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Go back another 80 odd years and you get a better Daily Mail headline: Hurrah for the Blackshirts.

I recall that Helen used to sell flowers outside of Southern Cemetery. At some stage a Tory councillor tried to stop her doing this. He owned a nearby florist!

This sounds like something out of William McGonagal. “Oh! I’ll fated bridge of the silv’ry Tay, I must conclude my lay, By telling the world fearlessly with the least dismay, That the central girders would not have given way, As many sensible men would say, Had they been supported on ends...

Remember the previous format that had English champions, City from Pot 2, in a group with Real Madrid (Spanish champions) from Pot 1, Ajax (Nederlands champions) from Pot 3, and Borussia Dortmund (German champions) from Pot 4. This was improved by the revised format that put the champions from...

Better quality games? You have to be joking. If the Champions League was restricted to the League Chamions that would leave us with City, Internationale, Bayer, PSG, Sporting Club, Real Madrid, PSV, Club Brugge, Midtjylland, Sparta Prague, Slovan Bratislava, and Jagiellonia Bialystok. That is...

That’s because Dubai has no oil left but continues to spend as if it did have.

My son used to work part time in a pub when he was a student in Edinburgh. It had a big brass bell to ring for last orders. If he was duty manager he would insist on ringing the bell.

A very impressive history up to 1910 but not a lot since with only one top division title. And they had to put up with Ron Saunders as manager to get that win!

They really didn’t. The changes have been going on for the last thirty years for a number of reasons and none can be attributed directly to UEFA The problem is that that the USSR was split into 15 different countries, Yugoslavia was split into 7 states, and, Czechoslovak was split into 2...

City beat Bayern Munich 3-0 and Real Madrid 4-0 the season before last. Loads of people are moaning about the low standard of the opposition. Perhapse they want a Super League format? These are probably not the same people who have been whining for years for a return to a Champions only...

You are a ray of sunshine.

I find that hard to believe given that the Main Stand and the Platt Lane End were all fully seated. That is a bigger proportion of seats than the vast majority of First Division Stadia back then. I suspect that it was a desire to push up season ticket sales. You can’t really sell season tickets...

When it opened, the North Stand provided the best view I had ever seen at Maine Road with good sight lines and no pillars in the way. Unfortunately after the first year of operation, they put seats in. It did seem a strange approach. Either put the seats in from the start or retain the crash...

I was in the Scoreboard End for that match and if there was any segregation it certainly wasn’t very effective. I am not sure if total segregation was even possible on that stand. I was in the right hand side of the stand and it was mostly City supporters but there were a few United fans...

I hope that no-one will attempt to rename the said establishment to the KDB bar?

All the synthetic indignation about a few visiting supporters getting into the home end is doing my head in. Most of us have watched away matches from home areas anyway. But when there were complaints about some neutral fans getting into the Watford match with one third of the stadium empty, it...

Someone I worked with went for a night out in Manchester and caught his last train home. He fell asleep and woke up at 3:00 in the middle of Longsight sidings.

Rangers at a big CL match at the Etihad? Not very likely!

Well I certainly hated the old Kippax. The sight lines were abysmal and the bogs were beyond primitive. The only time I ever went there was when the Scoreboard End had been demolished and I moved straight back to the North Stand when it opened. My last time in there was for a League Cup tie...