MAN CITY INFO VIA THE ALPS #14

Well, sounds like a good game and one of the few I will get to see as my dear old mum has recorded it and will be coming over Friday! I could have sent this out yesterday but I decided to wait till today so that team news could be included for tonight's game. As far as the list is concerned, James and Paul have now sent a letter to Bernard Halford with an article about us which he will hopefully decide to include in the matchday programme. We are reasonably confident that things will run smoothly as City are already aware of our existence through a letter Bob Kelley sent them and they seemed positive.

Depending on when I get the reports (if any) I will maybe put the next issue out on Weds and follow this up with a Friday edition.

Next game is QPR vs Manchester City (CCC) Tuesday 25th October '94

MATCH REPORT

MANCHESTER CITY vs TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 22nd October '94

How's that for entertainment value, with a world wide television viewing audience watching the game both teams produced an enthralling encounter. It was certainly helped by both teams playing an opening attacking game with a couple of leaky defences.

So the game itself started with Spurs dominating and playing the game with all the silky, skilful touches. Klinsmann and Dumitrescu certainly played their parts and produced the best little moves of the game. Indeed it was Spurs who had the early chances to score. The Spurs attacking philosophy of a steady build-up worked well. City seemed content to sit behind the ball and make Spurs try and force a way through. Klinsmann and Barmby both had good chances, Barmby shot over from the edge of the box and Klinsmann then shot wide; both of these chances came from good buildups. Barmby also had another chance which Dibble saved down to his left; once again it was from another steady buildup. I was under the impression that City would struggle unless they could get upfield and compete against a known, poor, Spurs defence. City got the first goal after a goodish cross from Lomas. The cross was met by Campbell who only fluffed his attempted clearance straight to Walsh, who lashed home the ball into the bottom corner. Now surely this would give the confidence to the Blues to get on and take the game by the scruff of the neck?

Both teams battled on, but it was again Spurs who got and held onto the ball. Spurs got some reward for their work through a penalty. At the time I thought Klinsmann made a meal of the challenge from Dibble and took a bit of a dive, but after seeing it on MoTD I can't argue. Dibble was booked by David Ellery, so there's another reason it shouldn't have been a penalty; he only gives penalties when the challenge is outside the box, this one was clearly inside ;-))

I wasn't really worried about the attempt until Dumitrescu got hold of the ball; where's Sherringham when you need him? He's missed the last three penalties! Dumitrescu stepped up and rammed home the penalty. Just an interesting note, I was under the impression that the rules state that the last person to touch the ball prior to the ball being kicked has to be the penalty taker, am I right? If so then the PK should really have been re-taken as the last person to touch the ball was Ellery, he re-spotted the ball after Dumitrescu put it on the front edge of the spot!!! Just an interesting thought.

So the game was tied at 1-1, who would get the next break? Spurs were still content to pass the ball around and Dumitrescu and Klinsmann were still showing their array of skills. Indeed (if memory serves me right for the order of play), Dumitrescu nearly scored with a curling, dipping shot from out wide that struck the cross-bar. That only acted as a warning to City, who finally responded. Flipper picked the ball up in midfield and sprayed the ball out wide to Summerbee. Summerbee controlled the ball and crossed first time, straight onto the head of Walsh. His effort was blocked by Walker and it was left to Quinn to follow up with a diving header to make it 2-1. Would City go in at half time 2-1 up or would the remaining few minutes give Spurs chance to get back into the game? As it turned out it was City who stole another goal just before the break. Beagrie picked the ball up inside his own half on the left wing, skipped past a challenge and ran on. He slipped the ball onto Quinn, who in turn played the ball into the box for Walsh. His shot was half saved by Walker and we waited with baited breath to see if the looping ball would go wide or in the net, 3-1. So City went in leading 3-1, but to be honest Spurs had done most of the good work :-))

So, with half-time, would Horton blast his players as usual to get the best out of them? We only had to wait a minute before Dumitrescu shattered any initial illusions of glory. He cut in from the left and shot; this got a deflection off Curle and beat Dibble. So with 44 minutes remaining of the game, the score was balanced at 3-2.

