Help Monkey World Make The UK A Better Place For Captive Primates

Not a sporting subject but this is a cause close to my heart.

Calling all sports fans to aid Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, a primate rescue and rehabilitation centre who do some outstanding work saving primates, from being mis-treated and traded from around the world.

I am not asking you to donate money to the cause, only that if you agree, help us by spending a couple of minutes adding your signature to a petition.

A while back I raised concern with Monkey World after seeing a couple of primates being sold in a classified ad in the UK.The pictures showed two primates in what looked like a bird aviary in a back garden and let me tell you, they did not look in perfect health and were getting on in life.

I can understand Monkey World do not have the resources to fight an outright ban on primate trade in the UK, although I am definitely sure that if they did they would try make it happen.

So with that said Monkey World are trying to petition the Government to ensure that any captive monkeys receive a standard of care that meets their behavioural and physical needs regardless of whether they are kept in private homes or pet shops.

They are asking the British Government to issue guidance to local authorities, responsible for granting licences for these exotic pets, to use the same standard of duty of care as they would for primates kept in zoo's or wildlife parks (the Zoo Licensing Act 1981).

If a monkey is deserving of a certain standard of care in a zoo or wildlife park, by definition it is deserving of the same standard of care in a private home or pet shop. Monkey World would like their concerns addressed by the Government and Select Committee immediately.

All we're asking for you to do is sign the petition and confirm your email address to validate your signature.

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Thank you in advance.

CiTyBlUe and Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre

Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre

P.s. If you could find the time to spread the word on your forum/board we would be very greatful.

Tevez Out, Sack And Seek Compensation, No Player Is Bigger Than Manchester City

I was trying not to get into a fuss about what happened against Bayern but I just can not hold back, I'm extremely disappointed and livid even that Tevez can do this to us after all the help our club has given him.

I want to see Manchester City follow Gordon Taylor's suggestion and open an enquiry to kick Carlos Tevez to the curb and seek compensation for the damage he has done.

I am not a season ticket holder but some of my family are, paying his wages for him to slap us all around the face by refusing to fight for us.

He does not deserve to wear our colours or play for us for one more minute as far as I am concerned.

I am also disappointed at the reaction Edin Dzeko gave Roberto Mancini, I expect a public apology from the player for his reaction at being substituted.

If not then he can leave too because I have 1000 percent respect for and belief in Bobby Manc, other than the below par defending our side produced I see that there is nothing more to be said other than a hope that we do better next time and learn from this.

Harry Redknapp, Robbie Savage and Gordon Taylors reaction

Hearing Moyes And Fergy Whine Is Refreshing, Time To Step Up The Title Challenge

Well what can be said?, talk was that Everton were our bogey team but I disagree, I prefer to think that we have just been on the receiving end of too many bad referee's vs Everton. Referee's at Goodison tend to let Everton play their own game and often get away with tough tackling for 90+ minutes, cue the Evertonian faithful telling me how wrong I am.

Which makes it sweet to hear Moyes (the second most annoying manager in the EPL) whine about Kompany after Tim Cahill brutally slid in a tackle, trying to make out Kompany deliberately stamped on Cahill but we all know Vincent is not that kind of player (Roy Keane, Joey Barton).

Since Lescott was sold by Everton Moyes has had a chip on his shoulder when it came to Manchester City, which is no big surprise considering he and Alex Ferguson are best of mates.

What is hilarious is how his own players bully and play rough all the time, one thing they are good at is playing rough and avoiding injuring their opponents, and he has the cheek to accuse Vinny of foul play.

Moyes also accused the City faithful of manipulating the referee forcing him into giving City advantage, hypocritical considering his own clubs fan base do the same week in week out being so close to the action in a very tight stadium.

Hilarious!

Alex Ferguson first praised Stoke City's fan base in the papers before kick off, only to accuse them of causing United to drop points. Then proceeding to whine about Peter Crouch's style of play claiming he fouls all the time.

Something his side could not cope with which if I am correct, is United's problem and not Crouch being a dirty player. Don't get me wrong I don't find Crouch appealing but he is far from dirty.

It was sweet is to hear Rooney went off injured, Ive always believed what goes around comes around. Karma!

The Hargreaves situation could not have turned out any better, making a great comeback with Manchester City and scoring his first goal in his first competitive match. I truly believe United's medical staff made the wrong choices for Hargreaves but, I respect Hargreaves for not laying blame and taking responsibility for not making the decision of an operation in the first place for himself.

Players put just as much faith in doctors as much as anyone else, sometimes we all put too much faith in them and forget half the time they are playing a guessing game with peoples health and lives. They are playing god but are quick to deny such, they guess what medicine would be best for you in the hopes it is such but that's the only way unfortunately.

Hearing Alex Ferguson defend United's medical staff is no big surprise considering if he did not, then he would be taking responsibility along with them.

With all that covered this month could not have been any better seeing United finally drop points and level with us, seeing Everton finally get their just deserts and finding out I'm going to be a dad for the first time.

Happy Days!

Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis Visited United Before Watching Napoli Play Manchester City

Aurelio De Laurentiis took a personal tour of Old Trafford before watching his club play against the real representatives of Manchester, but just how personal was that tour aye Mr Aurelio De Laurentiis?

