Openshaw now, as fitting with Manchester’s proud history, has seen an enormous influx of black economic migrants. There’s a little Zimbabwe going on in the tributaries off Vine Street and it has truly reinvigorated the place after the destroying decline of the Thatcher years with all the drugs and the board-ups that that piece of tory venom and her collaborating DNA descendants brought with her.

I did my best to immerse myself as much as I could in local culture and history. Not because I’m some hoity-toity intellectual (though I am, obv), but because immersing yourself in local culture and history mainly involved looking at boss murals of Castro, Guevara and Cienfeugos whilst necking a ridiculously strong Cuba libre and smoking a cigar fatter than Anderson after a month of Bem Brasil half-price lunch offers.

The Premier League is a bastion of ballbaggery. Players who believe they are brands, owners who openly pillage supporters and supporters who openly degrade themselves and the game with their acts of public knobendedness. Yeah, …

Many speak of Ron Atkinson’s last trophy being the FA Cup he won against Everton in 1985 thanks to Norman Whiteside’s famous curler. But I seem to remember, as an eight-year-old, seeing the reds lift a trophy at Old Trafford, presented by a member of the royal family in the summer of 1986.

Ferguson has not only relentlessly built success and planned for a brilliant future after he is gone, but steered United too through the financial horror the Glazers wreaked on the club.

The band appearing at FC United’s pre-match tertulia Course You Can Malcolm on Saturday, go by the name of Sam Smith and Company. Here is an interview with Sam himself…

Figures obtained by the MEN show that only 30,000 blues were in town for their much-hyped FA Cup victory parade in May 2011.
Despite winning their first silverware for eternity, their lack of numbers was very …

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..the Anonymous collective became increasingly associated with collaborative, international hacktivism.

As the bishop of Grantham, Thatcher’s home town, put it, spending £10m of public money to “glorify” her legacy in the month benefits are slashed and tax cuts handed to the rich is “asking for trouble”. What’s planned today isn’t a national commemoration, but a military-backed party spectacle.

Salford Rap collective, Class Actions have released a compilation free download entitled ‘RIP up the Sun, R.I.P. the victims’, in order to raise awareness of the Hillsborough disaster of April 1989, and the subsequent campaign for justice.

Typical of the woman who had no compassion for anyone, she died on a Monday when everyone was knackered from the weekend and she died when I was walking that tight-rope between farting and shitting myself. Even her death fucked people over.

This was written by Harry Paterson of the excellent Sabotage Times (sabotagetimes.co.uk)
Among the many valuable lessons that history has bequeathed is the undeniable truth that it is written by the victors. Or perhaps rewritten would …

By Jonathan Allsop
Monday night games at Norwich don’t usually provide “favourite away match” material but the trip there on 5th April 1993 was something hair-raisingly, life-affirmingly, cockle-warmingly special.
It’s one of my most vivid memories from …

Article by whoisandwhoisnt. Graphic by midjmo
No-one deals in shock better than the Daily Mail. They are the masters in neatly packaging up stories, editorials and column pieces, wrapping them in a little bit of hand-wringing …

Sunderland’s appointment of self-proclaimed fascist Paulo Di Canio isn’t being wholly accepted with the ‘roll over and get on with it’ spirit that the club’s board were hoping for. ‘As long as he wins games …

Bernard Kelly, of ‘Gordon is a moron’ fame is set to play FC United’s pre-match event Course You Can Malcolm on Easter Monday.
Here is the story of Jilted John and Bernard’s involvement in the …

An unassuming room tucked away in the top right corner of the MRE is the place to be once again before Bank Holiday Monday’s crucial game against Stocksbridge Park Steels. If you pass the unflinching …

It’s hard to imagine how Course You Can Malcolm can be any more Course You Can Malcolm without becoming a parody of itself.
We will also be showing the much acclaimed and truly astonishing film, ‘A Woman’s Place is on the Pitch’.

The man who was partly responsible for selling Manchester United down the river, is to stand down as chief executive of the club in the summer.
David Gill, who famously ‘changed sides’ following the Glazer takeover, …

……as they dig up to the surface they build tall mud chimneys.
A place where eating squirrel brains for breakfast is not uncommon.