Would City collapse and allow Spurs into the game? Walsh and Beagrie came into their own in the second half. Beagrie gave the right side of the Spurs defence a torrid time, while Walsh tormented the whole of the back line. It was Beagrie who did the next damage. He jinked down the wing, beat a couple of defenders before crossing onto the head of Lomas, who made sure with a firm header passed Walker. So with the score now 4-2, would City give this up or get on and win? City at last seemed to realise that the chance of glory lay in their hands and began to play the ball around and to dominate Spurs. The confidence began to show through the whole team. Lomas had a shot that went just over the bar. The game was getting better for the Blues, while going downhill for Spurs. Beagrie started to show his full range of tricks and Walsh started to dominate the Spurs defence. It was Walsh who set up the fifth and final goal for Flipper. He picked the ball up on the half-way line and just ran straight at the Spurs defence. He was up against Hazard, Campbell, Kerslake and Scott but he still managed to get into the box and supply a cross for Flipper to thump home. So, after several seasons of defeat, City once again were able to taste victory over Spurs.

So, brief views of the teams. City to their credit always worked as a team, battled hard and helped each other. Horton may have found the method of defeating the Spurs diamond by getting as many players as possible behind the ball. It wasn't pretty to see and it was fairly nerve wracking as it gave Spurs too much time with the ball and with better finishing City could have been struggling. Walsh and Beagrie certainly stood out above the rest, Walsh for his untiring work and Beagrie for his running and crossing, back to the old style of wingplay. Flipper and Lomas deserve a mention for their constant midfield battle.

Spurs on the other hand will seriously have to look at their back four. The attacking mentality is fine and they have some great inventive players in Klinsmann and Dumitrescu but they won't keep the team up. Spurs desperately need a good defender to try and fill the gaping holes in the back division; the current defenders just aren't good enough. Spurs remind me of Forest the season they went down, Forest never strayed from the passing game and played attractive football, but they couldn't keep the goals out and eventually got relegated!!

Let's hope that City can continue on this sort of form, but try and keep the goals out.

Final score: 5-2

Cheers

MATCH REPORT

MANCHESTER CITY vs TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 22nd October '94

SPURS FIDDLE AS ARDILES FUMES

A Government minister's face would not have looked more worried if he had been told Mohammed Al Fayed wanted a quiet word with him. Ossie Ardiles' eyes remained downwards, his mouth tight with tension. He was the very model of managerial misery.

Like the monarch, he had been to Manchester and not been happy with what he had seen - except that the indication was he had used stronger words than "not nice". Like a few fruitier Spanish adjectives, for example, with plenty of more rugged English thrown in. Pathetic might do for a start.

The 1st half statistics could not have been more revealing. Spurs scored once, through Dumitrescu's penalty, but Barmby should have had a hat-trick, Klinsmann could have had two, Teddy Sheringham one and Dumitrescu another. City, meanwhile, had three chances and each resulted in a goal. [[ Slight exaggeration, methinks. ]]

Ardiles was furious. "I'm not going to criticise the players," he said, and then promptly began to. "We are not defending properly... we had to stop crosses in the box and we didn't... The object is to win games... etc."

While Ardiles fumed, however, the rest of us could bask in the afterglow of a football spectacular. The Spurs defence didn't cover itself with glory, but Richard Edghill and Ian Brightwell won't be ordering a video of the game either and, as each back four creaked, the attackers ran amok.

The result might have been 10-10 but City prevailed because Peter Beagrie and Nicky Summerbee had read the coaching paper "cross the ball sometimes" while Dumitrescu patently hadn't. The home strikers, too, were also willing to risk their arms at distances of, ooh, 6 yards when the Spurs marksmen would have been looking to dribble past another defender if the ball had been on the goal-line.

As a result, Tottenham began to look less dangerous by the minute while Paul Walsh (twice), Niall Quinn, Steve Lomas and Flipper exploited the service they were receiving from the flanks, plundering to an extent that Spurs have now shipped 23 goals this season. [[ City, by the way, have scored more goals at home than any other team in the league so far. ]]

Few have been better though, than City's second, a move that was marred only because Quinn had to put in a rebound after Ian Walker had halted a pitch for perfection by saving Walsh's diving header. The build-up had included a 40-yard pass from Flipper to Summerbee, a shimmy past a defender by the winger and then a quick and accurate cross.

