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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Before Manchester City moved into their first permanent home in 1887, the club played at a short series of grounds which ranged from established cricket venues to bumpy fields with no stands or boundaries nor history of sporting usage. Having only been founded originally as a philanthropic endeavour to encourage impressionable youths to commit to wholesome activities rather than falling to the local adolescent culture of alcohol and violence - and with the sport of football barely 15 years from the writing of its own rulebook - the club had no immediate option of using or constructing a stadium, and thus most of their first locations were nothing more than painted lines and goalposts. As the club itself reformed and changed its name twice during the period of 1880 to 1887, so too its choice of locations were a series of low-cost, short-term solutions as and when their current location became untenable. It was not until 1887 - when City moved to their sixth pitch in only eight years - that they would have the money, ambition, reputation and stability to construct themselves a more permanent base of operations, at the stadium named Hyde Road."@en }

• Early_grounds_of_Manchester_City_F.C. abstract "Before Manchester City moved into their first permanent home in 1887, the club played at a short series of grounds which ranged from established cricket venues to bumpy fields with no stands or boundaries nor history of sporting usage. Having only been founded originally as a philanthropic endeavour to encourage impressionable youths to commit to wholesome activities rather than falling to the local adolescent culture of alcohol and violence - and with the sport of football barely 15 years from the writing of its own rulebook - the club had no immediate option of using or constructing a stadium, and thus most of their first locations were nothing more than painted lines and goalposts. As the club itself reformed and changed its name twice during the period of 1880 to 1887, so too its choice of locations were a series of low-cost, short-term solutions as and when their current location became untenable. It was not until 1887 - when City moved to their sixth pitch in only eight years - that they would have the money, ambition, reputation and stability to construct themselves a more permanent base of operations, at the stadium named Hyde Road.".