I have to stress how important it is right now to get the message through to my fellow City fans, be careful in Napoli and stay together. I am not saying you will find trouble, just to not forget that your in a country flush with racism, violence and football hooliganism.

With that said I also have to point out that Alex Ferguson has previously meddled in City matters when he has had the chance, how much influence he has had is unknown but he has a habit of contacting managers of other clubs when they face Manchester City. It seems strange that Aurelio De Laurentiis would visit Old Scaffold for just a simple tour, you could call me paranoid but I smell another stinking mud dweller over at the swamp.

We almost made a mess of the Napoli game and the word is that we were too nervous?, as far as I'm concerned our defense may have been nervous but. The reason we lost 2 points were solely down to an over rated Gareth Barry and I have lost my Patience with the midfielder.

As far as I am concerned I lost the same amount of patience with Joleon Lescott also but at least he mucks in with the odd few good performances, the same can not be said for Barry, always trying to make amends with the odd fluke goal or rare assist.

Some are saying we were sucker punched and shown a counter attacking master class by Napoli?, how they came to that conclusion beats me when Gareth Barry gave away possession with a stupid side foot trick and his back to Napoli's end along with no actual momentum from City going forward at that point.

Last season I thought to myself that we had the foundation to kick on with the elite but, I now have to admit I was wrong back then and believe it is only now that we have the foundation. Clearly Barry, Bridge, Lescott and Kolarov despite his dead ball skill are not up to the task, luckily for us we have some very bright young defensive prospects rising through the ranks.

Netherland's Karim Rekik and Switzerland's Frederic Veseli are two promising stand out defenders in our reserve team, That's our elite development squad for those not up to speed.

Clearly there is some improving to do in Europe after we were given a wake up call, I never thought I'd be thinking having Kolo Toure back soon could be just the answer.

Ill end this with one last thing, despite the silly Barry side foot fumble we did pretty well for our first Champions League encounter.

Consistency Will Be Our Biggest Challenge, If A Lack Of Consistency Can Not Stop Us Then Nothing Or No One Can!

Only winning consistency will earn us the Premier League title, certain clubs will sooner or later run out of steam and have a blip or two. But with the squad we have I just can not see us stalling, our strength and depth are area's of which no other club in the league can match.

You're probably thinking this is a bias opinion and that may well be true but, based upon facts it is. Many are pointing to our defense as our weakness only, those forget we had the joint strongest defense in the league along side Chelsea last season before acquiring Stefan Savic and Gael Clichy.

OK on occasion we have still shown nervous moments at the back at times but, that will iron out as the season progresses. Consistency will be our biggest challenge and although it would be nice to win the Champions League in our first season, that would be a tall ask after considering clubs like established Barcelona (deleted United from the list), a really good run is all I am expecting.

I'd much rather us rip the English Premier League title away from United, maybe even do a double and win the FA Cup again.

Have to say its an utter joy to watch our players at this very moment, they really seem to be enjoying their football with Nasri and Aguero firing on all cylinders and the exciting part is that we are only going to get better but. I really do hope we get to see Stefan Savic alongside Vincent Kompany as soon as possible, I know Lescott has had a few good performances but at times he costs us reminding me of Richard Dunne (good but not great).

Will be interesting to see who replaces Cook for the long term, 40 odd years since we graced Europe's elite competition and the current elite clubs dislike us before we have even kicked a Champions League ball. 'Grinning'

Gary Cook Departs Manchester City FC, Will We Ever Get To Know The Truth?

The one point that I wish to make is that, we do not know the facts despite Gary Cook's departure, I see this as just to minimise the damage to our club which is a good thing but I am not about to take it as a message of guilt.

I hate not knowing the facts and despite Cook's mistakes I would be disappointed to hear later on down the line that he was truly the victim of a hacker, lets not delude ourselves and laugh off the posibility for we all know the little scumbags exist.

This is our City wishes Gary Cook all the best for the future and thanks him for the time and effort he has given to our club whether guilty or not guilty.

Now our club can move on and prepare for the Champions League without having this rubbish hanging over us, and Nedum can get on with playing football and not have to worry about it all. No doubt though the anti City media will find something else to bash us with.

Gary Cook Issue Overshadowing Real Threat Of United Fans insighting Violence Between Napoli And City

With all due respect to all parties I believe issues have been dealt with in the same way our British justice system works, in an absolutely shambolic way.

I have never been a big fan of Gary Cook but I understand the position he is in, my email account had been hacked once and I lost access to a linked account also. I even had a friend lose his email account too and everyone in his address book including me received some strange and disgusting mail, did I instantly get on the phone and start publicly slating him?

Like I said with all due respect to all parties, I recently lost my dad to cancer and have to say it was the hardest time of my life, Nedum Onuoha's head must be well and truly in a twist by now stuck between his mother and his club.

OK Mr Cook may well be guilty but who are set to really lose out in this mess?, only our club and Nedum Onuoha are set to lose if anyone.

I wish Dr Anthonia Onuoha and her son all the best for the future and sincerely hope they and our club do not suffer anymore from this mess, but believe it should have been dealt with in a more professional and discrete manner.

