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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 23h

Crikey! That prediction may prove to be a touch optimistic.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#My9albums ('Manchester' version) * The Distractions' cover is missing, sadly.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

'My World' by The Bee Gees. Saw it on TotP aged eight, liked it, bought it. I bought the follow-up 'Run to Me' too.

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The Primitives @theprimitives.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Our 2nd single Really Stupid was released 40 years ago today. It got single of the week in Sounds & was named one of the 40 greatest UK indie singles ever by Mojo magazine in 2008. The vid was made on a budget of whatever a roll of kitchen foil + petrol for drive down to London from Cov was in 1986.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It was a shared house with two mates - so yeah, could've easily been mistaken for a student gaff!

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Davyhulme, part of Urmston. Different place altogether. The bat in the photo was used for cricket!

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Fair point, but the circumstances are so extraordinary I don't think it can do much harm.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

'An inflatable banana, a surly looking bloke, a cricket bat' (Davyhulme, Trafford 1988)

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

An absolute minefield that one.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This scene, set on 14th August 1984, in Tim Lott's otherwise excellent White City Blue: 'Only now did Nodge speak, having to shout over the engine noise and Morrissey singing 'There is a Light That Never Goes Out'. Almost two full years before that particular song was released.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Correct. As John Simon Ritchie once astutely observed: "I've met the man in the street, and he's a cunt."

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yep, and it's such an ill-thought-out line of reasoning, it beggars belief.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Sunday's events at Anfield should have no bearing whatsoever on the outcome of City's case. The flood of increasingly furious post-match hit pieces only serve to highlight a total lack of objectivity, and a rage motivated chiefly by the fact of City winning. If we're being honest, 'twas ever thus.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

While journalists and pundits are losing their collective minds over Sunday's events, here's some rare insight from the unlikely source of Troy Deeney.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Haha, I was just about to post 'sounds like catholic guilt to me'. And I agree, you're never free of them completely!

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

'It was egregious defiance, a triple f**k you to the laws of the land...' I'm afraid @kevingarside.bsky.social has lost his mind completely.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This cartoon tickles me, particularly as it represents perfectly a dear couple of friends of mine, who actually met through me.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Temperance Club at the Haçienda staple, and a belter it is too.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Steven Gerrard has so "come to terms with the incident that happened" to him that he can't yet bring himself to say the actual words. He needs to say "I slipped on my fuckin' arse..." and then say it again. It's the only way he'll start to heal.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The classic Twitter playbook. Say something completely ridiculous, then boast of 'triggering' people when called out on your nonsense. It takes me back, and not in a good way.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ah you mean has he asked Imre (Twitter handle '@imrebanana') Varadi how he feels ahout it? :)

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You've no idea what you're talking about. The banana came first and was wielded as just that, an inflatable banana. At a later date it was dressed in a City No 9 shirt (Varadi's number), and thus the 'Imre Banana' moniker was born. Xenophobia my arse.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Was that the 'Tony Evans era'?

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They would've just moved up a place to second in my strict hierarchy :)

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Well I am, and I'm going to give it a spin right now!

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Favourite band when I was 18 Buzzcocks had just split up, so Derry's finest moved up a place to assume the mantle.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Considering Adrian has been literally counting down the days, you'd think there'd be at least a word or two on how his afternoon went. But no, radio silence. Very odd.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I just can't get over this clown's idea that the guilty verdict means we should suddenly stop chanting abuse at Gary Neville. An activity we've enjoyed for decades. Genuinely, it's the daftest take I've heard yet.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Haha, i noticed that. He was just that little bit too late!

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

'...obcene chants at Gary Neville as he appeared at pitchside for Sky Sports'. Yes, naturally. Surely it can only be seen as confirmation of the beautiful game's demise when obscene chants are no longer directed at Gary Neville.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You absolutely did. You specifically told Alex, in admonishing fashion, that 'that attitude means you’re going to struggle to find support for sanctions that don’t obliterate the club'. Ridiculous, man.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Splendid. It raises a laugh from the sandy-haired lad just behind weird staring bloke, at least.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The third goal was genuinely a thing of beauty. Brilliant afternoon!

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No, it was 'febrile', Glenn, febrile. I know this because the media have been telling me so for the past fortnight.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Fine words from the Georgian maestro. Come on blues!

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

On that subject, I'm very much looking forward to the forthcoming @jonsavage.bsky.social compilation.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Couldn't get away from the place fast enough, and that was only partially due to the fact they scored a last-minute winner!

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Watching West at Winsford yesterday was interesting. A gaggle of 'schooligans' chanting 'Oh Manchester is full of shit', etc at us were moved away by stewards, but there were also grown men shouting 'Communists!'. As if that was some kind of insult. We siezed the means of production at half-time.

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Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cook was the drummer, so he gets a pass on that I reckon.

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