Welcome to Gary James’ Football Archive

City Programme Articles 2026-27

I’m delighted to say that I’ll be writing a feature in this year’s Manchester City match programme again. It’s a continuation of last year’s popular tracker feature Five Fifteen Fifty. This year the series will track the following season’s game by game – 2021-22, 2011-12 and 1976-77. All three were title challenging seasons and all…

David White Scores Twice v Liverpool: A Rare Victory

35 years ago today (21 August 1991) a Wednesday night meeting with Liverpool ended in a 2-1 victory for Manchester City. You can see highlights of the game – a rare victory over Liverpool back then – and relive the days of night matches on the Kippax/at Maine Rd. David White scored both City’s goals:…

Manchester City Women: The Audio Interview

Earlier this month I was interviewd for the Counter Pressed podcast by Flo Lloyd-Hughes and also Becky Taylor-Gill about the history of Manchester City’s women’s team. It was a really enjoyable hour chatting about the birth of the club, its successes and developments and a few key moments along the way. I’m sure those interested…

GOLDEN GOALS: 1974 Rodney Marsh Overhead Goal V QPR

Many goals over the years are described as the greatest ever.  Sometimes these become a talking point for a few days, sometimes for a few years but unless they happen to occur in a major trophy winning game goals tend to lose their significance as time moves on.  This is especially true for games prior to the…

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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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