I for one am happy that Nedum has not left Manchester City and I believe my Aunt Tracy is also, I have always had high hopes for Ned from the day he broke through our academy and wish him the best of luck. Ned is a credit to his mother and I hope he is here with us for seasons to come.

All this threatens to over shadow what could turn out to be a real disaster, we play Napoli and right now United fans have been encouraging Italians to attack our fellow fans. Has the damage been done already and are all parties doing everything they can to reverse the damage?

I believe our UK Police force do a good job but I have never been completely in support, they get it wrong at times and probably will never gain my full confidence.

Lets hope both Napoli and Manchester City do whatever it takes to stop these inbred United fans from causing more trouble, lets hope both Napoli and Manchester are trouble free on a historic night for both clubs.

Dzeko Bangs In Four Against Spur's While Arsenal Match Fix Their Own Embarrassing Loss To United

With all due respect for Tottenham Hotspur, at least they turned up to play and win. While being completely outclassed by the link up play of Nasri and Clichy, Sharpness and Skill of Aguero and the sublime ability of one on form Edin Dzeko.

If only our England had an Edin Dzeko instead of a crock of over rated and deceiving street striker like Wayne Rooney, I only watched the Rooney Street Striker once and oh boy what a joke and waste of time it truly was.

The chump tongue twisted himself into submission after being asked a few questions by his host, Gary Neville recently trying to be unbiased with Manchester City reminded me of how uncomfortable he must have been, yet Rooney is happy to stick two fingers up and swear on live television with ease.

Lucky enough I am a City fan because if I was an Arsenal fan, I'd be so embarrassed that I'd probably go into hiding for a generation. This is exactly why United have literally walked away with league titles, Chelsea have only truly been a challenge up until now.

Before the transfer window opened I had inside knowledge that Nasri, Aguero and Savic were on their way, Clichy and Pantilimon however were a complete unknown to me. I knew this was our season and call me premature but I still believe we can win the League title this season as long as other clubs don't do an Arsenal and freely gift United a win.

I'm sorry but I won't buy into the loss of two players being a good reason for a Champions League club gifting another Champions League club eight free and easy goals, Spur's fans will take comfort in Arsenals embarrassment after seeing Manchester City completely out class their side.

We are now on a completely new level punching with the heavy weights and we have not even played our first Champions League fixture?,  Only just got my head around having the richest club owner in the world and now they give us Sergio Aguero, Samir Nasri, David Silva, Yaya Toure, Carlos Tevez and Edin Dzeko all in one nice little package.

And thats not including our Titan Nigel Dejong.

Bring on United and Napoli, Villarreal, Bayern and especially Everton, boy do we owe them after our away game against them big time.

Well done so far lads, keep up the pace, really looks like your enjoying yourselves now and every City fan will be taking pure delight out of that fact alone.  All those morons saying we have no togetherness, no team spirit and will never have what it takes with a team of mercenaries, seeing that alone makes me all warm inside.

Youngsters Show Promise Against Tough Irishmen, United Fans At It Again With Sneijder Link!

A young Manchester City, aside A Johnson, Barry, Taylor and SWP saw off Irish side Airtricity League XI in the Dublin Super Cup, Bobby Manc rested our first team squad for the game tomorrow against Inter Milan before we take on scum United in the Community Shield.

Youngsters Frédéric Veseli (19), Denis Suárez (17) and Abdul Razak (18) all impressed, though Vladimir Weiss failed to impress me despite the rough treatment he received from a few of the Irish players and Celtic fans present.

I had high hopes for Weiss but since being loaned out to Glasgow Rangers, he seems to have become a shadow of the player I expected to see. I am sure a few of our youngsters will not make the cut but Veseli, Suarez and Razak all look solid.

Shaun Wright-Phillips worked his butt off and got on the score sheet as did Adam Johnson though I seem some what less impressed with Johnson. We clearly lack a winger able to whip in crosses on a regular basis, despite the fact I love a player who as willing to take on defenders I still believe we lack a world class winger.

Until we get a wing man capable of producing killer crosses into the box, then we will not get the full potential out of Edin Dzeko and Yaya Toure.

New signing Sergio Aguero watched the fringe players while sitting beside David Silva, we may yet see Aguero play a small part against Inter Milan if we're lucky.

United's sticky fingered journo fans have been in full swing, suggesting Wesley Sneijder has snubbed Manchester City in favour of United. Truth be told if Manchester were after Wesley Sneijder, then why have we City fans not heard about it considering Nigel Dejong and Wesley are close friends and national team-mates?

If Manchester were to try sign Sneijder then I bet he would jump at the chance of playing along side Dejong for the richest club in the world, in favour of a debt encrusted club who could only muster enough money for average players like Young.

I'd love to see this interview of Sneijder snubbing City for United though, somehow I believe its all a lie.

Sergio Aguero A City Player, Comical United Fans Have Their Pants In A Twist!

Sergio Aquero A City Player, who'd a thought it, my oh my are we in for a right treat this coming season. Silva and Aguero will have Premier League defenses in a twist, if Tevez ends up staying then they are in for one hell of a headache.

