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4 HRS AGO - Confirmed. Manchester City 2013/14 Home Shirt.£55 for the short sleaved adult shirt.
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10 HRS AGO - NorwichTried out me bros ticket on the third tier of the east stand. Sue, who’d sprained her Expand
10 HRS AGO - NorwichTried out me bros ticket on the third tier of the east stand. Sue, who’d sprained her ankle, got the third degree when requesting the lift – got all that “it’s for the corporates bollocks” Same on the way out. Some of the stewards really piss me off. A bit of common sense and respect wouldn’t go amiss. It’s very high on that third tier, came down to the spare seat on the second at half time – seemed very low down. Got away with it a bit v Norwich, penalty wise, and they played pretty well, running about and stuff. Our lot couldn’t be arsed again, but I was quite impressed with Jack Rodwell. Physical impossibility for Norwich to beat us but they did – their second away win of the season and our second defeat. So the players can’t blame Mancini for that one. They know how to put us through it? Another inept display, you’d’ve thought they’d want to win some respect after the cup Final debacle. No chance. Still, better for Norwich to clock up a win v us when points weren’t Collapse
Man City + Yankees = New York City
11 HRS AGO - Manchester City Football Club are proud to announce, in partnership with the New York Yankees, Expand
11 HRS AGO - Manchester City Football Club are proud to announce, in partnership with the New York Yankees, the acquisition of the Major League Soccer’s 20th expansion club.The new team will be named New York City Football Club (NYCFC) and expects to begin play in 2015. “We proudly welcome two of the most prestigious professional global sports organizations to Major League Soccer,” said MLS Commissioner Don Garber."This is a transformational development that will elevate the league to new heights in this country. The New York area is home to more than 19 million people, and we look forward to an intense crosstown rivalry between New York City Football Club and the New York Red Bulls that will captivate this great city.”“New York is a legendary sports town, as well as a thriving global city with a rapidly expanding soccer fan-base,” said Ferran Soriano, CEO of Manchester City Football Club, who will oversee the process of filling top New York City FC leadership positions in the weeks Collapse
MAN CITY 2 – 3 Norwich – PLAYER RATINGS
1 DAY AGO - Hart - Wins the Golden Glove award for keeping the most clean sheets over the course of the season Expand
1 DAY AGO - Hart - Wins the Golden Glove award for keeping the most clean sheets over the course of the season but he’ll have been disappointed to concede three yesterday. Offered no protection by the defenders in front of him - 6 Zabaleta - Milner’s tendency to offer a more direct threat on the outside, rather than [...] Collapse
Manchester City 2 Norwich City 3
2 DAYS AGO - FA Premier League Sunday 19 May 2013, 16.00 KO City: Hart, Zabaleta (c), Richards, Lescott, Expand
2 DAYS AGO - FA Premier League Sunday 19 May 2013, 16.00 KO City: Hart, Zabaleta (c), Richards, Lescott, Kolarov, Y Toure, Rodwell (Silva 65), Nasri, Milner, Dzeko, Tevez (Aguero 51) Unused: Pantilimon, Clichy, Maicon, Barry, Garcia Goals: Rodwell (29, 59) Booked: Lescott Referee: Mark Halsey Man of the Match: Jack Rodwell It was a frantic start to the […] Collapse
MAN CITY v Norwich: The PREVIEW – City’s Probable Team
3 DAYS AGO - Brian Kidd must be tempted to give a couple of youngsters a chance in this final match of the Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Brian Kidd must be tempted to give a couple of youngsters a chance in this final match of the season, and with the pressure off both teams, it could be an enthralling encounter. Kolo Touré is out with injury but Pablo Zabaleta should return after missing the Reading game through suspension. Captain Vincent Kompany could also [...] Collapse
Txiki Begiristain's History In The Transfer Market
4 DAYS AGO - The big question is: What is Begiristain's record like?
Before we start it is worth remembering Expand
4 DAYS AGO - The big question is: What is Begiristain's record like?
Before we start it is worth remembering Barcelona had a very unique system in place during Txiki's time. Barca had a once in 50 years crop of youth players come along in a very short space of time which certainly helped Txiki. Barca didn't really have that many pressing needs from 2007/8 onwards. The youth products were sensational and the focus was on highly technical players who could easily fit into a style of play that ran all the way through the football club: movement, intelligence, ball retention and recycling and a blitz pressing game.
