The Rise of Manchester City "Glory Days For The Waifs And Strays"

Talking Sports Books" here is the video edition of the new show
with Manchester journalist Dom Farrell talking about his new book
release "Glory Days For The Waifs And Strays" 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 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 over
the competition would be celebrated far beyond the core fan base.
But City’s success is tied inextricably to its takeover by the
Abu Dhabi United Group in 2008, an event that altered the club’s
horizons beyond any plausible recognition. The injection of
billions of pounds into the club amid accusations that Abu Dhabi
is ‘sportswashing’ its reputation tarnished City’s treble-winning
season in 2022/23, as have serious charges of financial
impropriety from the Premier League.Glory Days for the Waifs and
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 greats on either side of the white line and
the uniquely divisive means by which this has been
achieved.Manchester City have defined an era in English football.
This is the tale of how that happened and why it matters.ORDER
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