Pep still fishing for titles even without Rod
When karma finally came crashing through Arsenal’s bus blockade and ‘Johnny, Johnny Stones’ swept in Manchester City’s 98th minute...
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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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Aug 16, 20235 min read
Numbers stack up nicely for City’s arrivals, departures and remainers
There’s transfer windows and then there’s transfer windows, but has there ever been one with more significant arrivals and departures –...
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Aug 10, 20236 min read
City speculate to accumulate as well as seeing stars graduate
Until Phil Foden’s emergence from Manchester City’s Football Academy there were plenty of doubters, all too quick to cast aspersions on...
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May 21, 20234 min read
City target immortality – will it be as easy as 1, 2, 3?
Less than 48 hours after arguably the finest 45 minutes in the 129-year history of Manchester City, Pep Guardiola was bang on the money...
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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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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 20, 20234 min read
True perfection has to be imperfect for Pep
Pep Guardiola refused to take the bait following City’s sensational 5-0 Champions League demolition of Sporting Lisbon. He’d been asked...
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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, 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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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, 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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Jan 8, 20235 min read
‘Mad Bob’ lets City take the fall for Everton deception
With more than a whiff of déjà vu Manchester City kicked off their Premier League campaign at the Etihad, victims of woeful refereeing...
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Jan 8, 20233 min read
Why Pep will make monkeys of media mockers
Media coverage of Manchester City’s £120m spend on flying wing backs is a joke – one as lame as the old chestnut that has a dodgy...
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Jan 8, 20234 min read
Sky isn’t the limit for City’s transfer spending
You have to laugh at the coverage of Manchester City's transfer dealings this summer – the insidious negativity, the not-so subtle...
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