Guardiola’s gladiators going forth for immortality
There’s an oft posed question in football that sardonically asks whether a flair player, ‘Can do it on a cold rainy Tuesday night in...
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- Jan 22
- 3 min
Oh my Omar, what are you doing?
Omar Berrada’s decision to quit the Etihad to become Manchester United’s new CEO, came as a bolt out of the blue for both City and United...
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- Jun 18, 2023
- 10 min
City's Triple Turkish Delight despite shameful UEFA
With midnight approaching in the humidity of Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium, a tsunami of emotions flooded out of the pores of each...
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- Jun 8, 2023
- 4 min
This is your Captain speaking…
Actions speak louder than words and Ilkay Gundogan’s actions have had the most glorious consequences for Manchester City. Two goals at...
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- May 21, 2023
- 4 min
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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- Feb 10, 2023
- 9 min
Here we go again…
As one of the Founding Fathers of the United States in the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin coined a famous quote about the new US...
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- Jan 23, 2023
- 4 min
Pep’s winning the wars in spite of VAR
Hate is such a definitive term, an all encompassing emotion with no leeway for misinterpretation, no turning back from a position of...
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- Jan 21, 2023
- 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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- Jan 20, 2023
- 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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- Jan 20, 2023
- 2 min
Dear Khaldoon...
An open letter to Manchester City’s hitherto, impeccable Chairman: Dear Khaldoon, You’ve played a blinder for City since becoming...
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- Jan 19, 2023
- 7 min
Manchester City deserve a level playing field...don’t they?
The polarization of Manchester City hit new heights and plumbed unchartered depths following the club’s win at the Court of Arbitration...
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- Jan 19, 2023
- 4 min
Watch it. Drink it in ...and then spit it in the faces of the City haters
“I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again, so watch it, drink it in...” Every Manchester City fan will readily identify...
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- Jan 19, 2023
- 5 min
Why City are once again the favourites of ‘neutral’ fans
It’s an alien concept to a whole generation of Manchester City supporters to think City were once – by and large – the nation’s favourite...
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- Jan 19, 2023
- 7 min
Ravenous City put Premier League three-peat on the menu
‘Have the lambs stopped screaming?’ It’s a chilling line delivered by serial killer Hannibal ‘The Cannibal’ Lecter in the famous 1991...
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- Jan 18, 2023
- 5 min
City are ready to battle opponents both on and off the field
It appears to be only a matter of time before FIFA announce a transfer ban on Manchester City. Rumours abound that football’s ultra...
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- Jan 18, 2023
- 4 min
City must fight till the end...and win
With Manchester City seemingly under investigation by everybody apart from fictional sleuths Inspector Clouseau, Poirot and Sherlock...
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- Dec 30, 2022
- 4 min
'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...
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- Dec 29, 2022
- 3 min
City fans back legal battle against FFP
Blue-sky thinking relates to creative ideas that are not limited by convention or current beliefs, facilitating the stripping away of...
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- Dec 29, 2022
- 6 min
FFP - Fatuous Fraud Platini!
UEFA bureaucrats – the money men who regulate European football and, fair to say, a right set of continental bankers – have battered the...
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- Dec 28, 2022
- 4 min
The Dark Unseen Side of El Barca
Whether it’s breathtaking architectural masterpieces courtesy of Antoni Gaudi, a rousing pop opera song from Freddie Mercury & Montserat...
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