My new book on City on sale now
My new book, 50 Important Questions About Manchester City F.C Answered, is now available on Amazon here, priced £12.95.
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Here are the 50 Questions:
1. Why did St Mark's create a football team?
2. When was the club formed?
3. Where did St Mark's play?
4. Did St Mark's play anywhere else?
5. Where did Gorton AFC play?
6. Why did Gorton AFC wear a Maltese Cross on their shirts?
7. Why did Gorton change their name to Ardwick?
8. When was our first floodlit game at home?
9. How did Ardwick become a Football League club?
10. Why did Ardwick become Manchester City?
11. So was City a new club?
12. Are City a Protestant club?
13. Well, are City a Masonic club then?
14. How much did season tickets cost in previous eras?
15. Why were City's directors and players banned in 1906?
16. What was the first song at City?
17. What is the oldest recording about City?
18. Have there been any City recordings since then?
19. What was Hyde Road like?
20. Did the IRA burn down Hyde Road's main stand?
21. Why did we leave Hyde Road?
22. Were City once captained by an amateur?
23. How did Maine Road get its name?
24. Did a million people turn out for City's 1934 FA Cup homecoming?
25. Did City really take on the Nazis, or was that something I saw in a movie?
26. What was the Scoreboard End at Maine Road called before there was a scoreboard?
27. Who benefitted most when United shared Maine Road with City?
28. What was the 'Revie Plan' and who invented it?
29. Who was the first overseas player at City?
30. Is is true that City won the title in 1968 with an all-English team?
31. How did Peter Swales become chairman?
32. How big were City when Swales became chairman in 1973?
33. What shade of blue is City blue?
34. Has blue always been City's home colour?
35. Why did Steve Coppell resign?
36. Who started the “banana craze”?
37. How did Niall Quinn’s Disco Pants become famous?
38. Why did City end up in the third tier of English football?
39. Did City have a “Fifth Column”?
40. How important was the 1999 play-off victory?
41. Why was Joe Royle sacked?
42. Were City gifted the Ethiad Stadium?
43. Why did Kevin Keegan resign?
44. Did Stuart Pearce really play a goalkeeper at centre forward?
45. No seriously, did Stuart Pearce really play a goalkeeper at centre forward? And more importantly, why?
46. Did Thaksin Shinawatra plant crystals under the Ethiad pitch for good luck?
47. What do the symbols on City's badge mean?
48. Why did Sheikh Mansour buy City?
49. Are City a 'state club'?
50. Will the Sheikh get bored?
I hope this book will provide the answers you’re looking for.
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