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Mase wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:....
cant resist City trivia.

who's the shortest player ever to play for City then?

Willow Flood?

No not Willo, he'll probably weep if he reads that though

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:....
cant resist City trivia.

who's the shortest player ever to play for City then?

my memory (a very fading one) start off an early spring 1970 game where my granddad managed to have me grabbing a Buzzer signed shirt.
from then on my best guess is SWP, the lovely whirligig midget. sure I am not gonna get cigar with this, tho.

Swales4ever wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:....
cant resist City trivia.

who's the shortest player ever to play for City then?

my memory (a very fading one) start off an early spring 1970 game where my granddad managed to have me grabbing a Buzzer signed shirt.
from then on my best guess is SWP, the lovely whirligig midget. sure I am not gonna get cigar with this, tho.

not even close friend

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:....
cant resist City trivia.

who's the shortest player ever to play for City then?

Probably Buzzer.
He quite often turned up legless after pissing it up with Bestie.

patrickblue wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:....
cant resist City trivia.

who's the shortest player ever to play for City then?

Probably Buzzer.
He quite often turned up legless after pissing it up with Bestie.

rightly so, I'd say.
Bestie was not only the best Munchenhauser ever (imho), but also the only decent human being of that lot (as far as I am aware).

Swales4ever wrote:

patrickblue wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:....
cant resist City trivia.

who's the shortest player ever to play for City then?

Probably Buzzer.
He quite often turned up legless after pissing it up with Bestie.

rightly so, I'd say.
Bestie was not only the best Munchenhauser ever (imho), but also the only decent human being of that lot (as far as I am aware).

Oh dear.

Glyn Pardoe springs to mind.

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:Oh dear.

Glyn Pardoe springs to mind.

Yes, I thought so too.

And wasting some other poor bugger's liver.

Altogether now...

"Could you go a pint of Stella, georgie best?"

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:

patrickblue wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:....
cant resist City trivia.

who's the shortest player ever to play for City then?

Probably Buzzer.
He quite often turned up legless after pissing it up with Bestie.

rightly so, I'd say.
Bestie was not only the best Munchenhauser ever (imho), but also the only decent human being of that lot (as far as I am aware).

Oh dear.

Glyn Pardoe springs to mind.

Oh my...
to think by few months that could have been my first City game... would have avoided quite an embarassment!
obviously I didnt recall that, but was it a Roy_Keane-sque kinda tackle... or just another very strong challenge, so popular in the English heated games, moreso then than now? honestlly asking...

still, through my evidently exposed ignorance I do consider Georgie best a special character and one of the greatest players eva

It was out and out, pre-meditated thuggery, taking place near the touchline, only a few yards away from where I was standing.

Best launched himself with both feet and Pardoe had to be rushed to hospital, coming within a few minutes of losing his leg.

Totally disgusting and on a par with Buchan and Colin the King.

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:It was out and out, pre-meditated thuggery, taking place near the touchline, only a few yards away from where I was standing.

Best launched himself with both feet and Pardoe had to be rushed to hospital, coming within a few minutes of losing his leg.

Totally disgusting and on a par with Buchan and Colin the King.

Thanks Doc.
I then stand tutored and forced to revise my sentimental recollection of the sparkling loon.
jutst another rag, then.

Swales4ever wrote:

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:It was out and out, pre-meditated thuggery, taking place near the touchline, only a few yards away from where I was standing.

Best launched himself with both feet and Pardoe had to be rushed to hospital, coming within a few minutes of losing his leg.

Totally disgusting and on a par with Buchan and Colin the King.

Thanks Doc.
I then stand tutored and forced to revise my sentimental recollection of the sparkling loon.
jutst another rag, then.

so the shortest ever City player is?

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:It was out and out, pre-meditated thuggery, taking place near the touchline, only a few yards away from where I was standing.

Best launched himself with both feet and Pardoe had to be rushed to hospital, coming within a few minutes of losing his leg.

Totally disgusting and on a par with Buchan and Colin the King.

Thanks Doc.
I then stand tutored and forced to revise my sentimental recollection of the sparkling loon.
jutst another rag, then.

so the shortest ever City player is?

I have already surrendered. since I dont want to cheat, much imperfect memory and education just can't help

Swales4ever wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:It was out and out, pre-meditated thuggery, taking place near the touchline, only a few yards away from where I was standing.

