Clichy

[Dubciteh]

I think this deserves a topic of its own.

He has confirmed he is leaving.

I know he hasnt been great the past season but pound for pound he is up there with any of them we bought since the takeover. 2 League titles, 2 League cups not bad for £7m and he was solid for us during both title wins.

I will have a soft spot for him(assuming he doesnt join the dippers) and really enjoyed looking at his reaction during the 93:20 video.

Thanks Gael, all the best!

[Wooders]

He's frustrated me over the past few seasons but even so I thank him for his service and wish him all the best

[Hazy2]

Champion.

[aaron bond]

Like Zab, he faded badly in the last 2 seasons. Better squad planning could have managed the transition better for both of them and they wouldn't have been so horribly exposed.

But overall Clichy has been a very good signing, especially at £7m. He played a key role in our success and I wish him all the best for the future.

Another Arsenal player who correctly moved on for bigger and better things...

[johnny crossan]

Very good player and pro and his departure, together with Zabba, means we have two new full backs lined up.

[Dubciteh]

Very good player and pro and his departure, together with Zabba, means we have two new full backs lined up.

I hope so cos if we are scrambling without something already done in the background we are in trouble.

[nottsblue]

Like Zab, he faded badly in the last 2 seasons. Better squad planning could have managed the transition better for both of them and they wouldn't have been so horribly exposed.

But overall Clichy has been a very good signing, especially at £7m. He played a key role in our success and I wish him all the best for the future.

Another Arsenal player who correctly moved on for bigger and better things...

My thoughts as well.

[littlebig]

Good pro. Never caused no fuss.

Time for him to go was maybe at end of last season.

Best of luck to the lad.

[PeterParker]

Best of luck.

He was huge in the title race in 2011/12, but he is in a huge decline in the past two years.

All the best, hope he gets a good contract.

[Dub City]

Performances this season have been very poor and glad to see an upgrade but in terms of service given, what he has been a part of and his professionalism he is well up there for value for money and for quality full backs that I have seen at City. will be fondly remembered and get a good reception if he comes back as an opposition.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

Best of luck.

He was huge in the title race in 2011/12, but he is in a huge decline in the past two years.

All the best, hope he gets a good contract.

Seconded PP.

As you say, he was very good in 2011/12.

Just hope that, in the future he doesn't come back, at some point, to haunt us which, knowing our luck, is always likely to happen. Otherwise, best of luck to him.

[Tokyo Blue]

I like Clichy. As good as any left back we have had in my lifetime, probably only Willie Donachie was as good. Double champion.

Good luck, Gael, and thanks.

[johnny crossan]

I like Clichy. As good as any left back we have had in my lifetime, probably only Willie Donachie was as good. Double champion.

Good luck, Gael, and thanks.

Glyn Pardoe is still ticking TB
FWIW he is #21 in Gary James' 50 Greatest City Players (pre 2009) uur Willie is #31

[Tokyo Blue]

I like Clichy. As good as any left back we have had in my lifetime, probably only Willie Donachie was as good. Double champion.

Good luck, Gael, and thanks.

Glyn Pardoe is still ticking TB
FWIW he is #21 in Gary James' 50 Greatest City Players (pre 2009) uur Willie is #31

I know Pardoe was very good but I didn't see him play, mate.

[johnny crossan]

I like Clichy. As good as any left back we have had in my lifetime, probably only Willie Donachie was as good. Double champion.

Good luck, Gael, and thanks.

Glyn Pardoe is still ticking TB
FWIW he is #21 in Gary James' 50 Greatest City Players (pre 2009) uur Willie is #31

I know Pardoe was very good but I didn't see him play, mate.

sorry TB, I thought still being alive qualified him

[Tokyo Blue]

I like Clichy. As good as any left back we have had in my lifetime, probably only Willie Donachie was as good. Double champion.

Good luck, Gael, and thanks.

Glyn Pardoe is still ticking TB
FWIW he is #21 in Gary James' 50 Greatest City Players (pre 2009) uur Willie is #31

I know Pardoe was very good but I didn't see him play, mate.

sorry TB, I thought still being alive qualified him

It must have been great watching the team in those days. How would you compare it to now?

[johnny crossan]

I like Clichy. As good as any left back we have had in my lifetime, probably only Willie Donachie was as good. Double champion.

Good luck, Gael, and thanks.

Glyn Pardoe is still ticking TB
FWIW he is #21 in Gary James' 50 Greatest City Players (pre 2009) uur Willie is #31

I know Pardoe was very good but I didn't see him play, mate.

sorry TB, I thought still being alive qualified him

It must have been great watching the team in those days. How would you compare it to now?

