Manchester Blog

Manchester fun happens thick and fast at this autumnal time of the year. First we had the Halloween Howler over at Clayton Vale. Lots and lots of people (we believe well over 2,000) and they seemed to be having a great time. Then over here we had the Heaton Park fireworks last night. Yet again [...]

Manchester City Footballers beat Portsmouth and I get moved on…

I like the Place Hotel. Formerly an enormous warehouse next to Piccadilly Station it took many months to dry out before the developer could begin converting it into an apartment hotel. The hotel front is on Ducie Street and now includes a restaurant. Piccadilly Station’s covered platforms can be seen from the top of The [...]

So the “Enjoy England” campaign is presenting information about lots of cultural stuff going on in England under the banner of Culture08. Meanwhile in sunny Manchester (although my fingers are dropping off from the cold) we’re getting ready to have a huge set of sporting fixtures that should help to propel us back to the [...]

I’m serious. Let’s get Manchester onto the board of the World Monopoly game. Go to the Monopoly Site and nominate Manchester (UK) to get onto the board. Be careful because the USA has a few Manchester’s too. Manchester’s not on the shortlist but when enough of us nominate it we’ve got a chance of being [...]

Manchester City beats Manchester United – and we know who’s the modern day Svengali who did it.

When the Manchester Evening News reports on a leak of a poll conducted by NOP I was interested to find that the leak shows that 57% agreed with the congestion charge when it was related to the ?3 billion cash for public transport. There’s lies, damned lies and Statistics. And in particular statistics relating to [...]

Sven Goran Erikson‘s reign at Manchester City started with a win.So it was Doncaster, it is still a win and with Manchester City you cannot be sure even if the opposition is in a lower division or two or even three. Eriksson seems to have made the right noises, signings and has not bought Keiran [...]