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I was going to start a post on who is your favorite ever Manchester City Manager.. but decided it might be more fun to post some of our former managers daftest quotes.

These stand out for me :)

Malcolm Allison - 'We'll terrify the cowards of Europe'

Alan Ball - 'Martin Buster Phillips will be the first 10 million pound player'

Kevin Keegan - 'Christian Negouai is the most exciting player I have ever signed'



Feel free to add.. dont be shy its just for fun.

anything said ever by that inbred farmer holloway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWptErAWrmQ


Still makes me cringe to this day.

"Alioune Touré can fly economy like the rest of us"

not a manager but...

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Lee_R wrote:Kevin Keegan - 'Christian Negouai is the most exciting player I have ever signed'

Personally, I don't think he was far wrong with that. Still my favourite 'bizzare' player of all time for us.

I have a feeling Taggart's 'Noisy neighbour' comments will feature here in the future.

Startin tonight!

PoC wrote:anything said ever by that inbred farmer holloway

There's always haters. Personally, I like Holloway. He was the first manager in a while to publicly defy the FA and show public anger towards the FA when they announced to investigate his line-up when he made "too many" changes, according to the FA.

Holloway was great, hopefully he comes back with Blackpool.

Patrick wrote:not a manager but...

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Brilliant stuff, she was three sheets that night.

Slim wrote:

Patrick wrote:not a manager but...

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Brilliant stuff, she was three sheets that night.

She's a cook - they're always at least two sheets ........

Pearce had a few.....

Samaras rough diamond
Cuddly toy
James up front

any more....

Keegan

England can end the millennium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.'

'You're not just getting international football, you're getting world football'

'The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.'

'I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.'

'The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23'

'I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again'

'England have the best fans in the world and Scotland's fans are second-to-none'

'Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger'

'Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa'

'I don't think there's anyone bigger or smaller than Maradona.'

'The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game'

'There's a slight doubt about only one player, and that's Tony Adams, who definitely won't be playing tomorrow.'

'Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.'

'He'll also be very dangerous from set-pieces. That means he'll be a threat from free-kicks and corners in the final third of the field.'

'They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.'

'We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half'

'England can end the millennium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.'

'You're not just getting international football, you're getting world football'

'The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.'

'I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.'

'The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23'

'I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again'

'England have the best fans in the world and Scotland's fans are second-to-none'

'Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger'

'Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa'

'I don't think there's anyone bigger or smaller than Maradona.'

'The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game'

'There's a slight doubt about only one player, and that's Tony Adams, who definitely won't be playing tomorrow.'

'Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.'

'He'll also be very dangerous from set-pieces. That means he'll be a threat from free-kicks and corners in the final third of the field.'

'They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.'

'We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half'



'It's like a toaster, the ref's shirt pocket. Every time there's a tackle, up pops a yellow card.'

'The ref was vertically 15 yards away.'

'Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.'

'They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different'

'Despite his white boots, he has real pace...'

'You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw...'

'He can't speak Turkey, but you can tell he's delighted.'

'...using his strength. And that is his strength, his strength.'

'I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.'

'Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.'

'I came to Nantes two years ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.'

'The substitute is about to come on - he's a player who was left out of the starting line-up today.'

'That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.'

'In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg.'

'It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.'

'It could be far worse for me if it was easy for me.'

'Football's always easier when you've got the ball'

'The tide is very much in our court now.'

'I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really.'

'We managed to wrong a few rights.'

'We are three games without defeat is another way of looking at it. But if we are honest we have taken two points from nine'

'You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.'

'Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away'

Alex Sapphire wrote:"Alioune Touré can fly economy like the rest of us"

Wa-hey!

Lol good old Keegan!

Lee_R wrote:Lol good old Keegan!

Brian Clough


"I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd because that's exactly what I would have done"

"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes" - On England's exit from Euro 2000.

"At last England have appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players" - On the appointment of Sven-Goran Eriksson.

“Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.”

"He should guide Posh in the direction of a singing coach because she's nowhere near as good at her job as her husband"

"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea" - On Manchester United snubbing the FA Cup to play in the World Club Championship in 2000.

"For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls" - On Sir Alex Ferguson and his failure to win two successive European Cups. Clough managed the feat with Nottingham Forest.

"I bet their dressing room will smell of garlic rather than liniment over the next few months." On the number of French players at Arsenal.

"Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius" ……….” "If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job." On former Leicester manager Martin O'Neill.

"Stand up straight, get your shoulders back and get your hair cut.

"I bet their dressing room will smell of garlic rather than liniment over the next few months." On the number of French players at Arsenal.

“They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.”

“When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.”

"Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right."

"The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns."

“I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.”

"I only ever hit Roy [Keane] the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard"

"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."

"That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that"

"If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right”

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one"

"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there"

“No cheating bastards will I talk to; I will not talk to any cheating bastards!”

Players bloopers are allowed?

In Romania was a player called Raducanu who was well known for his not so bright mind:

"In one day i will love to live in a blocknotes"
"I want to buy a yacht with four wheels"
and my all time favorite: In romania, when the weather is hot like hell, people call it "Canicula". After a game where Raducanu played in Austria, when he came back a reporter said to him: "Did you heard that "canicula" made another victim today, a 79 year old female?"
Raducanu replied : " I don't understand why the police can't arrest this Canicula, guy".


I remembered a comment that Ron Greenwood made about Bryan Robson. He said if i recall : "Bryan Robson, well, he does what he does and his future is in the future."

Surely the biggest managment balls-up in recent memory is Howard Wilkinson selling Eric Cantona to his title rivals for a million quid. What an absolute cabbage that guy is. Does anyone remember when he got the Sunderland job and proclaimed: 'We've got a great team on paper, but paper players win paper trophies.' GENIUS!

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one"

Brilliant.

Alex Sapphire wrote:"Alioune Touré can fly economy like the rest of us"

Superb.

Avalon wrote:

PoC wrote:anything said ever by that inbred farmer holloway

There's always haters. Personally, I like Holloway. He was the first manager in a while to publicly defy the FA and show public anger towards the FA when they announced to investigate his line-up when he made "too many" changes, according to the FA.

Holloway was great, hopefully he comes back with Blackpool.

The guy's a fucking idiot, he was entertaining for a few games and then he turned into a broken record, full on dick, he can stay down there with the shite where he belongs so we only hear from him twice a year, the shit that spouted from his mouth seriously, you'd think blackpool got shit on week in week out by the fa and the refs, what does he expect, charlie adam, gary taylor-fletcher and that lump marlon harewood do not make a team top flight worthy