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25 March 2012

Tired Of Being Robbed By Referees, Sick Of Managers Like Pulis And Pardew

I wrote an article once again blasting referees and our opponents for getting preferential treatment, but then found myself so sick and tired of it that I erased the article from existence.

We may as well kiss the Premier League title goodbye right now, the Premier League may as well just hand it to United this very minute. Hell give the trophy to me and ill put it through the window of Old Trafford for them, Right this minute I couldn't care less about the league title.

I am more interested in putting a stop to the hypocrisy in English football, why are referees continuously allowed to freely manipulate games and wrongfully punish clubs. As far as I am concerned for starters there are far too few Premier League referees, anyone who denies that our football is not corrupt with inadequate and biased officiating is deluded.

Anyone who accepts it as part of the game are easy and narrow minded, match officials are protected far to much in my opinion and should be made accountable for mistakes be them accidental or deliberate.

I don't mean being demoted to a lower league for one or two games, I mean punished financially as well as demotion to encourage an improvement in performance as well as consistency.

How many times have you thought to yourself, this referee is a fan of a club who would benefit from misfortune of a club they are officiating? How many times have you predicted your own clubs match as a draw or loss, after finding out who the referee of your next match was?

With that said I believe Bobby Manc was right to snub Tony Pulis, Pulis clearly has an unhealthy level of hatred for us.  he told his players to go out and play rugby so why should Mancini not snub him?, Mancini had to stand by while Stoke were allowed to run rough riot over his team by a referee who clearly favours United.

Even a Stoke fan named Anne was surprised her club did not pick up more yellow cards for their heavy handed play, though she was very happy to see Howard Webb allow Stoke to play rugby.

Even Alex Ferguson stated himself that his favourite referee be Howard freaking Webb, it was ironic that Stoke fans were singing an anthem usually reserved for Rugby 'Sweet Chariot'.

Sweet Chariot is a biblical and spiritual song originating from African American slavery times, most notably around the times of the railroad and the American Civil War.

What the freaking hell does it have to do with the Rugby Union, not to mention Stoke?

Is it not surreal that none of these big mouth managers ever talk about putting a dent in the title hopes of United?, but they come out all guns ablaze bad mouthing Manchester City with any chance they get.

Any club that beats United before the end of the season will truly deserve to hold their position in the English Premier League. On the other hand any club that goes to Old Trafford to park the bus and not go out to win deserves to be relegated.

Alan Pardew has opened his trap claiming we still have his team to contend with, thanks for the reminder for I thought we only had one game left to play this season. Since the Ben Arfa slash Dejong accident Newcastle fans and players hate us with a vengeance, which made the witch hunt on Dejong pathetic considering Ben Arfa was only on loan from another club.  It should be no surprise Pardew has an opinion on us.

With that said I am looking forward to Champions League football and an improvement in playing personnel. We have plenty of time and money, it is only a matter of time before we achieve our targets on a regular basis.

Well done to our lads for not submitting to Stoke, we certainly did not deserve to lose or draw.

5 March 2012

Why I Became A City Fan, Who Really Are The Bitter Side, Manchester City or United!

Manchester City may have an owner with a vast amount of wealth, may have a list of super star players and potential super star youth on our books but. We are still the same old Manchester City we were when I were playing Subbuteo after school in the late 80s, you can see that even now by comparing us with our unwanted neighbours United over in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford.

Even now despite the vast wealth and player power, despite the fact we have been top of the league for most part of the season. Our club are not setting targets or spouting our mouth's off in the media, about how we're going to do this and do that and win the title for sure. Our fans are not writing other clubs off for the title despite the fact in my humble opinion, that we are currently the strongest team in England at present.

Pro United Skysports reported, David Platt believes City's aim in the closing months of the season is simple enough - to win as many games as possible. When asked if he and manager Roberto Mancini had set a specific target, Platt said: "No. How can we do that? We could turn around and say we need x, but x might not be enough."

"We just go into every football match looking to get the points and we will see where it takes us."


Clearly we are a well grounded club and not under the illusion that we can just go out and win every single game because we are Manchester City. Unlike our unwanted neighbours who demand respect but disrespect all who stand before them.

Our club have always been a family club and always cared about its fan base, even now while our club challenges for the Premier League title. City are still charging far less than United are of their fans, they would rather alienate and disrespect their established fans in favour of plastic glory hunters with a wallet full of credit cards.

Alex Ferguson is no better than his clubs fans and players, their mindset is that they can turn over all who stand before them in the way of glory and have won before a ball is even kicked. They are not alone though for Spain have their own United in the form of Real Madrid, both sets of clubs fans have a high level of arrogance about them, so immersed in their own self importance and self worth that anyone or anything on the outside are beneath them.

For instance a club who a few of my friends support are in deep trouble and although they don't show it I know the pain they are feeling, Portsmouth FC are in trouble but you can find United fans among other clubs fans kicking them when they are down as we speak. I would not wish Portsmouth's problems on any other club accept on a club like United or Real Madrid, why? because they would deserve the lesson it would teach.

Their problem is that they have been up there for too long, they are infectious to anyone else who turns up to support their club.

Ferguson believes scheduling of TV fixtures will hamper our challenge and that experience is the key to winning the title?, is that the same key that Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Blackburn used to steal the trophy from your trophy cabinet full of trophies bought with cash?

Clearly I can not speak for the City fans who joined the ranks after the Thaksin reign without connection to Manchester, but I can honestly say it is not in the nature of pre Thaksin City fans to be arrogant.

Are we bitter?

I can honestly say that if I were in fact bitter then it would only be for one reason, that United pretend to be us in the form of the true representative of our City of Manchester.

I couldn't care less about anything United have achieved over the past so many decades, I couldn't care less about their trophy and title haul. All I care about is firstly my family and secondly Manchester City, care about us taking our rightful place in world football as true representatives of Manchester.

Id like to believe I chose to support Manchester City because they were the true club of Manchester and the City of my family, forgetting that my late father and grandmother were United fans. But in all honesty I believe City chose me from the day I were introduced to the world, one thing I was not prepared for would come to pass last year.

From that day I never looked back and as soon as I could spend my own money I went out to buy my first Subbuteo team, I had to wait almost 3 months for the shop to order Manchester City. Borrowing my friends Luton Town team until they arrived, when they did I could not wait to face off with a school resident rag. Game on!

I was happy to see our derby match in the same year (1989) end in our favour, I'd lost the game 5-3 but City went on to destroy United at Maine Road by 5 goals to 1. I miss the old retro City badge!

Peter Schmeichel has joined the ranks of ex United players to claim that Manchester City will bottle the title challenge, very vocal these rags ain't they.

I never paid much attention to United despite knowing they were winning titles, As I mentioned before I honestly couldn't care less what they did or what they won. If I did care then I probably would have been a rag, but it was as simple as I wasn't so I didn't. While I listened and watched my beloved City on the Radio and TV, I were oblivious to anything else within football other than our national side.

The only thing you could possibly accuse me of would have been ignorance, the only time I paid any attention to any other club were when we played them.

