Manchester City F.C. media is website of
Manchester City F.C
Manchester City Football Club are an English football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football ...
that gives vital pieces of information about the club.
Overview
The club's website, mcfc.co.uk, was relaunched in July 2009. Unlike the majority of other football club websites, the site does not feature adverts. The website was designed by Poke, and a number of awards since its relaunch.
On 17 July 2013, the club announced the release of ten new websites (effectively just domains of the main website), which would duplicate the content of the club's main website but in a variety of other languages, particularly
Oriental in origin.
Combined with the previous release of
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
- and
Mandarin
Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to:
Language
* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
-language websites, this makes mcfc.co.uk the website with the broadest global reach of all football websites, serving the official languages to 160 countries and therefore readable by approximately 80% of the world's population.
Magazine
''ManC'' (previously known as ''City'') is the official magazine of the English
football club
Manchester City.
City magazine
The magazine was known as ''City'' for a number of years. The magazine was retailed at £2.50 but format was phased out in favour of new, updated and larger magazine format in August 2010.
''ManC''
The new format was called ''ManC'' and was launched on the 4 August 2010.
The new magazine is published by Cre8 publishing who also produce the Manchester City matchday programmes and the magazine pagination was increased by 33% from 66 pages to 100 and to make up for production the price was increased by one pound, to make the magazine £3.50.
Some of the current features in the new 2010 format include:
*Tricks of the trade: A Manchester City demonstrates how to perform a certain skill
*#SocialCity: Features City fans with views and contributions on official
Twitter
Facebook
and
Flickr
sites
*FAN V PLAYER: A chosen fan answers 10 general knowledge questions against a City player
*InsidetheInjury: Features club doctor Jamie Butler explaining a specific footballing injury
*LocationMCR: Feature about a specific place or area special to
Manchester City fans such as
The Kippax
The Kippax was one of the best known and vocally active terraced stands at Manchester City's Maine Road ground. Originally named the "Popular Side" when the stadium opened in 1923, its name was changed in 1956 when the club gained planning permis ...
*Q&A: An eight-page feature with a player each month answering questions sent in by fans
References
External links
Magazine at publisherOfficial subscription page for Magazine
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Football mass media in the United Kingdom