Welcome to Gary James’ Football Archive

Manchester City v Sunderland

It’s City v Sunderland today. the first meeting between these clubs was a 2-1 City win in December 1899. The legendary Billy Meredith scored one of City’s goals that day. There have been cup finals, charity shield games and key matches in the League. Many of these are featured on this site. Here’s a link…

Steve Daley, MCFC Player of the Month

Over the years much has been said about Steve Daley and his time at Manchester City with many myths developing. While his price tag had a direct impact on his performances it is unfair to suggest that he achieved nothing (which is often said these days!) during his time at City. This image actually shows…

Kaziu Deyna v Manchester United

A few days ago I posted an image of Deyna on the cover of a City monthly magazine published during 1979-80 (see image below). Now here’s another photo from that magazine showing Kazimierz Deyna in action. This photo shows him during the Manchester derby of 10 November 1979 when City beat United 2-0 (goals from…

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On this site you will find articles, posts and other material about football. Some of this material is free to access (select ‘Free Content’ from the menu above) while other material is available to those who subscribe to the site. 

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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