City on Broadway: We Were Not Really Here
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Manchester City finished fourth in the New York Football Challenge this weekend, good enough to assure Champions League qualification for next season. No wait, I’ve got that all wrong….okay, upon further review, it seems that City’s fourth place finish means they were dead last in the competition. In case you missed it–and there wasn’t much to miss–City were beaten with ease by Sporting of Portugal 2-0 on Friday night. Then on Sunday, in a substantially more entertaining contest, City fell to hosts New York Red Bull 2-1 due to a wonder strike by Dane Richards of New York. Read the rest of this entry »
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Welcome to America!!!
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On behalf of President Barack Obama, I would like to formally welcome Manchester City Football Club to these United States of America for its preseason training and tour. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Team NewsA Short History of Manchester City Players in the World Cup Final, 1930-2006
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Category: Team NewsRoberto Mancini Has Cut His Hair; Who Will He Cut from City’s Squad?
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To read about Robert Mancini’s haircut, click here. To read about what he should do with his roster read on…. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Team NewsAre Manchester City Destroying the Entire Universe?
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Here’s what we know so far: on the back of some fairly massive spending in 2009, City again look set to lay out over 100 million pounds of gross spending this summer. David Silva, Jerome Boateng, Yaya Toure for starters, perhaps followed by James Milner, Edin Dzeko, and even Landon Donovan (though I find it hard to believe City would take both Milner and Donovan).
And we also know that each and every one of these signings will produce 5 worried editorials and thousands of message board comments indicating that Manchester City are “destroying football.” But perhaps this is drastically understating matters.
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Category: Team NewsBreaking News: Manchester City to Sign Lebron James
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In a matter of hours it will be July 1–the day after contracts end and the official day many pre-arranged transfers go through. Manchester City have already signed World Cup stars Jerome Boateng (Hamburg/Germany) and David Silva (Valencia/Spain), with a deal for Yaya Toure (Barcelona/Spain) all but sealed as well. But here’s the latest shocking development in Manchester City’s ceaseless efforts to field the best team oil money can buy: the Blues have lined up a move to bring guard/forward Lebron James to City, where he will instantly become the tallest player in English football.
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Round One of the World Cup: City and Ex-City Roundup
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Those guys for Brazil, Robinho and Elano, they are pretty good aren’t they? Man I wish my club had those guys. Oh wait, we did? And got rid of them?
Such is the life of a City fan. Robinho and Elano combined for an excellent goal in Brazil’s 2-1 win over North Korea. But the most significant goal of the whole tournament to date belongs to another ex-City man, Gelson Fernandes, who poked in the winner from close range as Switzerland stunned Spain.
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Category: Team NewsShauny Wright-Wright for England, and Other Thoughts on City’s World Cup Footprint
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Shaun Wright-Phillips’s inclusion in the England team for the World Cup came as a mild surprise. The veteran winger has been written off by many observers since losing his place in City’s first XI in the latter part of the past season, and even among City fans it became in vogue to prefer newcomer Adam Johnson, what with his tricky ball skills and ability to place a cross.
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Category: Team NewsSpurs 1, City 0–Minute by Minute Report
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Congratulations to Tottenham who have booked their place in the Champions League with a 1-0 victory over Manchester City, via a late Peter Crouch goal. Minute by minute report below….. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Team NewsFor All the Marbles: City-Spurs Preview
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It spills out of my brain and on to my keyboard without any conscious effort: reiterating the fact that the expanded Champions League is a ruse devised by the big clubs for their own benefit, a mechanism for reinforcing inequality between the Big Four and everyone else, year after year after year, and hence fundamentally unfair to the majority of Premier League teams who have nothing to play for save avoiding relegation and occasionally grabbing an UEFA (Europa) Cup spot.
But wait–hang on–what’s that you said? That Liverpool cannot finish 4th this year? That there must be a newcomer to the party? And that it will either be Tottenham Hotspur or Manchester City? And that they will play one match Wednesday in a virtual playoff for the spot? Well, that changes things doesn’t it. And that sounds like a match well worth watching…. Read the rest of this entry »
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