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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · 20h

The book's out a week today on October 21 via @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

Pre-order: amzn.eu/d/7sASdKX

October 30 launch party: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · 20h

Delighted to share the first extract from Glory Days for the Waifs and Strays, which went live on today on @sportingnews.com. It's drawn from these two chapters.

www.sportingnews.com/uk/football/...

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · 5d

Ricky's funeral today. So many of the tributes have understandably jumped from Tszyu to Mayweather, but that bit in the middle was golden. Four wins, three world titles across two divisions. A long read on those days of possibility. What a ride.

www.sportingnews.com/uk/boxing/ne...

When Ricky Hatton ruled the world: Boxing icon's forgotten run as an undefeated two-weight world champion | Sporting News United Kingdom

The tributes paid to Ricky Hatton have been warm and overwhelming, but many only touched fleetingly on an incredible period of the British boxing great's career.

www.sportingnews.com

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Dan Burke @fussballdan.bsky.social · 12d

Was great to be back in the @BlueMoonPodcast saddle this week, talking #MCFC's improvement, fantastic Foden, Bernardo's legacy and much more, with @davidmooney.co.uk and @domfarrell.bsky.social 🩵

pod.fo/e/335cc1

Blue Moon Podcast - A Manchester City Show: 8: This is Why They Don’t Build Trains out of Magnesium

Improving performances, a dodgy penalty, and City players who are the Premier League's top goalscorers from different countries

pod.fo

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · 12d

Aaaaaand, if you like the idea of me and @davidmooney.co.uk prattling on about Manchester City a little more, I have a book launch night at The Waldorf in town on October 30. All proceeds going to @mcfcfoodbank.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...

Manchester City book launch with author Dom Farrell

Official launch party for 'Glory Days for the Waifs and Strays: Identity and Meaning in the Rise of the Modern Manchester City '.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · 12d

Unusually existential @bluemoonpodcast.com. Delighted to be involved as always.

Blue Moon Podcast @bluemoonpodcast.com · 12d

🎙️ NEW #MCFC PODCAST

📈 Trend of #ManCity performances
🥴 The penalty at Monaco
🔥 Foden, Nico, Doku, Haaland
🌎 PL top-scoring City players by country
🐝 #Brentford vs. City preview

With @davidmooney.co.uk is:
@fussballdan.bsky.social | @domfarrell.bsky.social | Mike Johnston

Blue Moon Podcast - A Manchester City Show: 8: This is Why They Don’t Build Trains out of Magnesium

Improving performances, a dodgy penalty, and City players who are the Premier League's top goalscorers from different countries

pod.fo

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · 14d

50 years since the Thrilla in Manila and the first landmark anniversary with neither man here. The greatest heavyweight title fight of all time, maybe Ali's greatest win. But hard to celebrate like the Rumble in the Jungle because it was so brutally dark.

www.sportingnews.com/uk/boxing/ne...

The Thrilla in Manila, remembered: The brutal, bleak brilliance of Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier III | Sporting News United Kingdom

Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier's trilogy encounter in Manila in 1975 is the consensus greatest heavyweight title fight of all time. The darkness of what both men endured makes it hard to celebrate.

www.sportingnews.com

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · 14d

Monaco vs. City tonight. Those games in 2017 were incredible and among the most shaping of Guardiola's tenure. The 5-3 is still probably the best game I've ever seen live.

www.sportingnews.com/uk/football/...

Man City 6-6 Monaco, remembered: Mbappe's Champions League breakout and Pep Guardiola's three big lessons | Sporting News United Kingdom

Manchester City travel to Monaco in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday. The teams will struggle to match the excitement from the previous meetings between the clubs.

www.sportingnews.com

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks!

Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · 26d

Talked about Ricky Hatton on here.

Blue Moon Podcast @bluemoonpodcast.com · 26d

🎙️ NEW #MCFC PODCAST

😍 Foden & Haaland displays
🥊 Ricky Hatton tribute
🔴 Arsenal v #ManCity
🐶 Huddersfield preview
💋 Badge-kissing celebrations

With @davidmooney.co.uk is:
@chris-hig.bsky.social | @amosmurphy.bsky.social | @domfarrell.bsky.social | @michaelkeshani.bsky.social | @ttcmatt.bsky.social

Blue Moon Podcast - A Manchester City Show: 6: One Long Kick to the Nether Regions

United and Napoli victories, Ricky Hatton's legacy, insight into Arsenal, and badge-kissing celebrations

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Sep 15

Ah thanks mate, very kind of you to say.

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thanks mate. Christ, that's been some day.

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Sep 14

It's actually the one where United give a whole half of the field to the most prolific striker in world football. A truly obscure more.

Blue Moon Podcast @bluemoonpodcast.com · Sep 12

A question on this week's podcast for @davidmooney.co.uk, @domfarrell.bsky.social and @richardtheburns.bsky.social...

What's your favourite 'obscure' Manchester Derby goal? #MCFC

Blue Moon Podcast: What's your favourite 'obscure' Manchester Derby goal?

YouTube video by Blue Moon Podcast

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Sep 14

Wrote about Phil and Ricky and Manchester.

www.sportingnews.com/uk/football/...

