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IAN HERBERT: It's often that those who see our football from outside this country have the highest appreciation of the cathedrals, which have been largely ignored now. When Stuart Roy Clarke, a leading documentary photographer, wanted to produce 'The Homes of Football,' capturing our 1990s journey through the game as it came on the brink of modernization, the only publisher willing to commission it was German 'Spielmacher'. The finished product, which was released a few years ago, is stunning, but the text is in German, with an English translation tucked away at the back. Some of the best stadiums, packed with fans when Clarke depicted them, are as iconic as ever to those who remember them, as shown by Mail Sport journalist Ian Ladyman's visit to the old Maine Road center circle in south Manchester last year.

OLIVER HOLT: Any list - your list as well as mine - can be dominated by those who are not on it. However, it should really be about the participants who are on it. This list is meant to be a salute to them and of football's rich, rich past, as well as what the game means to all of us and what players represent and why they capture something in us. You'll disagree with some of the names on the list, and you'll be correct. Another man's garbage is another man's treasure. The depth of our passion for the game and the ferocity of our opinions about the players are only two of the factors that make football so beautiful.

Newcastle welcomes Manchester City to St James' Park this weekend, but we'll go back to the Mail Sport archives today, back to a time when Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia's financial strength revolutionized two historic clubs. City is a club with humble beginnings, established in 1880 as Ardwick AFC by members of St Mark's Church.

Newcastle welcome Manchester City to St James' Park this weekend, so today we dig into the Mail Sport archives, dating back to a time when Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia's financial power revolutionized two historic clubs. Ardwick AFC is a club with humble beginnings, founded in 1880 by members of St Mark's Church. Ardwick and phoenix club Manchester City FC was formed in 1894 as a unit meant to assist all Mancunians.

Colin Bell, Francis Lee, and Mike Summerbee have all been in honor of Manchester City legends. The Premier League champions have been eager to thank the trio for their combined 30 years of service to the organization in the 1960s and 1970s. The bronze statue, which stands on a single plinth, has been unveiled now, ahead of Tuesday night's Champions League match against RB Leipzig.

Homeowners could now borrow up to six times a year on a set rate of up to 40 years, with a new lender aiming to shake up the UK mortgage market. On fixed-rate terms of between 20 and 40 years, Perenna will lend up to 95% of a house's value. It would also lend up to six times a borrower's income, subject to them meeting certain conditions. This may be helpful to first-time buyers who may have trouble raising a large enough deposit. However, borrowing such a large sum and locking in to a steady rate for decades may cause anxiety for those people. We ruled against Perenna's bid and discussed what buyers need to hear about it.

Before next week's Champions League match against RB Leipzig, Manchester City will unveil a new tribute to club legends Colin Bell (right), Francis Lee (left), and Mike Summerbee (inset). The legendary City triumvirate are the latest to be immortalized by the club, with monuments dedicated to Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany, and David Silva. Now, the city of Hong Kong needs to pay their respects to their trophy-laden years from the late 1960s and early 1970s.

CHRIS WHEELER: Former players from both teams will assemble on the pitch to give their respects. Sir Bobby, as much as he was United through and through, was proud to claim himself an adopted son of Manchester.

IAN HERBERT: In the sea of flowers now laid at the front of Old Trafford, Manchester City is hardly noticeable. In honor of Sir Bobby Charlton, shirts of Liverpool, Everton, and Burnley have been embroidered. West Ham, Cardiff, and Barnsley are among those represented. However, there's almost nothing that contributes to the belief that old blue/red divides are no longer present this week, and that United's loss is the city of Manchester's loss. That's what stored up bitterness can do, and Manchester United has unquestionably been subjected to some from Manchester United in recent years. During the team's early stages of the club's transformation from upstarts to dominant Manchester forces, a few of those on their staff had the misfortune to cross Sir Alex Ferguson's path behind the scenes when the teams met. Ferguson was positively dissatisfied with City in the early Abu Dhabi period, and he made them aware of it. But is it too much to ask that City's fans make a positive showof respect to the memory of Sir Bobby when the teams meet on Sunday?

The beaches along the Isle of Wight's rugged Jurassic Coast are a magnet for fossil hunters, nestling beneath sandstone cliffs dating back 200 million years. The lucky ones even find the occasional fossil bone. Kayt Wolfe stumbled across something of definite value last Saturday morning, although walking her dog along the shore and picking up bits of garbage, as is her routine. An oblong, black canvas, zip-up bag with a height of about 4ft by 3ft was first assumed to be a cushion, thrown or blown off a passing boat.

