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New season. New hope. But same old, same old.

If my memory says me correctly, he was our first £100,000 footballer when he was sold to Chelsea. I have many great memories of standing in the East End watching Chris Garland and John Galley.

Ditto. And I have been supporting city for 60 years.

Thanks Rich. And is that just for the Championship or is it all the English professional leagues, or British leagues or Europe?

Apologies if it’s already been mentioned but what exactly is the record? Also how many more games do we need to go without a penalty to beat it?

And look at Nottingham Forest last season. In the bottom three when they sacked Houghton and under the new manager they ended up being promoted to the Premier League.

If you have a tombola, you have to have plenty of balls to put in it.

Bob Taylor. Didn’t understand it at the time and still can’t understand it.

In an time when the words ‘swinger” and “gay” did not have the same meaning as they do today.

After England’s 0-4 home defeat to Hungary he tweeted that fans calling for the resignation of Southgate were “idiots”. So we have a pundit who spits at children and calls the fans who indirectly pay his wages idiots. Makes you wonder exactly what he would have to do to get the sack. I’m retired but I know that if I had called my customers idiots and spat at children I wouldn’t have lasted very long.

Great photos. Thank you.

That’s where a manager like Neil Warnock was excellent. Like him or not he always managed to motivate his players wherever he went and many times his players were quoted as saying that they would “run through a brick wall” for him. A successful team is not only about having the best players. Motivation, determination and application are equally important and unfortunately these characteristics seem to be lacking at City. I suppose this is what Pearson means when he describes us as a passive club.

Brings back memories from the 1970s. “We always take the town end.”

Neil Warnock.

I’m a Knock knee’d chicken and a bow legged hen I ain’t been so happy since I don’t know when etc

Because the bigger clubs always get treated more leniently by the powers that be. Reminds me of when Swindon were relegated two divisions for financial irregularities and at the same time time Spurs were only fined for the same offence.

But that hardly matches the clubs philosophy of only buying young players for the future who will increase in value.