Welcome to mancity.com, online home of Premier League winners Manchester City FC. Overview Hotels Attractions Restaurants Nightlife Shopping. Our Manchester expert Cathy Toogood offers an essential guide to Manchester, with top tips on what to see, where to eat, where to stay and how to get around. Are cities brands like any others? The squad arrived to a noisy welcome from local schoolchildren – but also to a cover story about Wigan Athletic in the sports section of the New York Times, reflecting on a team “Lingering at the Exit”. The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. Two new shopping/entertainment complexes, The Triangle and The Printworks, opened in 2000, the year after Manchester United sealed a historic treble under Sir Alex, and in 2006 the 169-metre Beetham Tower, much of which is occupied by a Hilton Hotel, was completed. Six lines and 65 stations make up the service today. Meanwhile, swanky cocktail bars have now replaced some of the more grimy venues, and the Northern Quarter has become a mecca for wacky boutiques, vegan cafés and record shops. The trip is about City, too. Rebranding in Manchester Hulme is an inner city in Manchester, England. It was hardly the place you’d consider for a weekend break. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. The musical tradition continued with Oasis, and remains with the likes of Elbow and I Am Kloot. Real Madrid Adidas (until 2020) £28.5m per year, 4. This was a defining strategy not a motto, it’s a value assessment, something to measure against: asking the question is this thing we are doing / building / thinking modern, original? France Nike (until 2018) £36m per year. How could we connect reality to an ambitious vision for Manchester?”, “I also realized that so much is to do with perception. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Bayern Munich Adidas (until 2020) £23.6m, 5. It was not easy to determine, so the city joined in the search in 2004. In 2002,Manchester, the third largest city in Great Britain, hosted the Commonwealth Games. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. The bid to host the Olympics further raised the city’s profile – the Commonwealth Games provided a consolation prize in 2002 – and, following the IRA bombing in 1996, money was ploughed into the city centre, too. “I saw that the concept of ‘Original Modern’ was intended to infuse every aspect of the city’s development, that it would be perceived as a real opportunity for the city to reinvent itself on a logical base that’s historically correct. And the city lacked a collective vision. As Berlin has been doing. Manchester City Football Club is an English football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), it became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The concerns about Aguero’s intentions have put Carlos Tevez in limbo, with the Argentine one year away from the expiry of his City contract. City have had an active interest in Cavani for several years, though his cost has always been a problem. Roads, bridges, housing and offices were built, as well as a waterfront promenade. Other recent improvements include the £12m revamping of the People's History Museum, an overhaul of the Museum of Science and Industry, and the opening of the Legoland Discovery Centre. The process began over the weekend and will continue for the next four weeks as “Cityzens” (club members), submit responses to a detailed questionnaire exploring each element of the badge. 1. The representative of the club who first met his agent was quoted €50m, at a time when City were telling agents that the days of them paying overinflated transfer fees to accelerate their progress were now over.