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He’s still about I believe. His Dad Harry looked after the dressing rooms for decades, including the first few years at the new stadium too.

So far there have been 35 days in my 100 day Maine Road countdown series of free to read features and images. I know some have dipped in and out and not had chance to see them all so, to make life easy, here they are so far in one handy place. Enjoy following the link to read them all. It's a...

When it comes to the grenades our rivals keep trying to lob at us I do feel like I’m in a trench trying to repel attacks all the time.… ah well! At least we’re treble winners!

I think Everton lost most with the ban. Kendall’s team was refreshing and still hungry for more. They’d have won the European Cup and possibly sustained success, which would’ve limited Fergie’s opportunities at start of 90s too. I don’t think Kendall would’ve left Everton had the opportunity to...

Lots of people are prematurely comparing Utd 1999 with City 2023. I’d urge all Blues to avoid these sorts of meaningless debates. Even if City do pull off an amazing treble this week it’s not worth getting embroiled in a debate that is ridiculous. To be frank you’ve got to be well in your 30s...

One of the older songs City fans adapted was Bless ‘em All. Sung in mid 1950s. I posted the lyrics sung by fans in the 50s in my book Manchester The Greatest City in the 1990s (photo of them here). Much further back there’s the Who Said City Couldn’t Play chant which was based on the 1920s...

Today’s day 20 of my free to read Maine Rd 100 features and it’s about the original concrete dug outs which were actually ‘dug out’. It must have been a nightmare watching a game from in them. Roy Bailey tells me that Dave Ewing always seemed to bang his head getting in and out. Here’s the link...

I bought 70 Euros ticket and I’m in block 327 row 12

I’ve posted the answer - it’s 1953. Today’s image & post in my free 100 day Maine Road countdown tells the story of the steps to nowhere. What? Have a read here https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/05/31/maine-road-100-day-14/

I’d have to look at my research but I think it came in mid 30s with the huge crowds. In 1923 Wembley was trashed in a lot of the media, saying it’ll never stage a FA Cup final again because of the chaos.

Not really Wembley of the North - better than that. Aims were much higher - the English Hampden was what they aimed for at a time when Hampden was regarded as the greatest stadium in the world.

Got to do the Poznan…. I talk about the importance of that and much more about 2011 here: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/05/28/the-all-manchester-fa-cup-final/ It was the free 1 hour audio I did and worth a listen if you fancy being reminded of that day. Though most of us remember it...

This wonderful photo is of Maine Road as most of us have never experienced it. No traffic etc. and a great aerial image. Today’s Maine Road post: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/05/30/maine-road-100-day-13/

That’s it! My words were slightly out.

87 - all changed at Bradford in 87-88 then year after we had the promotion game there. It was absolutely being sung in mid 80s and was probably more popular (if that’s the right word) than at any other time. It disappeared for a while at start of PL but those struggles from 95-96 brought it back.

I’m not going to post a link in here every day as anyone can check out the images and stories being posted daily to my site but once in a while I’ll stick a link up if it’s something that might be different. Today’s post tells the story of the Platt Lane tunnel. Why it was changed within 8 years...

I don’t know if it’s been mentioned but Ant Music. ‘That football’s lost its taste so try another flavour… Man City….. Man City….‘

It wasn’t but I did an online version of the talk and recorded that. I didn’t use the original script as I’d lost it so it’s not quite the same, but I do use the original slides. You can watch it here: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2022/05/03/manchester-city-chants/

I loved doing the detective work. I tell a shorter version of the story during this online history talk I did last year. If you don’t want to watch the full talk, jump to about 23mins 40 seconds for the Viking Call story: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2022/05/03/manchester-city-chants/ Another...

It's day 5 of my 100 day Maine Road countdown. Today a little story about this image from the 1920s and a small boy who spotted himself on it in 1 of my books 70+ years later when it was given to him in Canada! https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/05/22/maine-road-100-day-5/