Since knocking United out of the 10/11 FA Cup (the cup they brand the Mickey Mouse cup unless they win it), and going on to win the most prestigious domestic Cup in world football by beating Stoke, Tevez aside, the capture of Sergio Aguero is a completely new level in the City revolution.

It makes it all the more breathtaking hearing United fans lose themselves in disbelief that Manchester City have officially joined the ranks of Europe's elite super power club, able to attract the calibre of player like Aguero all in one season.

The opinions of the enemy answered:

"You maybe have a title winning forward lineup but your defense is rubbish and you need a great signing to partner Kompany"

Stefan Savic

"Dejong will get sent off and banned, Balotelli will create chaos and your players will get frustrated and City will fail"

Never going to happen

"You have spent £38 million on Aguero and spent over your income, Uefa are now going to ban your club from Europe and you're not going to win nothing"

Wishful thinking

"United have a far bigger and better team than City and Rooney is better than Aguero"

Delusional ignorance

"OK you've signed a good player but he is hardly world class now is he, not like Barcelona, United or Real Madrid were interested in him"

From world class to hardly world class in one day, now thats a classic

"I hope he will perform another Robinho and crash and burn"

Not much chance of that happening, Robinho was a lazy git

Is there any wonder people detest United fans, I think pity would be a better way forward?

I had to ask the question, 'so what is it like knowing your club will have to face Aguero, Tevez, Yaya and Silva in the Community Shield (Charity Shield) at Wembley on the 7th August?'

"Rooney will give them a master class on how to score a goal"

Is that the same over rated striker that goes missing so much and got humiliated by Tevez and a bench warming Berbatov?

I hope your sides are splitting right now because mine were.

Here's the laugh of all laughs.

"He should not have gone to shitty, now he will flop and waste his career, will only win the mickey mouse cup and will do the same as cry baby Tevez."

Jealousy

We have come a long way since beating United by 5-1 at Maine Road in 89 thanks to Lakey, and unbelievably defeating Gillingham thanks to Dickov. Despite all thats happening right now. I find myself watching reruns of beating Spurs 4-3 in the FA Cup when Barton was sent off for being an idiot and Shaun Goater terrorising United in the last derby at Maine Road, putting it all into perspective especially when I again get to see Marc Vivian Foe play once more.

As far as I am concerned we're still the 'same old City' accept we now win more than we lose.

Uefa's FFP is 40 Odd Years Too Late, How Will Manchester City Lineup For 2011/12

40 odd years too late because they allowed clubs like Real Madrid and United, Liverpool and AC Milan free reign to spend huge amounts of cash to achieve glory, Uefa formed in 1954 (57 years ago) and now that those clubs have done so they have nothing to lose. Well that's what they thought anyway but, you can not evade the tax man for long and can not hide from the banks for eternity.

Manchester City are doing everything in their power to work with Uefa despite this direct attack, Uefa pretend that the FFP is to make sure each and every club in European football competition has parity.

Think again though because its just Uefa's smoke screen for trying to stop Manchester City from in their eyes, devaluing football. They fear us that much and the FFP is hardly going to level the playing field, how on earth are clubs like Bangor City, FK Partizan or Shamrock Rovers going to gain a parity with clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona and Real Madrid (I didn't add United to the list because they are about to crash and burn). unless a very rich owner purchased them?

With all due respect to clubs like Bangor and Shamrock, the FFP will not solve anything for them unless they all of a sudden like Manchester happened to gain a very rich owner. Many people have this naive notion that the best way to achieve glory i.e. Champions League football is to grow via an academy, in this day and age that sort of view is an uneducated and moronic one.

For example Arsenal run an academy with which many believe is almost up there with Barcelona's famed academy, the real picture though is that Arsenal poach a majority of the academy graduates from other clubs and grass root academies where as Barcelona have strong ties with South America not to mention Spain.

Far too many academies are below par and in the real world a club can not achieve sustained Champions League football solely on the strength of an academy.

I believe the FFP is purely to put a stop to wild spending, in simple terms Uefa are throwing their weight around and are no different than Fifa, Uefa's parent.

Are they attacking the real problems in world football?, I believe not because they should be banning the player Agents who inflate delibrately to make more money for themselves. Add to the list punishing clubs like Udinese who try to create bidding wars like the Sanchez saga, then add punishing clubs like United who sold Cristiano Ronaldo for £80 million sterling.

For decades Uefa allowed Real Madrid and United so spend large amounts but, only now are throwing their weight around treating clubs like Manchester City like we're the anti christ.

There is only one reason for Uefa bringing in the FFP, because clubs like Bayern Munich, United, Arsenal, Liverpool and AC Milan hate what Manchester City have become.

With that out the way we can rest easy knowing that Manchester City are in contact with Uefa and our club only have to show Uefa that we will fall within the FFP rule of which we will.

Now here is how Manchester City may well line up for season 11/12

GOALKEEPERS: Joe Hart, Eirik Johansen, Loris Karius, Stuart Taylor

CENTERBACKS: Dedryck Boyata, Vincent Kompany, Joleon Lescott, Stefan Savic, Frederic Veseli, Kolo Toure

FULLBACKS: Ryan McGivern, Micah Richards, Aleksandar Kolarov, Gaël Clichy, Pablo Zabaleta

MIDFIELDERS: Gareth Barry, Nigel de Jong, James Milner, David Silva, Yaya Toure **SAMIR NASRI**, Abdul Razak

WINGERS: Adam Johnson, Vladimir Weiss, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Andrea Mancini

FORWARDS, Mario Balotelli, Edin Dzeko, John Guidetti, **SERGIO AGUERO**

Even without Carlos Tevez that's a big improvement on last season including minus Aguero and Nasri.

