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#abstractGet it while you can. Thanks Gary