Roberto Mancini Counts The Cost City’s Thwarted Ambition
There has been, in recent years, a fundamental shift in the way that new stories are reported. There was a time when an announcement would be made, comment would be...
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The 2013 FA Cup Final: A Performance For The Ages From Wigan Athletic
They may have subsequently plummeted through the Premier League's trapdoor, but Wigan Athletic's supporters will surely remember 2013 as the year they won the FA Cup. And no-one can take...
The Early 1980s Decline & Fall Of Manchester City
It hasn't always been ambrosia and nectar for Manchester City, and thirty years ago the club was relegated from the First Division on the last day of the season in...
The 200% Pre-Season Previews: Manchester City
History, as every third-rate writer already knows, has a tendency to be written by the victors. In amongst the hysteria that accompanied the absurdly tight finish to last years Premier...
Match Of The Past: Manchester City
Premier League champions Manchester City haven’t, as we all know, always had things as good as they do now. The history of the club is, however, dotted with some great...
Has Joey Barton Been Given The Right Ban For The Wrong Reason?
The FA has passed down it’s judgement on Joey Barton, and he has been suspended for a total of twelve games for his misdemeanours in the last game of the...
Somehow, Somehow, Somehow… Manchester City Are The Premier League Champions
Forty-four years ago, Manchester City broke their record transfer fee and splashed out £60,000 on Francis Lee from Bolton Wanderers. Several months later, they celebrated their first English championship for...
Visions Of Capitalism: Twenty-First Century Football, The Premier League & Manchester
By tomorrow evening, half of Manchester – a phrase that in itself provokes so much debate that it is worth pointing out that it is being used for the purposes...
44 Years On: Manchester City’s Last Football League Championship Revisited
The hard work, the experts will tell you, has been done. Victories against Manchester United and Newcastle United have taken Manchester City to the cusp of their first English league...
The Morning After The Night Before: Fall-Out From The Manchester Derby
If the Premier League excels at any one thing, then that thing must be spectacle of the type that we saw at the City of Manchester Stadium last night. The...
Match Of The Week: Chelsea 2-1 Manchester City
What price genius? It has been suggested more than once this season that Mario Balotelli may be more trouble than he is worth. The firework-igniting, errant child-correcting, trampoline-buying Manchester City...
City & United Fall From The Champions League
Anyone taking a bet at the start of the season would not have been able to predict how this would all end up. Manchester City and Manchester United kissed goodbye...
Match Of The Week: Manchester City 3-1 Newcastle United
If there was the slightest slither of doubt before, there probably isn’t any more. As much as some would like to wish it isn’t so, Manchester City glided to another...
The Balance Of Power In Manchester Hangs In The Balance
Well, none of us expected that and, such was the imperiousness of Manchester City’s performance at Old Trafford this afternoon the thesauruses have already been wrung dry as the internet...