Less means more and more for City
The boring, predictable and outrageous notion that Manchester City ‘buy’ success, took yet another pounding when the summer transfer...
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davidjwalker1
May 276 min read
Pep – Will he stay or will he go?
As he enters his ninth and – as things stand – final season at the Etihad, what could possibly tempt Pep Guardiola to extend his time at...
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davidjwalker1
May 185 min read
Guardiola’s gladiators going forth for immortality
There’s an oft posed question in football that sardonically asks whether a flair player, ‘Can do it on a cold rainy Tuesday night in...
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davidjwalker1
Apr 25 min read
City crack on with triple pursuit
It was Easter Sunday. It was the much vaunted and highly anticipated big match. Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta was the difference between the two...
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davidjwalker1
Dec 9, 20236 min read
Pep says ‘no complacency’ at far from purrfect City
Prior to Manchester City’s abject showing at Aston Villa on Wednesday night, Pep Guardiola said there was no complacency among his...
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Jun 18, 202310 min read
City's Triple Turkish Delight despite shameful UEFA
With midnight approaching in the humidity of Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium, a tsunami of emotions flooded out of the pores of each...
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May 1, 20236 min read
City must hammer home treble advantage
Manchester City can clinch a treble on Wednesday night as they battle to be Champions of England three seasons in a row. It wouldn’t be...
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Feb 18, 20237 min read
Guardiola’s ‘gunner’ win the League…again!
Pep Guardiola’s perennially fruitless trek to Tottenham – the one where City perform their Eurovision Song Contest impersonation of ‘nil...
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Jan 20, 20236 min read
City don’t want trouble – they’ll settle for just a double
Two headlines – 13 months apart – crystallise the hideous hypocrisy and blatantly biased agenda constantly directed against Manchester...
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Jan 19, 20234 min read
Guardiola’s Groundhog Day
Pre-match it was puzzling and potentially perplexing. City’s starting XI suggested an uncharacteristically cautious – almost negative –...
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Jan 19, 20236 min read
City lost but nobody died at the Etihad
The legendary Bill Shankly is accredited as saying: “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that...
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Jan 19, 20237 min read
Ravenous City put Premier League three-peat on the menu
‘Have the lambs stopped screaming?’ It’s a chilling line delivered by serial killer Hannibal ‘The Cannibal’ Lecter in the famous 1991...
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Jan 17, 20235 min read
‘It’s our year’
'It’s Our Year!’ For once the proclamations coming out of Anfield were right. It is indeed ‘their year’, but such conversational...
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Jan 17, 20235 min read
Pep’s 5 words on City’s 4 trophy target
Unlike some of his peers, Pep Guardiola does not indulge in what the media like to call ‘Mind Games’ when, in reality, they amount to...
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Jan 9, 20236 min read
Guardiola’s City are gobsmackingly good
Pep Guardiola is letting his Manchester City team do their talking on the pitch in an exciting, exquisite and expressive manner, hitherto...
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Jan 9, 20236 min read
Pep's sky blue statistics don't lie
As the adrenalin surge subsides following Manchester City’s sublime storming of Stamford Bridge, let’s park the superlatives, any hint of...
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Jan 9, 20235 min read
Will City’s brilliance force a mass media re-think?
Eating humble pie through gritted teeth is hard enough, but imagine having to masticate on a stunning master-class performance from a...
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Jan 9, 20235 min read
Christmas comes early for City's rivals - or has it?
With eight wins and one draw from nine games, 29 goals scored and just three conceded, it seems the football Gods decided it was all...
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Jan 9, 20234 min read
Pundits praise Pep – whatever next?
Either I’ve slipped into a parallel universe or I need to change my ‘meds’, but are Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City actually being...
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Jan 9, 20238 min read
City will see off sly Sky Sports and the putrid pundits
Ignore the facts, never mind the rules and whatever happens, stay on message by undermining Manchester City and always empathise with...
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