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GuardianSep 27Preview

The Guardian view on Manchester City: a strange kind of glory | Editorial

If a guilty verdict on multiple counts of financial misreporting is upheld against the club, its achievements in the modern era will be forever tainted In surveys ranking the Premier League’s greatest moments, football supporters regularly give pride of place to Sergio Agüero’s championship-winning goal for Manchester City in 2012. Scored in injury time on the last day of the season, Agüero’s strike against Queens Park Rangers delivered the first league title for City since the 1960s. Knocking their historic rivals Manchester United into second place, it also signalled a new era in which the club replaced United as the dominant force in the English game.“Aguerooooooo!” – the incredulous single-word response from the match commentator Martin Tyler – has entered football folklore. But an asterisk may now be needed at the end of all those Os. Reports that an independent panel has found Manc

EditorialManchester CityPremier League

GuardianSep 27Preview

Tony Pulis says he and Stoke were ‘cheated’ in 2011 FA Cup final after Manchester City verdict

Manchester City won match 1-0 after goal by Yaya TouréClub deny wrongdoing and say ‘process is ongoing’Tony Pulis has said his Stoke City team was “cheated” out of the 2011 FA Cup after Manchester City were found guilty on virtually all counts of breaching Premier League financial rules.Pulis’ Stoke lost the 2011 Cup final 1-0 after Yaya Touré’s strike. Yet following Friday’s news that City are guilty on all but one of the more than 100 charges laid by the Premier League in February 2023, Pulis feels serious discontent. City are expected to appeal and they deny any wrongdoing. Continue reading...

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GuardianSep 27Preview

Giving voice to a lost history: retracing the steps of the Black lives that shaped Manchester

A new walking heritage trail follows hidden histories and overlooked landmarks in a city built on the cotton tradeAll photographs by Ruby RamelizeThey are the stories that have survived decades, despite being largely ignored by official acts of commemoration, obscured, or erased from the landscape. Now, chapters from Manchester’s Black history are being brought to life by a series of walking tours in the city, led by local historians, including Linford Sweeney, the Moss Side-raised genealogist, and the urbanist Hayley Flynn.The Heritage in Action trail – guided walks exploring the lives of people whose labour made the city what it is and the city’s direct relationship with transatlantic slavery – will run in the city on 7 October, World Cotton Day. The events have been produced by the Guardian’s Legacies of Enslavement programme and the charity Greater Manchester Moving, which works to i

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BBCAug 3Preview

Burnham's 'Manchesterism' got him to No 10 - but will it work for the UK?

Economics editor Faisal Islam examines whether the north-west city can be a template for the entire country.

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