Brian Horton was effusive, describing it as "a brilliant advert for English football" and he seemed inclined to turn a blind eye to what had happened to both rearguards. "It's difficult to defend when teams attack you in that manner," he said. "You have to give credit to managers like Ossie who are prepared to open the game up".

A female caller to Six-O-Six afterwards went even further. "When City play like that it's better than sex," she said. But given the defending on Saturday she was definitely talking unprotected sex.

Taken from the Independent

MATCH REPORT

MANCHESTER CITY vs TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 22nd October '94

PROSPECT OF GLORIOUS REIGN ENOUGH TO MAKE CITY SING.

There is something enticing about Maine Road, Manchester, on a wet Saturday afternoon; memories abound of former glories, of Lee, Book and Summerbee, of Young and Bell. Seeing Manchester City in full flow during their 5-2 victory over Tottenham helped to rekindle those visions of yesteryear and stimulate suggestions that better times lie ahead.

All that is missing is a complete stadium. The Kippax Stand is no more, replaced for now by a 3,000 seat open stand. City gave the Kippax fans white rain macs on Saturday, and when the heavens opened and the macs went on, it resembled a mass gathering of the Ku Klux Klan. They witnessed a captivating spectacle between two teams who beg comparison; City are in the shadow of champions (bollocks !) while Spurs are losing in the silverware stakes to Arsenal. City's new regime, however, is creating a winning atmosphere. In contrast, Spurs for all their attacking alacrity, remain benevolent in defence.

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City's Brian Horton might have been, not long ago, close to unemployment. Brian Who? arrived from Oxford in September last year and endured a bad start. Until April, City were under threat of relegation, yet Horton has turned the club round. Their wing play was delightful; in attack they tormented Spurs. Nevertheless - and this is why the game was a near classic - Spurs could have won. Paul Walsh, who left Spurs after a contretemps with former coach Ray Clemence, was the architect of City's success. Yet, after his first goal Spurs responded with an Ilie Dumitrescu penalty and created numerous chances. The misses cost them dear.

Two more goals before the interval, from Walsh and Niall Quinn, and two after from Steve Lomas and Garry Flitcroft, confirmed the victory. Dumitrescu scored Spurs' second.

City are seventh, their highest position under Horton. Why ? "Because of our signings, most of them on deadline day" said Horton, with impish delight. "We bought Walsh, Rösler and Beagrie and, in the summer, Nicky Summerbee. We also have players back after long injuries, like Quinn, Ian Brightwell and Flitcroft" In addition Horton - who says he has a "world-class" midfielder on his shopping list to enhance City's further success - has called upon the wing experience of assistant David Moss, "one of the best wingers in the business". One of the younger players who impressed was Lomas, a midfielder of considerable ability. "On my first day at this club, I got a phone call from a manager claiming a deal had already been done to swap Lomas with one of his players and some cash" said Horton. "I won't tell you my reply"

Another clue to City's success lies in the pitch. In the summer Horton and chairman Francis Lee ordered groundsman Stan Gibson to widen the playing surface by six yards to accommodate Beagrie and Summerbee. On Saturday those assembled witnessed the vindication for that decision.

Lifted practically word for word from the Daily Telegraph without permission:

I remember City's pitch used to be the widest in England outside Wembley. Who narrowed it? I've got a feeling that it was John Bond (?) in attempt to de-expose City's woeful flanks. Can anybody say for sure who's decision it was?

MATCH VIEW

View from the big fuzzy screen in sunny California.

As I was told when feeling sympathy for the guys, with wet tea bags, sitting in the old (new) Kippax stand. "They'll be drinking pints of Boddies, drink up your Miller genuine draft"!

[What at 7.30am Trevor! Ashley]

Great! Great game! Great team!

City appear to have regained the fire (maybe due to Franny's return) of the late sixties, early seventies. The forwards and midfield attacked, attacked, attacked. Looks like the left flank belongs to Beagrie. A fine player. Walsh, two great goals, along with Quinn were busy running at the Spurs defence, scoring three goals between them in the first half. Lomas, real fine goal coming in through the defence to score from another fine Beagrie cross. Flitcroft making it five, as just reward for good work in the middle.

