Manchestercity Stories

At fourteen, Mara Kellett knows two things better than anyone: how to survive, and how to beat anyone in a one-v-one. Most nights, she sleeps lightly in the tiny Rochdale flat she shares with her addicted mother and whatever boyfriend happens to be hanging around that month. Bruises fade. Split lips heal. Cigarette burns don't. Mara learned a long time ago that adults don't protect you - they leave, lie, hurt you, or all three. So she trusts no one. Not teachers. Not social workers. Not foster carers. Only the football at her feet. On the estate, Mara and her two best mates hustle strangers for cash with a battered portable goal and a simple challenge: beat her in a one-v-one if you can. Nobody ever can. Not the college boys. Not the Sunday League dads. Not the cocky academy kids who think she'll be easy because she's small and a girl. Then one afternoon, a crowd forms. And among the crowd are professional footballers. What starts as a street bet changes everything. Suddenly, clubs are fighting to sign her. Coaches call her a generational talent. England wants to build a future around her. But talent doesn't erase trauma, and Mara carries her past onto every pitch she steps on. Angry, defensive, and terrified of depending on anyone, she pushes away every person trying to help her - even the teammates who slowly become the family she never had. But when an arrest drags her back into the care system and threatens to destroy the only future she's ever wanted, Mara has to decide whether survival means staying alone... or finally letting people in.

Caught in a storm, Aria discovers an unlikely cure for her insomnia: the comforting embrace of the football star Erling Haaland at the Etihad Stadium. What begins as a chance encounter evolves into a series of fateful meetings, and when Haaland offers help, Aria hesitates, haunted by past mistakes. After accepting his help and agreeing to keep their emotions in check, Aria wonders: is Haaland truly her cure, or merely a distraction? And what secrets lie behind his offer of help? In a tale of unexpected romance and recovery, Aria navigates love, loss, and the healing power of a simple embrace.

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Jesse and Auralee have never met in person. They follow each other on Instagram and Twitter, they text, call and FaceTime all the time and Aura even watches all his matches. But due to her life being in LA, they never had the chance to meet. But that is all going to change as Aura is moving back to the UK. Will this stay as a friendship or will magic take place?

How one crazy night, could lead to changing your whole life? Question is will they get there happily ever after?...

Olivia, 19, Liverpool's new photographer Trent, 21, Liverpool's right back What could go wrong? Hi, my names LiverpoolLol and this is my first story :)

Zara, a twenty something apprentice from London captures the eyes of some unwanted attention, A group of Football Players from Manchester City. When one of the players, Joe Hart approaches her, she doesnt know what to say. From this point onwards both of their lives and others around them lives will change...but for better or for worse?

SEQUEL to "With Me From The Start". I gave Joe a second chance. Not because I had too, but because I love him so much to a point where it hurts when he's not by my side. The only problem is, can we get through the challenges that we now come face-to-face with?

My name is Lexi Southgate the daughter of Gareth Southgate. I'm on my way to go stay with my dad for a while but then I met him. And this is how my life changed...

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Leigh and Joe have been together for five years, married for two of them, have a son together, and about to add another child to their growing family. Life seems perfect. This is until Leigh loses her memory in a car accident. She can't remember marrying the love of her life, her son, and the child she is carrying. She thinks all this is a joke and a damn good one at that. How will Joe react to this? How will he cope? How will they all cope and will Leigh ever her her memory back?

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What happens when Lucy Bronze ups and leaves her girlfriend? 5 years later they are finally reunited. Will they continue their long running feud? Or will past feelings come back to haunt them?

Lucía's life has changed a lot since she left her hometown 10 years ago and now it was time for another change. Heartbroken after yet another betrayal, she moves to Manchester not looking for love...but sometimes, love finds you.

Georgia Jacobson, GJ, has been playing soccer since she had turned six years old, now at seventeen, she is in her senior year at Blue Lake High School. She is the starting goalkeeper for the varsity soccer team and has been since her freshman year. As the end of the school year approaches and soccer season has begun, she is at the top of her game. Then she gets an offer she might not be able to refuse.

A book of Premier League matches and results for the 2017-18 season. Cover made by the talented @ballmainhoe