Less well aired will be the notion that the celebrations are a late flowering of a European civic partnership and regeneration model that began in the 1980s...
Canny civic leadership developed an extensive infrastructure of sports facilities, which staged a vibrant 2002 Commonwealth Games...
In the Olympic bid campaigns, Manchester and Barcelona, which hosted the 1992 summer Games, recognised themselves as kindred spirits...
Manchester chafed under the Conservative 1980s rate-capping but never experienced the ability to go it alone that Catalonia did.
[
Collection
]
[
|
...
]