Dibble (when in doubt for God's sake kick it into the stands), made a couple of good saves. I felt he was unlucky with the penalty. He made the right play diving at Klinsmann's feet, spreading to cover the goal and force him wide. I did not see contact. Was he booked? After the replay the referee appeared to be returning something to his back pocket; even if he did touch Klinsmann it was not intentional. Was the sun in his eyes when Dumitrescu hit the crossbar? Almost déjà vu.

Hope this will be the game on primeticket a week on Tuesday.

Hope City will be back on the fuzzy screen in the near future. How come the Derby is on a Wednesday? I will have no chance to see it, I sense another great City victory

MATCH REPORT

THE SPURS' VIEWPOINT (from Spurs WWW)

Seems like it's Manchester-bashing month down south! [ Ashley ]

Spurs line up:
Walker, Kerslake, Campbell, Scott, Edinburgh, Dozzell (Hazard), Popescu, Dumitrescu, Barmby, Sheringham, Klinsmann.

Man. City line up:
Dibble, Edghill, Phelan, Curle, Walsh, Quinn, Flitcroft, Beagrie, Brightwell, Summerbee, Lomas.

Goal scorers:
Spurs:
1. Dumitrescu 29m (Pen), 46m.
Man. City:
1. Walsh 15, 44m.
2. Quinn 41m.
3. Lomas 52m.
4. Flitcroft 79m.

Booked:
Man. City: Dibble.
Spurs: Dozzell, Sheringham.

I went, I saw, I cried and we died

22nd October 1994, Maine Road, Moss Side, Manchester

Manchester City 5 (F-I-V-E, Ossie), Tottenham Hotspur 2

A first hand account of public humiliation

WILL THIS DATELINE, WILL THIS PLACE, be the final nail in the coffin for Ossie Ardiles? Somehow I doubt it. Chairman Alan Sugar (of Amstrad plc for any overseas chaps out there who are unaware of some areas of current Tottenham lore) previously said that although the honeymoon was over for Ardiles at Tottenham, he was still giving him plenty of time to sort things out.

How much more time does he need? Do we need to get beaten by a third division side before Sugar realises what's going on? Or wait until we take on a bag of crisps - and lose?

I invested nine pounds and a whole Saturday in following my team. We followed them 200 miles to a very rainy, very appaling hole called Moss Side, an area that Manchester City's ground resides in. Think of the worse place you've been to, and double it. The City's University is like a fortress. All the female students get free rape alarms when they enrol. To this part of Earth we ventured to follow Klin, Dumi, Ted, etc.

For the first time in my life I got to the game quarter of an hour late. The traffic on the motorways going up to Manchester turned into a car park at Birmingham because of the motor show. We detoured about fifty times until we parked next to Francis Lee's Bentley (he owns Man City) and sat down just as City scored their opening goal. What a time to turn up.

Spurs old boy Paul Walsh slid the ball past Spurs goalie Ian Walker after Sol Campbell should have made a better attempt at clearing a cross. Just as we sat down in our seats, 24,000 City fans got out of theirs for a knees up.

When the mayhem died down we realised where we were actually sitting. The whole stand was totally uncovered. It was absolutely pissing down for most of the game. And we noticed many fans wearing FA Carling Premiership cagools. Yeah. More like white plastic bin liners with a potato print on and an equally sad monk's type hood. We thought we had gatecrashed a Klu Klax Klann convention. That was 16 minutes in.

On 29 minutes Spurs managed to get free from heavy City pressure. Jürgen the German found himself chasing the ball in their penalty area and City goalie Andy Dibble came out and brought Klin down. Actually, Dibble came out, Klin jumped out of the way, fell over and got a penalty. All the City fans thought he had dived, but we didn't care. We had trekked through hell to get to this game and now we had a penalty.

Teddy of Sheringham missed our last three penalties, costing us valuable points in the process. So up stepped Iliiiieeeee Dumitrescu to put us level at one all. Now we had something to shout about. We all stood up and shouted at the City mob "your not singing anymore..." The lobotomized stewards and police just stared into space at us.

Our come back lasted just 11 minutes when Irish international Niall Quinn scored from a brave diving header after Walker marvellously parried a shot. One of our defenders tried to kick Quinn's head in, but missed.

