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Talk Of Manchester City Making A Top Five Is Premature

by Paul Bestall on August 10, 2009 · 71 comments

If I was an Arsenal fan, I’d be fed up already listening to people saying that Manchester City were obviously going to usurp them as one of the “Big Four” sides. It’s amazing what spending money does to peoples judgement when it comes to football and Manchester City have certainly caught more than their fair [...]

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What Will Arsenal Do With the £39m from Manchester City?

by tyduffy on July 28, 2009 · 72 comments

Manchester City are spending their way into the Premier League top four. Paradoxically, the club most amenable to their ambition is Arsenal, whom they wish to supplant. The Gunners sold City striker Emmanuel Adebayor for £25m. Less than two weeks later, they are prepared to sell them defender Kolo Toure for another [...]

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Is Mark Hughes Building a Barcelona Clone at Eastlands?

by Dave Warner on July 21, 2009 · 16 comments

Say what you will about the obscene amount of money being spent by Manchester City this summer, but you have to admit that there’s a certain perverse pleasure in watching someone build a real-life club lineup in much the same way that most regular joes would create their starting XI in a video game.
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Now Mark Hughes Knows Exactly What’s Required

by Paul Bestall on May 20, 2009 · 2 comments

When Mark Hughes agreed to replace Sven Goran Eriksson last summer, no doubt he knew things would be interesting at Manchester City, it very rarely isn’t in the sky blue half of Manchester, but I doubt he’d have expected anything like the events that ultimately played out. What with the takeover and the crazy final [...]

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Can Manchester City Win The UEFA CUP?

by Paul Bestall on March 19, 2009 · 16 comments

Could Manchester City finally put their 33 year major trophy drought to bed this season by winning the UEFA Cup this season? Why not, what  with Ajax crashing out last night at the hands of Marseille and Zenit St Petersburg and CSKA Moscow losing today, the competition for the trophy is getting into the nitty [...]

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Ashley Cole Can’t Keep His Mouth Shut While Liverpool Is Overpriced

by Johnathan Starling on March 5, 2009 · 0 comments

So we have another Premier League footballer in trouble with the law. Chelsea defender Ashley Cole early Thursday morning decided after a night out doing charity work, that he would decide to have a little too much booze and then get into a one sided yelling match with the police. The police won when they [...]

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Man City Finish Transfer Window Back Where They Started

by Matthew Semisch on February 4, 2009 · 9 comments

When the financial and managerial reins to Manchester City Football Club changed hands early on this season for the second time in fairly quick succession on both fronts, this time with the Blues having instantly catapulted to the top of the world football rich list, everyone’s attention immediately turned to the January transfer window. [...]

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