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Manchester City football club has had a long and successful
history since it was first formed in 1880. Like an unsure
Saturday night date, the club tried on a number of different
names before it finally settled on its current Nome deplume
of Manchester City in 1894...
So,
what do you buy for the Manchester City fan that has everything?
Well, how about an eighty-seven minute DVD stuffed full of
the best two hundred goals from the last fifty years? Why
only fifty? Well, although I'm sure that there were many great
goals before that, sadly fans had to wait for the invention
of television to capture these magic moments.
Obviously,
as the goals are spread over such a long period the picture
quality can be very variable and the audio is vanilla stereo.
You can play the disc as a continuous feature, which gives
you a bare bones narration before you're straight into one
goal after another.
Apart
from the variable picture quality the biggest problem with
the disc is that the goals are not placed in any historical
context. Colin Bell and Mike Summerbell feature, but there
is no acknowledgement of the importance of their signing by
Mercer and Allison or how this combination took City from
its position of relegation to the second division in 1963
to winners of the League Championship two years later. The
period covering the late sixties to the early seventies was
a golden period for City, but the disc just shows goal after
goal. This problem continues through all the decades that
the disc covers, which means that in the end you learn nothing
about the history of the club, leaving little in the way of
interest for the casual viewer.
If
you don't feel like watching the disc as a feature then you
have the choice of any of the fifteen chapters. The chapters
cover each of the decades on offer - from the sixties to the
present day, as well as allowing you to watch goals by type:
netbusters, longshots, headers and a whole lot more.
The
DVD is only going to appeal to a very niche market, though
if you or someone you know is a City fan then the DVD will
make an excellent gift. However, there is little in the way
of interest for anyone else. The DVD could have offered so
much more for a very small effort.
Charles
Packer
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