Marsden’s seven appearances showed the City faithful
his ability to link the play with neat passing, keeping the team moving
forward. An excellent example is displayed in the clip below as Sky Sports’
‘Monday Night Football’ featured newly promoted Swindon Town’s visit to
Highfield Road. Marsden’s break from his own area (forward to 3:40 mins) set up Sean Flynn to send
Wegerle racing clear to score and City led as the clock ticked to 88 minutes.
Then came the comical moment when Sky’s cameras lost the live pictures leaving host Richard Keys to discuss with guest Terry Yorath how City deserved
the win. Moments later his demeanour altered to break the shock news of Andy
Mutch’s late leveller, witnessed only by supporters in the ground.
In Neal’s wisdom he allowed Marsden to sign for our
Black Country neighbours before spells with Notts County, Stockport and
Birmingham propelled him to five seasons back in the top flight with
Southampton. His replacement at City was Sandy Robertson, a midfielder labelled
by Rangers then manager Graeme Souness as the ‘best young player in Britain’.
He signed for £250,000 in the week Marsden departed but his spell at Highfield
Road did not work out and he would make just four substitute appearances before
Dundee United took him back home. Let’s hope the similarity (Rangers) with
Fleck ends there as Andy Thorn’s ‘bang, bang, bang’ transfer policy sweeps into
action and revives fan optimism for the coming season.
With the ever dependable Martin Cranie departing
along with Gael Bigirimana and James McPake, we await Richard Keogh’s plans for
2012/13. Bursting through the revolving door, the signing of Stephen Elliott
appeared from nowhere while we warded off a number of suitors for Fleck and
Kilbane which is a first for us as a club in recent years. We normally lose out
in transfer wars mirroring the way we lost out on the pitch last season. The
new arrivals must bring in a winning mentality, the last time we won a game
after trailing was Watford in 2009, it’s far too long, needs rectifying and will
be tested on day one at Yeovil Town.
Yeah Chris Marsden was a classy player, I didnt realise he only played that few games for us. Hopefully Fleck can give us some go forward in midfield instead of side to side,someone who does what Majewski does at forest would be good!
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