Recent content by stevemcgarry

I live in the States and watch the Champions League games on Paramount. I genuinely won't watch the pregame, halftime or postgame stuff any more because Carragher and ... it somewhat pains me to say it ... Micah are just unbearable. Neither has any insight or analysis whatsoever to offer. They...

Yes, you may have a few if you collected all that early punk stuff. I think I did 18 or 19 sleeves over a pretty intense two-year period. A lot of the Rabid Records output, including a John Cooper Clarke album ... The Panik, The Tunes ... quite a few things for Absurd. Looking back, some of...

Having learned the news about Edweena's death and heard about the awful circumstances, over the next few days I found myself thinking a lot about my times with Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds. The friends I made, the compatriots we've lost along the way. I've written a piece that talks about...

I post daily quizzes over on my Substack - here's a Tony Book one. RIP Skip.

If City quizzes are of any interest then today's Trivquiz comics over on my Substack feature Zabaleta, Kevin Keegan and Tony Book. The Tony Book one is probably the easiest. All this stuff is completely free to read right now but a lot of it will be going behind a paywall eventually (as soon as...

A lot of people on here will remember Rob Gretton, as big a blue as ever there was. On what would have been his 72nd birthday, I've posted a piece reminiscing about our times together ... and a lot of those times involve City. There's a couple of City-related stories on there that might be...

As it's David Silva's birthday, I've featured him in my daily Trivquiz Football comic over on my Substack and thought it might interest a few on here. If you want to test your knowledge of Spaniards who have played for City, there's a 10-part quiz. I'm betting most will be hard-pushed to name...

BTW ... it's 14 years today since Malcolm Allison died. If you are interested in testing your Allison I.Q., there's a 10-part "Big Mal" quiz on my Playing For A Draw site: https://open.substack.com/pub/playingforadraw/p/big-mal?r=9zotf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Meanwhile, here's the front...

Hope nobody really minds a shameless plug ... but I've launched myself on Substack and I'll be posting lots of City-centric stuff there that hopefully will be of interest to a few Blues. Basically, I used to have a presence on myspace ... even at my advanced age I'm getting too young for...

I featured him in a series I did in Match Weekly in the early 1980s.

No, afraid not. That's from 1974 and I didn't do anything for City until 1982 or so. I did a couple of Christmas covers I think but they were in color.

I should start off by saying I don’t know either of them but I did have a couple of interactions with Dennis Tueart, one of which, in particular, made a big impression on me. I had a series in the City programme in the early 1980s where I would do an illustration of a player and the fan who...

As a young teen in the 1960s, I watched every home game from the Kippax Street (apart from a spell when I figured out a blag where I could sit on a bench on the touchline next to the City dugout because selling On The Ball tickets gave me access to anywhere in the ground!) When The Beatles...

This may or may not be of passing interest to a few City fans of a certain mature age but I did an interview with Shoot The Breeze, which is a podcast dedicated to football mags like Shoot! and Match Weekly from the 1980s. The interview ended up running over three hours and so they have split it...

I have to hold my hands up. I've worked in newspapers for almost 40 years now ... including working with the sports desks at The Sun, The Daily Star, The Expess and the Mirror among others, as well as all the football mags ... and never really subscribed to the idea that there was a deliberate...