FREE ARTICLE - Most influential figure in MCFC?
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 8:01 am
EDIT: I've hijacked this thread I started on Joshua Parlby to provide info on my latest article:
I know that a few on here have been supportive of my writing and research over the years, and so I thought I'd let you all know that my latest academic article has been published. It is free to download for a limited period, so you may as well download it and have a scan through it while it's free. This one builds on the theme of Manchester's football birth (part of my PhD) and focuses on 3 pioneering figures in Manchester football:
Jonathan Nall (Hulme Athenaeum - earliest known footy team in Lancs; and president of Manchester FA; man who presented Ardwick AFC with the first trophy this club ever won)
Fitzroy Norris (former Nottm Forest player and Bolton Wanderers manager who established Manchester's 2nd prominent team, Manchester Association)
and Joshua Parlby (the 1st manager of MCFC and recognised as the most significant influence in the club's formative years - very important man to us).
The Parlby stuff may be of interest. The paper is not written in the style of my usual books, due to the demands of the journal it's published in, so apologies if it's not quite what you'd expect, but it's definitely worth downloading.
You can download it for free here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10. ... 7#abstract
Get it while you can. Thanks Gary
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120 years ago this morning Mancunians were waking up with headaches & hangovers after a giant celebration in the city to mark the opening of the ship canal by Queen Victoria. But some were also celebrating a very important anniversary in the history of MCFC- of immense significance! In fact MCFC may never have achieved anything without the actions of Joshua Parlby 120 years ago yesterday.
Basically at the League AGM, held roughly where Cafe Rouge is near the National Football Museum in Manchester now, Parlby made a passionate speech about the newly formed MCFC as he tried to get the club admitted to the Football League. The club had no players, little finance, no guaranteed ground and little else at this point but Parlby used his full range of skills to persuade the others that his Manchester City would finally give the League a Manchester club to be proud of. It helped that the meeting was held in the city on the same day that Queen Victoria opened the Ship Canal and there were widespread celebrations and he directly refered to the Queen's visit in his speech. Josh, of course, managed to get City accepted into the League.
Without Josh where would we be? A true Manchester football legend.
I know that a few on here have been supportive of my writing and research over the years, and so I thought I'd let you all know that my latest academic article has been published. It is free to download for a limited period, so you may as well download it and have a scan through it while it's free. This one builds on the theme of Manchester's football birth (part of my PhD) and focuses on 3 pioneering figures in Manchester football:
Jonathan Nall (Hulme Athenaeum - earliest known footy team in Lancs; and president of Manchester FA; man who presented Ardwick AFC with the first trophy this club ever won)
Fitzroy Norris (former Nottm Forest player and Bolton Wanderers manager who established Manchester's 2nd prominent team, Manchester Association)
and Joshua Parlby (the 1st manager of MCFC and recognised as the most significant influence in the club's formative years - very important man to us).
The Parlby stuff may be of interest. The paper is not written in the style of my usual books, due to the demands of the journal it's published in, so apologies if it's not quite what you'd expect, but it's definitely worth downloading.
You can download it for free here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10. ... 7#abstract
Get it while you can. Thanks Gary
****************************Original message text********************************
120 years ago this morning Mancunians were waking up with headaches & hangovers after a giant celebration in the city to mark the opening of the ship canal by Queen Victoria. But some were also celebrating a very important anniversary in the history of MCFC- of immense significance! In fact MCFC may never have achieved anything without the actions of Joshua Parlby 120 years ago yesterday.
Basically at the League AGM, held roughly where Cafe Rouge is near the National Football Museum in Manchester now, Parlby made a passionate speech about the newly formed MCFC as he tried to get the club admitted to the Football League. The club had no players, little finance, no guaranteed ground and little else at this point but Parlby used his full range of skills to persuade the others that his Manchester City would finally give the League a Manchester club to be proud of. It helped that the meeting was held in the city on the same day that Queen Victoria opened the Ship Canal and there were widespread celebrations and he directly refered to the Queen's visit in his speech. Josh, of course, managed to get City accepted into the League.
Without Josh where would we be? A true Manchester football legend.