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  .. Taylor Out? (20/08/01)  
 

If Saturday's display of dissatisfaction by City's fans is anything to go by then we could very soon see scenes down at Filbert Street that were thought long gone after the recent successful Premiership campaigns.

Anyone who remembers the early days of Martin O'Neills reign at City will be familiar with the words "Sheffield" and "Wednesday", they'll probably also remember the "Blue Tuesday" group who were so concerned about City that they decided to take their own action.

In fact at one stage things were so bad that a complete riot was only narrowly averted when the board decided to speak to some "representatives" from the concerned parties.

Nothing that has happened since, not the Gang of four, the regular approaches by other teams for Martin O'Neill, the Pierpoint problems or even last season's incredible losing streak, has ever came even slightly close to what happened back in the dark days. That is until now.

Last season when things were going from bad to worse if some fans started booing the team or even worse, calling for the head of the manager, then they were usually drowned out by the rest of the crowd. Last weekend though that did not happen.

There were more people booing than cheering and it took less than 40 minutes for the crowd to become disgruntled. The team was booed off at half time and those that didn't leave to go back down the pub (and believe me when I say that there were quite a few who left at half time) continued booing throughout the second half and at the end of the match. The only cheers at the end were for the Bolton team.

City now have a problem. Do they make a ritual sacrifice and give the public what they want, the head of Peter Taylor? Or do they stick it out, give him a chance to turn it round and risk riots and probably more importantly to them, lost revenue?

Many fans will say that Taylor should have walked after Saturday's shambles. Many more will argue the case for giving him some more time. Forfoxsake will always try and back the manager. But it's becoming harder and harder to say anything positive.

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