Dion visits Coventry (1 Viewer)

Sky Blue Harry H · Feb 21, 2020

Nice .............!

'It wasn't like that in my day!' Dublin visits former club Coventry

Deleted member 4439 · Feb 21, 2020

I was enjoying that, and then it ended! Shame it wasn't a longer piece.

Dimi_Konstantflapalot · Feb 21, 2020

dubed said:
I was enjoying that, and then it ended! Shame it wasn't a longer piece.

Full piece is on football focus tomorrow

Gray · Feb 21, 2020

Can't believe there are no pictures of Dublin at Ryton, up there with the best we've had

Adge · Feb 21, 2020

Gray said:
Can't believe there are no pictures of Dublin at Ryton, up there with the best we've had

Absolutely! Can’t believe this Villa rival crap gets in the way of some people regarding the fantastic player he was for us. The best I have had the pleasure to watch in the Sky Blue shirt.

fernandopartridge · Feb 21, 2020

Interviews with two loan players only because Football Focus couldn't possibly speak about something without mentioning the PL clubs

TTG · Feb 21, 2020

Gray said:
Can't believe there are no pictures of Dublin at Ryton, up there with the best we've had

We need like a legends walk with quotes from them - I can just picture it

Cyrill Regis - "Never allow racism to affect you, make it motivate you to try harder. I very quickly realised that the best way to fight back was to use your talent to score goals."
Dion Dublin - "And here you've got your stairs leading into the bedrooms"

Inspirational.

fernandopartridge · Feb 21, 2020

Agreed on the comments on Dublin. I hated him when he left but that's water under the bridge, he was a talisman for us and a great player who gave us a lot.

shmmeee · Feb 21, 2020

Dublin one of a handful of players I’ve seen for city who was just a different level to everyone else. Easily the best striker I’ve ever seen at the club, and one of the best defenders IIRC.

Sky Blue Pete · Feb 21, 2020

shmmeee said:
Dublin one of a handful of players I’ve seen for city who was just a different level to everyone else. Easily the best striker I’ve ever seen at the club, and one of the best defenders IIRC.

Brilliant forward and centre half

Terry_dactyl · Feb 21, 2020

shmmeee said:
Dublin one of a handful of players I’ve seen for city who was just a different level to everyone else. Easily the best striker I’ve ever seen at the club, and one of the best defenders IIRC.

I really thought he’d stick around and see out his career with us, eventually being converted to a full time centre half. Gutted when he left but never felt anger at him, only at the club for letting him go...and on the cheap...and to villa!

Mcbean · Feb 21, 2020

Between him and Oggy they kept us in the top flight for a number of seasons

hill83 · Feb 22, 2020

My favourite player of all time.

NortonSkyBlue · Feb 22, 2020

hill83 said:
My favourite player of all time.

Lucky to have him during his peak years, true legend.

Sky Blue Pete · Feb 22, 2020

I always tell my lad the story of phil Neal really wanting paul scholes but Man Utd changed their mind and we ended up with Dion instead. What a great £2m signing that was

ajsccfc · Feb 22, 2020

I love the way he talks as if he played in the 60s.

letsallsingtogether · Feb 22, 2020

One of my favourite all time players too.
In fact one of my favourite eras with some great players.
Just loved them all.
Playing in the best ground in the country.

Mcbean · Feb 22, 2020

He’s a top fella as well - happy to see him anywhere on the telly - easy going funny and knowledgable on the footie

Terry_dactyl · Feb 22, 2020

Sky Blue Pete said:
I always tell my lad the story of phil Neal really wanting paul scholes but Man Utd changed their mind and we ended up with Dion instead. What a great £2m signing that was

Did we stand a chance of getting Scholes?!?
I was genuinely pissed off when we signed Dublin. Having sold one of my previous faves, Phil Babb, prior to his signature.
He’d hardly played for Utd and been injured for ages. I should’ve known how good he’d be after watching him destroy Andy Pearce when we played Cambridge Utd in the FA cup. In my defence, it was only Andy Pearce.

