[theo_luddite]

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Venue
Big Blue Arab Mosque looking type of building
With what looks like big white Arab tents nearby
Built with Council Brass
Near to where Belle Vue Zoo used to be
EastMancLands
Manchester M11 3FF

Sunday 6th May
13:30 Kick-off

Mainly so the Sky lads can show'em getting the Prima Donna League Winners Trophy afore they show t'next match,
which might give us half a chance of a tram ride back to Piccadilly before it gets dark.
What do you mean they want to see 'em put 10 past us again?

How to get there.
Over t'hill, turn left at Oldham, down t'A62 and it's on your left just afore you get to Belle Vue. (Ask yer mam or yer dad, or maybe your gramps, but the bald polar bear and lions with mange instead of mane's were a treat.)
It doesn't look far from Piccadilly when you're sat on the train but it's t'best part of a 30 minute stroll even if you get a shift on.

Otherwise it's all in the Parking, Training Pies and Pees usual link
http://www.footballgroundguide.com/leagu...-city.html

How to get back
Good luck with that, it's Bank Holiday weekend, so despite what Carol said on the Beeb this morning, it will piss it down. Whether or not they decide to put any trains on this weekend across the Pennines is also another matter that could be debatable. When it pisses it down they'll cancel them anyway due to flooding in Hebden Bridge or somewhere. (translation - the potholes ar full) By the way, if you can get £4 advanced singles, Mancland to/from Halifax, why can't you get similar to/from Huddersfield?

Football - what's that then?

Oh yeh, the reason for the thread.  
The Blue Mancs are up for a shed load of, er, records this season and I don't mean 45rpm singles.
100th goal? - nah, did that and more against West Ham
103 goals? - they are on 102, so they need 2 at Sarfamton or 1 each against them and Brighton to beat the record
Most wins? - they are level on 30 with Chelski, so they've two more goes at that one after us
Biggest winning points margin? - need to win by more than 18 points, they are currently 16 clear of the Red Mancs and 21 above the only team to give them a hard time this season, Liverpool (on 3 occassions). Yup, 2 more games after us to do that one too.
Most home wins? - having drawn with Everton at the start of the season they can only equal Chelski's 18, so forget this one lads, you don't really need it.
Most away wins? - nowt to do with this game, Chelski currently hold the record on 15, The Blue Mancs are now on the same total and play at Sarfamton next Sunday on the last day of the season
Consecutive Prima Donna League Wins? - they hold the record of 18 from earlier this season, their current run is 3, having let the Red Mancs pee on their parade the other week
Consecutive Prima Donna League away wins? - City equalled the record of 11 away victories in a row with the victory at Newcastle but were denied posting a new milestone with a 0-0 draw away to Crystal Palace
Best goal difference? - Chelski again hold that with +71, Citeh are currently +76 so clearly don't have any requirement to enhance that against us.
Most home goals? - Chelski again with 68, Citeh currently have 58, with Brighton coming up at home in midweek that they can put 10 or 11 past them, they don't need to score on Sunday
Most points? - those boring Chelski barstewards again, on 95, Citeh are already on 93, like I said, they've got Brighton and Sarfamton to get the goals and points they need.
There's a bunch of club records they are chasing too but this is now getting bleedin' boring.

Pep - get the team spirits going, take 'em on the raz on Saturday afternoon in Cheshire where you all live. You can drink your hangovers off after the game by filling that big silver pot with JW Lee's Best Bitter or Mancland Pale Ale.



Played for both

I don't normally do this any more but I've ripped this off from somewhere or another.  

Andy Morrison
Man-mountain Andy Morrison was an influential and popular figure at Huddersfield and some of his challenges on Georgi Kinkladze when the teams met during the 1996/97 campaign made him a name City fans would remember!

With the Blues floundering in Division Two, Joe Royle decided he needed a leader and with Morrison falling out with boss Peter Jackson, the burly centre-half was available on loan. Royle didn’t hesitate to bring in the Huddersfield Town defender on a month’s loan and the decision paid immediate dividends.

Morrison scored the winning goal on his debut, then added a stunning volley away to Oldham in his next game. He also scored again at Luton to make it three goals in five games and Royle quickly paid the £90,000 asking price the Terriers were demanding.

The Blues lost just four of the next 33 games to win promotion via the play-off final with Morrison, the new skipper, leading from the front.

Denis Law
Slightly-built teenager Denis Law had been attracting attention at Huddersfield Town where he became a target for Matt Busby’s Manchester United.

The Reds couldn’t afford the fee for the teenager and when Terriers’ boss Bill Shankly left for Liverpool, he tried to take Law with him – but again, the price tag was too high. Kind of ironic given they pushed a few brown envelopes Shank's way to get him in the first place.

