downendcity

And the title of the programme is?

Flattery gets you nowhere?

West Brom aren't ******* around then.

West Brom now 2 up on Spurs after 6 minutes!

No to all three I'm afraid.

A clue: the last one is on the same river as two of the other answers.

Vienna?

Correct answers so far: London (Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea), Madrid, Milan, Glasgow and Belgrade.

Moscow isn't one of the nine, nor is Lisbon.

Four to go.

Munich

Paris

Athens

Rotterdam

Name 5 clubs in the top 4 English divisions whose team name starts and ends in the same letter?

spurs?

Not trivia so ruining the thread

A football question

A player is injured in the 88th minute of the match. He receives treatment for 8 minutes on the field. There have been no subs, goals or stoppages other than the said injury. How many minutes of added time will be shown?

Does it depend on whether he was playing for or against Man U when Fergie was manager?

I'm enroute ;-) live 30 mins away by train.

I live 6 miles from London Rd but am writing this in a Jersey hotel - talk about bad planning!

Think we will do well to restrict them to 2 or 3 and/or avoid defeat.

 intelligence has never been a pre-requisite to play, coach or manage a football team?, some people claimed that SOD was intelligent but far more thought of him as miserable bumbling buffoon.

Its certainly never been a pre-requisite to support one!

Have they laddered yet?!!

15 for the season.

Need to sell him so we can bring in a proper goal scorer.

beasant is correct, not shearer though

Misread the question - is it Darren Bent?

Dennis wise is the only player to have won the FA cup in 3 different decades. (Wimbledon x1, Chelsea x2)

 

Tony Adams is the only player to Captain a title winning team in 3 different decades.

 

The 1950 world cup is the only one not to have had a final. Instead the winner was decided by a second group (consisting of the 4 winners of the first round groups) the winner of which won the world cup.

 

Tottenham Hotspur is the only club in the football league whose full name ends with the letter r. (I'm assuming this is still correct- it was a few years back but I can't be bothered to check! It catches a lot of people out as they think it ends with s.)

 

3 Scotsman have played in Serie A. Dennis Law, Graeme Souness and (of Course) Joe Jordan.

 

There are also only 3 ROI players to have done so but unfortunately I can't remember one of them... Robbie Keane and Liam Brady are 2 of the 3.....

Ian "Paddy" Rush

Rush said when he was playing for Juventus that he couldn't settle in Italy because it was like living in a foreign country.

Who was the first goalkeeper to save a penalty in a FA cup final?

What player has scored for the most number of premier league clubs?

Dave Beasant?

Alan Shearer?

According to song- Bristol City FC are by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen.

 

 

   

 

 

That is not trivial!

Dennis Law once scored 6 goals in a cup match and finished on the losing side.

Had to google to check the details, but Law scored all 6 goals for Man City in an FA Cup tie v Luton in 1961, but with Man C leading 6-2 after 69 minutes the match was abandoned because of a waterlogged pitch. They started from scratch at a later date when Luton ran out 3-1 winners ( with Law scoring Man C's goal.)

Bit dissappointed as felt a win was on the cards for us today, but being dissappointed with a draw against away just shows how far we have come since ditching SOD.

Onwards + upwards, COYR

Conceding in the first minute put us on the back foot, had we held them at bay for 15-20 minutes we could well have got stronger and come away with a win, as it was a draw is a decent result.

Had that happened a couple of months ago( conceding in the first minute)  we would probably have buckled under the pressure and capitulated. That the team came back and held off their pressure shows that SC has made the team more resilient now.

Cunningham you hero..

I've not seen games recently but get the impression that Cunningham is getting back to his best since SC arrived - is that a fair conclusion?

Set myself up for a slight fall?

 

Usually I'm not confident in City's prospects at all and we duly lose, so this mild optimism isn't necessarily a bad thing.

 

Don't forget this is 2 hours+ before KO 'slight confidence', what little there is may well have evaporated by 3 o'clock!

 

If we play well, no one goes off injured, or gets sent off, and the ref doesn't award them a dodgy pen., etc and Baldock whacks home a few his chances I've got a feeling it could be a good day. 

+49 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bradford have failed to win 17 out of 24 matches this season. 

 

They haven't won in their last 6, losing 3 of them.

 

Despite being 12th they've only scored 2 more goals than us all season, and Wells, who's scored almost half their goals, won't be playing.