The Established And Delusional Elite Fan, City Are On The Right Track

I just want to touch on the uproar of our 10 year Sponsorship and Stadium Naming Rights deal with Etihad Airways.

A fellow blogger of ours at Bluedays has published a very clear and well presented article on how this deal does not completely stabilise our future.

Well it would not would it, they point out how our club are working hard to iron out all the creases, but forgot to mention the more important points. Like despite our club increasing ticket and merchandise prices, our fans still receive value for money and still pay less than clubs like Tottenham Hotspur who criminally fleece their fans and United who also demand more from their fans each and every year.

It was reported that Manchester City fans saw more value for money than any other club in the English Premier League last season. I wonder what our Premier League odds are right now to win the title this season?, I believe we have a very good chance and just as good a chance as any.

The difference is that while Manchester City improve on both a financial and entertaining level, Spurs and United are if anything flat lining if not in gradual decline in terms of entertainment and personnel. Even clubs like Arsenal fail to live up to expectations of their fans despite apparently having so much wealth in youth development.

City are clearly helping regenerate the community around East Manchester and will provide Manchester and the suburbs of Greater Manchester with more jobs, not just for City fans but for all who are lucky enough to live close by or travel there each and everyday.

Manchester City are at the forefront of community work through sport in England and over the last few years have won numerous awards for their work with outside forces.

Europe will gain something no other country in Europe has seen before let alone offered, A sporting complex catering for more than just football so with that said.

Why are the media painting Uefa as the devil implying Uefa are going to try to stop the multi million pound deal between Manchester and Etihad from happening.

Clearly Arsenal, United and a few other unknown clubs have a problem with Manchester City publicly over shadowing them, finally Manchester has hit the right nerve.

Its been suggested that these clubs have approached Uefa and urged them to investigate the deal between Manchester and Etihad with intention to try scupper the deal or have Manchester City thrown out of the Champions League before even playing a single Champions League fixture.

The chances of any of that happening are pretty much impossible considering other clubs successful stadium naming rights and considering factors like Uefa allowing United's European glory to go ahead year after year on the back of continuous lending.

What are the football odds on Alex Ferguson retiring, before United's massive debt finally catches up with them?

Arsene Wenger had to have his say as usual “Normally the sponsorship has to be at the market price if the Financial Fair Play has to have a chance. It means the Financial Fair Play will not come in, it is as simple as that."

“It cannot be doubled, trebled or quadrupled because that means it is better we don’t do it and leave everybody free. You can argue that point but if you bring in the rules they have to be respected.”

“This is UEFA president Michel Platini’s big test, but he is not stupid. He knows as well that some clubs will try to get around that.”

The odds of Uefa actually stopping the deal from happening is virtually non existent seeing as they don't have power to stop it, all they could do is use it against City if they wished to ban our club from Europe.

With that said it would have both a negative financial and political affect on Uefa, if they were to ban Manchester City from the Champions League.

Arsenal are clearly upset by the fact that our deal dwarfs theirs with the Emirates in 2004, which was valued at £90m over 15 years which also kind of makes them hypocrites.

United took their objection public by suggesting they would never sell their stadiums naming rights taking the moral high ground, they, Arsenal's supporters trust and other unnamed clubs have apparently contacted Uefa stating their dis-approval.

Liverpool owner John Henry has an opinion on the subject however it is unclear with his idle comment on twitter 'How much was the losing bid?', whether that was sarcasm or not who knows?, but one thing is for sure that once Liverpool solve their Stadium issue they could well go down the same road and also sell their naming rights.

I'm betting John Henry will feel a right moron once Liverpool opt to sell their Stadium naming rights after they sort out their options of develop or rebuild.

It just went even further with the Daily Rag aka the Daily Mail's Chris Wheeler claiming that a half wit with Sir before his name ala urgh Bobby Charlton states that only a small club should sell stadium naming rights.

Just goes to show you can be a right numpty and be knighted by the Queen of England at the same time, back in time you had to stand out as a hero for king and country to get a knighthood and be at the top of your game.

Now you can kick a ball around, get a knighthood and be seen spouting rubbish in a national newspaper, not even a true war hero can get a knighthood these days and it has become a farce.

I believe Uefa will allow our deal with Etihad Airways to go ahead without any hitch and I believe this farce is nothing more than media hype generated by fans of rival clubs.

With that covered, one certain person took it even further claiming that we, Manchester City are not worthy of a place in the Champions League.

They claim Tottenham Hotspur deserve Champions League football more, branding us as an abomination and dull collection of defensive mercenaries. I have to say that this is a rather amusing analysis of us considering the fact that despite having a club of dull mercenaries we broke into the top three and knocked out fancy pants Arsenal.

Like many a fan of Elite clubs around Europe, the author goes on to say how we bought ourselves to the top of European football, only I see every Elite club in Europe as a club that paid their way to the top.

