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Glad you like it and thanks for the comments. Appreciated.

In my biography of Peter Barnes I quote Ken Barnes from an interview I did years earlier. There’s no doubt he blamed Niven and told him so at the time.

I’m biased but you’d love his biography…. https://gjfootballarchive.com/category/peter-barnes/

He was playing for Sheff Utd then but same applies. https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/01/19/vinny-jones-5-second-yellow/

The 1 hour recording of the talk is now live and can be listened to for the next 13 days here: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/01/19/history-talk-mcfc-away-days-now-live/ Also, you can find out more and register for the next talk there. The next one is on 1/2/23 and is about the origins of...

My first City kit came from Donaldson’s in Hyde. My dad knew Donaldson’s from Gorton and years later I discovered that Donaldson was an ex-City player. Lots of former Lancs CCC or City players opened sports shops including Billy Meredith.

It was owned by Eric Alexander and he bought it off Roy Clarke. It had been a combined sports and grocery shop - yeah, I know it’s an odd combination!- when Roy and Kath Clarke owned it. I interviewed Eric and Kath about their times owning the shop in the past. Eric owned it for most of the...

It’s 32 years today since Vinnie Jones got a yellow card after only 5 seconds while playing against City. He later got sent off. It was one of the oddest starts to the game I‘d experienced at the time. We knew about Jones’ reputation but this seemed way over the top. Reid was his victim. I...

If you've booked on to this then the details of how to join have now been emailed out. Any problems then please let me know. Looking forward to the chat. Thanks Gary

I think we had a kit shortage - multiple games due to FAC run and reserve fixtures. Swales’ City was careful not to have too much clobber.

Ted, or at least someone who goes by his name, still comments on games etc. He often posts comments/his memories on my Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/GaryJames4

The best (or worst) was the Monday after we’d lost to Blackburn in the FAC qtr final… suffice to say someone was unhappy at the way fans reacted to the defeat and said we should be happy we’d got to a qtr final. Someone else then piped up that our expectations were all wrong and that maybe the...

It was a pure merchandise promotion. I was in the HoD meeting the following Monday when a few of us were critical. Maybe one day I’ll write about those meetings. Lots of odd stuff used to happen!

Yes - twice. I’ll get an article posted about this on my site at some point. Thanks for reminding me.

Yes we did. You’d think after the first Spurs would think to pack their other kit, but no they didn’t!