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Following a poor start to the 2014/15 season, Nigel Worthington resigns in the autumn. McGill asks him to recommend his successor for some reason.
Nigel recommends Russ Wilcox, a manager so dour Scunthorpe fans wanted him sacked despite winning them L2. We hire him.
Highlight of Russ Wilcox reign is the loan of a defender, Stephane Zubar, who had an automatic contract extension every time Bournemouth got promoted. Top fraud.
Stephane Zubar is so right footed he has to skip around the ball when making a clearance. We play him left wing back.
On the first day of the 2015/16, Zubar volleys in an OG from twenty yards and then ruins his ACL. Never plays for us again.
In October 2015, Russ Wilcox is sacked. He asks we postpone the announcement one day as not to ruin his daughter's birthday.
Enter Jackie McNamara.
One of Jackie's first games is a 6-0 reverse at Portsmouth. One player allegedly gets sent off to attend a friend's wedding on the following Saturday.
The following Saturday we lose 5-1 at home to Accrington. 3 of the back 4 are loanees just signed. Jackie offers this analysis.
Jackie freezes out defenders Keith Lowe & John McCombe, our play off run centre backs from 2013/14. Lowe's brother live tweets every goal at Portsmouth.
Jackie signs Derek Riordan. A player who has been in the lower Scottish leagues who has been barred from every pub in Edinburgh.
Riordan has previous for abusing a doorman with homophobic language. York promptly make him the poster boy for our rainbow laces campaign.
Sat on the bench at this time is ÂŁ85,000 striker Reece Thompson. Signed because Barnsley scouted him for one match and spooked us.
After three games, Thompson mysteriously misses most of the season with an "illness". He tweets about weed. A lot.
Summer 2016 sees Thompson depart, not before he posts on Facebook complaining about how tired he is after training. It's half two in the afternoon.
Thompson would later go on to assault a woman with an iron bar and force her to eat paint. When he is allowed out on probation, he tweets about how he did nothing wrong. York fans grass him up.
In the summer of 2020, Thompson plays in a friendly for Selby Town on trial. York supporters at the match recognise him, and Selby are shamed into releasing him following social media backlash.
March 2016, York travel to fellow L2 strugglers Dagenham, who've yet to win a home game. They beat us 1-0. Forward Jake Hyde runs off the pitch at full time.
Facing relegation if defeated, York inexplicably beat promotion chasing Portsmouth 3-1 at home because fuck you.
In the 2016/17 season, following relegation to the Conference National, York suffer a 2-0 loss at Barrow. Jackie skips training on the Monday to collect a new car from a dealership tweet the following photo.
Following a furore from York supporters, the dealership remove the tweet. Confused as to why it's ok for manager to skip training after a defeat, we are told Jackie doesn't take Monday training anyway.
Jackie uses this time to see his family in Scotland. Fair enough. But what exactly is the point? Can't he just get the train? Well....
In interest of fairness, a charge of trying to evade fare is dropped. Jackie says he didn't know you had to pay fare before boarding. He also appears to be the unluckiest commuter in Britain as his personal and club credit cards don't work on the conductor's ticket machine
Jackie is part of committee with Chairman Jason McGill to find, interview and appoint a successor. He's not our first manager to do this.
Jackie McNamara lasts 48 games as York City manager, winning 8. All at home. In Oct 16, our chairmen refuses to accept his resignation.
Jackie offers an ultimatum - to himself - to win away at Braintree. We draw 1-1. So, he becomes his own caretaker manager.
Like a dog returning to its vomit, we appoint former manager Gary Mills following a Saturday evening interview in a Travel Tavern. Wrexham laugh.
Jackie is appointed CEO of YCFC, the worst manager in the history of our club. This includes Chris Brass, who went viral scoring on own goal kicking the ball into his own face.
Basically, the man who took us down from the EFL and anchored us to the bottom of National League is given a promotion to the boardroom. Amid heightened tension, McGill, Jackie and Mills host a fans Q&A. McGill shocks audience by stating if Jackie left the club, he would too.
Though Gary Mills is popular amongst fans, his transfer dealings often prove to be odd. He signs a thirty five year old Jon Parkin (good), a Philippines international who's not played in two years (odd), and Derwin Martina (LOL)
Martina has match fixing allegations hanging above his head from playing in the Finnish 2nd Division, but we sign him anyway.
He makes his debut in a reserve team fixture on the Monday. Then this happens.
Mills tries to save face by saying it was non contract terms, but the player insists it was a deal until the end of the current season. Rumour has it Derwin felt uncomfortable playing in a back three, or in fact just playing the game of football at all.
Following York's final day 2-2 draw with Forest Green that sees us relegated to Vanarama North, chairman Jason McGill is led from the ground by bodyguards.
He refuses to speak to the media, including famous supporter Guy Mowbray. Meanwhile, Jackie is not even in attendance.
He refuses to speak to the media, including famous supporter Guy Mowbray. Meanwhile, Jackie is not even in attendance.
In August 2017, the club sanction the filming of a Bollywood drama at Bootham Crescent. The ground is redecorated to resemble the Olympic Stadium, Berlin.
Bootham Crescent capacity - 7,872.
Olympic Stadium, Berlin capacity - 110,000.
Bootham Crescent capacity - 7,872.
Olympic Stadium, Berlin capacity - 110,000.
The club are unimpressed with the local press posting these photos in the heightened political climate of the mid to late '10s, but I personally don't see what the problem is.
The club has a mixed start to their first season in a regional division. Following a draw away at Southport, a club employee is filmed on the train home calling York fans "c**ts". They face no disciplinary action.
