On this day (11 August) in 2001 new Manchester City manager Kevin Keegan guided the Blues to a 3-0 victory against Watford at Maine Road. You can watch highlights of that win here (and relive the season):
Video of History Of Women’s Football Talk
If you’re interested in women’s football or in football in Trafford or Manchester then get your self a brew, settle down and enjoy this video of my talk. It was part of my work on the #WEuro2022 Heritage Lottery funded project and my long standing project into the history of women’s football in Manchester. Here goes:
This talk on the history of women’s football was staged at the National Football Museum a few years back. The talk lasts about 47 mins. Enjoy!
The Trafford Archive website I mention during my talk is available here:
https://exploringtraffordsheritage.omeka.net/exhibits/show/traffordwomensfootball
The work on the Manchester Corinthians continues and you can find out about the Authorised History here:
Historic Name That Ground
Recently I’ve mentioned about a series of name that ground features I posted on to the site a while back. They’re all still up there and free to access but if you want to test yourself here’s a few:
You can find the answers to these on this page:
Historic Name That Ground
Recently I’ve mentioned about a series of name that ground features I posted on to the site a while back. They’re all still up there and free to access but if you want to test yourself here’s a few:
You can find the answers to these here:
I’ll post some of the others soon.
Historic Name That Ground
Recently I’ve mentioned about a series of name that ground features I posted on to the site a while back. They’re all still up there and free to access but if you want to test yourself here’s a few:
You can find the answers to these here:
I’ll post some of the others soon.
Historic Name That Ground
Recently I’ve mentioned about a series of name that ground features I posted on to the site a while back. They’re all still up there and free to access but if you want to test yourself here’s a few:
You can find the answers to these here:
https://gjfootballarchive.com/category/historic-name-that-ground/page/5/
I’ll post some of the others soon.
50 Years Ago Today: Gary Owen
Gary Owen signed apprentice forms for Manchester City on this day (5 August) in 1974. You can find several articles that mention Gary throughout this website. Start looking here:
Historic Name That Ground
Recently I’ve mentioned about a series of name that ground features I posted on to the site a while back. They’re all still up there and free to access but if you want to test yourself here’s a few:
You can find the answers to these here:
I’ll post some of the others soon.
Olympic Blues
As it’s an Olympic year how about a look at links between City and Olympic gold winning medallists? Here’s a piece focusing on Manchester City star Max Woosnam and Manuel Estiarte, a member of Pep’s staff.
This article is available to subscribers to my site. Subscribing costs £20 a year and subscribers have full access to everything posted on the site, including audio interviews with John Bond, Malcolm Allison, George Graham and others, plus the entire text of Manchester A Football History and a PDF of my first book From Maine Men to Banana Citizens. You can always try it out by subscribing £3 per month and cancel at any time. No matter whether you sign up for a year or a month at a time you get full access to everything for as long as you are a subscriber.
Anyway, here’s the article…
Subscribe to get access
Read more of this content when you subscribe today.
Historic Name That Ground
On Wednesday I mentioned about a series of name that ground features I’d posted on to the site a while back. They’re all still up there and free to access but if you want to test yourself here’s a few to add to yesterday’s selection:
You can find the answers to these here:
https://gjfootballarchive.com/category/historic-name-that-ground/page/6/
I’ll post some of the others t soon.
Gary James' Football Archive 