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Are we still waiting for the tattoo?

I believe so...and I'm still trying to get 'Dancing in the Moonlight' (the PdC version) out of my head.

The Port Vale game was great.

It was jolly sporting of Vale to let us have our day.

I'd forgotten he lost both his Dad and Mum during the season.

Legend was a bit much wasn't it?  Very few Managers have failed to get us out of Div 4.

Yeah.... No.

He did a good job and it was fun, mostly. But he doesn't belong in the same bracket as those others mentioned. Even McMahon won us a championship.

I reckon even Gary Rose would be embarrassed looking back at that piece!

I could have got us promoted from League 2 with that budget.

He has legendary status of sorts. No STFC fan is gonna forget that season and he produced the sorts of stories that get passed down generations.

Great fun while it lasted.

Indeed, good on football achievement scale, legend on the bat shit crazy/fun scale.

Bordering on excellent. Coming to the County Ground wondering how many we'd win by was awesome. We'd have won League One if he'd stayed.

God knows what would've happened after that.

I remember walking out of the 3-0 LC win over Brighton and thinking that this just may be our year to leave the bottom two divisions and it would have happened be it 1st, 2nd or P-Os had Black kept funding Town for a couple more months.

Hated that whole period. Dream-chasing and damn the consequences. And nasty with it.

 :)

it was fucking brilliant. the promotion, trip to Wembley (not the match), beating Stoke and Northampton away. even beating Wigan to an extent.  loved nearly every minute

You probably shouldn't really bother with football if you couldn't enjoy the Di Canio era. You didn't have to like the guy personally to enjoy the on field success he obviously brought.

Cheers for the advice mate.

Bloody brilliant times on the pitch, wouldn't change that for the world.

In hindsight though the reckless off the field spending very nearly fucked us big time

Anytime mate.

Spot on Fred. Brilliant times, we even stayed behind to clap him off the pitch after the game.
Telling the piss stains that their star player was a Town fan. Sublime.
I miss him and his antics. Heart on sleeve guy, a real character, the game needs characters, its become bland.

Agree to an extent. Remember being very pissed off on a few occasions, Leon Clarke saga was quite bad, but had absolutely nothing on Preston away when Wes was subbed - that was the worst away game I've experienced.

During the year and a half, the good times massively outweighed the bad times.

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

yes I'm not saying he was sane, and not a bully in some cases. the treatment of many players was pretty poor. even Alan Connell, who yes was average, got treated like shit.

but those other feelings and memories are some of the best.

This. And im still convinced we would have gone up again the following season if he didnt walk.