Do I look like Malcolm Glazer?

DILBERT creator Scott Adams once suggested that humans had a limitless capacity for stupidity, selfishness and horniness. I’ll only deal with stupidity for now (just you wait for the blog entries on the other two, though).

Have I got promotion for you?

JIM Gannon made history on Friday night, as the first Stockport County manager ever to get a mention on Have I Got News For You?

Waiting

“MAYBE news from Thaksin will come tomorrow,” as Sven-Goran Estragon might have said in Waiting For Godot.

The morning after the night before

I’VE just spoken to a journalist friend who has been covering the Champions League final in Moscow. His flight home has been “rescheduled”.

Dale on the Wembley trail

NOEL Gallagher has definitely got one up on Lennon and McCartney this time. (Not to mention Neil Innes.) After all (you’re my Wonderwall), the Beatles never helped Rochdale get to Wembley.

Invasion on the doorstep

I DON’T remember it being as chaotic as this when Manchester hosted the 2003 Champions League final. 10.45am: Quay Street gridlocked. Almost every car contained at least three people wearing Rangers shirts.

The team they couldn’t relegate

FORGET Fulham. The ultimate relegation escape story is at Altrincham. For the third successive season, Alty have managed to finished in the Conference drop zone – without being relegated. Even more weirdly, they seem to be quite upset about surviving.

Last on MOTD: Final thoughts

CONGRATULATIONS to Manchester United. Not only are they the Premier League champions, but they are also one of only three top-flight teams to have avoided being last on Match of the Day all season. Can you name the others?

Name on the trophy

WHILE researching the article on Manchester City’s last-day title win in 1968, I discovered two facts which tell a lot about how football has changed. 1) The Football League had the trophy at Old Trafford, on the assumption that Manchester United would win it. 2) Nobody at City was unduly bothered about this.

It was 40 years ago today

TODAY is a very special anniversary in the history of Manchester City – the 40th anniversary of their last league championship win. To mark the occasion, I spoke to three of the players from that side for an article which first appeared in yesterday’s Manchester Evening News. Here it is.