Spurs fans were constantly turning up throughout the first half because of trouble on the M6 motorway. A lot turned up just before half time to see Paul Walsh score his second goal for City. From our position Walker seemed to have saved the shot from the edge of the area, but it bounced away from him into the net.

Half time arrived to send us in 3-1 down. By this time we were thoroughly pissed off and completely soaked because of the downpour. Not all of us got issued with Premiership bin liners. Comments about the weather ranged from "it's bloody wet" to "Oh no! The water's got inside my pants! Actually, I think I like it!"

So our lads came out to attempt a salvage operation in the second half. And lo and behold, we scored! Only about a minute into the second half Dumitrescu received the ball. This consisted of him doing a few magical things and getting the ball between goalie Dibble (he was in Top Cat, you know) and the near post. We jumped up, cheered and began praying like we used to for Nayim, chanting "Ilie, Ilie, Ilie...". He came over to us, raised his arms and stood there for a few seconds with a strangely dispassioned look on his face. I s'pose that's Romanian for having a good time...

Well, that was it. During the game we hit the bar, had chances cleared off the line and gloriously ballsed up some wonderful approach play.

City scored two more goals, with our defenders doing an impression of us - i.e. watching the game and not taking part. Micky Hazard came on for Dozy Dozzell, did something and that was it.

This is how we lined up:-

                             13. Ian Walker

22. David Kerslake  23. Sol Campbell  19. Kevin Scott  3. Justin Edinburgh

                       4. Gheorghe 'Gica' Popescu

          12. Jason Dozzell               8. Ilie Dumitrescu

                            7. Nicky Barmby

        18. Jürgen Klinsmann       10. Teddy Sheringham (Capt.)

Kerslake and Edinburgh are both good at coming forward, and can play the ball. Kerslake has played in midfield when he was at Leeds, and has made many forays into opposition penalty areas. So when the two full backs push up, the City wingers have nothing to stop them running on the break. As an overly attacking team this is a massive problem for us. At Wimbledon we thought that we were beginning to lick the problem. How wrong we were.

Personally, I think Sol Campbell is the best stopper we have. His passing has been a joke in the past, as bad as when Pat van den Hauwe used to play for us, but has played in every position and is now settled in defence. That's if you can call any Tottenham defender settled. He should be playing in front of the back four, where Popescu is now, with Popescu moving into Dozzell's position in midfield. Dozzell would subsequently sod off. Campbell gets behind the ball and opposition forwards better than the others, and is needed to clean up the mess that others make. However he was more or less responsible for City's opener. He was only partly responsible along with the rest of our defence for the other 4.

Popescu is a very good passer and came forward on a few occasions to spray Hoddle-esque passes about.

Dozzell is - words fail me really.

Ilie ran rings round the City defence at times, scoring in the process once, (the other from a penalty) but is very greedy. Klin, Ted and Nick wait for a cross only to see a City defender scoop the ball off him. He hit the bar from 25 yards out, and after this result we felt like hitting the bar too.

Nicky B. had a few chances, half ones really, but he maybe should score a few more of these.

Captain Big Ted Sheri wanders around the front inspecting the troops, had a shot cleared off the line and tries to pull markers away from Klinsmann.

Jürgen (ooh - aah - wunderbar, I say ooh - aah - wunderbar) Klinsmann turned and twisted like he was at a fifties revival. His back heels to fellow forwards constantly infuriated the City defence but his on-field support was unable to follow up his work with anything like a winning spree of goals.

After our six point deduction we are fourth from bottom - a position which will cause relegation to occur.

So there you have it. I had to put finger to keyboard because I still can't get over this nightmare. We are in trouble - there's no two ways about it. Next week we play West Ham Utd at the Lane. They totally outplayed Southampton yesterday and were by all accounts excellent. Last season they came to North London and mauled us. Chances are - no, in all likelihood they are going to mash us again. As things stand, nothing is going to stop the rot. Last season part two now showing...

Steve Perryman is Ardiles' number two at Tottenham - he is supposed to be responsible for coaching the defense. Does that mean that Ossie is then responsible for coaching the midfield and attack? We scored two goals away from home, which nobody could argue about. It's almost as if Ossie is doing his part of the job. Strange really. But ultimately he IS reponsible for the team as a whole, and now the day when his involvement with Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Company Ltd is brought to an end must surely ben much, much nearer.

