Surprising and Interesting Manchester Derby Facts

Interesting and surprising facts about the Manchester Derby that you haven't heard about.

Manchester United hosts their bitter rival, Manchester City on Oct 24, Sunday at 07:50 pm NPT. Here are some of the

1. Manchester derby was first played on 12th November 1881, when City were West Gordon (St. Marks) and United were Newton Health. Newton Health won 3-0.

Newton Health Vs West Gordon

2. In the derby of December 1970, George Best broke the leg City's Glyn Pardoe with a tackle.

3. Peter Schmeichel played for both teams and remained unbeaten in derby appearances for both team. He represented United from 1991 to 1999 and City in the 2002-03 season.

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4. In 1978, United and City formed a combined  team and played against 
combined team of Everton and Liverpool.

5. These two teams have occupied the first and second spot of the league position on three occasions; in 1968-78 season and in 2011-12 season and 2012-13.

6. These two teams have never met in FA cup final or the League Cup final.


7. Out of these two teams, City were the first to win a trophy ever, in 1904.

8. Ryan Giggs is the most prolific Manchester derby player of all time.

9. On 1973-74 season derby , Denis Law re-joined City after playing 11 seasons for United. He scored a back-heel goal in the 81st minute and relegated United.
  Watch that goal here..  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNnsWnHW9co

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Gorkha Nepal

Hey,
Want to know more about Gorkha???  Here I am. I've been living in Gorkha for about 10 months now. I've been working in Gorkha.
Well, actually Gorkha is one of the 75 districts of Republic of Nepal. Geographically, located in mid Nepal Gorkha shares it's border in the North with the mighty China as the great Himalayas separates the border. Mostly covered in Hilly terrain, Gorkha, is quite a challenging place to live for the locals.

Headquarter of Gorkha district is called Gorkha Bazar and it's 24 kms diversion from Aanbu Khaireni along the Kathmandu-Pokhara  Prithvi Highway. Only the 24 kms road to Gorkha Bazaar is black topped. And you'll have to travel off road if you want to visit some villages nearby. Well , travelling is not easy as well.

Gorkha District claimed the epicenter of the devastating Earthquake few months ago. The Epicenter Barpak village in gorkha district is a 5 hrs off road bus journey from Gorkha bazaar. Barpak was claimed to be the largest village in Nepal ( before the earthquake) and was popular a tourist hub. Well now, the whole village is devastated and rebuilding is going on. The road to Barpak has become very dangerous and vulnerable to mudslides as an aftereffect of earthquake.


I'll update more on this post, for now i'll leave you with these pictures showing  the dangerous condition of road to Barpak, Gorkha Nepal.

Road to Barpak

Buses struggle in the mud.