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29 October 2015

Capital One Cup Highlights: Manchester 5 Crystal Palace 1, City Stick It Too The Critics

Manchester have well and truly stuck two fingers up to our critics while our so called rivals Arsenal, Chelsea and the Stretford Massive United all got knocked out of the Capital One Cup. Young Kelechi Iheanacho put in a Man of the Match performance after setting up Kevin De Bruyne who put the ball away, De Bruyne returned the favour by assisting Iheanacho who did extremely well to put the ball away from a stationary position.Then De Bruyne set Iheanacho away down the left and the Man of the Match assisted young Manu Garcia who did well to beat the last defender and keeper to slot home his first senior goal for Manchester.

On our bench sat England International's Brandon Barker and Patrick Roberts, along with Spanish International Manu Garcia (Alonso), while Nigerian International Kelechi Iheanacho earned his frst start for Manchester.




Well done to all our lads, what was that Devante?

16 October 2015

TIOC's Badge Redesign Idea For Manchester City FC, Thoughts?

For as long as I can remember I have dreamt of our club reverting back to our Retro Circular Club Badge, finally our club have decided to consult on a possible change with our fan base so I thought I'd get to work on a few ideas. I knew learning how to use Photoshop would come in useful so I'm glad I chose too, here are my idea's which I will submit.

I did one the same but without the Eagle, so what do you think City fans. For those new to City I'll explain, the Rose represents the Lancashire Rose, The Ship represents the Manchester Ship Canal and the 3 stripes represent Manchester's 3 rivers, The Irk, The Irwell and The Medlock. 1880 being the year St Mark's of West Gorton were founded who were later renamed Ardwick Association Football Club and then Manchester City Football Club. The Latin term 'Superbia in Proelio' means Pride in Battle.

I did some research into how the Eagle found it's way on to our crest, we know the Shield, Stripes, Rose and Ship were taken from the City of Manchester's Coat of Arms. The Latin motto was added by the club itself in 1997 along with the Stars which were just for show. Here I got rid of the pointless Stars but felt it worth keeping the Eagle.

An Eagle represents Courage, Strength and Immortality, so I hazard a guess that that is why it was chosen and incorporated.

What do you think? will you be submitting your own? Would you rather we stuck with the present, revert to the old Retro badge or something entirely new?

I'd still be happy even if we reverted back to the original Retro City badge of old but I equally like this Badge too.