 

We're going for 3 wins in a row and appear to have a confident, fairly settled team.

 

Just for once I'm feeling slightly confident today.

You know what you've done, don't you Noggers?

Is Barnett a Cotterill signing or a Burt signing, or does it depend on how he does?

If he's brilliant then he is someone that fans have been telling the club to sign for ages.

If he's does well then he's someone who SOD had earmarked to sign. 

If he does reasonably well, then he's a Burt signing.

Ife he does only OK then he's a SC signing.

If he is poor then he's a Jon Lansdown signing - especially of there was a queue to sign him.

If he's carp then he's yet another rubbish decision by the owner.

If Jesus Christ signed for City, some people would still say he only got the job because of his Dad

Knowing our fans impatience, if JC signed for us in the January window he would have to perform by eastertime or he would get crucified.

Apologies for the irreverence.

http://www.theposhforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24249

 

http://www.theposhforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24074

 

http://www.theposhforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24248

 

Divides opinion, lazy and poor touch seem to be common thoughts!

A player that divides fans' opinions.

He should fit in perfectly at City!

Indeed, 91 other league clubs are surviving without Steve Lansdown and his money and only 24 of those football clubs are currently below us !!!!!!!

The thing is, daft as it might sound,  how many of the other league clubs have an owner as wealthy as Steve Lansdown? Apart from the mega bucks owners at the top of the tree ( by and large) most league clubs are owned by wealthy, but not mega wealthy owners and I think I am right in saying that Steve is one of the wealthiest owners in the football league.

I suspect fans of all league clubs get frustrated if they do not feel they are progressing, challenging for promotion or are at the wrong end of the table but that frustration is tempered by the basic understanding of the limits to their ambition i.e. their financial clout. By comparison, I think that for a long time many City fans frustrations have been aggravated because of the belief that Steve's wealth should somehow mean almost guaranteed success.

The whole premier league circus and the way the game has been publicised and promoted over the last 10-15 years has created the impression that it is all about money. You only have to look at Chelsea and Man City, where mega wealthy owners have come in a and transformed a club into winners and I wonder  how many City fans have thought the same should have happened to us, because of the money Steve Lansdown had and has at his disposal?

Our recent spectacular plunge from championship contenders to league 1 relegation candidates has exacerbated those feelings of frustration, and they must have been further fuelled by Steve's announcement that the club had to become self sufficient financially, because of the impact of football's new financial rules ( some fans even interpreted this as proof that Steve has lost interest in the club!). 

I'm not suggesting fans are to blame for the club's situation, but I do think that for some time too many fans expectations have helped fuel the over hyped backlash against SL who, for the most part, has got into hot water as a consequence of mistakes made when trying to provide what fans wanted.  

I would just like to convey, as a percentage, the certainty that you can make that statement with:

 

0%

That's the same degree of certainty that can be applied to every statement made as to whether we would be better of with or without SL.

If you qualified it by saying we are better off with SL than with the Venkeys,Tan or Risdale then the percentage changes dramatically,  and therein lies the nub of the problem as all SL's critics assume that a new owner would  be better than the current one.

If SL went everything depends on who replaced him and while we could be lucky in having a another billionaire fan of the club willing and able to lose a fortune on the club, the chances are that as a struggling league 1 outfit, we would have a wealthy, but nowhere near as wealthy, businessman, knowing just as much about running a football club as SL. With less wealth, the new owner would be able to risk less money, so would be more careful about how he spends it, would  appoint his/her own people in key positions, who could be just as good/bad or even worse than the present incumbents.

If the new owner had less wealth, then would he/she be prepared to fork out the money for a redeveloped AG ( forget AV as Lansdowns own the land so if they go I suspect a lucrative housing project is top of the list) and would he/she be prepared to fund the academy, bearing in mind the new owner might be more concerned about the return he/she is getting on their investment rather than subsidising a loss making business?

Many fans have demanded a new manager at regular intervals, as we have struggled over the last few seasons, and their wishes have been granted and we have seen each new manager fare worse than his predecessor. Our track record for changing people only for things to get worse is 100% successful since GJ, and I worry that we could achieve the same 100% success rate by changing the owner.

I'm not an SL arse/shoe licker but I think I am a pragmatist.

 

If anyone is going to make multi-million pound decisions by, let's face it, what could be a number of uneducated teens and a few middle-aged bullies then he has less business acumen then I thought.

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That's how successive governments seemed to have worked!