Black History Month has seen us reflect on the journeys of many of our most prominent Black players past and present to City, as well as find out more about the man that helps to make our Official Supporters Clubs as diverse as possible.
This year’s theme was ‘Saluting Our Sisters’, so we asked our players about Bunny Shaw’s impact on them and the team.
We also hosted Brighton at the Etihad Stadium during the Premier League’s No Room for Racism window, with a number of activations – including the players taking the knee before kick-off.
Here we’ll recap everything that we have published throughout October...
Team-mates discuss Bunny Shaw’s impact
Shaw’s team-mates confirm what we already knew - the Jamaican striker is a star.
We asked several members of the City squad and coaches - including Gareth Taylor, Steph Houghton, Alex Greenwood, Lauren Hemp and Khiara Keating - what Bunny means to them...
Ake and Akanji’s influences
Nathan Ake and Manuel Akanji sit down to consider their journeys to this point.
The defenders were both born in Europe to African fathers and European mothers.
Ake’s father was from Ivory Coast and his mother is Dutch while Akanji was born to a Swiss mother and a Nigerian father.
You can watch it below...
Meet Bing Findlater, OSC Equality and Inclusion Lead
Our Official Supporters Clubs’ Equality and Inclusion Lead is Bing Findlater.
Bing, a Manchester-born fan of the Club since childhood, talks us through his life following City and what his current role entails as part of our Black History Month celebrations.
Findlater, who has been in his role since March 2020, won a Football Black List award in 2022 after being nominated by City in the Community ambassador Alex Williams.
Find out more about him below...
Bunny Shaw’s City stats
Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw is one of the finest footballers in the world. The stats prove it.
Click here to read those stats from her first two City seasons.
Nedum and Stan swap stories
Two City favourites met at the City Football Academy earlier this month to discuss their lives around the Club.
Nedum Onuoha and Stan Horne both enjoyed spells at City in different generations.
Horne, who played for the Club between 1965 and 1968, was the first ever Black player to win the league while Onuoha came through our academy, eventually reaching the first team in 2004 and remaining until 2012.
Onuoha asks Horne about the reception he received as City’s first Black player from both fans and team-mates, before going on to describe the impact trailblazers like Horne have had on his own life.
Watch the video below...
Shaun Wright-Phillips’ City story
Shaun Wright-Phillips made you sit up and watch.
At his peak, Wright-Phillips was a tiny winger whose pace, trickery and determination saw him run rings around bigger men and made the City fans fall in love.
City Studios told his story with the 2021 documentary Shaun Wright-Phillips: City’s Homegrown Hero, that remains available through CITY+.
We revisit that documentary to tell Shaun’s story through the eyes of those who are closest to him in this long read.
CITC coaches share their stories
In the episode both Stjon and Marcus discuss how their roles and mentoring style were shaped by their experiences and role models growing up, as well as how, even as adults, they still look up to influential people to help guide them through the harder times.
Watch that below...
Carrington on his City journey
EDS starlet Ezra Carrington tells us how his life in the Academy has seen him grow on and off the pitch.
