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Manchester United's official website runs a series of articles about the Manchester music scene and in part 2 it features Morrissey and Marr amongst others.
Sounds of M'cr: Part two - Official Manchester United Website
In late 2007, Inside United explored the links between football and music in Manchester. Here we revisit that piece in three parts. Here's part two...
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Managers were similarly intolerant of players who dared to be remotely different. Smiths City-supporting guitarist Johnny Marr remembers being rejected by the Blues, despite impressing in a trial.
“I was good enough for City,” he once said, “but they didn’t follow up because I was probably the only player out there wearing eyeliner.”
He wasn’t the only Smith, it later emerged, who was a football fan. That most unlikely, and uncelebrated United fan, is none...