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Sorry Gazolba, I suspect your memory is playing tricks. I don't think Hudson played in the promotion-winning season, having moved on the year before? I love the pictures though. They take me back to my childhood, when I would cut them out of the Telegraph and stick them on my bedroom wall :)

I suspect I'm actually in this photo, just peering out from under Fergie's left armpit. As a further claim to fame I once had a piss in a pub, stood at the latrine between Wallace and Beck.

A fine player Bannister - much underrated, and would have made a good striker (as opposed to winger) IMO .

This is what we should be worrying about – the Premier League effectively becoming a closed shop for the 20 teams in it, plus about 10 who have been in it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35587016 The TV money totally overshadows everything else. Some clubs are at least on the pavement...

Sorry G, didn’t mean to “single you out” – you just happened to be in the firing line when I snapped a bit :) I wouldn’t want to see the forum become bland, and footballers are in a very tough entertainment business so they have to be able to take criticism. But to survive as a club, we need...

Yep, superb that day against Spurs, the only one of our players who looked like they could cut it against Prem opposition. Still don't understand what has gone wrong really.

Cheers for that. I am in the unfortunate position of having to ration my games these days, and it doesn't look like the decision to miss today was the best call I've ever made :(

100% with you on that shmmeee. This is someone who showed great talent and promise in the early stages of his career, and I for one hope he can overcome whatever has got in the way of that. It’s nothing new though – I mean Bobby Gould was subjected to a campaign of nasty letters when he was a...

I think there’s a decent chance that Haynes will prove you wrong. Regardless of whether you are right or wrong though, what exactly is the benefit in dishing out such extreme public criticism to one of young players? He’s only about 20 and still finding his feet, and (as has been said here)...

Totally agree.

Was it impossible to stump up the formula price to get the half-share back? OK the figure was too high in strict short-sighted commercial terms, but it reflected the bail-out the charity had performed, and (to repeat myself) was vital to the club's future. To avoid paying the £10 million or...

Of course he knew it was important – but his (and Joy’s) “strategy” was to play a waiting game. Doubt if we’ll ever know what the thinking was, but it didn’t work out too well :(

I totally agree - it seems to me that Higgs ended up selling at a loss, but were determined that it wouldn't be to the people who had played hardball and forced the loss on them. Disappointing but scarcely surprising. As Nick says, they were almost certainly disgusted with the club's...

Dunno Nick, you may be right – it’s getting late :) Like everyone else, I’d love to know the reasons why all this happened. And I find it hard to go with the theory that “the Council” (i.e. professional officers, and members of all parties) have been pursuing some kind of vendetta against...

When Tim is being glib, he likes to be quite specific as well doesn’t he? http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/dec/23/coventry-city-wasps-ricoh-arena “City’s chief executive, Tim Fisher, insists they do not regret failing to buy the Ricoh, saying they could not agree to taking it on, as...

Off the top of your head?! My mum told me never to trust a man who can instantly recall the floorspaces of sporting retail outlets :)

I appreciate the trouble you took answering my question Dave, and can see what you mean now. I still believe that SISU got this completely wrong. People can say the stadium business was worthless as much as they like, but IMO it was (and is) crucial to the future of the football club. If...

Not trying to be confrontational here, just trying to understand the answers given by you and ChiefDave. I wasn't talking about dividends. Would the rent be going to a company we had a 50% stake in? And wouldn't we have had a say (as opposed to no say) in that company's policy towards the club?

I'm not sure I phrased the question very well. I realise that the rent would still have been £1.2M, but our owners would have had a 50% stake in the company it was being paid to i.e. half the rent would in effect be being paid to ourselves (if you equate the club with the owners)? Obviously...

If the club had got the 50% Higgs share wouldn’t it have effectively halved the rent, and therefore been worth about £600K a year, as well as giving us a seat at the table? And if that is the case, can anyone somehow explain why it wasn’t absolutely at the top of SISU’s agenda when they took...