When dawn broke on 1 January 1991, Glasgow's year as European City of Culture was over. It was time to count the cost, £32 million it emerged, to pick up the pieces and to begin the inquest. As Glasgow is a city self-conscious to a fault, with an infinite capacity for self-analysis and self-flagellation, the inquest began long before 1990 had even dawned. The predictable round of ‘Whose City?’ and ‘What Culture?’ articles poured out as soon as Glasow had been awarded the title in 1986. Predictably, many of those early doubters ended up getting involved in the City of Culture events and profiting from them. Indeed, even those most virulently opposed to the whole notion, a group called ‘Workers City’, which rallied around the Glasgow novelist James Kellman, provided what was possibly the year's most entertaining and certainly longest running event. The furious and intensely public debate centred on the ramifications of the £4 million lost by an exhibition called Glasgow's Glasgow.