Manchester and on the sixth day God created Manchester wasn't a great place to live for somebody who was working class run down industrial areas there was very little happening very little going [Music] on a lot of it was influenced by acid for a long time Manchester City Pride themselves on being the local Club a big Bo for Man United big for Manchester City have made failure fashionable in ways that no of a football club can imagine I remember where City have come from what we had to deal with what happens to your state in at
your Die Hard segment that sings the loudest is going to be next to people who are just tourists there's been a lot of hate around city oh yeah jealousy no [Applause] [Music] [Music] huge historical relevance due to Industrial Revolution so it was often referred to as cotton not cottonopolis so During the Revolution cotton ships would cotton would be produced and made in Manchester so if you go to certain parts of the city you go to what's now referred to as the northern quarter there's old factories and whatnot that used to be cotton factories and loads
of clothes used to be made in Manchester huge economic boom in a 19th century Manchester Prides itself on being a very very hardworking very workingclass City uh if you walk around Manchester a lot now you might see symbols of a bee or a bumblebee so that's the Manchester bee and the idea is that Manchester people work as hard as working bees in AIO when they all look after each other it rains all the time 300 days worth of rain I'm talking to you right now and you're wearing a waterproof jacket I'm wearing a waterproof jacket
if you want to live here you have to buy a coat from here and it has to be a waterproof back in those days in the middle of we had so yeah yeah sorry sorry just one sec it's a real industrial city a real creative City so many people are full of Vibrance it's it welcomes people from all ethnicities all corners of the world it's a real Hub it's so vibrant and you just have to walk around the city to just feel it everywhere you go every corner you turn down and over the 20th century
Manchester has its own economic bom again you've got the what was known as madchester scene so that was a nightclub scene [Music] the people were around that went to the clubs don't really remember it too much because a lot of it was influenced by uh yeah and [Music] [Applause] [Music] acid this is the Hender you know it may not look much but it is the cathedral to Hast music in brit this is the gateway to the dance floor [Music] man in the 1980s England wasn't a great place to live for somebody who was working class
the fer government had pretty much driven every single ounce of creativity out of people it was gray it was Bleak there wasn't much going on but from those ashes rise the most incredible creative movements and then you just get this scene of Music which is pure out of the age of Margaret fetcher and John Major in the conservative party they entered prime minister A Reign of Tony Blair so a huge optimism I mean when Tony Blair was elected prime minister he came out to the song things can only get better for Smith stone roses Manchester
City between the years 1991 92 till about 1997 where Manchester is one of the coolest places in the world it was when I started supporting City so Oasis came out around 1994 and that's when I fell in love with city as a football club and they are huge we're talking at a time it may sound small now but the amount of physical records They sold at the time was absolutely huge every match day we would travel to Main Road and play the was this music in the car my youngest son he's named after N Gallagher
as well so what's the name of your son um n Sergio so he's named after n Gala and then Sergio Aguero 87 million pound in the bank I've got a Rolls rice I've got three stalkers I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City I'm part of the greatest band in the world am I happy with that no I'm not I want more a really [ __ ] massive big [ __ ] off Boo for Man United the galga brothers grew up in an Irish family they were from Manchester they went to school in
Manchester that's what made their music I mean you can feel it you can cigarettes and alcohol that's what people's lives were for so long back in those days it was do you know what I mean some might say stuff like that you know it was part of their lives and that's what why it came through and that's why it is Manchester now this was going on at a time where Manchester United as well are doing very well in football ter this is also the time where the Premier League is just beginning to figure itself out
so the Premier League is formed in 1992 sky Sports is is pushing it to everyone saying this is branding football it's not like the old division one this is a new television product terrible it was it was horrific and it it was a comedy at time it was a parody it was however you could make failure happen City would make it happen but in the most comical of ways we'd be driving to main mode on a match day and we would just expect a defeat so we would just expect City to get beat all the
time we dropped down from the Premier League down to the first division as it was called then and then right to the second Division and even when they do get back into the Premier League they're known as what's called a yo-yo team so that's when you get promoted you get relegated promoted and get relegated even when we were in that second division there was still 28,000 fans supporting City at Main Road when I was in school you know we're talking late 90s early 2000 City with going up and down up and down United and just