Not one Elite club in Europe can claim they got to the pinnacle of European football without spending large amounts of cold hard cash, though many of their fans would have you believe they got there solely on blood, sweat and tear.

They seem to think their club reached the promised land solely on hard work, they cling to their glorious history as if it proves they achieved everything without money money money.

Think about it for a moment, how many elite clubs fans around the world think their club got to where they are now solely on hard work?

The only difference between Manchester City and those elite clubs is, Manchester City have done in three years what they did in 20 or 30 years in terms of spending.

With that said, if you calculated the expenditure of Spurs or United over the last 30 odd years you would be astounded, Manchester City have not even spent half of what those clubs have done in the past.

They go as far as to say we do not deserve European football because we have a lack of respect for the rules?, claiming we tap up and unsettle players with the same old opinion that we have no class and dignity.

I am starting to wonder if they actually know the meaning of the words they use, how do these people survive in the real world? and where do they get off accusing us of breaking the rules their clubs have been breaking for years.

Poaching players under the age of 16 from countries like Spain and Portugal, as those countries can not offer professional contracts to keep hold of their talent until after their 16th birthday. United and Arsenal are masters at it though they would have you believe otherwise.

Why we do not deserve European football article HERE

Clearly we are doing everything right as we have them on the back foot against the ropes, I find it very refreshing and enlightening hearing all the opposition vent their disgust and anger, bitterness, jealousy, hatred and delusion.

United fans around the world are demanding we sell Carlos Tevez at a loss, no prizes for guessing why?, so they can ridicule us for making a loss and buying who they brand a mercenary money grabbing sell out.

Tevez Devastates City, Woooooooooo, Just Give Us A Moment

Moment to top ourselves, cry with extreme heartache and preach the end of the world.

The world of media as it is now, is nothing more than a comedy sitcom and it is only a matter of time before we're gifted with a sitcom based on The Office of the Daily Mail.

Carlos Tevez has ROCKED Manchester City causing turmoil within the changing room, players are talking up a mutiny and newly acquired defender Gael Clichy is already talking up a move to Sunday League football.

"I am totally devastated that Carlos Tevez wants to leave Manchester City, he was the only reason I joined City and now I am going to look a complete tool."

"Manchester City are now going to be relegated to the third division without Tevez and never win anything for the next 38 years."

There is talk of our owner now losing faith because Tevez wants to leave and he is plotting the sale of Manchester City to a group of little green men who wish to turn us into a medical research center and convert our stadium into a landing site for their mother ship.

It is being reported that our players are on their IPhone's putting calls out for all other players to reject Manchester City, they are using the unrest of Tevez to promote the chaos at Manchester City.

Manchester City fans around the world are being found lining up outside mental institutions and on the edge of cliffs because Tevez does not like Manchester anymore.

Roberto Mancini has given in his notice and it is being reported that he is on his way back to Italy to sell our best players to Inter Milano.

This is CiTyBlUe signing off as I am now going to buy a rope to hang myself with.

'On a serious note City will progress without Carlos Tevez but with that said, Carlos Tevez will not be going anywhere unless another club can and will buy him.

City will replace him with as good as if not better and I have full confidence in Mancini.'

Is Stefan Savic To Partner Kompany?, Clichy To Complete Our New Look Rear Guard!

ESPN are reporting that Roberto Mancini has confirmed a deal is done for Stefan Savic, the Montenegro international was once on trial at Arsenal with reports that he all but signed until the transfer fell through and Savic then signed for FK Partizan making 20 appearances scoring one goal in the Serbian Super Liga helping them to the league title and Serbian Cup.

He is a 20 years old central defender, standing at 6" 1 and is apparently going to cost around £7 million.

The media have used, abused and totally killed off the transfer story of Gael Clichy to City to a point of it being clinically uninteresting. At the least Clichy is a step up from Wayne Bridge and puts a stop to having our Zabman Zabs played out of position.

These deals are being reported as 99% done with the players all but ready for medicals, as always I have one eye on 'Footballdatabase.eu' and the other on our official club website to confirm such.

To add the Nasri story is still in full swing and I continue to become more and more anti media each day, the two biggest Sports empires ala Sky and ESPN seem to be in a frenzy. Publishing just about anything and everything they can get their hands on be it speculation or fabrication, they seem to have gone completely mad recently.

One thing caught my eye though and that was something Roberto Mancini and Alex Ferguson apparently said in interviews.

Mancini "I would say a deal for Savic has been done, but Samir Nasri? No, not yet."

Ferguson meanwhile suggested Nasri would be at Manchester City next season.

Alessio Cerci is another player I believe we are currently chasing after losing out to Barcelona for Alexi Sanchez, Alessio Cerci a 5" 11 Italian left winger aged 23 who plays for Fiorentina but is yet to play for Italy at senior level. Is In the prime of his footballing career right now scoring 7 goals in 24 appearences for Fiorentina in 2010/11, Cerci has not had much luck being loaned out by Roma to these, those and them over there until finally transferring to Fiorentina which has put a halt to his senior national chances.

To be honest i'd rather have Juan Mata than Cerci but heres Cerci in action anyway



Obviously until we hear it from City it is never official.

