An Introduction
A Salford City Story

A Background
Salford city, originally founded in 1940 as Salford central, progressed though the local leagues in the early years until 1963, when the club stepped up into the Manchester league and changed the club name to Salford Amateurs, also giving birth to the clubs nickname "the Ammies"
Though it was in the 70's that the club had its first period of real success winning the lancashire amateur cup in 1973,1975 and 1977. 1977 proved to be a very successful one with the club winning its first and only Champion of Champions trophy too.
After this decade of success, the club managed to restore the derelict Moor lane to an acceptable standard and gained entry to the Cheshire League in 1980 and secured non-league status for the first time.
Years of climbing the football ladder followed and the club maintained its non-league status willingly until the biggest step forward the club had taken in it's history to date when in the 2013-2014 season, 5 members of the famous Class of '92 Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Gary + Phil Neville and Paul Scholes bought a 50% share in the company with the aim of giving back to local football.


After a good start to the 2014-2015 season form soon dipped and the manager Phil Power was replaced by not one, but two managers in the form of Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley. the duo revitalized the team and with 15 wins from 17 games the club secured the Evo-Stik league first division north title and only 12 months later, a victory over Workington in the play off final at Moor lane secured promotion to the national league north.
And then, in the summer of 2017 Salford City took the huge leap to become a full time professional football club, hoping to make the leap up into the full time professional leagues and fight as far up the footballing pyramid as possible.
And Now
After a huge 132 million pound sweepstake win on the Euromillions lottery, Bernard Morley and Anthony Johnson decided to hang up the tracksuits and head for the beaches afar to enjoy retirement after the slog of non-league football.
Who could be the man to guide Salford City up the leagues after these 2 shock departures?
This man...
Hopefully
With a squad seemingly too good for the league its currently in, the backing of an ambitious board and facilities that non-league clubs can only dream of this will be easy
wont it?
Packed with his backpack of tactics, a contract worth £950 a week for the just one year, and a club ready to go places, can he take Salford up the ladder and emulate that great team that the current board members were a part of back in 99?
that's the aim!
Within this story i am aiming to take Salford City up the football pyramid and right to the top, i will be looking to achieve with Salford what Manchester united achieved all those years ago by winning the treble of the premier league, FA Cup and Champions League in any given season.
IF (and that's a purposely big if) i manage this, i'll retire and leave my legacy behind knowing i did something great (and probably spent A LOT of my spare time playing football manager)
So
LETS GO!
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