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You‘re right about playing catch up. Sometimes I wish we could do a form of depreciation on our spending that averages it out over the previous decades when we under spent and the club was run in to the ground by Swales & his supporting directors. Hopefully, tonight will see us take another...

Worth remembering too that in only the last 3 complete seasons we've had 2/3rds the number of title winners they had in the decade of the 2000s and half what we had in the 80s and 90s decades too! But it's less competitive now they tell us. Obviously stats can be twisted lots of ways but facts...

I’ve had enough of the negativity from the media and inaccuracies too. I’ve written a 2000 word piece (free to read so you may as well look) on competitiveness and praise for Pep & City. much of it is based on a programme article I wrote but hopefully most Blues will enjoy it or use parts of it...

Thanks for the mention. I used to take my IPad into grounds to do tweets etc. and was stopped from doing that at the CL final, so it is the same for Europe. I tried arguing with them on the night saying I was a historian but it cut no ice with UEFA. There are already restrictions on writers...

Bernard Halford was petrified fans would try and take things and so orders were sent out to take things down. He decided the mosaics had to be taken down before the last day - at a pace that meant some of the pieces got damaged - and he wanted the post match stuff to drag on so that fans would...

For those that missed out on Farewell To Maine Road when it was published in 2003 I’m going to be posting the entire 320 page fully illustrated book on my website over the next few weeks. Details: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/05/11/farewell-to-maine-road-the-book-re-appears/

Not one of mine. I did Farewell to Maine Road: The Official History of Manchester City’s Grounds. Probably thinking of Full Time at Maine Road. I’ll be posting some news on Farewell To Maine Road later today on my website...

This photo used to be on a wall at Maine Road in the Blue Room or the Exec Suite (I can’t remember which). It also had a small caption under it saying where it was taken and it definitely is where they stayed for an away game. It’s not Manchester. I wish I could remember where it was but I also...

Navy sock use is not so clear I’m afraid. They didn’t always register sock colours and black & white images make it difficult to prove conclusively one way or another. I have found examples of black socks when some have claimed they were navy and I think that makes sense, but proving one or the...

Called Billy

Bardsley, Scott & Houghton are all brilliant, inspiring figures and I hope they all have a long future and connection with City. They are truly impressive people.

More nervous about tonight than I was at this time when we were about to play Arsenal. I’m sure we’ll do it but we’ve all got to remain focused and we need to be loud. Can’t take anything for granted. I’m sure West Ham want us to win the League but there’s absolutely no way they’ll want us to...

Thanks. Appreciated. My comment comes from a discussion I’ve had with the son of one of those who died and though he loves Utd still he was somewhat disgusted with the expenses he knew about being paid (he’d told me he’d seen the accounts). Obviously, I haven’t but the bottom line of all of this...

There are lots of angles to it from Cantona making more money for his appearance at a fundraising game than the families decades later to how it affected all Mancunians at the time. It was a Manchester tragedy and I think sometimes that gets lost in both the anti-Utd and pro-Utd stuff fans of...

The article will be only available to subscribers from tomorrow night so if you want to read it and don’t subscribe to my site have a read tonight/early Tuesday: https://gjfootballarchive.com/2023/04/29/scandal/ Cheers.

My nephew’s given me the words: Ederson and ake, walker and akanji, ruben dias johhhnyyy stonessss, best defence in Europe, we're manchester city on our way to Istanbulll, woahhhh we're the boys in blue woahhhh coming after you!

There’s absolutely no way a book on Bernard would’ve worked and I definitely wouldn’t want to have written one either. I’d want to tell the truth about everything at City but I think Bernard would’ve dodged certain stuff. I interviewed him a few times and there were things he said in taped...

It’s an interesting angle but not so certain myself. There was a plot connected with a game at Old Trafford by the Hyde Rd fire was nothing more than a stray cigarette in an old wooden stand (According to reports and people like Eric Alexander who’s grandad was a key director at this time). We...

Today (29 April) is the anniversary of one of the most controversial games in the history of football. It was a match played at Aston Villa by City and took place in 1905. I know it’s a long time ago but I would urge all City to read this as it led to a change in the fortunes of both Manchester...

TV coverage on both ITV and BBC would go on from early morning with all sorts of special programmes. I was looking back at the 1st All Merseyside FAC final in 1986 To refresh my memory of how all of that was put across. It was all perceived as the friendly final - I’m sure many fans will dispute...