Manchester - Capital of Football

[Risso]

Yoooooooooooooooooooooo Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrssssssssssssssss!!!!!

Even though they are doing their best to lose it at the moment.

Once they break these two up (Carberry and McKenzie) they'll fall like a house of cards.
Then its time for cigars.

I've nothing against Lancashire as a county, but Manchester can get to fuck.

There's not much left of the original Lancashire, and only really covers the bit from Preston to Burnley.  All of the rest including the traditional Lancashire towns of Wigan, Bolton, Rochdale and Oldham etc has been swallowed up by Greater Manchester.  Even the unitary authority name is arrogant!

[john e]

Yoooooooooooooooooooooo Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrssssssssssssssss!!!!!

Even though they are doing their best to lose it at the moment.

Once they break these two up (Carberry and McKenzie) they'll fall like a house of cards.
Then its time for cigars.

I've nothing against Lancashire as a county, but Manchester can get to fuck.

There's not much left of the original Lancashire, and only really covers the bit from Preston to Burnley.  All of the rest including the traditional Lancashire towns of Wigan, Bolton, Rochdale and Oldham etc has been swallowed up by Greater Manchester.  Even the unitary authority name is arrogant!

yes but arnt all those towns mentioned still in Lancashire ?

[Damo70]

This all goes back to them getting stick off Scousers calling Liverpool the European capital of football in the mid eighties. Let's hope this arrogance works as well for the Mancs as it did for them. Within a couple of months they'd got us banned from Europe and in the last twenty five years Liverpool have won the league twice and Everton have won a total of two trophies.

[Mazrim]

Better still, let's hope some colossal alien spaceship hoists the entire metropolitan area into space.

[E I Adio]

Has anyone noticed how virtually every new drama or comedy in the last ten years seems to have been located in Manchester? It's like all the other cities in the UK do not exist.

I was only wondering the other day when was the last time Birmingham featured in a TV drama. I'm sure there must have been some since "Gangsters", which must have been in the sixties(?) but I couldn't think of any.

Total lack of imagination. It's like the city doesn't exist to TV folk.

[Concrete John]

There was a police TV series called something like 'Backup' that was set in Brum.  Plus Hustle is filmed here.

[Billy Walker]

Was "Rockcliffe's (sp?) Babies" set in Brum?  I'm sure I remember an episode of that filmed outside Villa Park.  The plot revolved around a hooligan dust-up between Villa and Liverpool supporters during a fictional UEFA Cup semi final.

[Mazrim]

They only used Manchester for Life on Mars and whatever that shit follow up was called because it was easier to make it look like 40/30 years ago.

[Risso]

yes but arnt all those towns mentioned still in Lancashire ?

No.  Greater Manchester as I say.

[john e]

Brum,
 the little yellow car that wobbles about saving people

[Risso]

That recent plague holocaust drama on BBC1 - the first series was shot in Manchester, the second in Birmingham.  Nice and fair like.

[Dr Butler]

Was "Rockcliffe's (sp?) Babies" set in Brum?  I'm sure I remember an episode of that filmed outside Villa Park.  The plot revolved around a hooligan dust-up between Villa and Liverpool supporters during a fictional UEFA Cup semi final.

did we win ?

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

Has anyone noticed how virtually every new drama or comedy in the last ten years seems to have been located in Manchester? It's like all the other cities in the UK do not exist.

I was only wondering the other day when was the last time Birmingham featured in a TV drama. I'm sure there must have been some since "Gangsters", which must have been in the sixties(?) but I couldn't think of any.

Total lack of imagination. It's like the city doesn't exist to TV folk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_and_television_shows_set_in_Birmingham,_West_Midlands

[Ryu]

I once saw Brum being filmed. He was chasing a burglar in Victoria Square. It was ace.

[PeterWithesShin]

That 1 Day sounds a winner!

Budget £1.50

None of which was spent on coming up with character names
Dylan Duffus as Flash
Duncan Tobias as Dr Evil
Yohance Watson as mad Angel
Ohran Whyte as Pest
Chris Wilson as Prison Officer