It is also worth saying that part of Barcelona's focus was to shift out players whose attitudes were deemed to be below the required standards. Deco and Giuly were two such players. Ronaldinho was another with Eto'o unfairly lumped in with the Brazilian as someone who didn't always behave in a professional manner.
Writing this the word IMBRAHIMOVIC screams out!
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More coaching changes
5 DAYS AGO - Following Roberto Mancini's sacking City have moved quickly to clear house with first David Platt Expand
5 DAYS AGO - Following Roberto Mancini's sacking City have moved quickly to clear house with first David Platt electing not to continue in a role at the club and then it being announced that the 'Italian contingent' of Ivan Caminati, Fausto Salsono, Massimo Battara, Angelo Gregucci and Attilio Lombardo all departing 48 hours after Mancini.
With Lombardo's departure City have moved quickly to appoint Patrick Vieira, previously the Football Development Executive at the club, as the new Head of the Elite Development Squad, with Vieira saying:
"After spending two years working across a number of areas of the Club and with a particular focus on the Youth Academy, I feel honoured and privileged to have been offered this role. This marks a new chapter both in my career and in my life and I am looking forward to it immensely. My passion for the development of young talent has only grown in my time at City and I am pleased to be able to play my part in helping to shape the footballing future for Collapse
Staff Clear-out
5 DAYS AGO - After the sacking of Mancini, David Platt left his position.Since then the following staff have Expand
5 DAYS AGO - After the sacking of Mancini, David Platt left his position.Since then the following staff have also left the club:Ivan Carminati (Fitness Coach)Fausto Salsano (First Team Coach)Massimo Battara (GK Coach)Angelo Gregucci (Defensive Coach)Attilio Lombardo (Reserve Team ManagerWe can only assume Pellegrini will bring in his own staff anyway. (Plus Isco!)Thoughts @madcitehfan Collapse
Reading 0 – 2 MAN CITY – MY THOUGHTS
6 DAYS AGO - This was everything Wembley wasn’t. There was intensity, pace, width, creativity and passion Expand
6 DAYS AGO - This was everything Wembley wasn’t. There was intensity, pace, width, creativity and passion from City, and defensive ineptitude and a total lack of quality from the opposition. The contrast could not have been more marked. Just three days after thousands of Blues splashed a mini-fortune on watching the team perform so desperately against Wigan, here was [...] Collapse
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Official 2013/2014 Home Kit!
4 HRS AGO - Official 2013/2014 Home Kit!
Man City's MLS team announced
10 HRS AGO - Man City's MLS team announced
Partly owned by the New York Yankees as well.
Bring On 13/14
1 DAY AGO - So that's it. The season after the best season ever is over. In many ways I'm glad, this season Expand
1 DAY AGO - So that's it. The season after the best season ever is over. In many ways I'm glad, this season has been more downs than ups. We finished 2nd with automatic champions league qualification and runners up in the FA cup. It shows how far we have come that this is deemed enough to sack a manager that has won 3 trophies in 3 years.Mancini had to go in my opinion. The timing was awful and he probably deserved more time but he had obviously lost the dressing room and he wasn't very good in Europe. Pellegrini dropped Riqulme. This says everything about the mans character. He will not tolerate any egos in the dressing room and we need this. Also he can bring Isco with him! (please!) I'm gonna make some points about our season. PositivesJack Rodwell looks like he can become a top cm for us, if he stays injury free.Nastasic has been a superb signing. Made his debut at 19 and is part of the leagues best defence.Mancini getting sacked. I know, controversial but he had taken us as far as he could Collapse
CONDENSED READ - Norwich (h)
1 DAY AGO - Sunday 19th May 2013Manchester City 2 Norwich City 3Rodwell (2) - Pilkington, Holt, Expand
