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The consequences of any club not meeting FFP is NOT exclusion from UEFA competitions, it's merely a warning that the club dosen't meet FFP rules. Ultimately if a club persistantly ignores the warnings UEFA has the power to exclude them, it seems to me that there is a lot of room for manouver...

For me Billy McNeil was 'the man', but then he was manager when I first began to follow City. I usually want to believe in every manager, at least when they first arrive, but I never liked Kendal, I didn't like the way his Everton team used to play, so I wasn't that upset when he left. Other...

I remember walking around the city centre about a couple of weeks after the bomb, it was scaffold city, from the bottom of market street I couldn't see a single building that wasn't entirely covered in scaffold and plastic sheeting. The bomb didn't demolish any buildings but it did damage a...

Muffins are small round bread rolls that you always have to toast before you eat them. "Oven Bottom" Muffins are large flat bread rolls with a dimple in the middle eaten across Lancashire. Barm Cakes are large soft bread rolls (no dimple) that I've never heard of outside Manchester, Tea Cakes...

The clubs financial situation in '99 was horendous. If we'd lost to Gillingham we'd have had to sell off half the squad to cover the debts. Promotion meant Bernstein was able get enough investment not only to sort out the finances but to build a squad capable of reaching the Prem. I'm not so...