Other highlights of this start include losing 2-0 away at Harrogate where manager Gary Mills has a burger thrown at him, and a 3-2 defeat to South Shields in the FA Cup. Mills is sacked and replaced by Martin Gray.
During a 3-2 defeat at Salford, after York's second goal in the 89th minute, celebrating away supporters throw a pineapple at the Salford goalkeeper.
This starts a bizarre trend, where pineapples are confiscated from York fans at Boston and Curzon Ashton.
Striker Gary Martin signs a short term deal with York City, ahead of a move to Iceland in the following summer. He is released after it transpires he is still playing Sunday League football in Darlington on the side.
Footage circulates of Martin on Instagram with his Sunday League team mates chanting about York boss Martin Gray being a 'paedo'. It is unclear if this contributes towards the decision to release him.
The 4-1 away defeat to Curzon Ashton also sees midfielder Adriano Moke take to social media after the game to respond to critical supporters.
Moke is keen to stress one vocal supporter is "just a fan", adding “does it look like I care what you people say really your boring I play for myself and my team not you your just a fan so shut up and get off my page.”
He truly excels, however, when offering out another supporter via Instagram DMs. Moke offers to meet them wherever, including bringing other people and, indeed, tools. He is reprimanded by the club.
"We getting this popping" becomes popular Minsterman vernacular for a good few weeks as a result of this exchange.
With seven games to go, York are comfortably in a play-off position. They do not win a game for the rest of the reason and finish mid-table.
in April, Jason McGill asks/requires/demands the Supporters Trust's shares in York, unable to commit to continuing financing the club unless he has 100% control. The Trust vote against the proposal.
McGill puts the club up for sale. Incredibly, there are no interested parties in a ravaged former EFL club languishing in a semi-professional league. Nearly three years later, he remains the chairman.
After encouraging a 'No' vote, Supporter Liason Officer Phil Howden leaves the club, or resigns, depending on who you ask or believe.
The club decide to bizarrely (and potentially illegally) publish email and text communcations between Howden and club staff in a press release uploaded to the official website. It's still there.
In March 2018, following the 'No' vote from the ST, the staff member who used expletives to describe York supporters in 2017 on the train resigns from her post, stating their wish to only work for out going chairman Jason McGill.
As of 2021, both are still with York City.
As of 2021, both are still with York City.
During this time period, the club demand removal of Phil Howden's internet match footage. Then, in a comedy of errors, they immediately demand it's reinstatement, claiming its removal had cost the club ÂŁ6,000.
A 2-0 defeat on the last day of 17/18 at Brackley costs City a play-off place. Manager Martin Gray tells the travelling supporters "I'll sort this next season, I'm not a shithouse" before walking off.
He's sacked after five games of the 18/19 season.
He's sacked after five games of the 18/19 season.
Pre-season in 2018 is marked by peculiar problems, such as one of York's strikers coming off at half time in a pre-season friendly in order to take part in a vlog for England's World Cup tie with Sweden.
The new manager at York is announced as Sam Collins, a youth team coach. Sam's career took a slight bump in 2016 when his wife discovered he was having an extramarital affair and posted the details on his Twitter account.
A highlight of Collins' reign includes a run to the FA Cup first round, rewarded with a tie away at Swindon Town. Collins takes to the local media to beg his players not to overeat in the hotel before the game.
Collins' reign turns sour, with a dire performance coupled with a 3-0 defeat away at Altrincham after exiting the FA Cup. One York supporter marches towards the away dugout after one of the goal, having to be restrained by the physio.
When asked about the incident afterwards, Collins clearly fancied his chances if it came to a one on one with said-supporter.
Relations between the manager and the squad break down, with Jon Parkin snapped at an airport holding a pint at 07:30 in the morning before a flight, and one unnamed player allegedly eating Doritos on the team bus before a match. The muncher is never named.
During the autumn of 2018, Jon Parkin's successful autobiography is released. Within the pages are details about his drinking and poor diet whilst playing for York City during the 16/17 relegation season.
The club decide to stock it in the club shop.
The club decide to stock it in the club shop.
Parkin details leading the squad on the piss around Dover on the Friday night before a Saturday afternoon fixture on the Kent coast, although he does score in a 2-2 draw. Different strokes for different folks.
Possibly in an attempt to get his players on board, Sam Collins graciously allows the squad Christmas Day off to spend with their families.
Boxing Day 2018:
Boxing Day 2018:
Interview with Yorkshire Post, published November 10th 2018.
"If I am being brutally honest, I am not particularly the right character to be the chairman of a football club. It isn’t in my nature." -- York City chairman, Jason McGill
"If I am being brutally honest, I am not particularly the right character to be the chairman of a football club. It isn’t in my nature." -- York City chairman, Jason McGill
In February 2019, the club announce a one-off commemorative maroon y-front home strip, to be worn in the final home game of the season v Telford. The shirt is printed with the dates the club played at Bootham Crescent, 1932 to 2019.
The 2019/20 season sees York finally perform as expected. As winter approaches, City are 8 points clear at the top of the table. Things might finally be looking up for the Ministermen.
However, iffy form over winter, combined with a strong campaign by Kings Lynn, sees the Norfolk side and City go neck and neck. And then the world stops, the League is cancelled, and no one knows what to do next....
In what turns out to be York's last ever, normally attended home fixture at Bootham Crescent, under the March Tuesday night floodlights, York host Hereford. Hereford have not won away since 1st October.
An actual, literal department store puts City to the sword with two goals.
Christ, there’s a lot to cover now, isn’t there?
