Sir Bobby’s Babes – footballers’ foundation funds free children’s football sessions in Moss Side
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThere’s something poetic in the fact that over 100 years of Manchester’s development can be seen from the playing fields of a school in Moss Side.
Ahead and to the right of Manchester Academy school's football pitches, over Denmark Road, is a row of red brick Edwardian shops, round the corner from a street of tightly packed terraced houses.
Behind these are squat new build apartment blocks – still in that red brick. READ MORE: There are so many kids in poverty in Manchester and Salford they could fill out Wembley Stadium These in turn are dwarfed by the towering skyscrapers that have come to be an icon of modern Manchester, silvery and glimmering in the weak August sun.
To many they represent a level of wealth and luxury that from here, one of the poorest areas of the city, can feel very far away.
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