Manchester City F.C. - History of Manchester City F.C., Manchester City F.C. Supporters, Manchester Derby (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: History of Manchester City F.C., Manchester City F.C. supporters, Manchester derby, Manchester City F.C. ownership and finances, City of Manchester Stadium, List of Manchester City F.C. records and statistics, List of Manchester City F.C. seasons, Manchester City F.C. Reserves and Academy, Manchester City F.C. strip, Maine Road, Blue Moon, Manchester City F.C. in Europe, Hyde Road, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Blue Moon Rising, Manchester City L.F.C., Carrington Training Centre, Thomas Cook Trophy, Abu Dhabi United Group, Manchester Regional Arena, Revie Plan, The Kippax. Excerpt: Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club who play at the City of Manchester Stadium. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club's most successful period was in the late 1960s and early 1970s when they won the League Championship, the FA Cup, the League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup under the management team of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison and with players including Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee and Francis Lee. After losing the 1981 FA Cup Final, the club went through a period of decline culminating in relegation to the third tier of English football in 1997. The club has since regained top flight status where they have spent the majority of their history. In 2011, Manchester City qualified for the Champions League and won the FA Cup. St. Marks (Gorton) in 1884 - the reason for the Maltese cross is unknown to this dayIt is widely accepted that Manchester City F.C. was founded as St. Mark's (West Gorton) in 1880 by Anna Connell and two churchwardens of St. Mark's Church, in Gorton, a district in east Manchester. Prior to this, St. Mark's played cricket from 1875 and the side evolved out of that cricket team - the ...