The Manchester Derby: A 135-Year Blood Feud in Four Acts and Countless Billable Hours by Dave’s Locker International Correspondent, still jet-lagged and morally bankrupt Act I – The Industrial Prelude (1881-1950s) Legend has it the rivalry began when a St. Mark’s church cricket team decided football was more lucrative than salvation and became Manchester City,…
Manchester, that rainy Victorian mill town that reinvented itself as a football theme park with two corporate cathedrals, once again divides the planet into red and sky-blue hemispheres. The Manchester Derby has become less a local skirmish than a quarterly earnings call with choreography. From Singapore hawker stalls streaming dodgy IPTV feeds to Lagos barbershops…
The Manchester Derby: A 90-Minute Metaphor for a World Splitting at the Seams By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Over the Atlantic LONDON—In a week when the Arctic Circle recorded its first-ever 29 °C and the global debt clock ticked past $315 trillion, roughly 700 million people still found the emotional bandwidth to…
