24 April
1937
City are crowned league champions for the first time.
Wilf Wild’s side needed just two points from the final two games to lift the Division One championship and go them in the first of the two fixtures.
More than 50,000 crammed into Maine Road for the visit of Sheffield Wednesday, where City raced into a 3-0 half-time lead.
Eric Brook, Fred Tilson and Peter Doherty got the goals and though the Owls pulled one back after the break, Brook scored his second to seal a 4-1 win.
1946
Seventy thousand people attend an international match between England and Scotland at Maine Road, held to raise funds for the Burnden Park disaster.
The game ends 2-2 with Don Welsh netting a brace for England and Willie Thornton doing the same for Scotland.
2016
City make it three wins out of three in the FA WSL, with a 2-0 victory away at Birmingham City.
Daphne Corboz and Jane Ross were on target for Nick Cushing’s side, who were laying the foundations for an undefeated campaign.
On the same day, midfielder Izzy Christiansen was named PFA Women’s Players’ Player of the Year.
The award was reward for her fine form for club and country over the previous 12 months, in which she scored nine times for City and made a goal scoring debut for England.
2019
City’s title aspirations are given a huge boost as Bernardo Silva and Leroy Sane score in a 2-0 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford.
The victory sends Pep Guardiola’s side one point clear of Liverpool at the top of the Premier League table and ensured our destiny was in our own hands with three games left to play.
After a goalless first half, Bernardo fired inside David De Gea’s near post for the opening goal, before Sane came off the bench and shot through the Spanish keeper to seal a vital three points.
Birthdays
Former player and manager Stuart Pearce turns 58 today.
He joined City in the summer of 2001 and, in what would prove to be his final season as a player, he captained Kevin Keegan’s side to the First Division title and a return to the Premier League.
Pearce joined the coaching staff after retirement and would replace Keegan as manager in 2005. In his two full seasons in charge City finished 15th and 14th, before his departure in May 2007.