While most admired and looked up to midfielders and forwards, I found myself paying more attention to defenders like Paul Lake, Keith Curle and Alf-Inge Haaland. That was until Shaun Goater turned up, the man that put Gary stinking rat face Neville well and truly in his place.

Gareth Barry, Nigel Dejong, Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure are my favourite players but Yaya would have to be my favourite player of them all right now, he underestimates his value and seems a very humble and level headed guy.

United have lied to the world for two long and I believe the only truly bitter people are United fans, I think the fact we are back in business and back in European competition riles them. Our very existence proves Manchester have never been United, our name speaks for itself not to mention the fact we were named Manchester before United and paraded by the Lord Major of Manchester back in the day.

They have tried to use the Munich disaster to put a spin on their name, as if to make the statement that Manchester is United only, they neglected the families who suffered from loss in that tragedy. They have even used it against us as a publicity stunt to try belittle Manchester City, but live on TV for the world to see, Manchester City fans defied United to prove they were wrong.

We did nothing to warrant them taunting us as much as they did, a majority of the time we were in different leagues but still they taunted us with their self proclaimed importance.

There's a huge difference between taunting and banter.

If we really were the bitter side then it would only be because of the taunts and the lie United stands for, though I strongly believe it is United who are the bitter party. Bitter that we are showing the world all United amount to is the biggest fat lie in world football, bitter that we are now back to knock them off their perch.

I was torn from Manchester and my family for a long time due to my father serving in the Royal Navy,only recently I were reunited and stunned to find I was far from not alone in my devotion to our beloved Manchester City.

I always knew Manchester were more blue but this just confirmed that I followed the right path, which were confirmed even more so when I found out my dad supported City when he were a kid.

I could have followed the same path but then I thought 'do I really want to follow a lie?'

The latest ex rag to spout their mouth off is Andy Cole, while his son Devante plays for us in our reserves, Andy runs with "The United City rivalry only become so intense this season and the back end of last season. Manchester City have the financial resources. And that has helped them get some good players to push on to try and win a Premiership. But when you talk about rivalry over the last year and a half, rivalry has been Liverpool."

"Liverpool have always been our main rivals when it comes to championships and we passed them by one championship. That has always been the biggest rivalry."

OK Andy what ever you say, same old same old rag record, not Bitter, just Richer!

They hate us that much they have to use Liverpool as an excuse to brush us off, they have been doing it for decades so what difference would it make even now when we are starting to break their records and outplay them.

Is it hilarious that on Newsnow.co.uk whenever City win only the odd one publishing about it appears on United's news feed, but when United win hundreds of publishings about it appear on Manchester City's feed.

It is because the rag media, the rag run papers, rag blogs and rag boards are all that bitter and obsessed that they can not bare to not tag Manchester City despite the fact the article has nothing to do with us.

In all honesty we have all the time in the world, where as how much time do United have left?

I knew Spurs would crumble against United, I mean they haven't beat United in over ten years. When you see us destroy United 1-6 and Championship sides knock United out of cups, it puts Spurs inability to beat United in the book of most disgraceful records in football.

Even now when Spurs are at their strongest fighting for Champions League football, they still can not beat United, TEN YEARS? could be something fishy going on there don't you think?

Now that United have been ousted for lying to the world, their fans have started to put a spin on their clubs name. Apparently it stands for their global fan base?, say what?

Well if we win this seasons Premier League title, we will have done it with no help from the rest of the Premier League that's for sure. Despite the fact United are weaker than they have ever been the majority have just sat back in defence and let United do their thing as usual, the same can not be said for the majority against Manchester City.

Which would make winning the title a very very sweet thing indeed, the FA even tried their hand at derailing us with aid from referee's but failed thus far.

Gary rat face Neville couldn't help himself stating that if they could beat Spurs then, United would win the title? Arrogance?. What about the remaining 11 teams to play including Manchester City?

The writings on the wall!

27 February 2012

Why United Are Hypocrites And Deserve Everything They Know They Fear Coming

I feel for my late fathers generation of United fans being the last generation to support both City and United, that were the time when United profited from the ownership of the Gibson family gaining the services of Matt Busby and earning £$ millions from kit sponsor Umbro.

Since then they have had to put up with plastics and glory hunters making them look like complete and utter morons, across the web there is a mass of evidence to back my sword to the hilt and I am about to put United to the sword.

I could have copy and pasted from history books and websites but to be frank its not my style, I prefer to tell it how it is and make it brief.

Since the Gibson's reign, United have profited from Shareholders, mainly United's supporters trust and United fans, followed by The Glazer Family which no matter how you look at it or how you spin it. Boils down to one thing and that is, United have profited from £$ millions to gain the glory they achieved since Matt Busby.

So who exactly are the kings of buying titles and trophies? United.

Decades of taunting for many clubs at the hands of United fans have finally been put into perspective for those United fans, the season of 2011/12 has forced most United fans to wake up.

I wonder exactly how many members the green and gold brigade have now?

After being knocked out in the 2011 FA Cup by Manchester City and watching Manchester City go on to win it, the morons were forced to take down the arrogant countdown banner.

They went on to win the Premier League title easily with no real challenge from any other club, but no Carling, FA or Champions League Cup were achieved.

In 2012 they have had to put up with being second best for most of the season and being knocked out of the Carling and FA Cup once again, while being looked down upon by a super strong Manchester City side.

They fear Manchester City so much that they continuously hope and pray that their infamous coming good in the final third of the season materialises, so that they won't have to deal with the backlash their decades of taunting will empower.

Having to accept Manchester City at the top of the Premier League for most of the season was clearly enough to get their knickers in a twist but, what has seeing Liverpool lift the Carling Cup done to their moral?

Knocked out of the Champions League once again and made to play in the Europa League must be torment for the self proclaimed biggest and most famous club in the world.

Being outplayed by Ajax in the Europa League and only making the last 16 by the skin of their teeth must inject a heck of a lot of confidence in their fans, what exactly are their chances of going on to win a competition that has far stronger clubs still in it.

I predict: little chance

So I am not one to count my chickens but with the football we are currently playing I don't see us dropping many points, our only question mark in the run in would be the United and Chelsea games still left to play. To be completely honest looking at their current form they instill absolute zero percent fear in me, the only way I could possibly see us blowing the title race now would be if we lost 3 or 4 of our most influential, important players to bookings and, or injuries.

With that said how would United fans feel seeing their club win absolutely nothing in 2012 after watching Liverpool win the Carling Cup, either Chelsea, Liverpool or Spurs win the FA Cup, watching Manchester City win the Premier League title?

How would United fans feel if Manchester City went on to win the Europa League even?

What makes me laugh right now is, knowing the Manchester United Supporters Trust encouraged United fans to buy shares in their club to stop any hostile takeover of their club, they could have been owned now by SKY after Rupert Murdoch tried to purchase a large portion of shares.

They eventually fell to two Irish United fans who wanted to cash in on their majority holdings, resulting in the sale of their majority to the Glazer family.

