Super Sky Blue Monday
Psychologists claim the third Monday of January is the nadir of the year for most of us. Applying a formula of bad weather, post...
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davidjwalker1
Jan 20, 20236 min read
The team with no nine
Long before a heart condition threatened to curtail Sergio Aguero’s career, it was conventional wisdom that Manchester City required a...
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davidjwalker1
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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davidjwalker1
Jan 19, 20235 min read
Why City are once again the favourites of ‘neutral’ fans
It’s an alien concept to a whole generation of Manchester City supporters to think City were once – by and large – the nation’s favourite...
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davidjwalker1
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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davidjwalker1
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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davidjwalker1
Jan 17, 20232 min read
The Sanchez Dilemma – Blue or Red? Integrity or avarice?
Manchester City fans are tired of the ‘will he/won’t he’ Alexis Sanchez signing saga. Thankfully it’s now make your mind up time for the...
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davidjwalker1
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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davidjwalker1
Jan 14, 20236 min read
‘Tis the season to be jolly
Christmas is nearly here and folk will be full of festive cheer telling us that it ‘Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la...
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davidjwalker1
Jan 14, 20234 min read
More poison with the ‘praise’ Mr Guardiola?
Just when you thought maybe – just maybe – Manchester City’s version of ‘total football’ was winning the hearts and minds of those who...
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davidjwalker1
Jan 9, 20234 min read
Vintage Pep has City fizzing
Pep Guardiola’s side has served up plenty of champagne football this season, albeit the last couple of wins weren’t quite vintage stuff –...
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davidjwalker1
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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davidjwalker1
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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davidjwalker1
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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davidjwalker1
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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davidjwalker1
Jan 7, 20233 min read
City continue to fall foul of the ‘C’ word
With Pep Guardiola at the helm, a reputed £250m transfer budget to be invested this summer and an abundance of talent already at the...
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davidjwalker1
Jan 7, 20234 min read
City’s best ever is simply magical
El Mago, Merlin, The Magician – David Silva is all of these and more – but it was Pep Guardiola who astonished Manchester City fans by...
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davidjwalker1
Jan 6, 20232 min read
City's Chappy chat is great pep talk for Big Phil
When you’re a lifelong Manchester City fan and you’re ‘feeling blue’ you either need a pep talk – or better still – a Chappy chat. With...
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davidjwalker1
Jan 6, 20234 min read
Bit of a damp squib at the Etihad
Manchester City played out a drab, uninspired and uneventful 0-0 Champions League stalemate with Monaco, at a sparsely populated...
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davidjwalker1
Jan 5, 20236 min read
The Pep Perspective
Are Manchester City fans of the glass ‘half empty’ or ‘half full’ persuasion? On May 13th, 2012 they were encouraged to ‘...drink it in’...
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