Random Facts About City

[Hamann Pineapple]

Ok then , February 29th Smarty Pants !

 

[Grand Master Ram Rod]

October 30th. :)

 

[fbloke]

Not necessarily anything more than a dig at the rags but

City were one of the first to install undersoil heating and it rarely/never failed, unlike Uniteds more technically advanced solution that didnt like cold weather.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Ok then , February 29th Smarty Pants !

City's chairman, Eric Alexander, attempted to become the clubs first ever repesentative to serve on the Football League Management committee

 

[Gary James]

How about...

'City' first played under floodlights in 1889? Ardwick played newton heath in feb 1889 at Belle Vue to raise money for the families of victims of the Hyde Coal Mine disaster. 10,000 watched the game and lights were strung up around the pitch.

In March 1890 we apparently played Everton in a floodlit friendly at Hyde Rd (I'm still researching this, so don't have much info yet).

Surely thats a worlds first?

Perhaps even a sporting first?

Fraid not. 1878 lights were used for the first time in a game at Bramall Lane. Sorry! Another fact... Maine Road was selected (above Wembley and all other grounds) to stage the first ever World cup qualifying match played in England. There had been World Cup matches elsewhere for years, but when England entered for the first time in 1949 (for the 1950 finals), Maine Road staged the first qualifier (V Ireland).

 

[Tricky_Trev]

February 29th?

EDIT: I was beaten to it. :(

 

[loffers]

Malcolm Alison once slept with Christine Keeler

 

[The Pink Panther]

The birthday of a true City legend. Neil Young was born in 1944.
Top scorer in our last Championship winning season (67-68)
Scored the only goal in our cup final win in 69
Scored one of our goals in the cup winners cup final 1970

Awesome. A football and rock legend.

Keep on rockin NQT

I'm reading Mike Summerbee's autobiography at the moment. He says that similar to "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young", at City it always should have been "Lee, Bell, Summerbee and Young"

 

[fbloke]

Malcolm Alison once slept with Christine Keeler

Were they both very tired?

 

[Gary James]

Ok then , February 29th Smarty Pants !

City's chairman, Eric Alexander, attempted to become the clubs first ever repesentative to serve on the Football League Management committee

Unfortunately, if that's from the book it's wrong - we'd had at least 1 other rep on the League Management Committee (Joshua Parlby in our first season as MCFC).

So here's a replacement for 29th feb - 29th February 1992 - City beat Aston Villa 2-0 at Maine Road watched by a crowd of 28,268. The goals were scored by Niall Quinn and David White.