1 DAY AGO - Sunday 19th May 2013Manchester City 2 Norwich City 3Rodwell (2) - Pilkington, Holt, Howson Att:47,054____________________________________________THE BEGINNING: Season 2012-2013 has caved in like an undercooked flan. Still it is our last supper, so we consume.THE MIDDLE: How to make Johnny Howson look like Jairzinho. But, wait, here comes Micah to the rescue! To save the day for all of us! (large sausage shaped object flies headlong past yellow-shirted striker as if fired from a cannon). Oh....Yaya grazes, Edin dozes, crowd fidgets, Norwich score. Welcome The Real Jack Rodwell.THE END: The curtain falls. Brings railing down with it. Bye bye Edin, Kolo, Joleon, Micah, Scott, Aleks, Carlos, Costel, Brian? Ciao, Roberto, and thanks. One Chilean flag.THE STAT: City score in 50th consecutive home game, the longest current run and 2nd longest in Premier League history. Norwich win for only the third time in history at City and for the first time at the Etihad. Previous wins 1964 and Collapse
penultimate Day
3 DAYS AGO - Penultimate DayWell, nearly there. It’s been a long campaign, would’ve been successful if we’d Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Penultimate DayWell, nearly there. It’s been a long campaign, would’ve been successful if we’d lifted the Cup as we should’ve done.What a week. Watched the Chelsea game at the Swinton branch, congratulations to them and Benitez. Shame on those Chelsea fans who wanted him out even before Christmas, knowing he was interim only.City have announced that the stadium is to be increased in capacity and season ticket prices are now out on the web.Been at a fans forum today – united and City plus a panel of Andy Ritchie, Frank Sinclair, Brian Horton on BBC world service. Too much on Beckham, Fergie and united.Reminded Sinclair in the bogs of Chelsea v City mid 90’s mid week night match. Caught the ball on the front row and Frank ran over aggressively and shouted for the ball which I chucked at him. He didn’t remember!Tomorrow it’s Norwich who we normally beat, and if we do we’ll have had a fantastic home record again. 81 points would normally have given us the title. Here’s the it’s A Collapse
LAST DAYS OF A SEASON
3 DAYS AGO - Compare and contrast:EXHIBIT (a)EXHIBIT (b)Ian Ladyman's article in The Mail
Transfer Rumours – Cheer Up, it might never happen!
4 DAYS AGO - I religiously read a Football Transfer Rumours APP on my phone on the train to work each morning. Expand
4 DAYS AGO - I religiously read a Football Transfer Rumours APP on my phone on the train to work each morning. In the last 24 hours, I have read about Wayne Rooney’s move to Newcastle United, Darren Bent’s transfer to Championship side Leeds United and Scott Parker’s impending move to QPR, following their relegation to the second tier. [...]Transfer Rumours – Cheer Up, it might never happen!
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VIDEO: Mancini Tribute
5 DAYS AGO - Roberto Mancini, the first manager to win silverware at City in 34 years, was sacked earlier this Expand
5 DAYS AGO - Roberto Mancini, the first manager to win silverware at City in 34 years, was sacked earlier this week, with Manuel Pellegrini expected to take over in the summer. You can read my take on the way the sacking was handled … Continue reading → Collapse
REVOLVING DOORS
5 DAYS AGO - The man with the Champions League haloTime waits for no one in football. The various shades of Expand
5 DAYS AGO - The man with the Champions League haloTime waits for no one in football. The various shades of dust are still settling on Manchester City's Retro Tribute FA Cup Final weekend, where the cup was lost against a side relegated three days later, in circumstances even Tony Soprano couldn't have made more complicated. There was no horse's head, but the blood letting has not stopped for three days and the rest of us have been left feeling like a finely sliced salami.Outgoing manager, Roberto Mancini, leaving with the songs of thousands still ringing in his ears, has already begun to be painted in a different light, now that he has left the building. With the useful golden rule of never cross your assistant kit man added to an ever-lengthening list of things to be aware of as a football manager, tales of arrogance and autocracy now seep from the Etihad's walls like blood from a still warm corpse. He had a man, whose sole purpose in life was to wash his bicycle! He sat in restaurants in Collapse
Reading 0 – 2 MAN CITY – PLAYER RATINGS
6 DAYS AGO - Hart - Far busier than he was in the FA Cup final! His handling and shot-stopping were very good Expand
6 DAYS AGO - Hart - Far busier than he was in the FA Cup final! His handling and shot-stopping were very good and he was quick off his line in treacherous conditions, but his distribution was still haphazard - 7 Richards - Moved into a centre-back role early on and it meant we never not got rewarded with [...] Collapse
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FEATURE: 2012/13 Season in Numbers
8 HRS AGO - After a long, hard season here’s a look at some of the key numbers from the season that has Expand