Hate United, Love the Glazers!

They are that delusional and that naive that they continue to brand us a rich mans play toy, while in denial that they too are a rich mans play toy. Most of the United States sports are home to rich mens play toys, even college football teams have investors and benefactors.

Money is part and part of sport in this day and age, investment has always been part of football be it a player earning a few £pound or a few £million pound, the only reasons for the environment of football being richer are due to the facts that the world is a much richer place and the game is more popular.

What exactly will happen when a club so deep in debt stops winning titles and trophies?, what happens if they are forced to sell their only prized assets aka just one or two measly players who would probably only muster about £40 million between them?

Do they even realise the impact their old guard has had on their club to keep them in the title race?, and do they realise that once they lose the old guard and eventually their manager that it will be the end of them?

I always said it will take time for the fall from grace, it was never going to happen over night but, the more time it takes the better as far as I am concerned. It would not be fun without a fight to the bitter end.

I live life by a few idioms and one that springs to mind is "what goes around comes around".

While being occupied with all things Manchester City, they fail to see the revival of another rival club aka Liverpool who will no doubt be a stronger force in 2012/13.

Any help to permanently knock United off their perch is very much welcome.

24 February 2012

#askvincent, Q&A Time For Kompany After Saturdays Game Against Blackburn Rovers


For the first time City fans will be able to ask defencive talisman Vincent Kompany any question.

At approximately 8pm, after our home game against Blackburn on Saturday, Vincent will be holding a live interview with all of the questions coming from his TWITTER followers.

What you have to do?

Follow @VincentKompany & @mcfc on Twitter once the game has kicked off, tweet your questions on either twitter by adding #askvincent before your question.

Alternatively post your questions on the official MCFC Facebook page Here not forgeting to add #askvincent, after the game Vincent Kompany will pick the best ones to answer so make it count.

Tune into the #askvincent live tab on the official MCFC Facebook Fan page.

You can also tune into live.mcfc.co.uk or youtube.com/mcfcofficial

What will you #askvincent?



18 February 2012

Manchester City: 2011-2012 Has Seen Much Improvement, City Creating True Winning Mentality

No buys in the January transfer window with the start of new rules being implemented by Uefa, was probably more about Mancini being happy with his playing staff and not wanting to panic buy than any rules but.

There was only one arrival at City with the short term loan signing of David Pizzaro from A.S.Roma.

The sales of Nedum Onuoha, Shaun Wright Phillips, Kieran Trippier and Chris Chantler, Nedum and Shaun generated just under £10 million between them.

Although releasing Craig Bellamy for free in 2011, we generated just under £20 million for Jerome Boateng, Jo Alves and Shay Given.

Joe Hart has grown into a top goalkeeper, it is astonishing he is out-performing keepers like Van Der Sar, Reina and Cech. You can argue all you want about a keeper only being as good as the defenders in front of him but, Joe's success rate at pulling off pivotal saves is far better than even the best keepers around this season.

While we suffered from the loss of Titan Yaya to the African Nations Cup, one player raised their level when their level was already magical. David (Merlin) Silva never ceases to amaze, without any shadow of a doubt the best player in the English top flight this season.

Aside his silly mistakes one player really stepped in after the loss of Vincent Kompany to a red card that should never have been, I have been an extreme critic of Joleon Lescott since his arrival but this season he has forced me to review that opinion.

Although I still feel he is not the permanent answer to partner Kompany, he is definitely a valuable asset to the squad and always good cover for both centre-back and left wing-back.

Youth players making big progress.

Forward (Swede) John Guidetti currently at Feyenoord and EDS forwards (English) Jordi Hiwula and (English) Harry Bunn are all stepping up to the plate and improving, very promising youth and the later two gives me confidence that England will one day succeed where players like Rooney and Scholes failed.

Then include (English) Alex Henshall and (English) Devante cole, (Slovakian) Albert Rusnak, (Dutch) Karim Rekik, (Spanish) Denis Suarez, (French) Jeremy Helan & (Israeli) Gai Assulin all making significant progress, so even if we only see one third of them break through to the first team we will be a very lucky bunch of fans indeed.

We certainly won't need to go on a big spending spree anytime soon, which is a positive considering the financial fair play rules imminent. I'd say we are only two senior players short of the finished article, being a centre-back to partner Kompany and competition for Yaya in centre-mid.

Since the arrival of Sheikh Mansour we only saw gradual glimpses of that fight back mentality growing but at times still let ourselves get rolled over to get sucker punched until now.

With the combined strengths of Vincent Kompany, Micah Richards, Pablo Zabaleta, Gareth Barry, James Milner, Nigel Dejong and Yaya Toure, we have toughened up. It puts into perspective why we have received so many bookings lately, not that we deserved most of them but still.

We're top of the Premier League and we fight like champions, we have arrived and we are truly back in the big time. After the fall from grace in the Champions League our players showed they have learnt their lesson and performed outstandingly against Portugese outfit and Europa League holders FC Porto.

Big well done to all the staff working hard behind the scenes and a big well done to all the playing staff at Manchester City.

Keep the faith! I've not even scratched the surface.

15 February 2012

Battle Won But War Not Over, Fergy The Hypocrite And United Fans Running Scared

The war is ultimately against the Football Association, British media, Newspapers and Broadcasters.

The Football Association led by David Gill (United), Dave Richards (United) and David Bernstein (City / Himself).

The British media go with whoever and whatever is/are in fashion or more popular, United have the biggest world wide fan base so it is inevitable they are going to give United more attention to drive sales. The tide is turning of late and it is only a matter of time before we turn the table on United.

British newspapers aka Daily Mail, Daily Star, Manchester Evening News, The Sun etc are all run by a majority of rags, They seem to think writing the odd slightly positive piece about Manchester City makes up for their bias and often insulting anti City propaganda. This will probably continue until there is a shift in the employment departments, so we just have to continue tolerating them until they die off.

Sports broadcasters aka Sky have begun to acquire ex United players, then employ them to commentate and cover Manchester City games and one City fan sent us their opinion.

"Our beloved blues have been top of the league for near on 5 months and rarely did it get a mention from pundits and sports journalists alike accept in deep resentment. However the rags go top for 24 hours and it is all the football community talk about for 24 hours, thus subjecting to all who turn on the TV to such dribble! Especially the Sky sports lot.

This is because its in Sky’s best interest to Big Up the rags. After all almost all of the rags supporters are ‘bandwagon jumpers’ who became ‘fans’ when the rags successful period began and the majority are based outside Manchester so don’t really get the opportunity to even go to a game. Hence as long as the rags stay at the top of the English Premier league then the sky viewing figures go up!

Why is it there is always a commentator affiliated in some way or another with the rags on the commentary panel before and after United and Liverpool games, Though when Manchester City play we get either a rag or a scoucer on the panel. No representative of Our mighty ‘Blues’? The villa game saw us subjected to Dwight Yorke who’s both Villa and and ex rag as well as Chris Coleman."


