Manchester Blog

I left Manchester by train from Piccadilly station in the early morning yesterday. I’d got the tram in from Bowker Vale (on the Bury line) and I’d seen thousands of Rangers supporters in Piccadilly Gardens, with at least one enormous screen, as I passed. I arrived back at Piccadilly about 9pm to an enormous crowd [...]

The Russians are coming! Are they intent on invading Manchester and the Northwest? Certainly looking at my blog statistics it looks that way. Over the last few weeks the subscribers from Russia have simply sky-rocketed. Obviously I’m always pleased to have new readers. However, I’m a little puzzled that they’re all from the same country. [...]

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 United’s most recent addition, Michael Collins, is the VIP Restaurants manager.  Last Friday (12th October) I went up to the third floor VIP restaurant, called “The Gallery, to be find a large number of nicely decorated tables. Manchester United’s ground was where a sumptuous lunch was served to selected Manchester Food & Drink Festival [...]

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

Manchester United’s Asia tour kicks-off on Tuesday 17th July against Urawa Red Diamonds at the Saitama Stadium in Tokyo. Meantime back in Manchester… I’ll be watching my daughter dance in her end of year musical show at her school on the same day. And the good thing about her school is that it has a [...]