Gary James
Well-Known Member
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.
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.