The only way we will ever win this war will be to dominate the English Premier League for years to come and put United in our shadow once and for all.

Since the return of Carlos Tevez to Manchester City, United fans have been in a frenzy claiming he should never play football in England again. Not only United fans have an opinion though, Mr Alex Ferguson whined about and warned us of player power.

Fergy the biggest hypocrite in world football should really look at who caused player power, after David Beckham were allowed to out grow the self proclaimed biggest club in the world. Followed by allowing Cristiano (pansy) Ronaldo to out grow the club, only recently Wayne scumbag Rooney threatened that he wanted out of United only to be terrorised by United fans outside the Rooney residence.

United bowed to the player power they created themselves and gave Rooney his improved contract for fear of losing him. (TRUE MERCENARY)

United fans are only slating City if they allow Carlos Tevez to play in a City shirt again, due to the fact they know exactly how good the player is. As if the fear off losing out on the Premier League title is not bad enough, they still have to deal with the return of our TITAN Yaya Toure who has a knack of putting United in their place.

Add to that the return of Carlitos (Fergy sign him up) Tevez and it is enough to drive our fearful opponents into padded cells.

When Carlos refused to play against Bayern I was one City fan up on my feet going off my nut, I then proceeded to demand an apology from the player and for him to be dropped. I even went as far as to send a letter to Carlos Tevez via Player Care, whether or not it reached him is anyones guess.

I am still to this very day expecting an apology for his actions on that night though I am not one to hold a grudge, I am happy to see him play for us again as long as he plays to win.

If then at the end of the season he still wishes to leave so be it.

11 February 2012

Alex Ferguson Is To Blame For Referee Inconsistancy, Bernstein Insulting Us For His Own Gain

We have all spoken out about our misfortune at the hands of inconsistent refereeing and cheating opponents but, have not really tackled who exactly are to blame. Prior to nancy boys Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham, English football were reknowned for physicality, then came the one and only Alex Ferguson screaming at the FA and referees for his players to be protected.

After a while he encouraged Arsene Wenger to follow, is there any wonder referees are being forced to take hard line action by the FA. Why is it that clubs like United and Liverpool have never fallen foul to months of inconsistency by referees and the Football Association?

I am not going to make any excsues for referees, they are often easily manipulated by players and crack under pressure to follow up with silly decisions and mistakes but, Ferguson has opened up a pandora's box and now we have the FA and referees coming down on footballers like a ton of bricks while certain lying and cheating players take advantage.

OK United and Pool have been told off on the odd occasion, had a player banned when there were no other choice but, I will question the bigger picture with one name. Roy Keane. Once the roughest and dirtiest player to ever grace the Premier League, allowed to get away with blue murder week in, week out even crippling opponents at times. Vincent Kompany gets red carded for winning the ball fair and square and without hurting anyone, Balotelli gets banned for an accident after the referee lied with TV footage to prove it.

Patrick Vieira was right when saying our game is open to falling victim to extreme inconsistency, which in turn could get ugly in more ways than one.

Bernstein in my opinion is guilty of using Manchester City to make a personal statement, after years of employment by Manchester City FC you would think he would be professional enough to do the right thing.

He backed Vincent Kompany's four game ban for a red card against United in the FA Cup derby when scumbag Wayne Rooney clearly encouraged the referee to send Kompany off, worse challenges went unpunished including Glen Johnson’s two-footed tackle a few days after.

How many times has Wayne Rooney actually been caught diving after no contact from any opposing player and were only given a yellow card or worse even, told to just get up and play by the referee?. There is plenty of footage on sites like Youtube to prove my point.

Also Bernstein chose to back the FA in punishing Mario Balotelli for four matches, while other players of other clubs escape punishment for far more dangerous incidents. To top that the referee in question lied to the FA when stating that if he saw the incident he would have sent the player off, TV footage showed that he saw the whole incident proving he lied.

To add we also lost Gareth Barry after he received two pathetic yellow cards against Liverpool, While Charlie Adam, Skrtyl and Agger were continuously allowed to get away with far more serious incidents.

The inconsistency did not stop there and I would not be surprised if it carries on right up until the end of the season or beyond even. As far as I am concerned Bernstein has used us to stamp his authority and make a statement that he has no loyalty what so ever, no one is asking for favouritism, just to be treated equally but then that has never even existed in the English top flight anyway come to think of it.

I may rile the odd Bernstein fan but so be it, he only has himself to blame by joining the bias FA rather than reform and create consistant equality.

Good luck at Villa lads, bring home the win for us!

5 February 2012

Great City Performance = Well Deserved Victory, Pressure Is On Delusional United Now

Have to congratulate our lads for a great performance in not so great weather, a fantastic reply to our critics and perfect gift for our manager Bobby Manc.

I want to single out a few players for praise despite the fact all our players deserve a pat on the back, the first is Stefan Savic who put in a fantastic performance and finally found his feet helping to earn a clean sheet so well done.

The other Adam Johnson for being a model professional and taking his chances well when the time arises, he always seems to make an impact off the bench 90% of the time creating assists if not scoring himself so well done.

Samir Nasri for his 9 assists matching Bale, Giggs and Nani, Scored 3 goals in all competitions so far and not been booked once this season. Nasri has successfully completed 633 passes in the opponent’s half this season, having the best minutes per pass completion rate in the Premier league with one pass every two minutes.

Three players who deserve a bit of credit where credit is due.

The good news is that Kolo and Yaya Toure will be back soon only missing our next two domestics against Villa and Rovers, back for our most important games against Chelsea, Stoke, Arsenal, United, Newcastle and QPR.

Bit Part Park praises Old Scaffold over at the Swamp for their imaginary strength, pointing to their league position and injuries is if it shows something that does not exist.

It seems this will be the rags top excuse if they fail to stop us from winning the Premier League title, While Alex Ferguson thought his career could not get any worse than their 6 - 1 humiliation at the hands of Manchester City. We are plotting the further humiliation of the loss of their Premier League title from under his red nose, Alex Ferguson will see this as the lowest and WORST point in his entire career.

Just to make a point we have had our fair share of injuries.

We have also lost key players in Barry, Kompany, Balotelli to highly suspicious decisions by absolute rubbish referee's.

Lost Kolo and Yaya Toure to the African Cup of Nations who are still absent for another two games.

Been one striker down for the entire 2011/12 season aka Carlos Tevez.

I believe that if both clubs had no losses or injuries for the entire season we would still be at the top of the Premier League right now.

Well done to Fulham for giving it a go.

Well done to all our lads!

3 February 2012

Time For More Grit And Grind, We Need To Take The Fight To Them Now. NOW

If we are to bag the Premier League title which is in our grasp, then our players need to wake up and fight for it and our backroom staff need to stop getting sloppy.

The Everton loss was avoidable especially with the squad we have, our enemy believes we have the strongest squad in the league. So why is it we fall to clubs like Everton and Liverpool?, the answer is simple.

These clubs squads are built on the push, pull and shove type football of old, that is the old English style football which I must admit is what makes English football, English football.