Best launched himself with both feet and Pardoe had to be rushed to hospital, coming within a few minutes of losing his leg.

Totally disgusting and on a par with Buchan and Colin the King.

Thanks Doc.
I then stand tutored and forced to revise my sentimental recollection of the sparkling loon.
jutst another rag, then.

so the shortest ever City player is?

I have already surrendered. since I dont want to cheat, much imperfect memory and education just can't help

I'm not sure you surrendering is helping for your country's reputation S4e

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:

Swales4ever wrote:

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:It was out and out, pre-meditated thuggery, taking place near the touchline, only a few yards away from where I was standing.

Best launched himself with both feet and Pardoe had to be rushed to hospital, coming within a few minutes of losing his leg.

Totally disgusting and on a par with Buchan and Colin the King.

Thanks Doc.
I then stand tutored and forced to revise my sentimental recollection of the sparkling loon.
jutst another rag, then.

so the shortest ever City player is?

I have already surrendered. since I dont want to cheat, much imperfect memory and education just can't help

I'm not sure you surrendering is helping for your country's reputation S4e

why/how is that JC?
only Swiss have, possibly, a steadier reputation on keeping secrets, than us on surrendering... should track too much back in the history book to change the very fact.

those Swiss were a doughty bunch I was told

johnny crossan wrote:
those Swiss were a doughty bunch I was told

few of us were as well... but in the greater scheme of things...

johnny crossan wrote:
those Swiss were a doughty bunch I was told

Tell us more Landburger.

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:
those Swiss were a doughty bunch I was told

Tell us more Landburger.

stands little comparison with Charles Laughton's Sir Wilfrid Robarts, and in general, imho

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:It was out and out, pre-meditated thuggery, taking place near the touchline, only a few yards away from where I was standing.

Best launched himself with both feet and Pardoe had to be rushed to hospital, coming within a few minutes of losing his leg.

Totally disgusting and on a par with Buchan and Colin the King.

MC, you must by now be aware of my (often irrational) hatred and disgust at anything rag.
That said, I think you're over the top with this one, in fact I'm not sure you're talking about the same incident. I remember, (and before I posted this, checked) that the tackle was nowhere near the touchline, but just outside our box in the middle of the pitch.
I thought at the time, and having watched it again, that it was a late challenge that went horrifically wrong. Best was doing a lot of those sort of challenges in that period as his skill and ball control were being seriously diminished by the self abuse he was inflicting on himself with the booze.
TBH, looking at the tackle, it doesn't appear that dreadful, especially in the context of the time.
I really don't believe it was malicious, just clumsy and ill advised, with horrific consequences.
And I don't think it can be compared with the Buchan tackle on Colin Bell, which was indeed pre-meditated thuggery.

patrickblue wrote:

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:It was out and out, pre-meditated thuggery, taking place near the touchline, only a few yards away from where I was standing.

Best launched himself with both feet and Pardoe had to be rushed to hospital, coming within a few minutes of losing his leg.

Totally disgusting and on a par with Buchan and Colin the King.

MC, you must by now be aware of my (often irrational) hatred and disgust at anything rag.
That said, I think you're over the top with this one, in fact I'm not sure you're talking about the same incident. I remember, (and before I posted this, checked) that the tackle was nowhere near the touchline, but just outside our box in the middle of the pitch.
I thought at the time, and having watched it again, that it was a late challenge that went horrifically wrong. Best was doing a lot of those sort of challenges in that period as his skill and ball control were being seriously diminished by the self abuse he was inflicting on himself with the booze.
TBH, looking at the tackle, it doesn't appear that dreadful, especially in the context of the time.
I really don't believe it was malicious, just clumsy and ill advised, with horrific consequences.
And I don't think it can be compared with the Buchan tackle on Colin Bell, which was indeed pre-meditated thuggery.

I was at the game PB with two 'friends' who were Scum fans.

We were at the front of the stand, low down and almost level with the pitch and, from memory, I thought it was close to the touchline; wrongly as you pointed out.

I've just been watching it again on Youtube and, from a greater camera hight, the incident didn't look as bad, as it seemed from the lower angle we were watching from.

I still maintain it was atrocious and, all credit to them, so did my two friends.

I will admit though, that memories of incidents which took place nearly 47 years ago, can adopt a mind of their own, especially in the context of a white hot derby.