How Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison built Manchester City

Manchester City didn’t just sprout up out of nothing in 2008 when they got a bit of cash in their bank balance, they were actually a big club way before that and this is how they were built, under the management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison. #mcfc ____________________________________________________ HELP, GET A VPN Go to https://piavpn.com/WIF to get 83% off Private Internet Access with 4 months free! ____________________________________________________ MY LINKS Check out our football quiz channel:    / @pulpfootball-3417   Or our old selection of documentaries and alternate football universes:    / @false10-3e4   Oh, and I write about football sometimes here:   / jdoyle9293   ____________________________________________________ TIMESTAMPS & REFERENCES 00:00 – Introduction 00:25 – Mercer 09:55 – Terrifying Europe 21:20 – Allison https://bitterandblue.sbnation.com/ Blue Moon (Mark Hodkinson) https://bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/ https://www.citytilidie.com/ Manchester City Greatest Games (David Clayton) We Were Really There (David Bernstein with Tim Rich) ______________________________________________________ ABOUT THE CHANNEL What if Football is YouTube's only football magazine, with monthly issues of five videos each month on a topic as far back as the dominant Aston Villa team of the 1890s, as recently as Napoli's stunning 2023 Scudetto winning team, as obvious as Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo and their litany of trophies, as obscure as Dynamo Moscow's passovotchka football of the 40s. We've got it all. ______________________________________________________