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Will City’s brilliance force a mass media re-think?
Eating humble pie through gritted teeth is hard enough, but imagine having to masticate on a stunning master-class performance from a...
davidjwalker1
Jan 9, 20235 min read
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...
davidjwalker1
Jan 9, 20235 min read
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...
davidjwalker1
Jan 9, 20234 min read
City continue to fall foul of the ‘C’ word
With Pep Guardiola at the helm, a reputed £250m transfer budget to be invested this summer and an abundance of talent already at the...
davidjwalker1
Jan 7, 20233 min read
City’s best ever is simply magical
El Mago, Merlin, The Magician – David Silva is all of these and more – but it was Pep Guardiola who astonished Manchester City fans by...
davidjwalker1
Jan 7, 20234 min read
City's Chappy chat is great pep talk for Big Phil
When you’re a lifelong Manchester City fan and you’re ‘feeling blue’ you either need a pep talk – or better still – a Chappy chat. With...
davidjwalker1
Jan 6, 20232 min read
Bit of a damp squib at the Etihad
Manchester City played out a drab, uninspired and uneventful 0-0 Champions League stalemate with Monaco, at a sparsely populated...
davidjwalker1
Jan 6, 20234 min read
The Pep Perspective
Are Manchester City fans of the glass ‘half empty’ or ‘half full’ persuasion? On May 13th, 2012 they were encouraged to ‘...drink it in’...
davidjwalker1
Jan 5, 20236 min read
After a Perfect 10 Pep wants a Magnificent Seven
Fast tempo, high intensity and tactically savvy – all the traits you'd expect from a Pep Guardiola team – the only discrepancy being this...
davidjwalker1
Jan 5, 20235 min read
City love Pep's new blue language
Pep Guardiola is the unsurpassed master of the language of football. It transcends the command of his native Catalan, his Spanish mother...
davidjwalker1
Jan 5, 20236 min read
Tuned in City tune up United
Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City were pitch perfect and on a superior wavelength as they left Manchester United quivering in the...
davidjwalker1
Jan 4, 20234 min read
United won the derby but City look real winners
Stating the obvious, but losing to your most hated enemy is never a good thing. When City capitulated 1-0 to United at the Etihad on...
davidjwalker1
Jan 3, 20236 min read
City's transfer window is a real pain!
With the summer window open for another 50 days, it would be presumptuous to say Manchester City's transfer strategy was intrinsically...
davidjwalker1
Jan 3, 20235 min read
'Good' is judged bad and ugly by idiotic UEFA
When UEFA’s General Secretary, Gianni Infantino claimed: “We always said we want investors in football, but good investors...” it made...
davidjwalker1
Dec 30, 20224 min read
Gone, going and going nowhere
It was ‘all go’ at the Etihad Stadium – Super Frankie Lampard was going west, ‘Jimmy’ Milner was going east (down the East Lancs Road to...
davidjwalker1
Dec 30, 20227 min read
Manchester MP set to retain seat
A surge of blue swept to power taking political pollsters by surprise in last week's General Election. Nobody saw it coming and now,...
davidjwalker1
Dec 30, 20224 min read
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