Tag Archives: Man City

04 JAN

City’s rise will be the final straw for the dominance of the “Big Four”

By Sam Cooper The Premier League has come under much scrutiny over it’s twenty year life span. But no subject has raised more arguments than the dominance of the “Big Four.”  There are facts that back up the argument that the Premier League will always be a four horse race. Since Blackburn’s successful league campaign [...]

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13 DEC

Adaptable AVB proves why Roman dug so deep into his pockets for him

By Josh Handrick After last night’s victory over the unbeaten league leaders Manchester City, AVB’s Chelsea seem to have turned a corner from a run of tough games after some previously bad results. Is the erratic Portuguese manager now proving why Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich paid his buy out clause at former club Porto. Despite [...]

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08 DEC

Barclays Premier League still top prize

By Casey O’Brien From the moment the names were drawn from the pot in Monaco back in August, this was the fixture Manchester City had been waiting for. Bayern Munich at the Etihad marked a huge moment of progress for a club haunted by its shortcomings for over three decades. No longer did City have [...]

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09 NOV

Long way to go as season reaches second checkpoint

By Douglas Elder So, as the Premier League breaks for a fortnight, we are left with an interesting – if unfamiliar – picture at the top of the Barclay’s Premier League. The mid-season assumptions, the hyperbolic descriptions and the doom-mongering are in full swing, and here is my take on what has been a season [...]

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26 OCT

Barclays Premier League Power Shift

By Dan Webster “Suicidal football” is not a phrase often used in describing a Manchester United performance. Those were the words, however, that manager Sir Alex Ferguson chose to describe his side’s display at Old Trafford on Sunday. There is no doubt that their 6-1 mauling at the hands of Manchester City will have been [...]

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24 OCT

Silva shines brightly over Blue Moon with display of pure gold

By Jordan Halford Manchester’s autumnal skyline will be shimmering with the aurora of a blue moon this evening, as the Moss Side celebrates Manchester City’s biggest win against their closest rivals at Old Trafford since 1926. Roberto Mancini’s side brought United’s 19-game winning run at the Theatre of Dreams to a shuddering halt in emphatic [...]

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21 OCT

This is the one

By Allan Valente Time has an invariable habit of changing things. Some people use it as a healer, while others grumble at a loss of youth as the clock ticks away mercilessly. It certainly has been kind to Manchester City. Little more than a decade ago fans from the blue half of the city would head out every other [...]

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21 OCT

The Manchester derby preview

A champion team vs a team of champions? By Glen Walter Manchester City stormed to the summit of the Barclays Premier League at the weekend with a convincing victory over previously unbeaten Aston Villa, which has set up one of the most eagerly anticipated Manchester derbies to date. City go into the game knowing only [...]

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17 OCT

Manchester City 4-1 Aston Villa

Brilliant Balotelli Blasts the Sky Blues to the Top of the League By George Adams Only a few seasons ago this fixture would have been a game between two equally matched teams jostling for the 6th position in the league, now, with Man City as odds on favourites and Villa looking likely to drop into [...]

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