City came in for Law in 1960, paying a British record fee of £55,000 for the 20-year-old Scot who would repay the investment with 19 goals in 37 games – he also bagged six goals in an FA Cup tie at Luton that was abandoned due to torrential rain with the Blues 6-2 ahead!Law stayed just one season at Maine Road before moving to Torino for £110,000 as the Blues doubled their investment inside 12 months.

Law returned to Manchester, this time for the Reds, and remained at Old Trafford until he was released in 1973/73 on a free transfer – returning to City for one more season and famously scored the goal that confirmed United’s relegation later that campaign.

(Not one friggin' mention of our Denis Law Memorial Floodlights, useless Citeh tosspots).

Mark Lillis
Mark Lillis led the Huddersfield Town frontline with great effect from 1978 to 1985.

Lillis, a boyhood City fan, scored 63 goals in 234 appearances for the Terriers before the Blues paid £130,000 to bolster the return to the top flight.

Lillis, an enthusiastic and committed forward, scored on his home debut and ended the season as the Blues’ top scorer with 11 league goals – but he only stayed one season before moving on – reluctantly - to Derby County.

Other names…
Former City kit manager Les Chapman spent five years at Leeds Road during his playing career. Keeper Martyn Margetson clocked up 50 appearances for the Blues between 1992 and 1998 and a further 48 with Huddersfield between 1999 and 2002.

Aaron Mooy was sold to the Terriers this season though without featuring for City and Harry Bunn, a graduate of the Blues’ Academy, left the Club having never played senior football and though he’d played for several clubs on loan, it was Huddersfield Town he signed for in 2014 and he made 33 appearances, scoring nine goals before moving into the Town Old Players and Retirement home in Bury.

Stats and all that guff
Head2Head
LevilforDevils, though with the average squad value of a player at the Emptyhad being equivalent to the value of our squad, it's not much of a level playing field now is it?


Who's banging 'em in?

With Aguero being injured I can see them struggling for goals this weekend  

Especially if our lads turn up

Those were just our pre-season stats in 3 games, not bad eh?

The Roller Coaster Rides

Probably the most boring nosebleeding ride ever, ours on the other hand


WWWWhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

Where did they spend the brass?


Who left to pay for that lot then?


So who was left to play last week?

It was a quiet afternoon in the old Eastend of Larnadan Tarn by all accounts

Whereas Town got stuck eating Jam Butties in the shaft of a Treacle Mine again


Form


Anything else on this weekend?

They can't both win

A lot of games that some shouldn't have won last week didn't go our way, it could happen again this week.

Back in the Day
When grass didn't grow on football pitches from October to May, this fella was my favourite City player, glad to see he's still remembered with a stand named after him, and he was photo'd in an old Town strip.


Far better than this fat-little-diving-cheating-git (and no, I don't mean the one at Wendies this week).


Citeh Songs
Well, they might enjoy a Champagne Supernova or two this Sunday but mostly they are known for this one.


A couple of Town fans seen letting them know what they think of Blue Moon

Best song I've heard at the Emptyhad?
The whole set that Bruce Springsteen played to be honest.
But this will do for now.

If we don't get a foot on the ball, we'll be doing it all afternoon.

If you didn't like that one, try this one


Points, goals, free kicks, corners, throw in's? Hell, I'd take winning the toss right now.  

Wagbo's Wise Words
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0667vz6

Just for balance, a Pep talk
https://www.mancity.com/news/first-team/...ddersfield

Well done to Chris Schindler for topping the Player of the Season lists, it speaks volumes that our most consistent player on the grass is our central defender.
Likewise congrats to Hadhergonads for Young Player of the Year. Had to be with a name like that.

Happy Bank Holiday Folks    

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Just seen Arsene Nil lost away again. His 'Last Dance with Mary Jane's' at ours then.

[ToonTerrier]

Great thread Theo!

[Lord Snooty]

Aye. Nice one, theo.

Loved Andy Morrison. A proper hard man, until you heard his softly spoken west country accent.
He had to go for anger management classes after a road rage incident if if remember rightly.  

[jjamez]

Think the scoreline will be similar to Yorkshires cricket score today!

[SHEP_HTAFC]

Great thread theo
Got a bad feeling about this....could be a bit of a mauling.
But this game won't matter if Saints and Swansea lose on Sat. Those are the games that i'll really be bricking it.

[theo_luddite]

Think they've taken the bells out of the balls down in Essex looking at those scores. They ain't bowled 60 overs between them and they are waiting for the 20th wcket to fall.

[theo_luddite]

Link to Wagbo's Radio Local interview added to OP, plus some added bits.

[theo_luddite]

Well Brighton are safe after securing points against the Red Mancs. Not the first time he's blown it against the minnows hey Jose?

[Lord Snooty]

That's all we need to do. Beat one of the world's best football teams.

[theo_luddite]

Wagner on Football Focus today
Football Focus: Dog walking helps me find solutions - Huddersfield boss David Wagner - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44009522