City Call Off Sanchez Chase, No Matter Who We Buy They Can Only Strengthen Us

Lets face it, there is no point having a player on board that has his heart set on Barcelona and Barcelona only, one thing I have learnt in life is that you're silly if you limit your opportunities or close yourself off to alternatives.

I am sure like I, a majority of City fans would rather have a player playing for us because they want too, rather than one who has his heart pointing elsewhere.

On the up side Mancini is looking for at least three new acquisitions with center back being one and the others being a couple of lefties, the radars right now are pointing to these players below.

CB Stefan Savic
LB Aly Cissokho
LW Alessio Cerci
LW/AM Juan Mata
LW/AM Marko Marin

Right now the media are pointing to City buying another striker but I am not buying into that, considering we have enough strikers already in Alex Nimely, Mario Balotelli, Carlos Tevez and Edin Dzeko.

That's not including our young future superstar England striker Harry Bunn, the lad is without the doubt the best striker City have produced thus far and have to say I am extremely excited and eager for him to progress.

This season we will see youngster Abdul Razak and Alex Nimely with a bit of luck considering we're now in the Champions League.

Alexi Sanchez Has No Preference Though Barca Are Naturally More Attractive Being CL Holders

Lets face it FC Barcelona are going to be more attractive than any other club on the planet right now because they hold the Champions League crown and have Lionel Messi BUT.

Do not write off the home of football ala England with the oldest and most prestigious domestic cup in world football ala The FA Cup, then FACTS like the English Premier League being the most watched League on the planet, or the fact that the English Premier League has three times as many contenders for the League title than Spain.

Many have the notion that the Spanish League is now the best in the world solely on the FACT that Spain won the World Cup, wishful thinking I might add because the best league in the world would logically be the league that develops the most interest with the bigger following.

OK FC Barcelona are like I said current European Champions but lets face another fact, they only ever have to challenge one other club ala Real Madrid. They breeze past most other clubs in the Spanish league without breaking a sweet (with all due respect to those clubs).

'Gino Pozzo, the son of Udinese owner Giampaolo Pozzo, has stated that highly-rated attacker Alexis Sanchez does not have a preference between a move to Barcelona or Manchester City.'

Sanchez has been reported to have cancelled his trip to Barcelona though, I have been wondering whether that trip was even true.

We have been told by the media Sanchez first wanted to join United, then it was Barcelona, I'm starting to believe the player has no preference myself.

Clearly no player would turn down Barcelona but the truth is, City have outbid Barca, United and anyone else who has shown interest. There is no issue between Udinese and Sanchez so I see no reason for Sanchez to boss his club about, so with that said I believe we are still in with a shot on acquiring the superstar.

Our chance of acquiring Sanchez is clearly at 7/10 with City being the highest bidder, the only way Sanchez will end up at Barcelona is if Barca up their offer which is highly unlikely giving their financial situation.

If they cannot outbid us then Sanchez cannot move anywhere other than City, other than choose to stay as Udinese until a later date.

Watch this space.

Northern Sports Awards 2011: Vote For Kompany, Mancini And Manchester City FC

Manchester City's FA Cup winning team, Roberto Mancini and Vincent Kompany are all nominated for the Northern Sports Award, without a shadow of any doubt they all deserve to beat ex lax Ferguson and his rag tag bunch of over rated ego's.

Have your vote and support the lads HERE

The PFA Are A Joke, Kolo Toure Was Guilty Of Nothing More Than The Negligence Of The PFA

I brand them idiots due to the fact that the aims of the PFA are to protect, improve and negotiate the conditions, rights and status of all professional players only.

They pass the buck off onto the doctors of the players clubs, when it should be the PFA who provide a collective list of banned substances so that players can check for themselves.

Chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association Gordon Taylor quite effectively tells BBC Radio 5 live that Kolo Toure deserves what he calls 'proportionate' banning for taking diuretic which is not a performance enhancing drug but wait for it?

The drug Kolo took was nothing more than one of his wife's weight loss pills, OK its no biggy considering he will serve most of it in the off season and be back playing in September but that is not the point.

What made me laugh more than anything was what came next, as the woman interviewing Gordon asked why a player continuously exercising on a daily basis would want to take slimming pills. Gordon Taylor suggested it was players being vane, conscious of the way they look, despite the fact men start to put on weight far more quickly and easily once they hit their early 30s.

Another completely laughable comment from Gordon Taylor was, using Paddy Kenny as an example of how everything about their rules are peachy perfect.

Paddy Kenny sick with the flu took 'over the counter' flu medicine which had an illegal substance present, he passes Paddy's 9 month ban off as an ideal comparison to Kolo Toure only there was no mention of Rio Ferdinand what so ever.

The PFA are a shambles just like Fifa, it is the PFA's job to protect and serve professional footballers and they are doing a piss poor job at it.

If you want to listen to Gordon Taylors interview you can hear it Here

Breaking News: Young Celta Vigo prodigy Denis Suárez Will Become A City Player?

