By Jim Symcox on Jun 19, 2008 in Sven Goran Eriksson, Manchester City, Manchester | 0 Comments
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 […]
By Jim Symcox on Feb 19, 2008 in manchester Sports, Manchester City, Manchester | 0 Comments
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 […]
By Jim Symcox on Feb 2, 2008 in Universities, Manchester University, Manchester United, Manchester City | 0 Comments
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 one […]
By Rob on Aug 28, 2007 in manchester Sports, Rob Baker, Manchester United, Manchester City, Manchester | 1 Comment
Manchester City beats Manchester United - and we know who’s the modern day Svengali who did it.
By Jim Symcox on Jul 20, 2007 in Manchester Road Tax, Manchester Congestion Charge, Manchester City, Manchester Bloggers | 2 Comments
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 […]
By Rob on Jul 14, 2007 in Sven Goran Eriksson, Manchester City, Manchester | 0 Comments
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 […]