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[center]THE 130th ANNIVERSARY OF MANCHESTER CITY F.C.[/center][center]13TH NOVEMBER 1880

MACCLESFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH 2-1 ST MARKS (WEST GORTON)[/center]

[center]This coming Saturday is the 130th ANIVERSARY of the very first recorded game played by St Marks (West Gorton). Though recent research suggests that our heritage may go back even further to 1875 and possibly as early as the 1860s. This game is at present accepted as our BIRTH AS A FOOTBALL CLUB.[/center]

Our great club was formed from the gutters of West Gorton in order to help lift a community out of the detritus of life, poverty and deprivation that surrounded them. We were formed because of the social conscience of a few good people whose initial determination and efforts started St Marks on a great journey, that has eventually led to to be where we are now.
Without them and those who followed them in those early years, Manchester City Football Club would not exist today.

[center]THANK YOU[/center][center]ANNA CONNELL, Rev ARTHUR CONNELL, WILLIAM BEASTOW, THOMAS GOODBEHERE, (and later); WALTER KITCHEN, EDWARD CHEW, LAWRENCE FURNISS, JOSHUA PARLBY, KENNETH McKENZIE and many many others.[/center]

There is a video on the OS with City historian Gary James that acknowledges this. I would appreciate if some who knows how to can put it on here for me...Thanks.

Very very interesting, cheers for bringing that to our attention mate. If anybody hasn't watched the video yet I strongly recommend that you do so.

13th is tomorrow John...is it Saturday or Sunday?

It's tomorrow mate, let's hope we don't get a repeat result from 130 years ago!

Interesting stuff. I was just too young to get to that game, John, did you see it?

BobbyJ1956 wrote:Interesting stuff. I was just too young to get to that game, John, did you see it?

Unfortunately Bobby, I had to miss it. Being about 3 years old, I had to work my usual 12 hour shift down t'pit, feed mi pet dinosaur and then knit meself a new pair of clogs for church the next day....:-)

Great interview that. Would like to show it to all idiots who claim we have no history.I doubt they have the attention span and intelligence to watch the whole the whole thing and/or understand it.

Top thread, Mate.
Thanks for drawing the attention of my blind ignorance.

Cheers John.

john68 wrote:

BobbyJ1956 wrote:Interesting stuff. I was just too young to get to that game, John, did you see it?

Unfortunately Bobby, I had to miss it. Being about 3 years old, I had to work my usual 12 hour shift down t'pit, feed mi pet dinosaur and then knit meself a new pair of clogs for church the next day....:-)

fucking old people today - always bloody moanin'......

Great Stuff John....many thanks indeed

you youg un don't know your born when i was a lad we dint ave out to make clogs out of so we had go go bare foot ans as for a PET dinasaur we had to eat ours cos we had no food

walshawblue wrote:you youg un don't know your born when i was a lad we dint ave out to make clogs out of so we had go go bare foot ans as for a PET dinasaur we had to eat ours cos we had no food

I can see which way this thread is gonna go Walshie...:-) Obviously your family was middle class in those days.
Apparently the poor Higginbottoms were that poor they only had 1 pair of feet to share between them and the 1st one up got them.
Ted Hughes's family were that poor they could only afford a 3 lettered Christian name on the birth certificate.

I'd say it only feels like it was yesterday when you were cutting that ribbon John mate.