To pull it off without attracting to much attention from the referee's is perfection, the second it gets nasty is when it becomes unacceptable.

Clubs like Blackburn Rovers are a prime example of a tough type team, when you accuse clubs of playing this way their fans are usually delusional enough to deny it as if you are crying foul play.

We need to combat this by playing as tough when the going gets tough, Pablo Zabaleta is a prime example and because of it one of my favourite players.

Referee's are the other obstacle we need to overcome and the only way to do so, is to not give referee's a reason to target us.

We need to mix our beautiful football with much more grit and determination, it is time to take the fight to the Premier League as a whole Now.

Not all city fans will agree with me on everything I say, do or believe, but one thing we do agree on is well being and future of our club. Our club needs this title and needs it now, why? because with it we will have to be taken seriously once and for all.

It will force the world to stand up and accept the fact we are back in business, it will also bring in more new investment to our club and help improve our position in world football from youth development to the stock exchange.

I may come down on our players and manager every once in a while but that does not mean to say they do not have my full support, I have ppl sometimes accuse me of being a new age glory hunting City fan and as far as I'm concerned they can think what they like but.

I like most of us have lived through the past 30 odd years as a City fan, seen manager after manager walk through the door. Hoping and praying we move forward, only to feel my heart yoyo up and down and gravity mess about with my stomach.

The last thing I want is to see us lose the best manager we have had since my generation, Bobby Manc is as far as I am concerned, ten of Jose Mourinho and on par with Alex Ferguson. (Given the chance like Fergy got at United, I believe Bobby can better him).

It is time we took the next step forward now.

Keeping the Faith

1 February 2012

United's Childishness Proves There Is More To United's Relationship With Everton

I have spoken about teams that role over like whore's against United on more than one occasion, well Everton are one of them teams only beating United 3 times since 1994 out of 39 meetings.

I have also spoken about how close both clubs are behind the scenes, only now I believe the link between the two to be more than just close.

That is 20 years in the Premier League and all Everton could muster was 3 wins despite being a top five club, in the old Division One it was a different story altogether which I find is highly suspicious.

I also believe Ferguson and Moyes are on more than the same page, without even pointing to the fact they are both Scots. Since 2002 Everton have only beaten United TWICE in NINETEEN meetings, again they were at that point a top five club.

But like the title states, Everton are a non story with a dated stadium and narrow pitch designed to accommodate their own boring style of play, what ever floats your boat aye.

I did not watch the game vs Everton because despite our apparent poor display all round against them, the referee always seems to play their part in continuing the tradition of giving Everton advantage at home rather than balance the field against us.

The facts and evidence are really out there for all to see which proves my points, which is why I know without a shadow of doubt that my sanity it 100% intact.

Despite that I believe our players and Mancini let us down big time, we should have destroyed them with the players we had but we failed.

In turn we gave up a three point lead to the low life scumbags in Trafford and now have to deal with the fall out.

If you think I have seriously last my way then explain this, which I believe should be investigated by the FA but will probably be ignored.

After ex-United player Gibson scored against us, United manager Sir Alex Ferguson then commented: 'It was all part of the plan.'

Daily Mail Article

You could say I am reading into it to much but still, such action should still be investigated.

Evidence certainly does point to Everton being Uniteds rent boy.

With that said I am a little hacked off, with what I have read of what Yaya Toure has had to say about our recent issues. This is what Yaya had to say:

"I've suffered watching the games on the TV and it's my natural instinct to help my team-mates," he admitted.

"The defeats have been painful because I wanted to win three titles but I don't think it's because of my absence. I'm not indispensable."


Clearly some of our players need to wake up and Yaya is top of that list, he should be well aware we do not have a player in his position to accommodate his absence, which is why we are chasing Roma's David Pizarro.

If Kolo Toure was not also away on International duty we would not have played the mistake prone Savic, so how in the hell can Yaya stand there and say their absence did not affect our recent problems.

OK a large part of our problem was caused by suspicious and bias amateurish referee's but, the loss of Kolo and Yaya has certainly played its part.

Which is why I believe Yaya's comments to be insulting and unrealistic.

As for Mancini well this has been in my opinion his last mistake used up and he will be lucky not to lose his job if we fail to win the league title.

We should have had cover for Kolo and Yaya from the start of the season, and we should have given one or two of our younger players a crack at the whip namely John Guidetti and Harry Bunn.

If a players does not think they are important to the team and club then, what is the point being at that club?

Mancini will need to get a grip of this mess now before it is too late.

29 January 2012

Spurs And Pool Incidents Prove Ref's Have It In For City, Rat Face And Bacon Face At It Again

After Howard Webb blatantly lied through his back teeth to the FA over the Balotelli incident, I can only come to the conclusion that it was his intention to do so anyway. You could call me paranoid if it was not for Kompany and Barry getting unfairly red carded, two of our strongest and influential players all in the space of one month.

With that highlighted you can understand why referee's are reluctant to dish out easily given red cards, lets just say Howard Webb did red card Balotelli for the incident with Scott Parker?. That will have been three red cards and counting in two months, imagine how many referee's that would find it hard to red card another of our players after that.

Easily manipulated and encouraged, card happy referee's are fast corrupting our national game. Usually it is the under dogs that draw the short straw, not so short as the one we have drawn though. For our opponents I bet just watching the referee is on a par with us watching our own team play, their team may as well not even turn up.

I find the "where were you when you were s**t" song extremely pointless and surreal, we know exactly where we were when we were s**t. SO? AND?

A point I want to highlight is, clubs come to us and play like its a World Cup final, try to cheat even and get rough with us. BUT when they face Stretford United they lie down like a whore and give it away for free. It really is like the rest of the league bar the odd four or five clubs want to give the title away to United.

Now we truly understand what Chelsea and more recently we are up against.

Which is why I am happy to see our team toughen their game up and take it to the enemy, we could not be in a stronger position right now thanks to those who have it in for us, and thanks to our lads who have done an amazing job so far.

Back to idiotic referees, how Howard Webb could bring himself to deny that he did not see the Balotelli - Parker incident is beyond belief, when he was looking in the same direction and no more than a few metres away.

As far as I'm concerned both Balotelli's feet were off the ground when his left foot just misses Parker's hand, Balotelli lost his balance then tried to use his right to regain his balance. Balotelli had his back to Scott Parker at that point, so as far as I am concerned it was an accident.

Anyone stating otherwise is a doosh bag that has not watched the incident, like I have done over and over in slow motion for the past 30 minutes.

Watch the incident here

With that said it is a breath of fresh air to hear our Khaldoon al-Mubarak come out and put AC Milan in their place over Tevez, thus making a huge statement that we can not be pushed around and manipulated.

The latest attack on us was the unlawful penalty gifted to the Scousers by Phil Dowd, Graham Poll came to the defence once again stating Dowd has got it completely wrong further proving that we are being short changed and targeted by many referee's.

