INTO THE DRAGON'S DEN
The times they are a changin’, sang Bob Dylan with his curiously thin and whiny voice. Music was changing too. And he was changing it. In 2026 he might have sung it again, about the Champions...
View ArticleGALLERY: COVENTRY CITY 1972-2026
Tony Book comes away with the ball at Highfield Road during the 2-3 defeat in 1972-73 season.1973-74 League Cup quarter final replay at a soaked Maine Road. Francis Lee smashes a trademark penalty as...
View ArticleGOING INTO EUROPE
15th August 2003The City of Manchester Stadium prepares itself for its first competitive match. After the fun and games of beating Ronaldinho's Barcelona in the stadium inauguration, comes the nitty...
View ArticleMATT BIANCHI
Rolando Bianchi didn't stay long enough at City to become a proper hero, but he played his part in one of the most pleasant opening day wins of the modern era. Neil Custis, The Sun's admirably...
View ArticleALWAYS THE SUN
Goal!Stuart Pearce is 39 with a career spanning Coventry, Forest, Newcastle and West Ham like a bridge that never ends. But end it must and a final fling under Kevin Keegan’s show-lights beckons in...
View ArticleBRAGGING RIGHTS
Braga, 5th August 1980We are in Portugal's beautiful Minho region, a flowing verdant province of sprawling country estates, thick forests and well tended vineyards producing the regions famous Vinho...
View ArticleSKOL
The Summer of 1979. I Don't Like Mondays is riding high in the charts. But this is a Saturday and we do like it because we're in Edinburgh to see City.The Skol Cup has arrived. Scotland calling.City...
View ArticleSIXTY AND OVER
The last day of the 2025-26 season will once again see emotions running unchecked at the Etihad. So many final days over the past decade have culminated in raw emotional chaos for its jittery...
View ArticleA DEGREE OF SUCCESS
Finishing a difficult 83-84 campaign on a high noteBeating Cambridge United 5-0 on the final day of the season was too little too late for a City side limping home in 4th place in Division Two on 12th...
View ArticleBLUE MURDER
A sticky ending to 1992-93The dawn of the Premier League had come on the back of two consecutive 5th place finishes for City in 90-91 and 91-92. 5th was where Peter Reid's battling side was sitting...
View ArticleBOTTLERS!
The Dizzying Maelstrom of Football's Content ChurnA mere week ago, the puffing and grunting coming out of Sky Sports News was that Arsenal had bottled it. Fresh from their second defeat to City in a...
View ArticleEVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY: EVERTON 1969
📷 Manchester City v Everton, FA Cup semi-final📅 Saturday 22nd March 1969🏟 Villa Park, Birmingham👀 All three Everton players pictured would go on to work at City more recently than the City player...
View ArticleMIROR IMAGE: TEN-ONE
Manchester City 10-1 Huddersfield Town | Manchester City 10-1 Exeter CitySaturday 7th November 1987 | Saturday 10th January 2026✅ 12th minute opener | Both games lasted only 12 minutes before City...
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All the news that's fit to print..... 💨 Next week: we share exclusive Instagram snaps of the day-to-day football reporter's lifestyle of "Dirty" Harry Robinson of the Daily Star.
View ArticleCASINO ROYALE
THE city gambles that paid off... Ali Benarbia, Yaya Toure and Bernardo Silva have all played pivotal roles in City’s regeneration during glittering careers that brought them to Manchester via Monaco....
View ArticleROWING AGAINST THE TIDE
| WEEK THREE |Now, like anybody else around here, I am prone to a bit of Ian Herbert. Although he blocked me on Twitter many blue moons ago, I still enjoy him popping up on my timeline when somebody...
View ArticleCLAUDIA SCHIFFER AND THE PURE AROMA OF SWEDISH BOGWATER
| WEEK TWO |An absorbing week in north London, where Arsenal managed a countermanouevre of some stealth to whisk Palace's Eberechi Eze from under the quivering checkbook of Daniel Levy. Tottenham fans...
View ArticleAND THEY'RE OFF! DEFEATS OF HOPE AND GREALISH RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY
TALKING HEADS, WOBBLING HEADS, PRICKLY PROSEJack Grealish's saviour is close at hand and the unexpected name of his angel in white gowns is none other than that freewheeling advocate of unbridled...
View ArticleOF OLD LADIES AND OLD GENTLEMEN
AS THE RAIN FALLS HARD ON A HUMDRUM TOWNMorrissey's dirge might have been appropriate for either Manchester or Turin, twin Northern industrial bulwarks. "It looked like Bolton in the rain", said Roger...
View ArticleBALLOON D'OR
And so, inevitably, to the latest incarnation of Man-Baby that our beloved Football Family has coughed up: this week cast your eyes on the splendour of Vinícius José Paixão de Oliveira Júnior. You are...
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