Spanishfootball.info are reporting that Manchester City have all but wrapped up Denis Suárez, you can read the article by clicking here

We're Doing What You Did , We Will Never Lose Our Soul, Three Players City Should Sign

We were accused of trying to buy trophies and titles from the moment Thaksin bought our club, it just goes to show how pathetic some people on this planet are as they still judge us for having Thaksin buy City. They brand him a war criminal but his country support him to the core, it just goes to show how deluded these morons really are.

Then we were bought by Sheikh Mansour of Adu Dhabi and still the hate continued, accused everyday of trying to buy trophies and titles as well as buying all the players in the world so no one else could have them.

Now we have finally got back on track after 35 years winning the 2011 FA Cup and achieving a Champions League place, all of a sudden the FA Cup does not count because we apparently bought it.

As far as I am concerned the bottom fourteen clubs in the English Premier League are at least twenty years, (some even thirty) behind the top six in terms of finance and foundation.

That was the mountain Manchester City had to claim and we are still only half way to the summit, we are talking about clubs that have had constant European football to fall back on in terms of finance.

Not to mention elevation of status in the transfer market.

With all due respect to the past thirty years of players that have graced our club and colours, we never had a chance against the so called big guns. We have all been reminded time and time again that even the smallest of clubs on their day can take down a giant but, to achieve anything you have to do that on a day to day basis in this day and age.

One particular clubs fans that are accusing us of buying trophies and titles, are also guilty of buying trophies and titles from at least the 1980's onwards.

Chris Smalling £7m, Anders Lindegaard £3.5m, Luis Antonio Valencia £16m, Nani £14.7m, Michael Carrick £14m, Gabriel Obertan £3m, Mame Biram Diouf £3.52m, Zoran Tošić £8.5m, Adem Ljajić £8.5m, Ritchie Ria Alfons De Laet £1.1m, Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov £30.75m, Manucho Alberto £1.32m, Fábio Pereira Da Silva £2.6m, Rafael Pereira Da Silva £2.6m, Owen Lee Hargreaves £17m, Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha £14m, Carlos Alberto Tévez (loan) £12m, Kieran Edward Richardson £5m, Michael Carrick £18.6, Tomasz Mirosław Kuszczak £2.1m, Rio Ferdinand £ 29.1m, Juan Veron £28.1m, Wayne Rooney £25.6m, Ruud Van Nistelrooy £19m, Anderson £17.3m, Dwight Yorke £12.6, Jaap Stam £10.75m, Andy Cole £7m, Roy Keane £3.75, Paul Ince £2.4m, Park Ji-Sung £4m, Javier Hernandez £6m, Gabriel Obertan £3m, Bebe £7.4m, Nemanja Vidic £7m, Ben foster £1m, Edwin Van Der Sar £7m, Eric Cantona £1.2m, Gary Pallister £2.3m, Mark Hughes £1.8m, Bryan Robson £1.5m, Gary Birtles £ 1.25m.

That is only half of their list of acquired personnel amounting to a whopping £384.84 million since 1980, the other half are almost nearly players under the radar that amounted to being nothing but reserve players and players sold on due to failing to impress.

Pot calling kettle springs to mind, again like I mentioned in my last article United are the definition of double standards.

Now though they are starting to accuse us of having a lack of soul, either that or are warning us of falling victim to losing our soul. They need to make their minds up on whether we have lost it or will lose it, the reaction of our fans at Wembley on FA Cup final day paints us as having plenty of soul in my opinion.

Some muppet over at Talksport named Craig Bloomfield talks about City's acquisition of new blood joining the ranks of our City faithful.

He talks about us City fans that have supported City through the dark days of the 1990s but seems to have forgot about the 1980s as well, he says "The more trophies City win, the more of these bandwagon jumpers they will attract. After years of criticising Manchester United's out of town glory hunters, City fans are about to experience what it's like to support a club with a significant plastic following."

To be totally honest I never branded just new blood or foreign supporters of United as glory hunters, I was branding them all after 1980 as glory hunters whether they were from Manchester or Japan.

Those who supported both clubs are an almost extinct generation, those that supported United in the 1970s are right behind them. Those United fans I have no issue with what so ever.

Any fans of United after 1980 seem to lead delusional and arrogant double standard lives, those are the same fans that hung the 35 year banner and the same fans that whine like little babies when it don't go their own way.

All I can say about it is that we are the soul of Manchester City and we always will be, our sons and daughters if they choose to be will also become the soul of our City. So with that said Manchester City will always have a soul, those new blood fans will be welcomed whether they be the son or daughter of a City fan or not.

They can either choose to learn who we are and become one of us or they can choose to follow their own path but one thing will never change.

We will always be the soul and we will always remember where we came from and who we were because we are Manchester City and not some rag tag plastic club like United based on a lie.

35 years, were still here so with that said.

Three players I believe Manchester City should sign

I believe versatility is the key to our transfer targets and I have come to the conclusion our top three targets are:

Jan Vertonghen aged 24, 6ft2 Belgium similar to Vincent Kompany, Jan can be deployed as a central defender or defensive midfielder.

Juan Mata aged 23, 5ft7 Spanish International can play as a play maker or on the left wing.

Alexis Sanchez aged 22, 5ft6 Chilean can play on the left wing or as a deep lying forward.

If their not then they certainly should be as far as I am concerned but, what are your opinions on who we should be targeting?