City or Rag pubs in Manchester

Psychedelic Casual said:
Loads of Rag landlords in Town who get the Rag memorabilia across the walls:
Old Nags Head
The Abercrombie
Circus Tavern
Grey Horse
Sawyers Arms

Others with Rag landlords who dont have Rag stuff on the walls:
Peviril of the Peak
The Deansgate
The White Lion
The Oxnoble

We used to have more in the Maine Road days but that decreased in number for some reason:
The Shakespeare
Atheneum
The Rising Sun
Briton’s Protection
City Road Inn
…don’t seem to be City pubs anymore

Matt Busby

Other City pubs:
The Vine
The City Arms
The Waldorf
Crown and Anchor

There are other pubs Blues frequent on a matchday at the North East end of Town (New Cross, Ancoats, Northern Quarter, Piccadilly Basin, Piccadilly), but you wouldn’t know they were Blue pubs on a non-matchday.

I drink in pretty much all of them. I’m always in the Abercrombie on a City matchday. Don’t give a shit if theyre Rag hotspots, try not to let anyone stop me enjoying pubs in my city apart from a very small few.
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I posted about this incident on here before, but years ago me and my mate went for a pint in Mother Mac's after the match. We'd had about 2 pints all day and weren't remotely pissed, and we're both what you'd describe as normal, polite, well mannered people. Not pissed up footy louts etc.

Some old twat who I presume was the landlord / member of staff physically shoved us out of the doorway when we were walking in and slammed the door in our faces. I presume because we were both wearing City scarfs.

I never even tried to go in after that - wouldn't give them the steam off my piss and I was delighted when they went under. Could knock that shit tip down and open a Tesco for all I care.

I wish the new owners well with their music venue theme.

Fuck Mother Mac's and that mad old **** who worked there that day.
 
Moss Side's Finest said:
As more and more city centre pubs are being more closely managed by parent companies, or taken over by a newer generation of landlords, you'll see less and less affiliation to either club. The nature of business now means that they want as much business full stop as possible, not wanting to lose swathes of customers by labelling the pub one way or the other. I think many of the rag pubs mentioned have been ran by the same people for many years, I suspect as and when they change hands, the affiliations may end, or at least be toned down.
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From a business standpoint, for a city centre pub it makes no sense whatsoever to align yourself with a football club. It's one the main reasons so many are now generic sports bars.

It's hard enough to make money in pubs as it is, before you start alienating 50% of your customers (ok insert joke about no rags being from Manchester here)
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
I posted about this incident on here before, but years ago me and my mate went for a pint in Mother Mac's after the match. We'd had about 2 pints all day and weren't remotely pissed, and we're both what you'd describe as normal, polite, well mannered people. Not pissed up footy louts etc.

Some old twat who I presume was the landlord / member of staff physically shoved us out of the doorway when we were walking in and slammed the door in our faces. I presume because we were both wearing City scarfs.

I never even tried to go in after that - wouldn't give them the steam off my piss and I was delighted when they went under. Could knock that shit tip down and open a Tesco for all I care.

I wish the new owners well with their music venue theme.

Fuck Mother Mac's and that mad old **** who worked there that day.
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wasn't the Landlord that murdered his Mrs and then set fire to the gaff was it?...cos if it was he was probably having a bad day...
 
I know it was frequented by a lot of older City ‘heads’ but it always stank in Mother Macs. I never really liked it.

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Hare & Hounds yet, or is there some kind of omertà around it that I’ve just broken.
 
Sky Blue Thinking said:
Circus used to have quite a few City pics up at one time but they were taken down and the walls were turned into a replica of a sad southern rag's bedroom. Luckily there are plenty of other pubs in town.
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It was a mixed pub. Lots of City fans used it when we were at Maine Road as was the Grey Horse. The new landlord changed the Circus when he took over.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
I posted about this incident on here before, but years ago me and my mate went for a pint in Mother Mac's after the match. We'd had about 2 pints all day and weren't remotely pissed, and we're both what you'd describe as normal, polite, well mannered people. Not pissed up footy louts etc.

Some old twat who I presume was the landlord / member of staff physically shoved us out of the doorway when we were walking in and slammed the door in our faces. I presume because we were both wearing City scarfs.

I never even tried to go in after that - wouldn't give them the steam off my piss and I was delighted when they went under. Could knock that shit tip down and open a Tesco for all I care.

I wish the new owners well with their music venue theme.

Fuck Mother Mac's and that mad old **** who worked there that day.
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Same happened to me at the Jolly Angler. To be fair United fans were not welcome in Mother Mac’s any day of the week. I witnessed a few who regretted making the mistake of mouthing off in there.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
It was a mixed pub. Lots of City fans used it when we were at Maine Road as was the Grey Horse. The new landlord changed the Circus when he took over.
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Yeah, when George The Greek had it, it was mixed with equal amounts of Blue and scum pics, then a rag from sadly my hometown of Newton Heath took over, and ...
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
From a business standpoint, for a city centre pub it makes no sense whatsoever to align yourself with a football club. It's one the main reasons so many are now generic sports bars.

It's hard enough to make money in pubs as it is, before you start alienating 50% of your customers (ok insert joke about no rags being from Manchester here)
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I remember when Sankey's closed down a while back, and the owner (can't recall his name, but he's a rag), used the official Twitter account to slag off City as he was signing off. He'd been keeping as neutral as possible for years to take hard earned money off city fans, only to then show his true rag colours right at the end. I think he may have removed the tweets when it seemed Sankey's would make a revival
 
Moss Side's Finest said:
I remember when Sankey's closed down a while back, and the owner (can't recall his name, but he's a rag), used the official Twitter account to slag off City as he was signing off. He'd been keeping as neutral as possible for years to take hard earned money off city fans, only to then show his true rag colours right at the end. I think he may have removed the tweets when it seemed Sankey's would make a revival
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Dave Vincent?

Oh man I have some stories about the Sankeys management over the years.
 
If anyone wants to try somewhere different, there's another food hall opened at the back of First Street called "House of Social".
I've just popped in there to have a nosey on the way back from a swim at the Aquatics Centre, and it looks like an amazing space.
The food offering looks great, it has free pool and shows live sport on big screens, but the beer is keg only.
Personally, I'd drink cask beer in the nearby Gasworks Brewery before and after, but eat at HoS.
Whether it becomes a partisan Red or Blue venue remains to be seen, but with a student accommodation block above it, I see students being the target market.
 
MCFCTrick said:
Yeah, when George The Greek had it, it was mixed with equal amounts of Blue and scum pics, then a rag from sadly my hometown of Newton Heath took over, and ...
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George was a legend. After the Circus he had the Abercrombie which was a rag pub. Anyway I went in with a group of City pals one afternoon and he gave us all a free drink because he remembered me from the Conti Club days!
 
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