AS everyone’s favourite dour scouser came home today in 1993 his wife no doubt broke into a chorus of “Cheer Up Peter Reid”, as her man had just been sacked as Manchester City manager after three years in charge at Maine Road.

It had started so well when Reid was appointed as City’s first ever player-manager in November 1990 as he filled the void left by Howard Kendall’s resignation admirably. A fifth-place finish saw the Citizen’s finish above their Mancunian rivals United for the first time in 13 years, as Reid missed out on European qualification by one place.

By time he reached his third season the tide began to change. Supporters were starting to tire of his traditional up-and-at-em tactics that usually involved an industrious defence and midfield that would hoof the ball to Niall Quinn upfront who would score or feed his pacy fellow strike-partner David White. Reidy’s relations with his board started to fray as he was not given much room to manoeuvre in the transfer market, bringing in only Dutch midfielder Alfons Groenendijk for £25,000. This lead to a lackluster start in the 1993/94 season, with Reid getting the boot after the first four games of the campaign only wielded only one point. And we all know how bad things got things got for City after that, as they were to plunge down to third flight by 1998.



Reid however, was straight back to work as he put back on his boots and turned out as a player for Southampton, Notts County and Bury, before giving the management game another stab at Sunderland. Here he was to repeat the Niall Quinn trick, this time with Kevin Phillips supporting, as he guided the Mackems to the dizzy heights of seventh in the Premier League.

See below for a clip of a Reid doing what he does best - shouting at someone, and join us tomorrow for more managerial shenaningans.

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