With 10 games to go Manchester City are 10 points off the top of the Premier League in a far from Perfect 10 scenario. But – and it’s a big but – if Manuel Pellegrini’s team can finish how they started and start how they finished, City could yet win a second title in three years. An 11 game winning streak saw City close out last season in style and […]

Goalkeeping glare was all the rage as the media vultures gathered to focus on ‘flop’ Joe Hart, to zoom in on his discomfort and further undermine his Manchester City and England career. Dropped for the first time in 124 Premier League games, here was a great opportunity to engineer and expose the merest morsel of dissent from Hart, to exploit yet another example of mercenaries lacking loyalty or passion for […]

Well now we know – it’s no go Joe as Manchester City’s number one keeper loses top billing and makes way for his previously perennial understudy Costel Pantilimon. Still to be officially confirmed, Manuel Pellegrini’s decision to go with ‘Pants’ for today’s Premier League match with Norwich, will undoubtedly divide opinion within the ranks of City supporters. Hart who hasn’t missed a PL start for the last 123 games has been […]

A season that began with a five goal feast of free-flowing football ended with a five goal flop as the deposed champions floundered in a miserable show of rank incompetence. The contrasting emotions from winning the Community Shield and downing the reigning European Champions, to capitulating to a bunch of Canaries on a Sunday afternoon excursion could not have been starker. A season full of hope and ambition, fuelled by […]

There’s an adage that a week is a long time in politics – they should try applying it to being a Manchester City supporter! It seems an eternity since Roberto Mancini’s side were on the receiving end of a shock FA Cup Final defeat to the now relegated Pie Eaters of ‘Wi-gone’ – come to think of it, it seems a lifetime since City were Roberto Mancini’s men. The wounds […]