Media Thread - 2021/22

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Metalartin said:
I've taken a look at his timeline, I can't work this guy out, is he a professional or a fruitloop?
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"Martin Calladine is a freelance writer, who's spent 15 years in advertising and marketing agencies, several years as a copywriting teacher and a short period, in his late 20s, as an agented but unpublished writer of terrible novels. He once received several nominations for 'most thoughtful poster of the year' on a football forum."

Not much to worry about on the finance front, I would suggest. I am probably right in trusting club management to do due diligence rather than someone who puts 2 and 2 together and gets 12.95 for his new book.


*Online sleuthing challenge* Martin Calladine is a poster on a football forum. An in-depth two minute Google search can find no trace of a Martin Calladine on any of the (two) likely forums. Your challenge, for which there will be no prize, is to find a forum identity that clearly corresponds to him.
 
Zapcity said:
Talking of cellar bars, not sure if it was a cellar bar as such, but used to go in a place under Piccadilly station after what always seemed to be an inevitable defeat.
Pretty sure it was some kind of British Rail club(surprisingly enough!). Used to go in with a City fan I knew ,who I seem to remember did work on the railways. Can't remember much about the place or him tbh. Nice bloke but could never understand a word he said as he was always so pissed up.
As this would have been 86/87 ish when he used to sing 'We never win at home and we never when away' (i understood that bit!)he really meant it, there really was no sense of irony!!!
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We used to go in there before City so.etimes.Got a membership, Mates dad worked there. He also got me a job on Sat nights loading newspapers onto trains. Between loads we would frequent the seedy joints in Town. No upmarket Northern quarter in them days.
 
halfcenturyup said:
"Martin Calladine is a freelance writer, who's spent 15 years in advertising and marketing agencies, several years as a copywriting teacher and a short period, in his late 20s, as an agented but unpublished writer of terrible novels. He once received several nominations for 'most thoughtful poster of the year' on a football forum."

Not much to worry about on the finance front, I would suggest. I am probably right in trusting club management to do due diligence rather than someone who puts 2 and 2 together and gets 12.95 for his new book.


*Online sleuthing challenge* Martin Calladine is a poster on a football forum. An in-depth two minute Google search can find no trace of a Martin Calladine on any of the (two) likely forums. Your challenge, for which there will be no prize, is to find a forum identity that clearly corresponds to him.
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There is a link to his story on the West Ham forum (KUMB), but I can't find anything more than that. Unfortunately I haven't got access to F/Tw at work, otherwise I could have done some profile stalking...
 
LongsightM13 said:
Yeah there was a British Rail/ASLEF? trade union club, you could pass it on the steps up to the station which used to go up from Store Street, opposite where the Warehouse Project used to be. Only went in a couple of times, had to be a member or signed in by a BR wirker, proper Phoenix Nights vibe with turns and cheap beer
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My dad used to go in there as he was a train driver (after his shift obviously before anyone asks). Alex Williams used to serve in there.
 
halfcenturyup said:
"Martin Calladine is a freelance writer, who's spent 15 years in advertising and marketing agencies, several years as a copywriting teacher and a short period, in his late 20s, as an agented but unpublished writer of terrible novels. He once received several nominations for 'most thoughtful poster of the year' on a football forum."

Not much to worry about on the finance front, I would suggest. I am probably right in trusting club management to do due diligence rather than someone who puts 2 and 2 together and gets 12.95 for his new book.


*Online sleuthing challenge* Martin Calladine is a poster on a football forum. An in-depth two minute Google search can find no trace of a Martin Calladine on any of the (two) likely forums. Your challenge, for which there will be no prize, is to find a forum identity that clearly corresponds to him.
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halfcenturyup said:
"Martin Calladine is a freelance writer, who's spent 15 years in advertising and marketing agencies, several years as a copywriting teacher and a short period, in his late 20s, as an agented but unpublished writer of terrible novels. He once received several nominations for 'most thoughtful poster of the year' on a football forum."

Not much to worry about on the finance front, I would suggest. I am probably right in trusting club management to do due diligence rather than someone who puts 2 and 2 together and gets 12.95 for his new book.


*Online sleuthing challenge* Martin Calladine is a poster on a football forum. An in-depth two minute Google search can find no trace of a Martin Calladine on any of the (two) likely forums. Your challenge, for which there will be no prize, is to find a forum identity that clearly corresponds to him.
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He says he can’t find out anything about the new partnership with 3key ,it’s been on the city website since nov 12 . https://www.mancity.com/news/club/manchester-city-3key-partnership-announcement-63772311
 
Zapcity said:
Talking of cellar bars, not sure if it was a cellar bar as such, but used to go in a place under Piccadilly station after what always seemed to be an inevitable defeat.
Pretty sure it was some kind of British Rail club(surprisingly enough!). Used to go in with a City fan I knew ,who I seem to remember did work on the railways. Can't remember much about the place or him tbh. Nice bloke but could never understand a word he said as he was always so pissed up.
As this would have been 86/87 ish when he used to sing 'We never win at home and we never when away' (i understood that bit!)he really meant it, there really was no sense of irony!!!
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The BRSA Club was the highest volume free trade beer account in central Manchester in the early 90s. Did over 1,500 brewer’s barrels pa.

Volumes dropped off a cliff when a rail accident where the driver was over the limit led to a working practises change for all staff, not just drivers and guards.
 
bluechippie said:
wasn`t Branigans called the Conservatory at some point?
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Conservatory was at one time called the Mariners. It was on Old Bank Street, just round the corner from Corbieres, which was on Half Moon Street.
Brannigans was in the Royal Exchange arcade facing the staff entrance to The Danish food centre. All good watering holes ;-)
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
And they have a website.
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To be fair to him (loathe as I am to do it), he said he can't find anything out about 3Key, not about the deal (press release is pretty bare, though), or about the individuals supposedly running it. The website is jazzy, but pretty basic, frankly, with no useful information on how serious they are.

He seems to have a crypto-phobia rather than an anti-City stance. Crypto taking over football. Really? There are about a million other things to worry about in the game. But he has a book to promote, I suppose.
 
Uwe`s Grandad said:
Conservatory was at one time called the Mariners. It was on Old Bank Street, just round the corner from Corbieres, which was on Half Moon Street.
Brannigans was in the Royal Exchange arcade facing the staff entrance to The Danish food centre. All good watering holes ;-)
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Thanks for the replies, I know where you all mean now. There was a crackin clothes shop on that street called Manolo, used to buy gear from there in the late 70`s.
 
Does the resignation of the Premier League Chairman, forced by Premier League clubs disquiet over NUFC takeover?, have any affect on City?.
 
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