The Monday Night Match: Manchester City 3-0 Liverpool
Well, that’s one question answered, at least. Those that had been wondering how long it would take Manchester City’s diamond-encrusted team to gel this season have their answer, and it...
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The Premier League 2010/11 Previews Part 11: Manchester City – Great Expectations
“Where now for Manchester City?” has probably been the hottest Premier League question of the summer. Such has been their level of spending that the Champions League was regarded by...
Football’s Latest Pointless Rule: The 25-Man Squad List
Arsene Wenger is today being quoted as stating that the new Premier League rule reducing squad sizes to 25, as being “a disastrous decision for football and for the players”....
Manchester City Prepare To Turn Hyde Blue
This afternoon at Ewen Fields, the freshly-renamed Hyde FC play Manchester City in a pre-season friendly which may feel more like a home match for City supporters than they might...
The Christian Aid Secrecy League
Of all the football figures railing against the appointment of another independent FA chairman, Leeds United chairman Kenneth William Bates was the most predictable. An independent mind and independent voice...
Match Of The Midweek: Manchester City 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur
When the Champions League play-off suggestion was made earlier this season (and laughed out of court accordingly), few would have guessed that we would be where we are with four...
Manchester City v Spurs: Does It Matter?
Tonight at Eastlands, Manchester City take on Tottenham in what may well be the decisive game in the race for fourth place and the final Champions League spot. The media...
Manchester City Scrape The Goalkeeping Barrel
The last couple of days must have been filled with conflicting emotions for Gunnar Nielsen. The twenty-three year old Faroese goalkeeper became the first person from his home island to...
Wayne Bridge, Tabloid Fluff & The World Cup
Wayne Bridge probably won't be going to the World Cup finals, then, but John Terry's "friends" leaking derogatory comments to the press about him say more about Terry than they...
A Final Word On John Terry
In some respects, the furore surround the John Terry affair (for the want of a better phrase) says as much about the British and their attitudes as it does about...
The John Terry Moral Conundrum
The tabloid circus seems likely to continue to run for a few more days at least. Meanwhile, the rest of us look on at it all and shake our heads....
Match Of The Midweek: Manchester City 2-1 Manchester United
There are so many threads to tie together with this match that it is almost impossible to keep track of them all and the feeling, for the first time in...
The Last Time That Manchester City Made A Cup Semi-Final…
History, it has been said many times, is written by the victors. It's a thought that may pass through the heads of some older Manchester City supporters during their League...
2009 – Year Of Missing The Point
2009 was the year in which the wheels constantly threatened to come completely off football's financial wagon without actually doing so. Mark Murphy takes a look over the great and...
Might The Fab Four Become The Super Seven?
As the Premier League reaches the half-way point in its season, Mark Siglioccolo takes a look into his crystal ball and wonders whether the days of Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool...
To Mark, Happy Christmas, Love Man City XXX
Manchester City have sacked Les Hughes, then, and replaced him with Roberto Mancini. Is this the wrong decision at the wrong time, or have their owners identified a problem at...
Match Of The Week: Manchester City 3-0 Arsenal
Arsenal were brushed aside by Chelsea at the weekend, and this evening they were similarly dismissed by Manchester City. With the Premier League drifting away towards the horizon, is patience...
If You Are Going to The Manchester City Match Tonight…
Hyde United supporters will be outside the City of Manchester Stadium for tonight's Premier League match between Manchester City and West Ham United, collecting to stave off the winding up...
Manchester City vs Gillingham – The 1999 Division 2 Play-Off
When Manchester City played Gillingham in the Division Two play-off final in 1999, it felt as if it was a do or die moment for the blue half of Manchester....
Manchester City Undone In Stoppage Time
The officials probably allowed the right amount of stoppage time at the end of the Manchester derby, but that didn't stop a post-match storm blowing up. ...