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Lose focus after winning the title, you say? Manchester City 2017-2018: Swansea City (H) 5-0 West Ham United (A) 4-1 Huddersfield Town (H) 0-0 Brighton & Hove Albion (H) 3-1 Southampton (A) 1-0 P5 W4 D1 L0 F13 A2 GD +11 Pts 13 These results AFTER winning the title made sure we established...

I have it on DVD. Very good and well worth watching. The re-creation of 1840s-1850s Maine Road is very realistic, as is the CGI simulation of Wembley for the FA Cup final footage (which the CGI mini-feature reveals to have been filmed in an open field). Plus, City fan John Henshaw is fine as the...

1978-79 - the year of the Futcher brothers' arrival - was the first season of the landscape format (YouNighTurd had used it the year before, though their programmes were smaller than A5) and it continued until 1984-85 if I remember correctly.

+They'll probably move it to a temporary site between the East Stand and Alan Turing Way. Probably have to close the CityStore/TicketStore building for the duration (or even demolish it) and use temporary huts on the spare ground behind the East Stand for those as well.

If the ground staff keep the basic mowing pattern of horizontal and vertical stripes 6 yards wide you can use them to work out the pitch size accurately. For example, two 'dark' stripes with one 'light' one in the middle = 18 yards from the goal-line to the edge of the penalty area. Same...

must never exceed 30 degrees. According to Simon Inglis' 1985 book Football Grounds of England & Wales, the maximum legal angle of rake under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act is 30 degrees. Although the large single level at one end of the Millennium Stadium looks to be quite steep it's...

The odd thing is that the smallest stand - the East Stand at the top of the picture - used to be the biggest one at Sid James Park when it was built in the 70s.

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That was the season the away fans were moved into the Platt Lane because the corner next to the Main Stand had been closed for safety reasons. A few years later Swales told one of the fanzines (I think it was BluePrint) that the corner had been condemned but the club couldn't afford to rebuild...

Can't have been that many - in 1977 our capacity was put at 52,500.

Looks like something was lost in my previous edit - Whiteside got an injury-time 1-0 winner in the Cup game (if memory serves we had one disallowed earlier in the second half). Can't remember much about the 2-0 loss two months later, although I'm confident a certain Mr Stapleton would have...

Does no-one actually check their facts on the OS? The only home derby in 1987 was the pre-season Manchester International Tournament in which we lost 3-1 on the first night and definitely didn't get anything like 40,000, let alone 48,619. The only derbies in 1987 were the January FA Cup 3rd...

Not if we've already seen it up the week before!

Over the last 4 seasons the eventual Premier League champions have played their first league game of the season on a Monday night: 2011-12 - CITY 4 Swansea 0 2012-13 - Everton 1 Pestilence 0 2013-14 - CITY 4 Newcastle 0 2014-15 - Burnley 1 Chelsea 3

Latest from FilthyMick on the Bluevibe forum: http://www.bluevibe.co.uk/forum/blue-vibe/post/4012477/bin-ompt-stadium-tour-today-with-tj-mickmans-and-heard-and-saw-some-interesting-stuff.html "Excellent banter on the tour as usual, but we don't have a pitch anymore - it's a building site. So...

Coton was booked for the first one, but not the second, eve though the circumstances were identical (and Rush and Beardsley appeared to be offside on both occasions). Still the worst refereeing performance I can remember (although young Oliver did his best in the recent derby) and Courtney never...

The club said digital versions of the original banners would be shown in amongst the ads and info on the new advertising screens. Here's an idea: the club should keiep them, but display them on the concourses. Obviously anything on the upper South Stand could be kept in storage until it's...

Until they play us in the League - and probably in the FA Cup too.