For a city that has produced so much, achieved so much and is actually admired around the world for all it has contributed to humanity, its quite impressive how Manchester still manages to have a massive inferiority complex about most things. Its time we learned to celebrate everything thats great about this place, not just the stuff people from outside Manchester want to talk about. And yes, that absolutely includes Simply Red. Seriously. No, You shut up! But nothing highlights your own insecurity like arguing with Birmingham over who comes second to London. Manchester's great, but so is Birmingham. We've got John Cooper Clarke, they've got Benjamin Zephaniah. We've got The Arndale, they've got the Bull Ring. We've got The Smiths, they invented heavy metal. We've got Ernest Rutherford (split the atom), they've got Francis William Aston (discovered isotopes). We've got Emmeline Pankhurst, they've got Bertha Ryland. It's all good. If we put aside our differences, wed probably get on quite well with Birmingham.