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GGary James replied to the thread Old Maine Road photos thread.My photo taken in 2002 for a feature on Going to the Match in my book Farewell To Maine Road. For anyone who hasn't yet been able to...
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GGary James replied to the thread Anyone seen City's blue plaque?.That’s where it was but that was the wrong place in the first place if that’s not too many places in a sentence.
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GAnd one where it should be
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GGary James replied to the thread Anyone seen City's blue plaque?.Let’s start a campaign.
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GGary James reacted to Citizen of Legoland's post in the thread Anyone seen City's blue plaque? with
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GThere used to be a blue plaque to City's birth in West Gorton. It vanished about 20 years ago. Anyone know where it is now? It was...
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GGary James replied to the thread Church today.Yes... and members of the same traveller community offered to lift the curse in 1998. I'll get the story posted properly in a few days...
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GGary James replied to the thread Church today.Yes, and the curse was lifted during the 1998-99 season (if you be;I’ve this sort of thing). Long story which had a couple of pages on...
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GWish I had a bet on this game, the curse on Maine Rd was supposed to be a Gypsy curse ?…:) There will be some celebrating tonight in...
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GGary James replied to the thread City v River Plate FC (1952).One other MCFC River Plate story that I’ve researched is that in the 1930s River Plate wanted City to open their new stadium (Estadio...
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GFrom @Gary James archive https://gjfootballarchive.com/2026/02/02/manchester-city-v-river-plate-at-maine-road/
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GIt’s not binary. Two things can be right at the same time Swales simply had to go And Franny was also subsequently a bit of a disaster...
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GThink Franny went through The Mirror initially and the Sun tried to jump on the bandwagon
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GYou can’t turn around 25 years of mismanagement in one year
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GI think Franny gave them the story exclusively via a journalist called Alec Johnson, who later wrote a book about it.
