Recent content by Gary James

Absolutely right. When I interviewed Malcolm Allison in early 1990s he said 'Celebrate every success as if it's your first because it could be your last' - Malcolm never thought his last major trophy at City would be in 1970. He managed City to the Charity Shield in 1972 but it sounded like he...

Thanks for the mention. The homecoming parade was actually after the Everton game. City celebrated in London then went to New Brighton on the Sunday, staying overnight. on the Monday they played Evertom , who congratulated City and put the FA Cup on display at Goodison Park. Then straight after...

It depends on where you live and who you work with often, but I've known quite a few Leeds fans over the years. Bizarrely in the last decade they seem to have become obsessed with City's fans and 'buying success'. They are convinced they've 'always been a bigger club than City' and that our...

I post this every year, here's the latest Span of Success table for English clubs (follow the link): https://gjfootballarchive.com/2026/05/17/the-span-of-success-will-this-change-this-month/ This could change yet with Arsenal, Villa and Palace all hopeful of trophy success. Villa could shoot...

I meant to post the link to this the other week but forgot. I wasn’t going to bother and then Utd fans started going on about the Youth Cup final crowd, little City and nobody is bothered - we all know the abuse. Anyway, this is a story from 50 years ago this month when Utd chanted that they’d...

If you missed it during the night I was on Talksport about 2am talking with Paul Ross about Bert Trautmann. We discussed his life and also, briefly, the Manchester Corinthians. You can listen here (my part starts around 1 hour 17 minutes into the show)...

Yes - we’ve recorded it now for playing in the show later. I’ve been told it will be on at 2am and repeated later. I thought it was live at first. I’m sure you’ll like it if you get chance to listen.

I’m sure a few Blue Moon regulars will want to know about this. If all goes to plan I’ll be on Talksport at about 11.20 talking with Paul Ross about Bert Trautmann. Looking forward to talking about this great man.

60 years ago today was a hugely significant day in the history of City. Were you there? https://gjfootballarchive.com/2026/05/04/sixty-years-ago-today-we-went-to-rotherham-we-won-1-0-manchester-citys-promotion/

Spot on! I think there’s some revisionism about Maine Rd often used to say the ground wasn’t that special. It absolutely was and while we can (and I do) criticise Swales & Niven for how the club was run they did tend to try and make the place look decent. Most football clubs treated their...

Totally. I’d love to see it back.

The City FC flag: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2025/05/28/the-city-fc-flag/

It was against Sheffield United ( https://bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/History/Matches/Match.aspx?id=3111 ) but you did get to see Francis Lee's last competitive goal for City at Oldham.

Lots of myths about that day. Whenever anyone says 'yes, but he didn't actually relegate Utd' then it's worth reminding people of the emotion of our Agueroooo Day. Prematch City looked likely to win the League. All we needed to do was match Utd's result. Simple! However, during the course of...

Good spot. Typo, which may even have been how Citizen/Cityzen began.