Phil Foden pays perfect tribute to Ricky Hatton's memory in emotionally weighted Manchester derby | Sporting News United Kingdom

A Manchester derby cloaked in sorrow was illuminated by local hero Phil Foden as Manchester City crushed Manchester United. Ricky Hatton would have loved it.

www.sportingnews.com

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Blue Moon Podcast @bluemoonpodcast.com · Sep 11

🎙️ NEW #MCFC PODCAST

🔴 #ManCity vs. Man Utd preview
🌋 City vs. Napoli preview
🇧🇪 De Bruyne's return to Eastlands
👨‍⚖️ The APT2 settlement

With @davidmooney.co.uk is:
@richardtheburns.bsky.social | @domfarrell.bsky.social | @jaymotty.bsky.social | In The Shadow of Vesuvio | @priceoffootball.bsky.social

Blue Moon Podcast - A Manchester City Show: 5: The Spaghetti Lock-Picker

Previewing the Manchester Derby, Napoli podcasters on Kevin De Bruyne, and Kieran Maguire explains APT2

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Sep 11

Massive weekend of boxing so I've decided to don a huge tin sombrero.

The 21 best fighters of the 21st century for The Sporting News.

www.sportingnews.com/uk/boxing/ne...

www.sportingnews.com

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Let Me Talk @lmtpod.city · Sep 10

🎙️ LET ME TALK: REVISITED

Join @samdlee.bsky.social, @domfarrell.bsky.social & @davidmooney.co.uk to revisit the Manchester Derbies under Guardiola:
🔹 Some absolute batterings
🔹 Pep's overall record
🔹 Funny moments
🔹 Utd smash-and-grabs

🎧 Sign up to listen in any podcast app: lmtpod.city

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Let Me Talk @lmtpod.city · Sep 1

🎙️ LET ME TALK: BRIGHTON (A)

Join @samdlee.bsky.social, @domfarrell.bsky.social and @davidmooney.co.uk to discuss
🔹 The performance at Brighton
🔹 City's aura & how others attack them
🔹 Squad weaknesses & development
🔹 Transfer strategy & planning

🎧 Sign up to listen in any podcast app: lmtpod.city

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 30

A tale of several strikers, none of whom were Alexander Isak and none of whom scored.

Match piece from Leeds 0-0 Newcastle

@sportingnews.com

www.sportingnews.com/uk/football/...

Alexander Isak saga nears endgame as weary Newcastle draw blank at Leeds | Sporting News United Kingdom

Record signing Nick Woltemade was in the stands for Newcastle's 0-0 draw with Leeds. Once again, the Alexander Isak void was not hard to spot.

www.sportingnews.com

Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 25

"We missed the simple things."

The level of player turnover in such a short period, made necessary by two years of stasis, means City don't have those old, automatic Guardiola things nailed down to see out tough spells anymore.

Fascinating season ahead.

www.sportingnews.com/uk/football/...

Man City and Pep Guardiola's big problem with the 'simple things' | Sporting News United Kingdom

Contrasting performances and results against Wolves and Tottenham underline that this is a new era for Manchester City, with none of the old certainties.

www.sportingnews.com

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 22

A devastating, vital piece of work on Israel's obliteration of Gaza's footballing infrastructure and culture.

Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · Aug 22

FIFA has multiple obvious grounds to suspend or expel the Israel Football Association and in doing so apply meaningful pressure to stop the slaughter in Gaza. It has done nothing. Great piece of work here from @thepitchinspection.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfjD...

Gaza's Vanishing Stadiums. The Football Story That Is Being Ignored.

YouTube video by The Pitch Inspection

www.youtube.com

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 20

Cheers mate

Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 20

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I'm delighted to announce that my first book - Glory Days for the Waifs and Strays: Identity and Meaning in the Rise of the Modern Manchester City - is out via Biteback Publishing on Tuesday, October 21.

www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/glory-...

Glory Days for the Waifs and Strays

On 12 May 2019, Manchester City became the first team to retain the Premier League title for a decade. Twenty years earlier, the same club was slogging its way fortuitously out of Division Two, having...

www.bitebackpublishing.com

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Blue Moon Podcast @bluemoonpodcast.com · Aug 18

🎙️ NEW #MCFC PODCAST
It's one-way traffic in #ManCity's favour for this one... City Heaven, WATFORD Hell...

🔵 On #MCFC: @domfarrell.bsky.social
🟡 On #WatfordFC: @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social

Listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/136701...

On the left, Bernardo Silva and Raheem Sterling (foreground) and Kevin De Bruyne (background) celebrate City's fourth goal in the FA Cup Final against Watford in 2019. On the right, it reads "City Heaven, City Hell" - but "City Hell" is crossed out and replaced with "Watford Hell". Underneath, it reads "Watford" and "Blue Moon Podcast".

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Dom Farrell @domfarrell.bsky.social · Aug 11

Savinho to Tottenham feels pretty mad and it's very unusual for City to have so many moving parts at this stage. But if three of Foden, Marmoush, Cherki, Doku or Bobb have great seasons, it's hard to make the case that he'd be missed.

www.sportingnews.com/uk/football/...

Why would Man City sell Savinho? Reasons for Pep Guardiola to green-light shock Spurs transfer bid | Sporting News United Kingdom

Savinho is the subject of surprise transfer interest from Tottenham. Manchester City must weigh up the Brazil winger's potential against a meagre 2024/25 scoring record and a stacked squad.

www.sportingnews.com

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