Mancini interviewed by Micah

[Johnny Mars Bar]

*Trafford, not Salford.

Haha fuck off

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Hang on guys..we are all Blues and no need to bicker..the issue which is concerning me is that rag land is not in Salford which I have always presumed to be the case..can one of you clarify ???

Old Trafford football stadium is in Trafford Park, Stretford, Trafford.

Never has been in Salford. It’s also not in Old Trafford which is actually on the other side of Chester Road.

 

[philiph20]

Prior to 74 Old Trafford I believe was in Lancashire although governed from the Town Hall on Talbot Road, it never was in Salford.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Prior to 74 Old Trafford I believe was in Lancashire although governed from the Town Hall on Talbot Road, it never was in Salford.

Before 1974, North of the Mersey was Lancashire and South of the Mersey was Cheshire (apart from Wythenshawe which was randomly part of Lancashire from 1931 despite being South of the Mersey, and Baguley and Northern Etchells being Cheshire before Wythenshawe was expanded from just being the Park and Hall).

Trafford Town Hall was always in Lancashire.

 

[come-on-barney]

Always will be my favourite manager. The noise we made singing his song compared to other managers. The passion and drama on and off the pitch. The serial drama. If ever there was a manager that was made for our supporter base at the time it was him. He promised to tear down that banner and he did. ‘Not in my lifetime’, well unfortunately for them Mancini was.

 

[hilts]

Always will be my favourite manager. The noise we made singing his song compared to other managers. The passion and drama on and off the pitch. The serial drama. If ever there was a manager that was made for our supporter base at the time it was him. He promised to tear down that banner and he did. ‘Not in my lifetime’, well unfortunately for them Mancini was.

They were fun passionate times always something going on. We are more clinical nowadays. Senna vs Schumacher.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Old Trafford football stadium is in Trafford Park, Stretford, Trafford.

Never has been in Salford. It’s also not in Old Trafford which is actually on the other side of Chester Road.

Well, sorry if I'm being dense, but that doesn't quite settle it for me. Salford is a metropolitan borough, and is also considered as a city. Salford has a cathedral, which, for centuries, was considered to be one way of defining a city. Thus Lichfield was, surprisingly, considered a city in Dr Johnson's age. Perhaps it still is, I don't know. Trafford is a metropolitan borough, but surely it's not considered as a city, however you define that term? So the question arises as to which city the stadium of Old Trafford is attached to.
One thing that everyone can agree on, anyway, is that Stretford is not within the bounds of the City of Manchester. Only one club is. That is why, fittingly, it is called City.
(The stadium of Old Trafford is of course within the administrative unit known as Greater Manchester — but that's a relatively recent invention of civil servants, and nobody much identifies with that, it seems to me…?)

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Always will be my favourite manager.

Along with Joe (M, of course), mine too. I've always said this: I respect Pep, deeply, but I don't find him very loveable. Who cares, of course, when you're winning trophies the way he does.

 

[lancs blue]

So the question arises as to which city the stadium of Old Trafford is attached to.

Why does it have to be "attached" to a city?? The stadium has never been located within the boundaries of either Salford Met/Salford City or Manchester City councils. The rags pay their rates to Trafford Met same as they paid them to Stretford borough council pre-1974. The location is quite fitting seeing as they have a high proportion of "out of town" supporters.

 

[kaz7]

Is this a fucking geography thread now

Bobby people, bobby