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THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
Barcelona. The Nou Comp. Champions League Final. Wednesday 26th May 1999. The fourth official’s board goes up saying three minutes of extra time. Alex Ferguson checks his watch. Manchester United are a goal down. Ferguson always remembers Jock Stein telling him: ‘‘Prepare equally for defeat as well as victory.’’ Maybe that time has come? Still…
ABIDE WITH MANCHESTER (Part Two)
‘‘Abide with me, fast falls the eventide. The darkness deepens Lord, with me abide.’’ The following isn’t so much a call to arms, more to the bar or the fridge. A love letter to the city that God created on the sixth day. But it hasn’t always been a decent gig, a couple of nice…
GRATING EXPECTATIONS
On Thursday 6th November 1986, Alex Ferguson, (no sir back then) sat down before the world’s press at Old Trafford, to be unveiled as the new manager of Manchester United. With the club struggling badly near the bottom of the first division, surely when questioned about his first priority the manager’s answer would be to…
CHAMPIONS!
MONDAY 3RD MAY 1993 (Bank Holiday) It was only fair that when dawn broke over the River Irwell, on that day of dreams, that the man in the sky should decree there should be sunshine. All beers had to be drunk cold, all songs sung loud. All tears shed should be tears of joy. All…
MANCHESTER UNITED: A DESPERATE FLAG, A MUFFLED DRUM, AND A RAINBOW ON A SUNNY DAY
The odd bright star in a black sky apart, Manchester United’s season has been awful. The football rancid and rotten, the attitude amongst many of the players a disgrace, and a manager who like those before him, now starting to resemble one of those characters with dead eyes from the Walking Dead, about to be…
A NORTHERN THING
This season has been horrendous. It can’t be denied to quote the song there is a light that has gone out at Manchester United, at least on the pitch, and to be honest off it, when you scour through your twitter timeline, and see fellow reds shrieking at each other like a pair of alley…
OUR FLOWERS OF MANCHESTER STILL BLOOM
This came to me after watching our three young lads Rasmus Hojlund, Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho celebrate yesterday. The looks on their faces of sheers joy, Old Trafford going wild. We had been here before. Because so much has been written about the dreadful events of the horrific, Munich afternoon of Thursday 6th February…
Available on Amazon book and kindle 1 February 2024…
SIXTY SIX YEARS SIXTY SIX SEASONS A bunch of bouncing Busby Babes… Two First Division titles were won, plundered. A future so bright it could be seen even through the smog, fumes and smoke of a bleak Mancunian sky. Then Matt Busby turned his attention to Europe and glories, further afield. He knew the game…
LOVE IN A CRUMBLING EMPIRE
The game last night against Bayern Munich was already over long before the referee blew the final whistle. That in itself should be the cause of utter disbelief and even more anger, but these days, with this present Manchester United team and players, it’s become almost normal. Love in a crumbling empire is not meant…
RANTS AND CHANTS AND A RED FLAG FLYING
Found this i wrote in Jan 2020. Even more relevant today…. Manchester has always been a city with attitude, like it’s troublesome little brother across the water in Salford, it takes a lot to make it lose hope. It has been a welcoming place to all from the dawn of time. German, Irish, Ukrainian, Polish,…
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