Manchester Central - what might have been,eh?

[CodeXIII]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Central_F.C.

I did a film piece on this Club a few years ago (with Gary James, City Historian). It does appear the two league Clubs - City and especially United made sure the Manchester Central application got defeated.

Do any other members know anything else? Did they issue programmes, do photos exist?

[BAZZABAGGIES]

Sir Leslie has got one on his flicker page its similar to a Man Utd home

[manchesterunitedman1]

CodeXIII wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Central_F.C. I did a film piece on this Club a few years ago (with Gary James, City Historian). It does appear the two league Clubs - City and especially United made sure the Manchester Central application got defeated. Do any other members know anything else? Did they issue programmes, do photos exist?

Both City and United were concerned that a 3rd Manchester team could potentially take support away from them and combined to petition the football league not to allow Central to enter, Central's bid collapsed and with a short time so did the entire club.

Take a look at the original application by Central along with one of their programmes that looked similar to Manchester City's at that time and the United programme from this period was also printed in the same Blue for some completely crazy reason![Same printer for all]
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjEGMPqE

I do have some other Manchester Central programmes still to upload, will get around to it one day.

[tackler7]

Lovely. Thanks for sharing Leslie.