Maybe In Another Generation

Better late than never! In the 2nd part of our catch up with Chris Bailey, we re-join Chris as he joins City and fulfills a lifelong dream. He talks us through what it’s like interviewing Khaldoon, Mancini’s pre-season hairdresser and getting a bollocking from Pep!🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

This week I am excited to welcome journalist Chris Bailey to Maybe In Another Generation.Chris spent 10 years as City’s Chief Correspondent at the Manchester Evening News, before getting the transfer of his dreams to Manchester City, where he became Editor in Chief, and continues to have the honour of sitting down with Khaldoon Al Mubarak at the end of each season. Chris joins us to talk about what it was like having a front row seat for all the drama that unfolded at Maine Rd and the Etihad, between 1999 and 2021.In the first half of this 2 parter, Chris talks us through his early life following City home and away in the 70’s and 80’s before starting on the path to journalism that took him to the Evening News and reporting on 4 managers, 2 promotions, 1 relegation, 2 takeovers and saying goodbye to Maine Rd.🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

This week, we welcome back Liam Wright who, having been to 49 of the 52 games of this particular season, is perfectly placed to help us sift through the wreckage of the now infamous 2012/2013 season.Having won their first league title in 44 years in dramatic fashion, could City continue their march to domination of English football? Or would a lack of truly world class signings and in-fighting within the corridors of the Etihad, de-rail the blues ambitions?🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

This week, we welcome back journalist and author Dom Farrell to Maybe In Another Generation as he helps us walk through a season that despite it's dramatic and quite brilliant conclusion, often sits in the shadow of other Pep seasons.We join the chat in the summer of 2021 with City having wrestled back their Premier League champions crown from Liverpool but falling at the final hurdle of the Champions League in Port v Chelsea.Will the disappointment of not getting their key target, Harry Kane, disrupt the blues in their quest for back to back titles? And is this the season we finally win that elusive Champions League.🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to supportthe show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

This week, something a little bit different! We’ll be speaking to life long Blue, journalist and author Bill Borrows.We talk to Bill about his love of City growing up in Manchester in the 70's and how writing for City fanzines in the late 80”s started his path to journalism at The Sunday Times, Guardian, TalkSport, Goal and 90 minutes. Bill also tells us about his refusal to interview United players, seeing Peter Swales in the toilet just moments after selling City to Franny Lee and becoming Editor at large of the groundbreaking Loaded - the magazine that provided the backdrop to the 90’s, and about his brand new podcast ExpLoaded.I loved this. one. Hope you do to 🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

This week, we’re off back to the 1985/86 season, where we win a trophy and score 4 goals in a Wembley cup final.No honestly, we do!Joining me this week is lifelong blue of 50 years, Phil Gatenby, who aswell as being at the forefront of City’s fanzine movement in the late 80’s, also wrote the brilliant ‘Teenage Kicks’ about the 1986 Youth Cup winning side.🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’

Welcome back to Maybe In Another Generation and what an episode to kick off Season 2!We’re heading back 37 years, where I’m joined by Mark McCarthy who’ll walk us through one of my favourites - the 88/89 season. Aswell as Mark’s recollections of inflatables, journeyman signings and trying our best to not get promoted, Mark will be talking us through how he ended up with the biggest ever collection of matchworn City shirts and the 3 books that followed.Having had one failed attempt at promotion and selling star striker Paul Stewart, can the Blues go up at the second time of asking? 🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

The season that changed everything…In this last episode of Season 1, we welcome none other than Faraaz Ghaffur, better known to you and I as FG, as he chats about the history-defining 2010/11 season. The season that saw City aim to finally taste glory after 35 long years in the wilderness…We also talk to FG about how a lad watching City home and away with his mates would go on to present for the club’s own TV channel and end up with almost 1.5 million followers across his social media platforms.After a summer that saw City spend heavily on players that would go on to be amongst our greatest ever, could this expensively assembled squad, finally help the Blues “tear that banner down”?🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

It’s 80’s week! This week I’m delighted to speak to journalist and author of the brilliant ‘City In Europe’, Simon Curtis who takes us for a walk down misery lane to the 1983/84 season.Simon talks us through the sights, sounds and fashions of the early 80’s and what life was like supporting City home and away against the backdrop of hooliganism.Having been relegated in heartbreaking style, City find themselves in the 2nd Division with a new manager in the form of Billy McNeill, a rag tag squad of bargain basement signings and ever crippling debts. Can City make it back to the First Division against the odds?🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

This week we re-live one of the most entertaining seasons in our history, and one that lives long in the memory of many Blues. It’s the 2001/02 season and this week, I am delighted to be joined by journalist, author and City fan of over 30 years, Dom Farrell. We join the club in the summer of 2001, having sacked Joe Royle following relegation from the Premier League, amidst rumours of a drinking culture within the playing squad.The appointment of former Newcastle & England Manager Kevin Keegan as the replacement for Royle was a huge coup for the Blues. Could Keegan and his brand of swashbuckling football lead City to a swift return to the top flight?🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