http://mancity.theoffside.com News from Manchester City English Premiership football team Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:03:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, I've been a very, very bad blogger. I guess TheOffside isn't in great shape considering they haven't canned me after not posting for a month. Although I don't get paid or anything, so I guess they don't care that much. Anyway, I have missed a lot of juicy things, from ... http://mancity.theoffside.com/manchester-city/man-city-newcastle-live-blog.html A little Carling Cup action today, with Manchester City playing Championship side Bristol City. We'll see how this works, should be fun. Unfortunately I had a "real life" issue come up, so I missed the first 20 minutes, but Mpenza has put Man City up in the 17th minute, so it's ... http://mancity.theoffside.com/manchester-city/bristol-city-man-city-live-match-blog.html After Robin Van Persie smashed his penalty try against Kasper Schmeichel's knee midway though the second half, I started to think, "Oh my god, City might get a result out of this match." Well, my hopes were dashed 13 minutes later, when Francesc Fabregas scored the first goal on The Citizens ... http://mancity.theoffside.com/manchester-city/man-city-comes-back-to-reality.html I'm sorry to say it, but Manchester City's run of perfection is going to come to an abrupt end. I know City must have a lot of confidence, I know Arsenal has it's fair share of injuries and I know anything can happen on any given day in football - but ... http://mancity.theoffside.com/manchester-city/man-city-will-not-beat-arsenal.html A fascinating story by the Guardian's David Conn, explains how agent Jerome Anderson (pictured) helped Sven-Goran Eriksson buy one player after another this summer. Something any football fan should read. http://mancity.theoffside.com/manchester-city/how-an-agent-built-citys-roster.html Big match for England today (Prediction: England 1, Germany 0), but in the leadup to the match at Wembley, Alan Shearer has given his two cents (look on the bottom) on Micah Richards. Also, just for debate sake (and I know this is very "American" of me), but if everyone in ... http://mancity.theoffside.com/manchester-city/a-legend-praises-richards-and-an-epl-draft.html So I've been reading TheOffside.com for the last couple of months, and was thinking about joining in as a blogger. My strategy was to wait a couple of weeks, see what club in the English Premiership would be worth spending an absurd amount of time on, and then jump on ... http://mancity.theoffside.com/manchester-city/not-a-bad-week-to-start-a-man-city-blog.html