Welcome to Gary James’ Football Archive

Goal Flood

On this day twenty years ago (1 November 2004) Willo Flood netted the only League goal of his Manchester City career. It came from a strike on the edge of the area in a 1-1 draw with Norwich. He had previously scored in a League Cup tie, but this was the only League goal in…

90 Years Ago Today: City v Sunderland

90 years ago today (31 October) a crowd of 38,444 watched Manchester City lose 4-2 at home to Sunderland. Here’s the League table from before that game. Notice the clubs at the top and spread throughout the top flight: always worth remembering that football clubs that claim to be today’s giants were not always the…

50 Years Ago Today: A Win At Norwich

After a 1-0 defeat at title-hopefuls Ipswich Manchester City faced Norwich on this day (30 October) in 1976. City’s lack of goals in previous games had caused a little concern to manager Tony Book, and he asked coach Bill Taylor to take target men Joe Royle and Brian Kidd, together with Dennis Tueart, for some…

Bond’s First; Tueart Scores 4

New Manchester City manager John Bond’s first cup game was the fourth round tie against Second Division promotion hopefuls Notts County at Maine Road, played on 29 October in 1980  The game had the potential to end in defeat, especially as Bond would be unable to play any of his new signings (remember the struggles pre-Bond’s…

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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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