Free articles that may help re Manchester football history/significance

[Gary James]

Most Bluemooners probably saw this last year but I've managed to persuade the publisher to make some of my articles on the early years of Manchester football free to download until after the Champions League Qtr Final.

The reason I'm posting them here is because we're going to get lots of 'City have no history' type abuse at the LFC games and the Manchester derby and these help to explain that City's success played a key part in establishing Manchester as a footballing city. This does not downplay the achievements of any other club, all it does is explain sensibly that MCFC's first major trophy made Manchester a footballing city - and so the Blues do have history of significance!

It'd be worth quoting/tweeting the link to any Red (either club) who says we have no history etc. Anyway, here's the first about 1904 and how it established Manchester as a footballing city:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14660970.2014.961378 and here's another which talks about Josh

Parlby - the visionary who created a club for Manchester: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2015.1055727?src=recsys.

The more these are downloaded the better the chance the articles will lead on to other research etc.

Thanks as always.

 

[johnnytapia]

Each to their own, smacks to me of being a bit desperate. Let the other fans waffle on, as we sail gloriously onto ever more success. Rising to their bait is exactly the response they want. Ignorance is bliss.

 

[Fame Monster]

I read one of your articles quite recently and never knew football was so closely related to rugby when it was first played in the North West. It’s actually pretty obvious now when you look across the border and see the long-ball shit they’re serving up in Trafford.

 

[Gary James]

I read one of your articles quite recently and never knew football was so closely related to rugby when it was first played in the North West. It’s actually pretty obvious now when you look across the border and see the long-ball shit they’re serving up in Trafford.

There wouldn't be any football without rugby and without City Manchester may well have remained a city that preferred rugby. Josh Parlby, 1894, Meredith and 1904 changed everything for the conurbation: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14660970.2014.961378?src=recsys & https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2015.1055727?src=recsys

We need to shout loud and proud about the significance of City to Manchester's footballing heritage.

 

[NeilYoungIsBack]

Gary

For some reason I missed seeing these from last year.

I found the 1904 article especially interesting, thanks for posting the links

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[Gary James]

Gary

For some reason I missed seeing these from last year.

I found the 1904 article especially interesting, thanks for posting the links

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There's also this one on football before City in Manchester (Hulme Athenaeum): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17460263.2013.873075?src=recsys

 

[cyberblue]

Each to their own, smacks to me of being a bit desperate. Let the other fans waffle on, as we sail gloriously onto ever more success. Rising to their bait is exactly the response they want. Ignorance is bliss.

I'll dont think it is rising to anyones bait .The history of anyones club is always interesting and usualy throws up some fasinating bits people were not aware of .Our history is steeped in intresting stuff and i enjoy keep finding new things out

 

[Gary James]

Today (29/3) marks the anniversary of the death in 1897 of one of the most important men in the history of Manchester football (John Nall). Who was pioneering figure Nall? This provides some background: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2015.1055727?src=recsys. Without Nall there wouldn't have been Manchester's first football club and teams like City may never have existed.