Manchester City On This Day revisits all the most magical & memorable moments from the club's rollercoaster past, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky anecdotes & legendary characters to produce an irresistibly dippable diary of Blues history
- with an entry for every day of the year. From the club's Victorian roots as a church side right up to the Etihad era, City fans have witnessed Edwardian scandal, league & cup triumphs & embarrassments, hard-fought derbies & unforgettable European nights
- all featured here. Timeless greats such as Francis Lee & Georgi Kinkladze, Colin Bell, Frank Swift & Billy Meredith all loom larger than life. Revisit May 11, 1968, when City clinched the league title with a 4-3 win at Newcastle. November 7, 1987, when the Blues hit double figures beating Huddersfield Town 10-1 at Maine Road. & May 5, 1956, when Bert Trautmann broke his neck in the Cup Final.

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Colin Shindler has previously written of his deep love for Manchester City in the bestselling Manchester United Ruined My Life & three other previous books. Now he tells the story of his sorrowful disenchantment with his home town club as, on the instruction of its new foreign owners, it turns itself remorselessly into a global br&. Trophyless since 1976, in 2011 Manchester City won the FA Cup & set off on their quest for the Premiership & the Champions League. In their zeal to win every competition the new Manchester City has spent money with wild abandon, signing outstandingly talented players as well as a few ordinary ones but in almost every case at hugely inflated prices. From the nail-biting win over Gillingham in the League Two Play Off final at Wembley in 1999 to the climax of the 2011 season, Shindler watches his team get steadily more successful &, to his own bewilderment, feels steadily more alienated from it. This is the story of a frustrated romantic who finds in the glitz & glamour of the current media-obsessed game a helter-skelter of artificially fabricated excitement. As he details how football courses through his veins Shindler tells how it intersects with his own life, a life that has been marked by family tragedy, & how he finally found personal redemption even as his team lost its soul. ...

Manchester City Cult Heroes is devoted to those players who, over the years, have won a special place in the hearts of the Blues

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From the thousands of matches ever played by Manchester City, stretching from the early days of the 20th century to the new millennium

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The Manchester Ship Canal was a huge engineering achievement. It included seven swing bridges & the aqueduct at Barton, & helped turn the cotton-producing capital of Great Britain into an inland seaport. This was a feat many at the time believed could not be achieved. One of the wonders of the modern industrial world, the Manchester Ship Canal, with its huge locks & ocean-going vessels, was a magnetic draw for enthusiastic Victorians who marvelled at its construction.

This book looks at the changes & development of the Manchester Ship Canal through time, from its origins as a thriving economic hub in the late nineteenth century, to an important retail, leisure & media centre in the early twenty-first century & beyond. Join Steven Dickens as he explores the history of this 36-mile-long inland waterway in the north-west of Engl&, which links Manchester to the Mersey Estuary & the Irish Sea.

This paperback book has 96 pages & measures 23.3 x 1.2 x 16.5 cm



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In sporting terms, a Perfect 10 simply cannot be bettered. Some of Britain's leading football journalists were asked to select a top football club & name their Perfect 10 list of players. This book about Manchester United encompasses golden memories, famous games & legendary individual performances. ...

Colin Shindler was dealt a cruel hand by Fate when he became a passionate Manchester City supporter. In this brilliant sporting autobiography he recalls the great characters of his youth, like his eccentric Uncle Laurence, as well as his professional heroes. Threaded through these sporting events is the author's own story, which touches on a universal nerve, growing up in a Jewish family, his childhodd destroyed by the sudden death of his mother & his slow emotional recovery through his love for Manchester City. It is a tale that reveals what it is like to be on the outside looking in, with his nose pressed up against the sweet shop window watching the United supporters take all the wine gums. ...

Sir Alex Ferguson was one of the greatest football managers to grace the stadiums of the world.

He announced his retirement

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Cheer on Manchester United FC with this fantastic annual for 2019.

Featuring an account of the last season, player profiles,

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