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OF UPGRADES AND DOWNTURNS
In the summer of 2012, Manchester City, with Roberto Mancini still just about in tow, produced a summer spend of such prolonged ghastliness, it would eventually bring to a close the urbane Italian's...
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THE WAY WE WERE: LUTON TOWN AWAY
Danny Wilson's penalty sails past Andy Dibble at Kenilworth RoadIt is the 1989-90 season and things, as was the custom in those days, are in a considerable state of flux.Luton, with their away-fans ban...
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RUNNERS AND RIDERS
City go into Monday's Champions League knockout round draw with the following possible opponents (in bold via Mancity.com):Of these sides, City have played PSG the most, 7 times in all, followed by 4...
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DESERT DISPATCH
Mike Hammond has followed City home and away since the early 80s and made it to Jeddah to see history made. Here are his impressions of five days in the Desert Kingdom:I understand that we all live in...
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EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY: MAN UTD 1979
📸 Season 1978-79📆 Saturday 10th February 1979🏟 Maine RoadUnited winger Steve Coppell beats Paul Power to the ball to loft a daring right foot lob over Joe Corrigan at Maine Road on February 10th...
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ON THE WINGS OF DESIRE
City's total domination of English football continues.Those that decried the self-styled one-sided end of football, this morning whoop a three-horse title race, alive and kicking with possibilities and...
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MIRROR IMAGE | BLONDIE CLIPPING IN FOR 2-0 AT FOREST
Nottingham Forest 0-2 Manchester City | Nottingham Forest 0-2 Manchester CitySunday 28th April 2024 | Saturday 27th February 1993✅ 👱 BLONDIE NICKS THE SECOND | Floppy blond-haired lad clips in late...
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THE NUMBERS GAME | Part 2
City fans on the Holte End, Villa Park, during extra time of the 1981 FA Cup semi final against Ipswich TownIn Part 1, written back in 2011, as City closed in on their first trophy success (the FA Cup...
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BRENTFORD 1989
Few have been the matches down the years that did not offer supporters of the world's most idiosyncratic club the opportunity to tut quietly, shake their heads and say "that's just bloody typical, that...
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WATFORD 1987
Drawing Watford in the League Cup in 1987-88 meant that it would be the fifth time in two years that the clubs had played each other in knock-out competitions (3 FA Cup games and a Full Members' Cup...
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JOHAN NEESKENS
Johan Neeskens, who has died at the age of 73, was as much part of the Dutch Total Football of 1974 as his namesake Cruyff.If Cruyff brought the virtuoso turns, the extravagance, the fantasy, Neeskens...
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WOLVES: 50 YEARS OF GOALS
The table below represents City's top scorers against Wolves in all competitions in the 50 years since 1973-74. The highest individual scoring efforts have been recorded in recent seasons by Kevin De...
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BALLOON 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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OF 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...
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AND 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...
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CLAUDIA 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...
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ROWING 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...
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CASINO 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....
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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.
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MIROR 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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EVERY 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...
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BOTTLERS!
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...
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BLUE 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...
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A 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...
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SIXTY 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...
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