1. Kompany red carded by referee despite clean tackle and no contact.
2. Barry red carded by referee after Agger theatrically fell over.
3. Balotelli being charged by FA for referee lying despite footage proving he lied.
4. Richards penalised for ball to hand and Penalty given against BUT (no red card, I wonder why?).
5. Clear Penalty denied after that dirty Charlie Adam 100% fouled Dzeko.
6. ?????????????????Wait and See???????????????????

Wouldn't surprise me if another referee red cards Kompany again once he returns to action. One thing for sure is that we are finally where we should be, at the top of the English Premier League despite everyone trying to cheat us out of achieving glory.

Rat Face Gary Neville is getting himself bang at it again, thinking everyone hates him so much because of how passionate a player he was?

Yet another muppet at the Daily Rag to put up with, someone needs to give him a refreshing slap and remind that he is hated because of his big mouth and arrogance.

Crying like a little baby about being fined by the FA for a mere £5000, I'd say that was an almighty back hand let off considering this tool could have incited a football riot on more than one occasion.

His footballing ability was nothing to shout about or no reason to hate him for, Shaun Goater made the tool look silly by robbing him blind noyl to follow it up by scoring in the process to add futher humiliation.

Gary you're nothing but an embarrassment to England.

Red Nose Bacon Face came out recently after losing to Liverpool in the FA Cup stating Liverpool were now their main rivals, geeez make your mind up old man.

I think the Scot is finally losing his marbles and is saying such to ease the pain of losing to Dalglish as well as Pool, I am truly happy for Liverpool and their recent revival however I still stand firm on a few of their players who I believe are cheating little scumbags namely Skrtyl, Adams and Agger.

The good thing is that it is not just Manchester that United have to deal with now, it is also Liverpool, Chelsea and Spurs.

Game on!

17 January 2012

Referee Short Changed Us Again Despite Well Deserved Win, Three Points Clear Of Cheating Rooney

Our players went out and played like warriors against Wigan and gained a well deserved three points, clear and a nine goal difference between us and United, just in time for the up coming game against the Spuds who sit third five points behind us.

I'd say Spurs have been impressive but lets face facts here, Chelsea and Arsenal are having a horrid season compared to the last few campaigns, the same could be said for Everton.

It is amazing to see the standard of match officiating this year, it is becoming very political which is annoying because I hate politics and politicians.

We can play a club like Wigan at their own tough push and shove tackling game and get penalised for it but, they can play their own game and get away with it because they're playing like Wigan.

It is one rule for us and another for the rest of the league, Aguero was deliberately denied a clear goal scoring opportunity after Wigan's Maynor Figueroa clearly handled the ball near the centre circle after Sergio Aguero beat their offside trap.

As I said one rule for everyone else and another for little old Manchester City, Kompany and Barry get sent off for nothing, Liverpool's Glen Johnson and Maynor Figueroa don't get sent off for extreme tackling and cheating.

That Twitter Troll and disgrace to England Wayne Rooney is at it again on Twitter, saying "@WayneRooney, Was manchini asking for red card????".

Someone needs to tell him there is no H in Mancini, someone needs to also point out that Mancini is not on the pitch influencing the referee or diving all the time to get penalties.

Nice to know your watching the mighty Manchester City Rooney you cretin, good to know we are occupying a part of that last brain cell you have.

How is that wife of yours you cheated on, whats her name now? seems to have slipped my tongue.

I never watch United play quite simply because their always cheating and to be honest they're of no real interest to me. As long as we are looking down on them I'm happy, I'd be even happier if they were relegated for they deserve it more than Wigan.

Now all we need to do is turn over the Spud's and they certainly do deserve it, after a few of their players and manager were caught in the papers claiming "City are bottling the title race" and "City are buying the title".

Remind me exactly how much Tottingham hot spud have spent over the last two decades, to get to where they are and stay where they are in the Premier League?

Here are some statistics for you:

From 1908 to 1992 the Spud's spent £23.138.449

Since 1992 the Spud's have spent £433.926.00

Spud's current full squad are priced around £164.355.000

Who is telling porky pies now Mr Redkrapp?, you may not have bought all your players yourself but someone has done before you.

See you on Sunday!

Huge well done to our lads for the Battle of Wigan.

11 January 2012

United And Liverpool Are A Bunch Of Dirty Cheats, Seems The Only Way To Beat Us Is To Cheat Us

To be honest I'm not fused about going out of the FA Cup because it quite simply strengthens our title charge as did going out of the Champions League.

Our owner Sheikh Mansour said earlier in the season that our top priority was to win the league title and we are on track to do so, if our players are to learn then it was best it happened sooner rather than later.

To learn that clubs are going to now come to us with the intent to cheat, not only clubs but also match officials and referee's.

It is high time our players start to fight back with vengeance, it is high time our fans start to show verbal hostility to referee's that insult us with extremely bad decisions.

We were robbed against Chelsea, then against Sunderland and now against United, all three were criticised by many neutral pundits. When you look who we have lost and who we are missing you take away half of our first team squad, if that is not suspect then what is.

First Barry, then Kompany so who is next?, they can not red card Yaya but then again he's away on international duty and they can not red card Silva but then again he is out with an injury.

They can not possibly red card all of our strikers because, the FA quite simply putting it, would be holding a big sign admitting corruption so my bet is. Nigel Dejong, Micah Richards, Stefan Savic or Pablo Zabaleta will be up next for a red card, probably for kicking the ball or something like that.

Video footage showed Wayne Rooney brandishing an imaginary card but the lying scum bag went on Twitter claiming he did not, he is clearly caught doing it live on TV, he claimed he did talk with Chris Foy but did not encourage a red card?

See for yourself courtesy of a neutral fan of another club.

VIDEO FOOTAGE PROVES ROONEY IS A CHEATING LITTLE SCUM BAG

If cheating on your wife with a prostitute let alone anyone is not bad enough, this (not a man) guy clearly has no standards, no real understanding of loyalty and no backbone.

And still the English Football Association upheld the red card and backed the idiot Chris Foy after yet another controversial f**k up of his disgraceful career.

Might I add that's two red cards in one month and we still sit third in the Fair Play League above United, so what does that say aye?

Foy and Clattenburg are an utter disgrace to their profession, it is inevitable that no one ever always wins. So with an opinion like that I am happy to take a few losses on the chin as long as I was not wrongfully cheated out of them, one thing I am not is a sore loser.

I thought dropping to the old third division was the worst that could happen to us, boy was I mistaken for having to live with the standard of ref's these days surely shows otherwise.

This latest incident only proves how far we have come, come so far that United have upped their game of cheating. Not just against us but against everyone else too, it is high time this is kicked out of football as much as racism.

I saw nothing about respecting referee's when United's players surrounded Chris Foy one by one, OK our players also did after in protest but still.

Slowly the beautiful game is being ruined by referee's like Foy and Clattenburg, as well as dirty lying cheating players like United's Rooney, Evra, Liverpool's C Adam, Agger and Skrtel to name but a few. Rio Ferdinand didn't quite make the list, though he did make the big mouth and past it list. The worst tackler of the entire history of world football is back, look who's back, Scholes is back, lets see if he can notch up a red card?, then watch you two faced little scum bags at the swamp start whining.

