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Pep attacks with City’s defences depleted
The adage of attack being the best form of defence is one Pep Guardiola has embraced and deployed throughout his career in football...
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Jan 20, 20236 min read
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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, 20236 min read
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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...
davidjwalker1
Jan 20, 20234 min read
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Fastest 500 Premier League points ever - but Pep still has points to prove
Pep Guardiola will always have points to prove with his magnificent Manchester City side, despite being the fastest manager in Premier...
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Jan 20, 20234 min read
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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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Jan 20, 20235 min read
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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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Jan 20, 20236 min read
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City fans pray Lahoz doesn’t do an ‘Attwell’ in Porto!
It’s very rare that someone who is – at best – grossly incompetent in their job, can deliver a master class. Stuart Attwell is such a...
davidjwalker1
Jan 20, 20235 min read
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He’s here he’s there he’s every ‘Ckin where...Gerry Gow
As City and Spurs go head to head on Sunday in the League Cup Final, it’s just a fortnight shy of 40 years since the two clubs battled...
davidjwalker1
Jan 20, 20235 min read
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Dear Khaldoon...
An open letter to Manchester City’s hitherto, impeccable Chairman: Dear Khaldoon, You’ve played a blinder for City since becoming...
davidjwalker1
Jan 20, 20232 min read
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True Blue Vera – The memories live on...
Just a month shy of her 105th birthday, the wonderful lady would’ve marvelled at the sight of the fledgling superstar – 85 years her...
davidjwalker1
Jan 20, 20237 min read
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Farewell to The King
A Manchester City team wearing sky blue shirts, each bearing the number 8, will tonight pay homage to arguably the club’s greatest ever...
davidjwalker1
Jan 20, 20235 min read
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Guardiola’s Groundhog Day
Pre-match it was puzzling and potentially perplexing. City’s starting XI suggested an uncharacteristically cautious – almost negative –...
davidjwalker1
Jan 19, 20234 min read
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Adios El Mago – City’s finest
Jordan Henderson winning the Footballer of the Year Award makes it all the more staggering, outrageous, pathetic – at this point you can...
davidjwalker1
Jan 19, 20235 min read
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Manchester City deserve a level playing field...don’t they?
The polarization of Manchester City hit new heights and plumbed unchartered depths following the club’s win at the Court of Arbitration...
davidjwalker1
Jan 19, 20237 min read
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It might be football – but not as we know it
English football's so-called 'leaders' are desperate to complete the 2019/20 season behind closed doors - irrespective of the Coronavirus...
davidjwalker1
Jan 19, 20234 min read
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City’s actions speak louder than poisonous prose and a malicious media
This brief article is not about any kind of pathetic, petty point scoring. It’s just a few hundred words about perspective and...
davidjwalker1
Jan 19, 20233 min read
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Watch it. Drink it in ...and then spit it in the faces of the City haters
“I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again, so watch it, drink it in...” Every Manchester City fan will readily identify...
davidjwalker1
Jan 19, 20234 min read
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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...
davidjwalker1
Jan 19, 20236 min read
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Don’t look back in anger – sometimes it’s easier said than done
Noel Gallagher created it, Oasis conquered the world with it and Manchester City’s long suffering, but always resilient, supporters...
davidjwalker1
Jan 19, 20234 min read
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When it comes to cheating you have to hand it to VAR
Pyrotechnics, blaring music, and boundless optimism was in abundance at the Etihad Stadium as Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City set out on...
davidjwalker1
Jan 19, 20234 min read
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