegated from the Premiership to the First Division (second tier) in ‘96, then relegated even further to the Second Division (third tier) in ‘98. To make things worse, United were enjoying some unbridled success round about the same time.
The fans kept showing up though, bless their Mancunian hearts. After slowly but surely clawing their way back to the Premiership in 2002, moving into their shiny new stadium and maybe – if his bank accounts are still vaild – getting a bilionaire owner, the last thing the blue half of Manchester will want to see is Svennis.
But while he’s not the most popular man in England, he does have a solid track record in club football. Some men are just more suited to the day to day involvement of club football, and struggle to get a grip on the international game (ahem – Graham Taylor.) And what good’s being a popular appointment if results don’t follow? Kevin Keegan and Stuart Pearce were both popular appointments, and neither of those worked out too well. So maybe this could work out. City are well overdue some good fortune.
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