I cut short of finishing this article last night as I was tired so decided to finish it after finishing work this evening, while at work I got a text message from my aunt present at the Carling Cup match between City and Liverpool.

Low and behold Agger goes down like a sack of spuds after running smack into Savic, Gerrard steps up for the penalty gifted by ref Lee Mason and once again we are fleeced.

Wait a minute why was Savic not red carded?, no that would be too suspicious now wouldn't it and if it isn't suspect enough already. I said above Agger was a dirty cheating player, I stand by what I say and right now the only way to beat us is to cheat us.

Before this match even the scousers I work with admit Agger and Skrtel are dirty cheating players they wish were never bought by Liverpool, these are real scousers from Liverpool and not your everyday glory hunter.

Seems like referee's and the FA have it in for us at present, we are really up against it now. I'd say look a little more closer to home for cheats to the Liverpool fan in the link above, ousting Rooney for the cheat he is but lets face it he is right about Rooney.

13 December 2011

Well Well Well Twatnbug Strikes Again, I Made The Right Decision To


Not watch the Chelsea - City match, the last time we were on the receiving end of Twatn Clattenburg, I literally punched my laptop screen into retirement. Now replaced by yours truly last month I don't want this guy costing me and our club more but I can only protect my laptop unfortunetly.

I had us down for a loss against Chelsea before the game was even played, Clattenburg clearly did not let me down either.

I go back to the radio and score centre when this complete and utter idiot is chosen to referee, it is a wonder he is even employed as a referee after all the bad decisions he has made and continues to make live on tv for the whole world to witness.

Referee's are protected way to much these days, I put that down to the FA using them to manipulate today's leagues. We always seem to get Clattenbug at important moments, then we're always on the receiving end.

His failure as a referee will once again be swept under the turf, leaving the idiot to go back to doing what he does worst.

Here is to hoping we can pull it back against Arsenal and Stoke.

29 November 2011

Liverpool Fan Gets It From His Own For Being Honest, Liverpool Fan Racially Attacks Micah Richards On Twitter.

Better late than never!

Yesterday a Liverpool blogger/fan was lynched by fellow Liverpool fans for being blatantly honest, the Liverpool fan in question admitted he thought Mario Balotelli was sent off because his own clubs players were dirty cheats.

I can see where he is coming from because when Joey Barton stubbed a cigar into one of our academy players eye and assaulted Dabo in a training ground incident, I was livid and jumped to the forefront of the Barton out brigade.(I certainly was not cheering Barton on when we recently faced QPR).

I don't tolerate cheats as much as thugs and thankfully at City we currently have no cheating players who blatantly dive at any given chance or crowd the referee to intimidate him into submission.

You can follow the incident HERE

Police are currently investigating a racial attack by a Liverpool fan who tweeted on our Micah Richards official twitter account, 'Twitter user WillMadine94 tweeted 'You big fat n***** u r s***. Martin Kelly over u all day for England. Play for Africa!!!'

Micah Richards later replied on his page OfficalMR2: 'Love the racist abuse. Keep it coming.'

Smart reply by Micah but the problem with that tactic is, it only serves as encouragement for the morons to come back an carry on.

The issue is being investigated by Lincolnshire Police.

I have to say Luis Saurez in my opinion was another guilty of trying to cheat and get our Vincent Kompany sent off. Martin Atkinson clearly needs to be dropped to the lower leagues, he is just not good enough and the standards of referees are falling. (what ever happened to all that respect the referee blah blah, I don't see Liverpool being fined by the FA right now, not even investigated).

I once had a lot of respect for Liverpool as a club but now, all that respect was wasted for they certainly don't deserve it.

6 November 2011

The Royal British Legion Needs You - The Poppy Appeal - Rememberance Day

There are few things better than helping someone deserving of your time, to acknowledge someones bravery is important in my book so with that said.

I'd like to hit on a few issues and the first issue is the Royal British Legion, an organisation and charity run for the welfare of the whole of the British Armed Forces.

Over the UK Royal British Legion social clubs are slowly disappearing along with our Churches, it is an alarming situation for the UK as far as I am concerned considering the vital work they do for our country.

That is why I urge people of the UK to pledge a small if any donation to the Royal British Legion to help those who have helped and continue to help others.

Look out for the man or woman in a Soldiers or Sailors uniform giving out Poppies with a donation, wear a poppy and be proud that you have helped this great cause.

These guys have helped veterans of World War one and two, right up to the present day and continue to help whenever and where ever possible.

Who am I?, I am not in the British Armed Forces out of choice but my Grandad and Dad were, Earlier this year I lost my dad to cancer and my aunt asked the Royal British Legion for a Standard Bearer to be present at his funeral and the Royal British Legion made it so. I never got the chance to thank the one who made it possible but I got to thank the Standard Bearer himself and it was a great gesture that I will never forget.

I am not a political person and I don't agree with war unless its the last resort and there is no other option, but that don't change the fact I believe these guys and girls deserve our help.

A donation can be as little as 10 pence and gets you a warm feeling knowing you did something positive for a day, I donated £3 and got myself a metal poppy badge to sit along side my MCFC Supporters badge.

I find it a little disheartening when I see masses of people walking past poppy guys and girls, ignoring them like they are not even there when half of them have fought for this country that those people are taking advantage of but despite that I do not judge.

Instead I believe they just need to be reminded, I work along side a couple African chaps and even they give the time of day to those ex veterans.

That for me to see is a huge deal.

Again if you see a poppy guy or girl please do consider donating and make a difference.

If you want to learn for yourself what the Royal British Legion do then please do visit their official website HERE

This is our City thanks you for your time and support!

3 November 2011

Message To Jay Bothroyd In Reply To His Message To Manchester City

Go watch the highlights of the Manchester City v Villareal match, 2nd Nov 2011, then tell your club they better think again if they think they can bully Manchester City into submission.

Just because you turned over Chelsea with a lonely one goal difference means nothing considering with all due respect to aging Chelsea, they are far from the title winning team they were seasons back.

You will face a much tougher task out-muscling Manchester City like that, I'm not blowing my trumpet here but merely stating a fact. Manchester City's firepower makes Chelsea's look mid table, you only need look at current statistics and watch Manchester City play to see it.

He said: "We have to frustrate them as much as we can and try and nick a goal.

“On any day if a team doesn't turn up they can be turned over. Blackpool showed that last year and others will this year. The Premier League is the best league in the world because anyone can beat anyone.

“We're under no illusions that Man City are a world-class side, but we have to make it difficult for them.

“They're the kind of games you look forward to because you're playing against some of the best players in the world and you've got to try and embrace that."

I say "Villareal picked up five yellows against City but should have had far more but the referee went light on them. Villarreal's Wakaso Mubarak was pulling, pushing and shoving Pablo Zabaleta here there and everywhere.

Kicking at his heels and sticking his elbow in and should have seen red, very very dirty player in my book and makes Dejong look like a hamster.

