Boys In Blue – Manchester City F.C. (1972)

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Additional information about this, Manchester City F.C. vinyl art.

Manchester City F.C. – The Artist

Manchester City Football Club is a football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark’s (West Gorton), it became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club’s home ground is the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, to which it moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923. Manchester City entered the Football League in 1899, and won their first major honour with the FA Cup in 1904. It had its first major period of success in the late 1960s, winning the League, FA Cup and League Cup under the management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison. After losing the 1981 FA Cup Final, the club went through a period of decline, culminating in relegation to the third tier of English football. Having regained their Premier League status in the early 2000s, Manchester City was purchased in 2008 by Abu Dhabi United Group for £210 million and received considerable financial investment. The club won the Premier League in 2012, 2014, 2018 and, most recently in 2019, also becoming the first Premier League team to attain 100 points in a single season. Manchester City’s revenue was the fifth highest of a football club in the world in the 2017–18 season at €527.7 million.In 2018, Forbes estimated the club was the fifth most valuable in the world at $2.47 billion.

Boys In Blue – The Song

Boys In Blue is a 1972 song by The Manchester City F.C. written and produced by 3 of the 4 future members of 10cc. (K.Godley, L.Creme and G.Gouldman)

The Football / Soccer Shirt  – The Shape

In association football, kit (also referred to as a strip or uniform) is the standard equipment and attire worn by players. Footballers generally wear identifying numbers on the backs of their shirts. Originally a team of players wore numbers from 1 to 11, corresponding roughly to their playing positions, but at the professional level this has generally been superseded by squad numbering, whereby each player in a squad is allocated a fixed number for the duration of a season. Professional clubs also usually display players’ surnames or nicknames on their shirts, above their squad numbers. Football kit has evolved significantly since the early days of the sport and advances in clothing manufacture and printing allowed shirts to be made in lighter synthetic fibres with increasingly colourful and complex designs. With the rise of advertising in the 20th century, sponsors’ logos began to appear on shirts, and replica strips were made available for fans to purchase, generating significant amounts of revenue for clubs.

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