Talk:Uwe Rösler

Manchester City were relegated in 1995/96 and thus the Rosler scorinf record is wrong as they played in the First & Second Divisions between 1996 and 1998 and were not promoted back to the first until Rosler had left the club.

City also had to say farewell to the beloved "Kippax" stand in 1994 which had to be demolished in favour of a new stand. The era of standing accommodation at Maine Road came to an end in May 1994 as the stadium became all-seater to comply with the requirements of the Taylor Report with the demolition of the Kippax Street Terrace. The final match where standing was permitted took place on 30 April 1994,[53] Chelsea the visitors for a 2–2 draw. Immediately prior to demolition the capacity of the Kippax terrace was 18,300.[54] A three-tier stand was built in its place, holding nearly 14,000 spectators, and on its completion in October 1995 it was of the tallest stand in the country. It was not cheap either, at a cost of £16m in 1994, four times the turnover of the club as then-chairman Francis Lee later highlighted.[55] The revamp of the Kippax was the second phase of a five-part development plan which would cost £40m[56] and increase the stadium's capacity to 45,024, however the club abandoned these plans and attention was more aimed at the ongoings on the pitch as City continued their 90s slide down English football.[56]

Ball was sacked soon after City's 1996-97 Division One campaign got underway, and his successor Steve Coppell resigned after just 6 matches in charge and 33 days as manager, claiming that the job was too much pressure for him.[57][58] Phil Neal took over on a caretaker basis for 10 games however he lost 7 of these and by Christmas, City were in the bottom half of Division One and had turned to former Nottingham Forest manager Frank Clark to arrest the decline. City finished 14th in the final table. But Clark was sacked the following February with City hovering in the bottom five of Division One. Former Oldham and Everton manager Joe Royle was drafted in to replace Clark, but a 5–2 away win over also-doomed Stoke on the final day of the season was not enough to save them from relegation because the three other threatened teams - Portsmouth, Queens Park Rangers and Port Vale - all won their games. City were now a Division Two side and had slipped into the third tier of the English league for the first time in their history - the first former winners of a European trophy to suffer this indignity along with Nottingham Forest and Leeds United in the following years.

Darkest days – Division Three (1998-99) After relegation, the club underwent some off-the-field upheaval, with new chairman David Bernstein taking over. City were promoted at the first attempt, albeit in typical dramatic fashion in a thrilling playoff final against Gillingham at Wembley featuring a late equalising goal by Paul Dickov to take the game to a penalty shoot-out which City won. Dickov's goal is arguably the most important in Manchester City's recent history,[59] failure to get promoted in the first season of being in the third division of football might have impaled City to the lower depths of English football for a number of years.[59][60] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.176.99 (talk) 15:44, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

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