Wakaso even got in the face of Zabaleta after Wakaso took him out, whats all that about after deliberately fouling a player?, I mean you're on live television, obviously Wakaso thought he was innocent doh."

Respect to Villareal for putting up an Everton performance, they certainly played like gladiators and frustrated us if only for the might of Manchester to prevail.

Our lads did us proud and put in a true Pride in Battle performance, all of them deserve a big pat on the back so with that said.

Bring on Queens Park Rangers!

25 October 2011

Manchester City Defy Legends And Destroy United On Their Own Patch In Trafford, Not Manchester

See it for yourself if you have not already, by going to our official website and watching the highlights there.

Days before the Derby I was saying to myself this has got 5 - 2 to Manchester City written all over it, I was that confident I trolled Republikofmancunia with much premature delight.

Even a few footballing legends had us down as a losing side, you could say they under-estimated City or even that they placed too much belief in United.

While Silva provided the creativity in United's half, one other player was a stand out performer dominating midfield and he be Yaya Toure.

Silva: Successful Passes: 62
Yaya: Successful Passes: 66
Milner and Clichy Successful Passes: 42
Barry Successful Passes: 48

Micah Richards took the crown for most Successful Tackles: 8


Either way they absolutely got it completely wrong to the delight of the City faithful, United fans could not leave any quicker for the exit doors.

United should be awarded at least a certificate for the swiftest and most organised stadium evacuation in English football to date.

Any United fans wishing to make a complaint about the noise we're making, should call Environment Health on 0161 61 61 61 and don't forget to leave the message after the moan.

Although Bobby Manc is keeping it real, I just know underneath he is one happy chappy. Have to say I am not adopting the same caution for I, have been waiting for this for 30 odd years and honestly.

The way we're playing right now, I just don't see us letting up and losing steam.

Overall excellent performance from the lads though, Mancini was right in saying we can still improve. Top job!

Reports after the match were that around a 200 strong mob of United supporters hurled abuse at City’s two-goal hero Mario Balotelli, 21, as he left the stadium escorted by security staff.

Probably the same lot that threatened their own players like Rooney etc, not hurting much then?

Live TV picked up Joe Hart claiming he was subjected to death threats from United fans behind his goal, although afterwards he played down the threats as nothing. Shame as we need a complaint for the Police to investigate, you don't need to throw death threats to vent anger.

Noel Gallagher had his say on BBC Sport when asked 'what went so right for Manchester City', he replied "I think the fact that Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb probably had a lot to do with it". 'pure genius'

Big thanks to my Aunt who gave me live text commentary while I were at work, just upgraded to a video phone so going to utilise my Skygo although I'm looking to get to more games this season. Get in there!

20 October 2011

Warning For Fellow City Fans Traveling To Naples, What The EPPP?

Naples not a safe place for foreign fans after continued attacks, when Liverpool met Napoli at the Stadio San Paolo in the Europa League last year three Liverpool fans were stabbed while four others were also assaulted.

Two Bayern Munich fans in their 40's were stabbed by two men on motorbikes BEFORE the Champions League match between Napoli and Bayern.

Apparently two other Bayern fans were stabbed outside the stadium as well though nothing has yet been reported, clearly extra caution is paramount if you intend on travelling to the away game.

If you have to walk then stay in groups, do not attract undue attention and do not speak English aloud. Get a street map and learn your routes well, dont wear our colours visible.

Stay alert and stay in public view, advise not to take alleys or side streets.

If you're travelling by vehicle then advise not to hang out of vehicle windows shouting and go from A to B quietly, again get an up to date street map and don't rely on satnavs as they are not always right. (print off Google Map even)

Planning is key, savvy and awareness is paramount, save the fun and excitement for inside the stadium and hope we bring home a win.

While typing out this article I have heard a further two Bayern fans were reportedly hurt although no information has been released.

The *cough* Dirty Mail have reported that the Football League will vote on changes today that could open the door for Premier League clubs to land young talent cheaper and easier than they would do at present.

Representatives from the 72 clubs will decide on a revolution of the current academy system.

The move involves the proposed elite player performance plan (EPPP) that would replace the current tribunal system as seen with Chelsea and City over *cough* that little mercenary Daniel Sturridge. That right now asks the buying and selling club to justify a valuation of the player before a fair fee is decided.

Under the EPPP the selling club would receive a sum for each year the player spent in their academy rather than argue over a fair fee, in other words there would be a price cap put in place lowering the amount a selling club can currently ask for.

When Everton signed Luke Garbett from Leeds in 2009 they were ordered under the tribunal system to pay Leeds £600.000, but under the EPPP Everton would have paid only a quarter of that.

There is also currently in place rules stopping top clubs from buying young players, under the age of sixteen who live further away than a 90 minute commute. Or even a 60 minute commute for under twelves.

Under the EPPP clubs will be allowed to scout and sign players from anywhere in the country, some are looking at this as fleecing lower league clubs but I beg to differ.

Nothing has been said against a selling club not having the entitlement to
add the same sell on clauses along with all the other clauses we currently see in football contracts to date.

This if it happens could be a good thing for English football, allowing for the elite clubs to search further and wider in their quest for the next best young English talent.

If anyone has not already realised our own club, Manchester City are going one step further with the planning of a Super Academy with living quarters, Hotel and College all within walking distance from Manchester City FC.

18 October 2011

The Look Ahead Then Over Our Shoulder, Its Time For City To Shine

First of all I wish to get off my chest, Mark Clattenburg? why why oh why Clattenburg. We all know he has a long running feud with bacon face, the last outing I saw of Clattenburg was him giving Rooney a little let off and being praised by bacon face for it despite their dislike for each other.


Which comes to a point I have made time and time again, that we have to step it up and beat 13 men and not 12 so its time to take out the trash.

Villareal next up and their danger man will be American turned Italian forward Guiseppe Rossi, the man our Nigel Dejong is going to have to suppress.

A must win for us if we are to progress in the Champions League so our players will no doubt be pulling out all the stops, the only concern is that they all come back unhurt and ready for the derby.

Refreshing change to be looking down on United in a stronger position, I had full confidence at the start of the season that we had a much stronger squad than the rags. I still believe the same and expect United to drop more points, they are living off their fear factor and nothing more right now.

Don't be fooled for the lack of sound coming from Old Trafford as it is 'Only United' as usual for 'They Only Sing When Their Winning', right now they are all whispering to each other "we will be back at the top in a week".

I am sure most of you have heard about the City fan and steward issue on YouTube, well I have heard this and that and have to say the YouTube clip does not show us what happened which led to the confrontation so would be wise like me to withhold judgement until we know the full story.

With that said the majority of our fans were by no surprise well behaved, things did not get out of hand and the game went well unless you were a Villa fan that is.

To end with it is so pleasing to see we pulled off the Villa win without Aguero, Silva and Dzeko and shows our strength in depth, happy to know Nigel Dejong has recovered just in time for two big games.

Best of luck for the Villareal and United games lads and keep doing what you're doing without Tevez.