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Someone mentioned that the back two rows only have to relocate from the North Stand and this is correct and already underway, finishing next Friday the 15th March. So that's rows P and R being relocated for the next two seasons from the start of 2024/25. The new roof will be constructed in a...

As is usual the Champions League winners qualify for the Club World Cup held in the same year, a maximum of 2 games for us as we enter at the semi-final stage. However, our win in Istanbul has already also qualified us for the 2025 tournament. If FIFA gets its way, 2023 is the last time this...

Jealously has overtaken them, like others not far away. Hopefully justice comes with our third consecutive title. To think i actually used to respect them, seems like a long long time ago now...

To add, i also think that the reaction of MUFC players, management and fans after the match just about sums up why that club is hated so much. If a player or two, the manager or at least someone of their backroom team would have had the spine to say they won by default, or the decision made...

City's history started a long time before 1894.... https://stmarkswestgorton.com/

No doubt UEFA would change the rules to stop participation of more than one CFG club if the rules don't already state it. The way we are going we will have enough clubs to start a cup or even league competition of our own in just a few years time! Mumbai away anyone in January...

I (accidentally!) dislocated my then girlfriends jaw in the Kippax when Trevor Francis scored a beauty against Wolves during the 81-82 season. Seem to think we won 2-1, the match was around Christmas time and the win put us top. Ive always been aware of those celebratory air punches ever since...

Sadly for me i will be dead in 30 years- well probably alot less but yes i get your point ;-D

I find Kaveh Solhekol detestable on Sky Sports News. Such little football knowledge for the position he holds at Sky, but then look at some of the idiots they call football experts... Solhekol sucks up to Rags by talking up their transfers; every one they buy is a 'splendid bit of business' (is...

My son placed this bet for me on his way to the game on the 11th April 2012. We were 8 points behind then before United lost 1-0 at Wigan and we beat WBA 4-0 at the Etihad... the rest is history!

Not sure if those reserve matches attendance figures from around that era can ever be taken seriously Gary tbh. Some years ago- (when i think its well over 40 years ago...wow!) i used to chat to an older guy about his younger days and watching City at Hyde Road. He was very fond of the place...

When you say '... the event is slightly too early for the authorities to consider covering up and also possibly for it to be arson at all...' i presume your thinking that what was known at the time as 'the Irish problem' was a new issue, but it wasn't and deep resentment had festered for over a...

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Yes your absolutely right with that. Apparently the idea that it was caused in relation to Bonfire Night was discounted very early on, but was that because the authorities knew it was politically motivated? To me, the idea it was related to Bonfire Night makes as much sense if not more, than...

Correct. The first team played away at Huddersfield that day so any attendance at Hyde Road for a Reserves game would have been very small indeed, if in fact many supporters attended at all. The fire was discovered at 'about midnight' so any match played would have been over by mid/late...

Although this story has never, to my knowledge, been made public in the Manchester area before, Thomas Morgan's confession was initially made in Ireland in 1939 and he again submitted sworn statements to his involvement in the Hyde Road ground attack three years later in 1942. This info has been...

Good question and im not certain our regular Police Officers have ever carried guns. I took it Harding was trying to explain himself out of a possible attempted murder charge without even knowing the bobby wouldnt have had a gun... but maybe in 1920 just after WWI things were different?

Unearthed this i hope its of interest as ive not heard it mentioned here before... In 2014 a book on the IRA in Britain by historian Gerard Shannon, noted that the destruction of the Manchester City ground at Hyde Road during November 1920, was one of a number of incidents about which the...

Ive got a copy of this book, 'Manchester City - The Nineteen Twenties 1919-1929' and i think its excellent. It follows the same format of Pauls previous books although this one is softback whereas the others were hardback. Its available from https://www.soccer-books.co.uk and costs £20.

Agree, those look very good. This medal is fantastic....