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Wonderwall wrote:

gary james wrote:Thanks for the comments about my PhD. Much appreciated. Cheers

Well deserved Gary!

Incidentally, I had a meeting with City recently and they asked me what I thought about the representation of Citys History on the Official Site. In summary I told them to commission you to write a succinct article on the history of City for them. Starting from 1880 :-)

Cheers - I talk with people often at City and help whenever asked, but I don't know if everyone in the club realises how keen I am to help. Cheers

Great news - the article is now 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

Cheers Gary! Got it on my PC now.

Cheers Gary, I have it, very much appreciated

Thanks.

Thank you, Gary.

Not certain how long it will stay free for, but it seems that the more it's downloaded the longer it stays free for. If you've not got it yet, download it asap and then skim through it for the Parlby references when you get chance (I'm sure some will be interested in the other stuff as well).

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10. ... 15.1055727

Another article of mine that's still free: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1 ... src=recsys

Sadly, this one is only free if you have access via a library/FE/University (it's about City's 1904 FAC win): http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1 ... src=recsys

Cheers

Thanks a lot Gary.

Just finished reading the article on Nall, Norris and Parlby. Very interesting!

Excellent. Very interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing

The article is only free for a limited period - think it ends on 31st July - so if you're interested it can be downloaded here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10. ... a9IeWK9KSM

Thanks