Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards has jokingly called out ex-Manchester United player Matteo Darmian for an incident in 2015.
12.03.2023 - 22:01 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester's transformation is an epic tale - and Andy Spinoza is one of its characters. As a journalist in the 80s and 90s, he told the story of a cultural revolution. That revolution helped attract developers with deep pockets - developers whose interests 'Spin' would represent as a PR guru.
Now the story of that career, so closely entwined with the regeneration of Manchester - from post-industrial decline to a city of skyscrapers - has been told in a new book, Manchester Unspun. It charts the evolution of a city - from punk to the pandemic. Here, the Manchester Evening News' Chief Reporter, Neal Keeling, takes a detailed look at Manchester's journey - through the eyes of a man who had a front row seat.
Andy Spinoza arrived in Manchester in 1979 when it was, he says, "sliding into the dustbin of history". I can relate to this. During the same year I was zipping over to the city regularly from Leeds on musty trains to see a certain nurse at Crumpsall Hospital.
The nurse and I would see gigs - The Skids, The Ramones, Eddie Money, and The Fall. We would buy Guinness for 50p a pint in The White Lion, in Blackley, where inexplicably to me, local lads wore dungarees. At Victoria Station, iron machines dispensed red blocks of Nestle chocolate. And we watched rugged, earthy, brave films like Blue Collar at the Aaben cinema in Hulme.
The city was shabby, the buses were orange and cream, and MCFC were border-line bobbins. But I loved the place. While Londoner, Spinoza, and gone north to Manchester University for an American Studies course I had left the West Midlands for Leeds Polytechnic for a degree in Social Administration.
Fate would have it that Spinoza and I would play for the same team - the Manchester Evening
Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards has jokingly called out ex-Manchester United player Matteo Darmian for an incident in 2015.
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