City target immortality – will it be as easy as 1, 2, 3?
Less than 48 hours after arguably the finest 45 minutes in the 129-year history of Manchester City, Pep Guardiola was bang on the money...
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davidjwalker1
- May 1
- 6 min
City must hammer home treble advantage
Manchester City can clinch a treble on Wednesday night as they battle to be Champions of England three seasons in a row. It wouldn’t be...
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davidjwalker1
- Feb 18
- 7 min
Guardiola’s ‘gunner’ win the League…again!
Pep Guardiola’s perennially fruitless trek to Tottenham – the one where City perform their Eurovision Song Contest impersonation of ‘nil...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 23
- 5 min
Hey Jude, Rafael, Bernardo, Ilkay and…
Having already bagged the Net Spend Trophy 2022 with transfer profits ranging from £91m-£125m (depending on which figures you believe),...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 21
- 5 min
Anyone up for City’s Net Spend Trophy parade?
Pep Guardiola is on record as saying it. Khaldoon Al Mubarak states it unequivocally in his end of season reviews every year. Ferran...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 21
- 7 min
Gone in 69 minutes – back in 331 seconds!
The time stamp of 93:20 is etched indelibly into Manchester City’s history – seared into the psyche of every City fan forever and a day –...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 20
- 3 min
‘Typical City’ sits well on title day deciders
So much is made of the time honoured words ‘Typical City’ – the self deprecating tag that long suffering Manchester City fans have...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 20
- 6 min
Pep attacks with City’s defences depleted
The adage of attack being the best form of defence is one Pep Guardiola has embraced and deployed throughout his career in football...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 20
- 6 min
The team with no nine
Long before a heart condition threatened to curtail Sergio Aguero’s career, it was conventional wisdom that Manchester City required a...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 17
- 5 min
‘It’s our year’
'It’s Our Year!’ For once the proclamations coming out of Anfield were right. It is indeed ‘their year’, but such conversational...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 17
- 5 min
Pep’s 5 words on City’s 4 trophy target
Unlike some of his peers, Pep Guardiola does not indulge in what the media like to call ‘Mind Games’ when, in reality, they amount to...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 14
- 5 min
Will 20 be plenty for pragmatic Pep?
With more records on the go than the vinyl section at HMV, Manchester City aren’t interested in ‘singles’ they only do ‘LPs’ - long...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 9
- 5 min
Christmas comes early for City's rivals - or has it?
With eight wins and one draw from nine games, 29 goals scored and just three conceded, it seems the football Gods decided it was all...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 9
- 4 min
Pundits praise Pep – whatever next?
Either I’ve slipped into a parallel universe or I need to change my ‘meds’, but are Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City actually being...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 9
- 8 min
City will see off sly Sky Sports and the putrid pundits
Ignore the facts, never mind the rules and whatever happens, stay on message by undermining Manchester City and always empathise with...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 7
- 4 min
Pep’s potless and Yaya may have a point
So for the first time as a manager Pep Guardiola, hasn’t won the proverbial ‘pot’ to p*ss in, albeit conventional wisdom has it he would...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 7
- 4 min
Blues against an assortment of reds
On the day Prime Minister Theresa May calls a General Election, the maxim ‘A week is a long time in politics’, could just as easily apply...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 4
- 4 min
Pep set to make a spectacle of Mourinho and Clattenburg
As the world fixes its gaze on the Theatre of Screams and the Manchester derby becomes the focus of Planet Football, it’s ironic that a...
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davidjwalker1
- Jan 4
- 4 min
Txiki is City's Loan Arranger
Does Txiki Begiristain deserve a tick in the box or a ticking off, after presiding over eight transfer windows since joining Manchester...
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