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Who scored more goals for MCFC’s first team at Maine Road than anybody else? The answer: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/08/20/maine-road-100-day-95-answer/

He‘ll never accept it but the metalwork and measurements match one of Hyde Rd’s other roofs that survived as a factory in Sale (since demolished).

Hyde Road’s last League game was City v Newcastle. Here’s a piece on that including some of the match programme for that game: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/08/19/maine-road-100-bonus-article/

Today’s free Maine Rd article is about the man who played in more first team games than anyone else at the old stadium. Enjoy: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/08/19/maine-road-100-day-94/

The Sydney stadium where tomorrow’s women’s World Cup final will be looks a lot like the Etihad too.

Great. Thanks. There are lots of free articles to enjoy on my website: https://gjfootballarchive.com/category/free/ There‘s extra stuff for subscribers too, including PDFs of my first book (From Maine Men To Banana Citizens), Manchester A Football History and I’m serialising Farewell To Maine...

Today’s free Maine Rd 100 article is a piece about attendances at the old place. A few myths busted perhaps! Enjoy: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/08/18/manchester-citys-average-attendances-through-history/

I thought you’d never ask. Done (or at least I’m waiting for you to approve my request). Cheers

Charlie Pringle, married Meredith’s daughter (but not the daughter I interviewed). Basically, the book claimed that Meredith had an enduring quarrel with City but that wasn’t true. His enduring quarrel was with United who he claimed, right up until his death, had never paid him the full amount...

Correct Tomy Book managed City v Liverpool.

The 92nd daily post in my series of 100 free Maine Road articles counting down to the centenary of the old ground’s first game had just been posted. This one’s on the Kippax. Enjoy: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/08/17/maine-road-100-day-92/ The other 91 features have covered a variety of...

Meredith was certainly an enormous influence. Lots to say on him. One of my pet subjects and I’ve interviewed both his daughter (who was almost 100 at the time) and his grandson (whose dad was also a City player). Both of them pointed out that Harding’s biography of Meredith was incorrect in...

Maine Road was the UK’s leading stadium when it opened in 1923. It was not ‘the Wembley of the north’ ad people claim as Wembley had an extremely poor reputation when it first opened. Instead City claimed Maine Rd was the English Hampden, as that stadium was perceived as the most important in...

The Kippax: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/07/20/maine-road-100-day-64/ https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/07/21/maine-road-100-day-65/ https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/07/22/maine-road-100-day-66/

I would say there is. I’ve had some media contacts try to push me towards an angle. Before FAC final a national broadsheet tried to twist my view and catch me out… I ended up having to get them to pull my name and quotes out of an article which started to go on about FFP and human rights -...

He wouldnt want to be scrutinised.

It was Headline books in 1994 and my Mercer biography had come out and was doing well. I put a proposal together which was to document the story of City from after Mercer to the Lee takeover. Headline invited me down to London and I got on really well with the commissioning editor (a MUFC fan)...

Sad news. Like many others my first away game was Trevor’s debut. I interviewed him a few years back and have posted it today as a tribute: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/07/24/trevor-francis/

The plans are dated January 1994 and Lee took over in December, so it’s just an early version of the plan. Their main aim was to get the Kippax sorted and I think they’d based the drawings on a basic version of what they intended, plus at that time Swales’s plan was to build a second tier on the...

Got the colour image you mentioned and posted it here now: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/07/11/maine-road-100-day-55/