PCH · Feb 22, 2020

Remember Wimbledon away at Sellhurst Park, last game of the season. We had to win to stay up, took 8,000 and Dublin played centre half. He was immense that day. Not only the best striker at the club but best centre back as well.

olderskyblue · Feb 22, 2020

PCH said:
Remember Wimbledon away at Sellhurst Park, last game of the season. We had to win to stay up, took 8,000 and Dublin played centre half. He was immense that day. Not only the best striker at the club but best centre back as well.

great player, but best centre back? Not a chance.

Travs · Feb 22, 2020

As a 15 year old when we sold him, I was apoplectic, gave him dogs abuse at Villa Park when we won 4-1, and detested him for a while... but looking back he was a City legend and almost single-handedly kept us in the Premier League for several years.

An immense player and one of my favourites.

Terry Gibson's perm · Feb 22, 2020

At the time it felt like he really deserted us and then it felt like he came back and pinched Boateng as well, part of the problem wasn’t him going it was were he went to.

I think it would be really good to see him at a former players day with Huckerby and Whelan.

NortonSkyBlue · Feb 22, 2020

olderskyblue said:
great player, but best centre back? Not a chance.

Kindly put a name forward who was better than Dion as a center back during his 4 years with us.
I am struggling olderskyblue, I can make a case for Babb just before him and Trevor Peake earlier and Jeff Blockley but other than those who compares to Dion as a center back?

Terry Gibson's perm · Feb 22, 2020

riyadhskyblue said:
Kindly put a name forward who was better than Dion as a center back during his 4 years with us.
I am struggling olderskyblue, I can make a case for Babb just before him and Trevor Peake earlier and Jeff Blockley but other than those who compares to Dion as a center back?

Scott Dann and the under rated Peter Atherton are two that come to mind.

I would say the best two I have seen here are Babb and Peake.

PCH · Feb 22, 2020

olderskyblue said:
great player, but best centre back? Not a chance.

I did mean at the time, hence why Atkinson played him there on the most important game of the season

Terry Gibson's perm · Feb 22, 2020

PCH said:
I did mean at the time, hence why Atkinson played him there on the most important game of the season

At the time he probably was for all the great attacking options we had we were quite poor in the centre of defence Bremen, Shaw and Williams didn’t fill me with great confidence

NortonSkyBlue · Feb 22, 2020

Terry Gibson's perm said:
Scott Dann and the under rated Peter Atherton are two that come to mind.

I would say the best two I have seen here are Babb and Peake.

It's about opinions but a championship Scott Dann and an under rated Peter Atherton?
I would have put Andy Pearce and Atherton in my Peter Hindley and Alan Dugdale file.
Dann? Decent but no Dublin in my estimation.
Roy Barry prior to his leg break was the best for me on reflection but probably too short a period to merit the same status as Peake.

higgs · Feb 22, 2020

Gary Breen Colin Hendry

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NortonSkyBlue · Feb 22, 2020

higgs said:
Gary Breen Colin Hendry

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Hendry goes in my Nathan Clarke file.

olderskyblue · Feb 22, 2020

George Curtis
Jim Holton
Roy Barry

Terry Gibson's perm · Feb 22, 2020

riyadhskyblue said:
It's about opinions but a championship Scott Dann and an under rated Peter Atherton?
I would have put Andy Pearce and Atherton in my Peter Hindley and Alan Dugdale file.
Dann? Decent but no Dublin in my estimation.
Roy Barry prior to his leg break was the best for me on reflection but probably too short a period to merit the same status as Peake.

Dann has gone on to have a decent prem career without being spectacular, atherton was a good partner for Babb

Terry Gibson's perm · Feb 22, 2020

Before my time but I believe Gary Gillespie was a fair player

NortonSkyBlue · Feb 22, 2020

Thank you! Curtis had his top level career curtailed early on at Forest so wasn't" able prove himself in the top flight.
Roy Barry was sublime until leg brake and my favorite, Holton was past his best but if you look at the stats he played more for us than any team he played for, was part of a really good team that finished seventh in 77-78. Good call.

olderskyblue · Feb 22, 2020

PCH said:
I did mean at the time, hence why Atkinson played him there on the most important game of the season

“at the time” you were right

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