Maybe In Another Generation

Better late than never! In the 2nd part of our catch up with Chris Bailey, we re-join Chris as he joins City and fulfills a lifelong dream. He talks us through what it’s like interviewing Khaldoon, Mancini’s pre-season hairdresser and getting a bollocking from Pep!🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

This week I am excited to welcome journalist Chris Bailey to Maybe In Another Generation.Chris spent 10 years as City’s Chief Correspondent at the Manchester Evening News, before getting the transfer of his dreams to Manchester City, where he became Editor in Chief, and continues to have the honour of sitting down with Khaldoon Al Mubarak at the end of each season. Chris joins us to talk about what it was like having a front row seat for all the drama that unfolded at Maine Rd and the Etihad, between 1999 and 2021.In the first half of this 2 parter, Chris talks us through his early life following City home and away in the 70’s and 80’s before starting on the path to journalism that took him to the Evening News and reporting on 4 managers, 2 promotions, 1 relegation, 2 takeovers and saying goodbye to Maine Rd.🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

This week, we welcome back Liam Wright who, having been to 49 of the 52 games of this particular season, is perfectly placed to help us sift through the wreckage of the now infamous 2012/2013 season.Having won their first league title in 44 years in dramatic fashion, could City continue their march to domination of English football? Or would a lack of truly world class signings and in-fighting within the corridors of the Etihad, de-rail the blues ambitions?🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

This week, we welcome back journalist and author Dom Farrell to Maybe In Another Generation as he helps us walk through a season that despite it's dramatic and quite brilliant conclusion, often sits in the shadow of other Pep seasons.We join the chat in the summer of 2021 with City having wrestled back their Premier League champions crown from Liverpool but falling at the final hurdle of the Champions League in Port v Chelsea.Will the disappointment of not getting their key target, Harry Kane, disrupt the blues in their quest for back to back titles? And is this the season we finally win that elusive Champions League.🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to supportthe show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵

This week, something a little bit different! We’ll be speaking to life long Blue, journalist and author Bill Borrows.We talk to Bill about his love of City growing up in Manchester in the 70's and how writing for City fanzines in the late 80”s started his path to journalism at The Sunday Times, Guardian, TalkSport, Goal and 90 minutes. Bill also tells us about his refusal to interview United players, seeing Peter Swales in the toilet just moments after selling City to Franny Lee and becoming Editor at large of the groundbreaking Loaded - the magazine that provided the backdrop to the 90’s, and about his brand new podcast ExpLoaded.I loved this. one. Hope you do to 🎧Available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube🎧Don’t forget to hit Follow/Subscribe/Like and share to support the show!This is ‘Maybe In Another Generation’ 🩵