According to the most recent census results, women who have reached the age of 100 outnumber men by 23 to one. According to the 2021 estimates, the number of centenarians has risen from 11,186 to 13,924 in a decade. Women made up 11,288 of the total number, while only 2,636 men reached the milestone age. The overall increase in the century before was a whopping 27 percent, up from just 110 in 1921. According to the latest Office of National Statistics results, living near the seaside could be the key to a long life. Nine out of ten local authorities with the most centenarians are located off the coast, with the top three all on the English south coast. According to the ONS, there were 64 people in East Devon who had reached 100 or older, 59 per 100,000 in Arun in West Sussex, and 57 per 100,000 in the New Forest.

Borrowers in the United Kingdom will be able to set the rate of interest on their mortgage for up to 30 years. Perenna, a new bank, has received its unrestricted banking license, becoming the first start-up to do so in 2023. Borrowers in the United Kingdom will be familiar with much shorter fixed-rate loans in which the interest rate is guaranteed to remain the same for a set period of time - usually two to five years. The new product is under judicial scrutiny.

OLIVER HOLT: Istanbul is an enthralling metropolis, partly because it asks so many questions. Does it belong to east or west?Is it an Asian city or a European one?Is it religious or is it secular?How does it manage its collision of ancient and modern? There are days when casual nods to Rome's glories make it seem like strolling around Rome, but then you recall that this place, as Constantinople, was long the Roman Empire's capital. In many ways, it's difficult to imagine a more appropriate location for City's fight to establish their own dominion over the continent.

JACK GAUGHAN: At a time when Stewart Day lost all sense of what he had been doing in a whirlwind of gambling chaos, the then-Bury owner boosted the possibility of a new 24,000-seat stadium. The eyes were clearly larger than the stomach. The wallet, as it happens, is also the wallet. Had those plans been launched off the ground, Bury may have been out of Gigg Lane, 1885, and - to those of us with misty eyes and wistful for tradition - an English football team. Now, with senior men's football suspended for four years following the club's removal from the EFL, a fight is ongoing to get back inside.

Exclusive INTERVIEW BY JACK GAUGHAN: There aren't many footballers with a gin named after them. Head to Ancoats, Manchester's trendy part, and you will notice a bottle carrying Mike Summerbee's name only a few quid less than his £40-per-week salary when signing for the blue half of town six decades ago. It's 'a take on traditional London Dry with added luxury,' according to the accompanying blurb, and there is something to that. Time in Summerbee's company is a luxury. Manchester City's raconteur, the face of their past but also the future, has remained a recurring link between old and new. He could talk for days about Colin Bell and George Best, but with equal knowledge of Pep Guardiola and Kevin De Bruyne, he could discuss them for days. He is an unusual life, one that was commemorated by the club when he reached the grand milestone of 80 last month. He is one of the city's most popular men and the guestlist for a mystery party, held by City and his wife Tina inside the Etihad Stadium's hospitality suites, is testimony to that.

Donna-May Bolinger, 62, is embroiled in a court fight with Ned Bell, the adult son of her late ex-husband, high-profile stockbroker Colin Bell (left). Bell's death was followed by a backlash against his will shortly after. Bolinger (right), an ex Sydney shoe designer, will inherit the Woollahra home where she lived for more than a decade, according to her. However, a codicil paper, created in 2020, was unable to be able to inherit Bell's estate gifts.

Malcolm Allison - the brash Cockney who became a Manchester City legend and was responsible for a daring style of play that needs to be remembered - would have been 95 on Monday. Allison, Pep Guardiola's assistant, won a league title, two domestic trophies, and the Cup Winners' Cup before briefly taking over the top job himself. He was ahead of his time in the 1960s, as a progressive coach and gregarious figure both on the grass and in the nightclubs. Allison will often do press work when Mercer's No. 2 is downplayed, owing to his being more quotable. He never played about it, and shortly after winning the First Division title in 1968, he uttered the words that have unintentionally haunted their long-term friendship with Europe for more than a century.

Did 'everything wrong' when the order was given to evacuate his Lancaster bomber after it had been severely damaged by a German fighter, Dick Raymond (pictured left recently and inset in 1943) got away with it, but still got away with it.' At a bombing raid on Brunswick in 1944 during the Second World War, the then 20-year-old was one of a crew that was downed over Germany during a bombing attack. He went on to be arrested as a prisoner of war and lived a notorious 'death march' westwards in gruesome wintry weather during Germany's loss the next year. Mr Raymond, who is now 98, is one of four veterans of the RAF's elite Pathfinders (shown inset being tested by King George VI in 1943) who have recently photographed and recalled their stories of survival and tragedy on the 80th anniversary of the unit's establishment. The RAF's Bomber Command was transformed from extinction in August 1942 from the clandestine unit of 20,000 teenagers and men in their early twenties. It was either a weapon capable of razing whole cities to the ground in a single night or hitting targets just over a few hundred feet wide. Gwen Thomas (right now and inset in 1944), who is now 96, served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and spent in the Pathfinders' headquarters in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. She was devastated that she would not be able to say goodbye to her fighter pilot boyfriend before he was killed in 1943.