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    Good on Paper XI

    He's included in the sense that he was an exciting signing that ended up in huge disappointment. Jarni was a helluva player, I can't remember if that was the same period we brought in Nilsson, but no team in the Prem would have had a better full back combination than Nilsson & Jarni. Of course...
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    City’s Most Religious XI - Take No Parishioners

    'Matthew' Pennington, ''Mark' Marshall, 'Luke' Steele & 'John' Williams.
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    City’s Most Religious XI - Take No Parishioners

    Isa is the Arabic name for Jesus :)
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    Good on Paper XI

    A team of players that looked good when we signed them, but the reality proved different! Bryan King Regis Genoux Gary Collier Colin Hendry Robert Jarni Nii Lamptey Dave Bowman Jose Perdomo Keith O'Neill Kevin Drinkell Alan Brazil
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    Players with erm.. rude surnames

    I'm sure Celtic had a player called Scheidt.
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    Auld Enemy Match Up

    So England v Scotland for Sky Blues players - who wins & why? England Ogrizovic Borrows/ Thomas Atherton Peake...
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    Best Performance by an Opposition Player

    Did well whenever he came up against England :)
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    City's rivals X1 - Take no partisans

    He had 2 full seasons at Cosmos after leaving Villa and never played for Villa in between times. He wasn't one of those players playing Winters in UK & Summer in the US, so I very much doubt that he was still registered to Villa. Pretty sure we paid a paltry fee to him too, and that fee went to...
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    Best Performance by an Opposition Player

    He was a good signing, but timing was all wrong as his joining coincided with the peak of the Dublin/ Huckerby partnership. He only played when Dublin filled out in defence, which he did quite a bit at that time, and which he did really well. In the following Summer Dublin signed a new contract...
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    Henry Winter in The Times

    I get that you don't like this guy, but it seems to me that he is saying EFL clubs should receive support, particularly by those that have been helped on their way to the top by those clubs. Seems to me like a perfectly fair and balanced piece. The fact that more than one player we have helped...
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    City's rivals X1 - Take no partisans

    Everyone forgotten Robbie Keane? Edited apart from KG82 - surrised he wasn't good enough for ROS's team though!!
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    City's rivals X1 - Take no partisans

    Signed him from New York Cosmos
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    City’s Frenchest XI - Take No Parisians

    You've forced me to check this out! Roussel was born in Mons which is in the French speaking area. You are right however that Delorge & Clement were born in the Flemish area. From what I can see though there are still a sizeable minority (about 31%) of Wallooon French speakers in Flanders, so...
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    Best Performance by an Opposition Player

    I don't remember John Chiedozie taking us apart for Spurs but I certainly do remember him doing so for Notts County!! In more recent times I remember Taarabt running the game for QPR. Further back I remember Laurie Cunningham being unplayable on an icy pitch at HR & Limpar destroying us at...
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    City’s Frenchest XI - Take No Parisians

    You could always pan the team out with French speaking Belgians, which would also significantly improve it!! Anyhow my French 'connected' team in 4-4-2 formation is: Arphexad Genoux Walleme Delormeux Edjenguele Delorge Beuzelin Clement Hadji (French passport holder) Regis (born in French...
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    Jim Smith

    Was an extremely poor decision to bring him here in 2002. His best years were behind him & he was also responsible for bringing other ex Derby has beens with him in Trollope and Carbonari, who hindered rather than helped our cause. His appointment completely undermined Nilsson's authority, and...
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    Darren Huckerby - journeyman?

    Fair enough. I take it to mean someone who has a long career and is bang average, so to my mind Shaw was very much a journeyman. If it just means someone whose played for a lot of clubs then the likes of Robbie Keane & Ibrahimovic would also be journeymen players. However, the term is generally...
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    Dabo

    Dabo is better than Grimmer, but I'm still pleased for Grimmer that he is doing well. He was a big part of our promotion year, and never kicked up a fuss last season like many others would have in his position. Just checked on Sterling and seen he has only played 6 games for Wigan this season...
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    Darren Huckerby - journeyman?

    He was an extremely exciting player, but also a frustrating one, and was caught offside more often than he should have been, given his blistering pace meant he could beat defenders even if they had a start on him. Strachan kind of got it right when he said Huckerby scored great goals rather than...
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