The happy shrieks of the children in the playground at Divine Mercy RC Primary School drifted around on the bitter Manchester breeze last week. Once, this patch of land where the kids skipped and played tag was the Platt Lane End, its rows of long wooden benches sloping away from behind the goal at Maine Road.
A lad in a hoodie walked down Blue Moon Way, a street that rose from the ruins of the stadium. He did not know where the small monument that marked the site of the Maine Road centre circle was, he said. In fact, it seemed news to him that Manchester City had played here at all.