I've been watching them since 1958 but 66-70 was the best time of my life as a supporter although 2008 onwards runs it close. The Kippax atmosphere was just unforgettable but gone forever it seems. Like King Colin, Glyn was another great player whose career was ended by a disgusting rag tackle - from Best in his case.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

Johnny crossan wrote :

66-70 was the best time of my life as a supporter

The 1971/72 season was an exciting, spellbinding season which, however, ended very disappointingly for us.

We were the best attacking side in the Division and, in the summer of '71 we had signed 30 year old Wyn Davies and he added an aerial presence which previously we didn't really have (although, at the time, I was averse to having a 'carthorse' like that up front). We looked certain to win the title as we entered the final stages of the season but Big Mal pushed for the signing of Rodney Marsh and, in trying to integrate him into the side, our flow was dislocated and we only ended up in fourth spot.

Very disappointing but there were many exceptionally great games :- to name just a few ; 5-2 against Wolves which wasn't one sided at all, 3-3 away to Sheffield United, 4-0 at home to Coventry in which Wyn Davies was, by all accounts, "unplayable" although he didn't score, a 3-1 victory away at the Swamp and the last game of the season, at home to Derby, was a fantastic performance as we won 2-0. Overall, our football that season was incredible.

I missed the 4-0 against Coventry, although I was actually in Manchester that day, playing chess for Yorkshire against Lancashire. It was difficult to concentrate on the chess but I won my own game, Yorkshire won the match and City handed out a footballing lesson in torrential rain which hardly abated, so I went home relatively happy.

At the end of that season, we sold Wyn Davies to the Scum. We'd bought him for £30,000 and off-loaded him for £45,000, if my memory serves me correctly, which is a bit different from what we seem to do today.

[johnny crossan]

Johnny crossan wrote :

66-70 was the best time of my life as a supporter

The 1971/72 season was an exciting, spellbinding season which, however, ended very disappointingly for us.

We were the best attacking side in the Division and, in the summer of '71 we had signed 30 year old Wyn Davies and he added an aerial presence which previously we didn't really have (although, at the time, I was averse to having a 'carthorse' like that up front). We looked certain to win the title as we entered the final stages of the season but Big Mal pushed for the signing of Rodney Marsh and, in trying to integrate him into the side, our flow was dislocated and we only ended up in fourth spot.

Very disappointing but there were many exceptionally great games :- to name just a few ; 5-2 against Wolves which wasn't one sided at all, 3-3 away to Sheffield United, 4-0 at home to Coventry in which Wyn Davies was, by all accounts, "unplayable" although he didn't score, a 3-1 victory away at the Swamp and the last game of the season, at home to Derby, was a fantastic performance as we won 2-0. Overall, our football that season was incredible.

I missed the 4-0 against Coventry, although I was actually in Manchester that day, playing chess for Yorkshire against Lancashire. It was difficult to concentrate on the chess but I won my own game, Yorkshire won the match and City handed out a footballing lesson in torrential rain which hardly abated, so I went home relatively happy.

At the end of that season, we sold Wyn Davies to the Scum. We'd bought him for £30,000 and off-loaded him for £45,000, if my memory serves me correctly, which is a bit different from what we seem to do today.

Quite right MC, I'm adding a season at either end - 65-71!
Davies was with us so briefly, I never really stopped inwardly chanting the question about the real nature of the chestnut brown coloured substance covering his upper head.

[nottsblue]

Johnny crossan wrote :

66-70 was the best time of my life as a supporter

The 1971/72 season was an exciting, spellbinding season which, however, ended very disappointingly for us.

We were the best attacking side in the Division and, in the summer of '71 we had signed 30 year old Wyn Davies and he added an aerial presence which previously we didn't really have (although, at the time, I was averse to having a 'carthorse' like that up front). We looked certain to win the title as we entered the final stages of the season but Big Mal pushed for the signing of Rodney Marsh and, in trying to integrate him into the side, our flow was dislocated and we only ended up in fourth spot.

Very disappointing but there were many exceptionally great games :- to name just a few ; 5-2 against Wolves which wasn't one sided at all, 3-3 away to Sheffield United, 4-0 at home to Coventry in which Wyn Davies was, by all accounts, "unplayable" although he didn't score, a 3-1 victory away at the Swamp and the last game of the season, at home to Derby, was a fantastic performance as we won 2-0. Overall, our football that season was incredible.

I missed the 4-0 against Coventry, although I was actually in Manchester that day, playing chess for Yorkshire against Lancashire. It was difficult to concentrate on the chess but I won my own game, Yorkshire won the match and City handed out a footballing lesson in torrential rain which hardly abated, so I went home relatively happy.

At the end of that season, we sold Wyn Davies to the Scum. We'd bought him for £30,000 and off-loaded him for £45,000, if my memory serves me correctly, which is a bit different from what we seem to do today.

I sometimes wonder whether had we won the league that year coming so soon after the '68 triumph, would we have kicked on and been the dominant side of the '70s and not the dippers?