8 HRS AGO - After a long, hard season here’s a look at some of the key numbers from the season that has been 2012/13. Premier League Table POS LP CLUB P W D L GF GA GD PTS 1 (1) Manchester United 38 … Continue reading → Collapse
Manchester City striker discusses future away from the Etihad
11 HRS AGO - Interesting is a word that can be taken in many different ways, so quite what Carlos Tevez means Expand
11 HRS AGO - Interesting is a word that can be taken in many different ways, so quite what Carlos Tevez means when he used the expression the describe Ligue 1 is up for debate. ESPN are reporting that this was Tevez's response when questioned about a move to France and more importantly a move to Monaco. Collapse
MAN CITY 2 – 3 Norwich – MY THOUGHTS
1 DAY AGO - A disappointing end to a disappointing season. With no pressure on either side, the opportunity Expand
1 DAY AGO - A disappointing end to a disappointing season. With no pressure on either side, the opportunity was there for this to be an enthralling encounter, released from the shackles of fighting for positions, sweeping forward time after time in a show of attacking intent. Instead, it was a pitiful defensive showing from City and Norwich’s effervescence secured [...] Collapse
Who is the best Premier League right-back? | Stats Comparison
2 DAYS AGO - When you’re sitting in the pub with your mates, picking your favourites of the Premier Expand
2 DAYS AGO - When you’re sitting in the pub with your mates, picking your favourites of the Premier League, the one position that has to be the hardest to choose a winner for is the right-back. It is not in any way as easy as left-back, with Ashley Cole usually taking that spot, and Leighton Baines coming through [...]Who is the best Premier League right-back? | Stats Comparison
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City hot favourites to defeat Canaries: The Odds
4 DAYS AGO - City look worthy odds-on shots at 1.33 with bet365 and BetVictor to win their last game of the Expand
4 DAYS AGO - City look worthy odds-on shots at 1.33 with bet365 and BetVictor to win their last game of the season against Norwich at the Etihad. Collapse
The Premier League Shockers – How common are the shocking upsets?
4 DAYS AGO - Ok, so Landry was talking about the ‘other’ type of football, however the sentiment Expand
4 DAYS AGO - Ok, so Landry was talking about the ‘other’ type of football, however the sentiment remains true for ‘real’ football. One of the most beautiful things about the beautiful game is the potential for a freak, unexpected result. An incredible, unbelievable result. There’s nothing that neutral football fans enjoy more than seeing an underdog grabbing a [...]The Premier League Shockers – How common are the shocking upsets?
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Over 9000!!!!
5 DAYS AGO - Sorry my geek side couldn't resist a DBZ reference with my view count.
Roberto Mancini: A Tough Decision But The Right One
5 DAYS AGO - He’s gone. The manager who took an underperforming squad, turned it into FA Cup winners Expand
5 DAYS AGO - He’s gone. The manager who took an underperforming squad, turned it into FA Cup winners in his first full season and then unforgettably lifted the Premier League trophy in his next has gone. And, on balance, I think it’s the right decision. Although Roberto Mancini’s sacking came as no surprise bearing in mind the fervour of speculation [...] Collapse
Reading (and writhing)
6 DAYS AGO - Reading, decided to give it a miss due to cost, distance, weather forecast and work Expand
6 DAYS AGO - Reading, decided to give it a miss due to cost, distance, weather forecast and work commitments. One part of me wanted to be there to show support, the other to boycott it in protest at Saturday and the fact that the players haven’t yet apologised to us fans.So watched it at the Subbi club in Tyldesley which was a pleasant experience. Learned that Platt had walked out unsurprisingly. That makes his comments after the derby “we’re here to stay, we’re not going away” seem a bit ironic.Been pestered a bit by the media – MEN, Talksport, and yesterday on BBC North West – 5 minute interview and 20 secs showing and looking like a fat f*ck!Good article in the manumirror by Olly Holt on Mancini etc. apparently he didn’t have a holistic approach which is a bit rich as Soriano, apparently, goes around the club with his nose in the air, and doesn’t acknowledge the staff.Moyes, incidentally, is described to me as a “vile person” by a senior BBC executive. So no change there then.Anyway, Collapse
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