want to trouble my class was about half and half city in United really yeah man united the [ __ ] man united Manchester United became a global brand very very very quickly so by 2002 most people in the planet know who David Beckham is for a long time Manchester city was Manchester and Manchester United was England's Club people for some incredible reason I can't explain it just kept turning out I guess it was an addiction to Misery we weren't swallowed up by what was going on across the city the club retain it identity retained its
fans they had the Gallagher brothers they had the music they had the culture they had the stadium inside an old pretty much housing estate just the walking around there because the old traffic is not the it is a little bit it is a little bit but that went bang bang bang that went up and up and up and it got bigger and bigger and bigger and it became a I guess a tourist attraction in the in the mid90s when United got successful in the Premier League era main road was characteristic but it wasn't this sort
of flashy wonderful it was so imperfect none of the stands matched you know it was very the substitutes bench was just garden furniture main road was a shed it it really was the place was falling apart but I loved it I when I think of what drew me in with City apart from my family you know my dad was a season ticket holder his dad was a season ticket holder and his dad was a season ticket holder that's the city of this badge right and I think the the new badge the new stadium it's something's
changed but just Forester have grown almost together and that all started when we moved to the new stadium in 2003 the Commonwealth Games we got out of Main Road I'm here for the first time and when I see like a Tesla chop in front of the stadium it's a little bit strange for me City needed to move away from main road because it wasn't really fit for purpose anymore they were looking for bit more ambitious a bigger Stadium it was kind of like a match made in heaven because the stadium was built for the Commonwealth
Games and then after that it was empty so when we moved here there wasn't Mercedes garage there and it's changed to Tesla but a lot of the area has been redeveloped since so you look at the city football group Academy over there you look at the bridge crossing the road the development has been incredible around the area 50 Manchester City's owners not only own Manchester City but they own a lot of air land in East Manchester because right now we're seeing loads of money come into the city from all over the places in the world
possible investment now from some Radcliff and Manchester United coming in there's a lot of investment from Chinese firms building a lot of these skyscrapers you now walk around Manchester you see all the changes that are going on all all the everything that's taken place and we talk about the new style buildings the new aesthetic got a club that has grown and changed and modernized with the city rather than maybe being that old old relic of the old Manchester that we still know and love but has grown up a little bit and has changed and has
got that different face to it okay you you go on a more commercial level and you get more fans from around the world and perhaps your Stadium gets filled but then what happens to your Stadium atmosphere cuz perhaps your di hard segment that sings the loudest is going to be next to people who are just tourists for jealousy it's jealousy think jealousy you know and the people who say and call this place the empty hard they said last year Real Madrid when we beat them 4-1 they'd never experienced an atmosphere like it with the globalization
of football you are always going to get plastic fans right you'll get fans that maybe have no connection with Manchester no connection with the club but they like the kit they like the players they like the way we play they like pet and they support the club that's fine right if you want to call them plastic that that goes on right that's Twitter talking but there is an enormous core of fans that will bleed blue if the worst happens with the Premier League charges and this club gets relegated one two three divisions doesn't matter we'll
still get 30,000 every week 35,000 every week that's always been the case I don't think that's changed at all and I think when you go around the ground you see it it's weird right because we're all online so much we're all scrolling through Twitter and we see everything happening but when you go into the ground and you look around you and it's all the same people that have been going for 20 years 25 years we we still sit near people that were sat near us at Main Road so I implore anybody who is sat on
the internet throwing those insults the empty hard in no atmosphere come here and experience the match day we welcome anybody from All Around the World the fan base is concerned It Never Dies that that doesn't I remember where City have come from I remember what we had to deal with you know watching them have such amazing success we were getting relegated we you know we' go into a transer window and spend two and a half million and now they say oh you can't be spending 10000 million on Jack relish I'm like yeah why not and
I also can't get tired of it because I recognize that someday it's going to stop that's football right every Club has its decade or so Liverpool man united Arsenal they are historic institutions of England and they're almost up there with Big Ben the London Eye you know Manchester City haven't been that so for the supporters it is more about Community I know City fans who've been supporting the club home and away for 50 years and they hate football but they go City because it's the time they get to see the friends that they've gone to
the match with for 20 30 40 years is that sort of community that maybe doesn't get translated in what you see on the facade of Manchester City you see this flashy wonderful Club the players are great the manager sexy all of that but at the same time it doesn't mean it doesn't exist [Music] oh
