manchester mancunians expats
Friday, 5th December 2003
Sport, then and nowMANCHESTER can lay just claim to being the sporting capital of Britain having hosted the 2002 Commonwealth Games and with a combined 110,000-plus spectators being drawn to the home matches of Manchester United and Manchester City.
Doubtless ragamuffin urchins kicked “balls” around the mean streets 150 years ago, but rules giving soccer any semblance of today’s game were not formalised until much later in the 19th Century.
But if there were one sporting event in 1953 that appealed to rich and poor alike, it was the Manchester races, first held on Kersal Moor, then in a loop of the Irwell in Salford. It wasn’t the horses, or the betting, but the sheer exuberance of the Whitson meet that drew crowds in their thousands.
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