Welcome to Gary James’ Football Archive

The Noel Gallagher Interview

With lots of rumours about Oasis concerts next summer and with Pep leaving City, it feels an appropriate time to re-release this… Back on Thursday May 20 2021 I interviewed Noel Gallagher about his support of Manchester City, Pep, Europe and more. It was great for two Mancs of a similar age to get together…

Ball Out, Dalglish or Graham in?

On this day (26 August) in 1996 the reign of Alan Ball as Manchester City boss finally and thankfully came to an end. Three games into the new season he resigned, prompting City to show interest in Kenny Dalglish and George Graham to say he wanted the job. Instead a strange period of caretaker managers…

Manchester City Chants

Yesterday I saw quite a few City fans talk about the 1930s song ‘Who Said City Couldn’t Play?’ which remained popular for a couple of decades (my Dad used to talk of singing it in the 40s and 50s). So it seems right to post again a talk I did on this a few years…

WBA v MCFC: The Earliest Film

On this day (25th August) in 1934 West Bromwich Albion played the FA Cup holders Manchester City. Nothing particularly unusual about that I guess, but that match was filmed and this is now the earliest known surviving film of WBA v MCFC at the Hawthorns. Here’s film of the game: https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/41087 It’s a curious little…

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The site was launched on 1 January 2021. Since then hundreds of articles, interviews (audio & written), history talks and both my PDFs of my first book (From Maine Men To Banana Citizens, published 1989 and out of print since 1990) and the 2010 edition of Manchester A Football History book (this originally cost £24.95 and has been out of print since 2012) have been posted.

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