Glory Days for the Waifs and Strays
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Glory Days for the Waifs and Strays

Identity and Meaning in the Rise of the Modern Manchester City

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Glory Days for the Waifs and Strays

Identity and Meaning in the Rise of the Modern Manchester City

About this book

On 12 May 2019, Manchester City became the first team to retain the Premier League title for a decade.

Twenty years earlier, the same club was slogging its way fortuitously out of Division Two, having sunk ignominiously to the third tier, its glory days well behind it.

Ordinarily, the tale of a sleeping giant awaking to stomp gleefully over the competition would be celebrated far beyond the core fanbase. But City's success is tied inextricably to its takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group in September 2008, an event that altered the club's horizons beyond any plausible recognition. The injection of billions of pounds into the club and accusations that Abu Dhabi is 'sports washing' its reputation have tarnished City's domestic treble-winning season in 2022–23, as have serious charges of financial impropriety from the Premier League.

Glory Days for the Waifs and the Strays charts this route from noble rags to uncomfortable riches and unpacks what it means when a team's lowest lows and highest highs occur improbably within a generation.

It amounts to a story like no other in modern football. The distance travelled from there to here, the iconic human moments along the way, the greats on either side of the white line and the uniquely divisive means by which it's been achieved. Manchester City have defined an era in English football. This is the tale of how that happened and why it matters.

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Information

Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781837360222

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. Prologue: I Don’t Believe That Anybody Feels the Way I Do
  6. Chapter 1: Dead in the Water
  7. Chapter 2: Is It Worth the Aggravation?
  8. Chapter 3: Clowns That Caper
  9. Chapter 4: Catch the Silver Sunlight
  10. Chapter 5: These Could Be the Best Days of Our Lives
  11. Chapter 6: Get Me Off the Merry-Go-Round
  12. Chapter 7: We See Things They’ll Never See
  13. Chapter 8: I Live My Life in the City and There’s No Easy Way Out
  14. Chapter 9: All Part of the Masterplan
  15. Chapter 10: I Get So High I Just Can’t Feel It
  16. Chapter 11: All Your Dreams Are Made
  17. Chapter 12: Don’t Know, Don’t Care
  18. Chapter 13: All My People Right Here, Right Now
  19. Chapter 14: She Taught Me How to Fly
  20. Chapter 15: All the Phonies Have Blown My Mind
  21. Chapter 16: The More That You Want It, The More That You Need It
  22. Chapter 17: Make Room For the Man Who Built the Moon
  23. Chapter 18: Stay Young and Invincible
  24. Chapter 19: I See All That I Will Ever Know, and It’s Warm Outside
  25. Epilogue: Round Are Way
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Copyright