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I remember the City home game in Division 2 in 1974 with United well. Their fans were given the whole of the bob bank and pretty much filled it as well (10000 ish ?). Some of them spent most of the game demolishing the walls at the back and around the floodlights and trying to lob the resulting ‘spare’ breeze blocks and bricks into to Grange End. Only to be returned with interest of course. United won by the way.
Exactly, he spent a staggering half a billion quid on players! None of us know what he's like on a day to day basis but every single interview he gave left me with the opinion he was he was way way out of his depth.
He's like the bloke at work that get's promoted to do a job he's totally ill equipped to do.
Did he sign any of those players or did the club sign them? I somehow doubt he had much to do with signing any of them.
That’s not a defence of OGS, by the way. He was clearly way out of his depth. Nevertheless, I don’t think he was personally responsible for any of United’s major signings.
Man United seem to be using us as role models
My mate who is a from Mansfield is a plastic Manc. He sent me this review of that infamous game a year or so back:
https://strettynews.com/2013/11/24/t...-39-years-ago/
Well worth a read
Another Utd fan's perspective of the day they came to Cardiff in August '74
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/card...d-1974.158684/