Manchester Central

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The Manchester Central Football Club was a short period of existing professional football club in Manchester , England .

history

The club was founded in 1928 by disappointed Manchester City supporters after the club left their ancestral home in east Manchester in 1923 and moved to a new stadium in the south of the city. The name Central was given because the club had the same initials as its model club Manchester City. The letters MCFC were emblazoned above the entrance to the Belle Vue Stadium on Hyde Road, just a mile from the old City Stadium .

One of the driving forces behind the founding of the new club was John Ayrton, who was previously a board member at Manchester City. Other founding members were the great Billy Meredith (active player for both Manchester City and Manchester United between 1894 and 1924 ) and Charlie Roberts , who played for United from 1904 to 1913. The most spectacular engagement of the still young club for its first season 1928/29 in the Lancashire Combination came with the previous City player Charlie Pringle , who at times also wore the captain's armband for the Citizens.

When Wigan Borough had withdrawn from Division Three (North) in October 1931 , Central applied for their place in the league. The clubs in the league signaled their approval, but because the higher-class clubs City and United from Manchester spoke out against it, the request was rejected. It seemed that the City, playing in the first division, did not want a new club with the same abbreviation MCFC to emerge in their own city. For United, at that time only in the second division and with a largely disappointing audience at the time, Central as a non-league club with a sometimes higher number of visitors looked downright threatening.

After Central had been refused admission to professional football, the club was dissolved at the end of the 1931/32 season in which he had played in the Cheshire League .

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literature

  • Gary James: Manchester - A Football History . James Ward (Publishing), Halifax, West Yorkshire, April 2008, ISBN 978-0-9558127-0-5