NEWS (USA)

I received a letter from the club on Friday (from some fellow named Halford), confirming my seat for the Boxing Day match with Blackburn Rovers - my first English match of any sort, and, of course, my first visit to Maine Road after 29 years of waiting. That match, by the way, has been moved to 7:45 for Sky TV purposes

I also read a post on the (vanquished, throttled, humbled) Spurs list that the City/Tottenham game will be featured as the Match of the Week that we get on Prime Network here in the States. This, as far as I am aware, will be MCFC's first appearance on that programme this season, after making quite a few last year.

NEWS & OPINION

I saw the Spurs highlights on Match of the Day and just at half-time heard some music which sounded remarkably like Dave Freeman's version of "Blue Moon" he played to me in his car on the way up to games last season. He'd been pestering the club to use it since Franny took over and it looks like he's won through (Bernard Halford was enthusiastic but there was some worry over the copyright). Dave (who used to front the band The Lover Speaks) will be insufferable if it is his version! :) I haven't been to Maine Road yet this season so is this a new thing? and what do people think of it? It must be an improvement on that awful racket they used to play.

Great game but we'll be lucky to find any defences as generous as Spurs again this season! Having both strikers and central midfielders scoring was very pleasing and Beagrie looked like he was on fire. Dibble almost got sent off again for their penalty but Curle saved his skin by being the last defender back. Paul Walsh got a 10 out of 10 rating in the Mirror today - richly deserved.

QPR on Tuesday, will we have a goalkeeper? i.e. when do Dibble's and Margetson's suspensions start? Little article in The Sun last Friday about this crisis, mentioning Les Sealey again, with some very encouraging words from Horton about not wanting to rush players back too early. OK, we miss TC when he's not there but it is so important to let players get back to fitness and not risk them sustaining a greater injury if you do rush them. I consider TC to be our most important player, especially in away games.

If any fans travelling to the Coventry game are acting on my advice and visiting the Spittlemore, I'll be the one with the long blond ponytail and leather jacket (such a rebel!) if you want to share a jar or two of the good stuff. That's if you can afford it after shelling out 14 quid for a ticket - Cov have a cheek even if it is a new stand we're occupying. I hope to be in The Spit by 1:30.

And finally, is it just me or does 'MCIVTA' sound like an obscure Scottish full-back?

SOME THOUGHTS IN REPLY!

Dibble and Margetson's suspensions start on Saturday. Dibs should get quite a welcome from the QPR fans (not).

Sounds more like a biscuit manufacturer to me (well it would if the V and the I were the other way around).

NEWS & OPINION

Once again the Sunday papers reported a couple of points about City.

One was the impending departure of McMahon to Sunderland for 250K. Not exactly a scoop as this has been on the cards for several weeks now, following his bust up with Horton.

The other potential transfer, was in regard to Carl Griffiths. It appears as though Burnley would like to sign him for 250K as well.

Once again it's just paper speculation, but if they do go it's another 2 of the more experienced players leaving the squad. City must surely sign players to fill these ever increasing gaps.

The most interesting article was in regards to the RAGS. In the News of the World (if I remember correctly), they had a little piece and drawing of United's new away kit to be released in the new year. The article claimed to be an exculsive and stated that the new kit would replace the green/yellow kit and eventually replace the Black kit. The 'new' kit is white with blue stripes (only three) down it and blue trim to the sleeves. So I wonder how many fans will go out and spend another 35 (stlg) on the new kit. That's the fifth kit change in 3 years, when will the sheep learn to revolt and start to kick up a fuss? Until they do Umbro and United will be content to sit back and rake in the money.

I suppose if United think it's OK then other clubs might start to follow the same lines and change kits more often than the usual every other season.

Cheers

TEAM NEWS

I heard on the radio that it'll be the same team as against Spurs.

US TV INFO

The John Bull at 958 s. Fairoaks, Pasadena. (818)441-4353 has English Premier League soccer live on Saturdays at 7.00am. This Sat (just gone) was Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur. There is a cover charge of $7.50. Also this Sunday was a live game from the Premier League (Blackburn Rovers v Man Utd).

The John Bull is south of California on the east side of the street.

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