After 45 minutes Manuel Pellegrini had an extensive ‘To Do’ list. After 90 minutes the Manchester City manager had ticked all the boxes on his Champions League ‘Czech list’ in pilsner producing Plzen. An intoxicating brew of heady football flowed freely as the Boddington boys of old barrelled out a first ever victory in an opening Group fixture in the CL – what a refreshing change. With a mature Chilean […]

It was a case of Turkish Delight for Manchester City at 17.27hrs on 29th August, as Galatasaray emerged from the painfully pedantic Champions League draw in swish downtown Geneva. The Turks were handed a route into the so-called Group of Death, that only moments earlier had seemed City’s fatal destiny for the third consecutive season. The storm clouds gathering over City, as they looked set for stern tests in Madrid […]