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City-Portsmouth Live Blog and Match Thread!
By: Thad |
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Live commentary as River Plate, no wait, Manchester City in their away strip, travel to Fratton Park to try to heap more misery on Portsmouth. It’s a league debut for Joleon Lescott. Can City continue its unblemished start to the campaign?
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City-Palace Match Thread!
By: Thad | 4 Comments
It’s been a cracking though goalless match at Selhurst Park so far tonight in the Carling Cup–we’re going to live-blog the rest of the match starting from the 2nd half kickoff.
Category: Team NewsCity-Wolves Live Blog and Match Thread!
By: Thad | 1 Comment
Manchester City’s first home match of the season kicks off in a few minutes against Wolves–follow along for a blow-by-blow account from a City perspective….
Category: Team NewsTowards a General Theory of the Football Club’s Soul
By: Thad | 7 Comments
A couple of weeks ago in this space we posed the question of whether football clubs can have a soul. A number of folks responded, and most said yes, football clubs can have a soul.
I agree; but not all clubs have the same kinds of soul.
Category: Team NewsCity-Blackburn Live Blog/Match Thread
By: Thad | 7 Comments
It’s minutes away from the big kickoff on the 2009-10 Premier League season! Starting in a few minutes we’ll be live-blogging the action from Ewood Park.
One big surprise to the City starting 11: there is a place for Micah Richards, who had limited preseason action. It’ll be Bridge, Toure, Dunne, and Richards along the back, [...]
Category: Team NewsShort and Snappy Season (and Blackburn) Preview
By: Thad | 4 Comments
What more is there to say about the most talked about club of the summer?
You’ll have to click on to find out, but let’s start with a simple thought experiment. Suppose you had a league in which 5 clubs each had an equal chance every year of finishing in the top 4. What would [...]
Category: Team NewsCity-Celtic live blog! 2-1 City, Full Time
By: Thad | 57 Comments
After a brief delay we’ve found a good working stream to view the action from COMS where City are playing Celtic in the final pre-season friendly. City have just taken the lead on a cracking 15th minute goal by Gareth Barry, 1-0 to City.
The goal came on a beautiful cross from right back Zabaleta, it [...]
Category: Team NewsHas City Lost Its Soul? (And Can a Club Have a Soul Anyway?)
By: Thad | 13 Comments
In the past, author Colin Shindler has been credited with capturing the spirit of what it has meant to support Manchester City over the decades, in books such as “Manchester United Ruined My Life” and “Fathers, Sons, and Football.” This week, however, Shindler is being credited with setting off a massive, er, sandstorm on the [...]
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