Football League Stop United From Playing In European Cup
On this day (1 September) in 1958 a really distasteful moment in League football saw Manchester United prevented from taking a special place that had been awarded to them in the European Cup. It was the Football League that effectively banned United from competing. THe background is that UEFA had offered United a place in…
The 1906 City-Arsenal Heatwave Game
Today is the 120th anniversary of an odd day when Manchester City and Arsenal played in a heatwave. Here’s the background and the story. I start with the 1906 close season… Following the banning of so many Manchester City players and officials (I’ll cover this another day!) the future leaked seriously bleak for the club…
Manchester City’s and Bury’s First…
Today (1 September) marks the anniversary of Manchester City’s AND Bury’s first League game and first goal scorers in the League. The two clubs played each other in this historic fixture. The game was a 4-2 defeat for City at neighbours Bury on 1 September 1894. The historic first City scorer was Tom Little, who…
Who Said City Couldn’t Play Chant
It looks like the 1894 group at Manchester City’s are hoping fans will re-adopt the 1930s classic song Who Said City Couldn’t Play? It’s City’s earliest recorded chant (there were earlier ones but this is the first we’ve found sound/film recordings of). Here’s a sound recording from the 1930s: The tune used is the bit…
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